snowden snowden been quoted as saying he feels safe quote unquote. in russia there are a couple of senior. political and legal thinkers who say. it was a member of the public chamber has a lawyer here might suggest that there is a little bit more. official support than manisha for snowden from the kremlin that may initially meet the i pod like what what what impact does the this guy jacking of moralities jet let's say i mean i think that's something that the media. probably probably a message that the media might have missed in that was that this is a this is an absolutely extraordinary don't present and event in my opinion probably a more shocking story or a bigger story than this than the leaks that the idea that you know facebook and microsoft are sharing information with the government or with the u.s. government but they put the bringing down of this jet with basically you know was an absolute humiliation of the idea of any form of diplomatic conventions anymore it reconfirms american exceptionalism when do you think the guy actually give given

to recognize snowden as a refugee or to recognize some form of political asylum for snowden. and that this is would send a message to the united states that grounding a presidential jet. on a totally ill judged suspicion that guy's on board the plane is simply not acceptable to the rest of the world. that's about where you can as it is and yet i get really really really cain and human rights on this and so between i think what's interesting right now is that if we look at the reaction coming out of moscow to this this breaking development in the snowden story we've got a lot of him a lot of look at making a very strong statement right now we have of the. cruise also made some statements. it is believed according to a couple of sources that to to be considering representing snowden in some way shape or form or to providing some kind of legal support and then we also have the russian duma deputy nikonov who's a political scientist also making some statements about about snowden and they attended the meeting so i think snowden's brought together a reasonably. broad collection of

and not only snowden the magnitsky act or another of those but these recent events most recently snowden now become obstacles on both sides to seizing this opportunity the larger reason in my opinion but it's a minority opinion in america is that what we knew my generation knew as the cold war between the soviet union in the united states either didn't actually in with the soviet union or it's come alive again because everything we see in american russian relations since the end of the soviet union looks smells behaves like a cold war relationship it's just in the united states our leaders don't want to admit this failure that they lost the opportunity of the post cold war russia to create a new relationship a partnership with russia and that's where we are today so it's a long winded answer but i think historians will tell you in the future and as a historian today i will tell you that we can't understand snowden we can't understand magnitsky we can't understand these recent conflicts without putting. i'm in the historical context of the relationship between america and post soviet russ

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 with human rights activists suggesting that somehow russian authorities could have been should have barred edward snowden from speaking take a listen we are disappointed that russian officials and agencies facilitated this meeting today by allowing these activists and representatives into the moscow airports transit zone to meet with mr snowden despite the government's declarations of russian's neutrality with respect to mr snowden so you're disappointed that they let someone into their own airport i don't know that well that they facilitated this event of course why because this gave a forum going to be should have before as before you forfeited his right to freedom of speech as well m

edward snowden remains. he remains in the transit zone and it was widely thought that today was going to be the day that he would finally be allowed to enter russia he's waiting for a piece of paper now we know that he's applied for temporary asylum in russia. considering whether to process or not when they make that decision he will be given a piece of paper a temporary visa if you like that will help him to enter russia proper now it was widely expected that today was going to be the day that he was going to get his hands on that piece of paper but basically the paperwork still hasn't been processed in the federal migration service still haven't decided whether they're going to process his application or not by his legal representative. did arrive. at around four o'clock this afternoon and he was carrying a bag and. watching and waiting with anticipation expecting him to hand out piece of paper over to edward snowden which would then allow edward snowden to him however it transpires that would just simply.

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 entrance to the area where mr snowden is being held right now we were we were able to get close enough to hear a little bit about what he told journalists to expect to hear very soon. i'm not going to comment on anything only after my consultations with edward i will be able to say something to you. so as impatient as we journalists are at this point to get an appearance for mr snowden or even a couple of words preferably as to what his plans are at this point he is still with his advisers and prepare preparing for his next move now if the decision at the end of this three months is favorable to snowden he says he plans to pursue work and to make russia his home now if the decision is not favorable there's a plan there too he plans to appeal that decision that shows just how serious

with snowden . and second a he is not prepared to hurt the united states as a country why do you think that a couple of weeks ago he withdrew his application and now he's asking for political asylum and what is the next step then all my feeling is that a couple of weeks ago he had a real intention to leave for election america. probably he would love to do that actually he said that his intention was to accept the asylum from as many countries as they can provide but course there were legal arguments but. whether anyone can have more than one asylum in one country and he said there at this point he doesn't see any other option since the u.s. government will not let him leave freely to let in america will do whatever they can to prevent them from traveling freely because no passports and he is on the no fly list. at their request so the u.s. go. what are the chances of him getting russian citizenship well i think there are such chances of course at least that there is such a boss a bill or conditiona

majority of americans do not think what edward snowden is saying is propaganda snowden said he's willing to stop leaking u.s. secrets in order to gain russian asylum but guardian journalist glenn greenwald who's been breaking the news about n.s.a. snooping said snowden holds dangerous information that would be america's quote worst nightmare for appealed stephen cohen a professor of russian and slavic studies at n.y.u. says the whole situation with snowden's asylum is a tough test for russian and u.s. lawmakers this is a classic case of the testing of leadership both in moscow and washington neither leader neither will bomb and more proof can be happy about help mr snowden city in the moscow airport and didn't invite him to shoot but he can't talk for very political reasons obama needs to show he's tough on snowden. i can't believe that the united states actually wants to put snowden on trial because it was a fair trial a legal trial all snowden would have the right to subpoena american officials who have knowledge of all this intelligence he's exposed that would not be so i think there'

leaker edward snowden was on board so where is edward snowden and where is he going next a deeper look at that up ahead it's now day fourteen of the bradley manning trial it's the defense team's turn to call of witnesses to help the whistleblower states we'll get the latest from fort meade coming up. and egyptian president mohamed morsi makes a defiant speech defending his legitimacy and refusing to step down but millions are still in the streets of cairo and they say it's time for morsi to give up his presidency the latest from egypt coming your way. it's tuesday july second eight pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r.t. well we begin tonight with more speculation about where edward snowden is and where he is heading just over an hour ago reports started coming in the bolivian leader evil realises plane was forced to make an emergency landing in austria on suspicion that snowden might have been hiding on board now bolivian foreign minister david chokher wonga said that it was a lie and that snowden was not on that plane associated press reports indicate that th

snowden's whistleblowing. i think that is ultimately going to be the most profound effect before people think differently about how the government spies on them, whether they want to trust their government, why journalism has failed to uncover these things, why we needed somebody like mr. snowden to bring it to our attention. i then this will have profound repercussions for a long time to come. >> what about snowden saying that he the wiretap the president? critics say that he is delusional. to you think that is true, what he said? >> i know it is true. the u.s. government collects all e-mails and telephone calls that transmits its network. all of them, and billions every day. once they collect them, they store them. the program that nsa analysts have at their keyboards are one that enable them to do searches by e-mail, ip address, telephone, name, and once you enter those search terms, you can access those communications that match the search. exactly as he said, if you have the e-mail address of the in theen

airspace and the level of interest in the snowden story and the sensitivity to the snowden story was such that. it became a news story that this flight being diverted because when you story but again i want to i want to come back to the the russian position here and the doorstep idea may be viewed by the kremlin as a doormat in that they eat if snowden saying very clearly no that he wants to seek political asylum in russia or until he can get to latin america. i'm not sure the colonel might look a lot. in a very positive light on the book but having said that the opinions of human rights experts such as. would be a far more authority of the mind that we thank you very much indeed for that insight of course we'll be back to you again let's not take a pause because right now we can talk to. my co-parenting journalist and free speech activist and he's joins us now live from vienna michael thank you very much indeed for your time and for joining us here now at r.t. president putin's press secretary said the conditions for snowden's asylum are the say that he must stop leaking documents a

snowden in hisrd own words. today we will released sections of his interview with the guardian on why he risked his life to expose how the united states is spying on the world. americane that the countries offer snowden asylum. , anobal broadcast exclusive interview with the ecuador foreign minister ricardo patiÑo. >> a want to stress, once blood is spilled during peaceful revolution, it becomes fuel for our revolution. we will not leave until our relative president returns, president mohamed morsi. speak with sharif abdel kouddous in cairo. all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. have released a timetable to deal with the protesters. a new constitution will be ratified within five months fallen by parliamentary a truce in 2014 and the presidential vote after that. the interim government also voiced what it called a deep regret for the monday shooting deaths of at least 51 morsi supporters at a military site where he is believed to be detained. the egy

request to extradite snowden, saying -- the ecuadorian president repeated monday snowden's fate is in russia's hands. venezuelan president nicolas maduro said he has not received snowden's asylum application yet, but that snowden "deserves the world's protection." : foreign minister said he would not recommend granting snowden's request for asylum. president obama has continued to face fallout from edward snowden's latest revelation tutor spiegel newspaper about u.s. spying on europeans. speaking during his visit to tanzania, obama said the u.s. would provide its allies with more information about reports the national security agency but offices in washington, new york and brussels. european leaders and threatened to derail trade negotiations. obama shrugged off the criticism suggesting such spying is common. europeanantee that in capitals, there are people who are interested if not and what i have for breakfast, at least what my talking points might be should i end up meeting with their leaders. that is how intelligence services operate. >> we will have more on edward snowden and u.s

and not only snowden magnitsky act or another of us but these recent events most recently snowden now become obstacles on both sides to seizing this opportunity the larger reason in my opinion but it's a minority opinion in america is that what we knew my generation knew as the cold war between the soviet union in the united states either didn't actually in the with the soviet union or it's come alive again because everything we see in american russian relations since the end of the soviet union looks smells behaves like a cold war relationship it's just in the united states our leaders don't want to admit this failure that they lost the opportunity of the post cold war russia to create a new relationship a partnership with russia and that's where we are today so it's a long winded answer but i think historians will tell you in the future and as a historian today i will tell you that we can't understand snowden we can't understand magnitsky we can't understand these recent conflicts without putting them in the historical context. a relationship between america and post soviet russia d

and out for more on mr snowden's asylum let's now talk to r.t. contributor action time is it mr townsend great to see that r.c. as always now that's not as likely to stay here in russia for some time how will it affect moscow's relations with washington. there's already been some speculation about the upcoming g twenty summit but of course let me put it was very careful to say well if he doesn't offend the americans by his leaks as regards mr snowden i'm going to say given the polling done in the united states the american people seem to think edward snowden has done the americans a favor no president obama sees it at all so whether it'll come up in discussions i'm not sure the way president obama goes about extraordinary rendition drone strikes and so on it's not really done on a diplomatic level it's all done through subterfuge and i'll be in a galaxy rather than at the summit table in more school or in st petersburg where the g. twenty is happening mr snowden obviously says he wants safe passage to lots in america is it possible for him to sta

which is the president's condition for giving snowden refuge plus. fears that snowden could be subjected to ill treatment in the u.s. . we talked to the activists who met snowden about his current predicament and whether they think russia will offer him a way out of his transit lounge limbo. live from our studio center here in moscow where it's just turned nine pm this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day and we start with our breaking news story the 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

snowden. i reached out to some local lawmakers and some local officials and he was probably very well consulted in that respect. certainly led to snowden's p.r. line in russia and has been the only contact that any media have had with messages coming from the from the snowden camp there's no discussion we could extend well that meeting that took place at the airport was human rights representatives representative of the groups representing human rights. did snowden actually achieve what he was aiming to achieve and what is it in your opinion that he wanted to get by organizing this gathering. i think he probably achieved it yes i think that's a good question and good point i think in that he brought himself some form of international protection through agencies like human rights watch and listening very carefully to what they had to say if you remember correctly human rights well you have briefed the press after the meeting. but i think his. move to bring in it was probably very shrewd and i t

snowden is still here. but will see. a person with a russian best for a teacher to travel in some countries where russian passports are delegates without any visas some of your colleagues are already in the duma have said that they believe that snowden should be given asylum because if he makes it to the u.s. if somehow he gets there he is most likely going to face the death penalty well it's true. from the point of view of the russian voters and we. momentary and during present the will of the russian people. they do not consider snowden to be a criminal. and of course russia has no tradition of extradition someone to country with death penalty to a country with which we do not have any extradition agreement. and as he is getting political asylum at least in venice well it. if you accept that and he said i am actually accepting that. that means that he is protected by international law by article forty and of international conventional of human rights if someone applies for a political asylum no country has legal right

this squabble over snowden has fueled. as the crossfire well presidents seek to preserve partnership and promote peace one of the sore points in the relationship can the post cold war giants catch the same way. but does it state for russia and america and for the international community as a whole. so our guest is steven cohen professor of russian studies and history at new york university and princeton university steven it's really great to have you with us today i'm happy to be with you so right so at this point who is snowden more of a problem for the united states or russia. well in my perspective he's a problem for both if we put this in historical context since the end of the soviet union twenty two years ago we've lost several opportunities to create a meaningful cooperative relationship between washington and moscow it appeared a few weeks ago that we had another opportunity the opportunity began with the tragedy the bombings in boston when it was clear that we needed a lot of cooperation in counterterrorism betwee

the first the first country where edward snowden. for political asylum was ecuador and the ecuadorian president says that. snowden at least has to be on russian territory not to mention ecuadorian territory for them to be able to proceed to request while he is still thought to be at the transit zone off limits of our airport where he arrived to around a week ago from hong kong with an invalid american passport the u.s. is still asking for his extradition while snowden is promising more revelations in the future. as he grew up as can often live from moscow from sure matter to me precisely where my thanks indeed. meanwhile the u.s. is attempting damage limitation after the latest leaks by snowden revealed a washington has spied extensively on its european allies barack obama's claims this is usual practice and politics has not come to the outrage in the u.s. and the u.n. is also he's a marine a partner i reports. united nations secretary general ban ki-moon is urging nations to protect the integrity of a diplomatic missions on their so

the stories that shaped the week right here in our team and said still transit limbo for edward snowden he is waiting for paperwork that will allow him to leave the moscow airport and made fresh threats from washington. and the dungeon legacy of the war in iraq sees violence in the country gain momentum with july now the dumbest one this year. they owe the. world. thanks for tuning in this hour you're watching the weekly right here on our team well we begin in egypt where the confrontation between the military on the muslim brotherhood has intensified clashes between supporters of the deposed president mohamed morsy and security forces on saturday had resulted in the deadliest violence since the military had taken power official figures have put the number of killed at more than seventy and the muslim brotherhood says another sixty people are on life support artie's bill true has been following the events in cairo for us but went to the city where the clashes took place which is in a place called the nuts or city if you can on which is from here where i'm standing in a hurry square thro

still transit limbo for edward snowden he was waiting for paperwork that will allow him to leave a moscow airport amid fresh threats from washington. the syrian national council agreed to take part in a peace conference but first demands that assad step down asked us to ship foreigners to the opposition now this comes as divisions within the rebel camp highlights the possibility of internal strife. and joining in this hour you're watching the weekly right here on our t.v. with me catherine of where we begin in egypt where the confrontation between the military and the muslim brotherhood has intensified clashes between the supporters of the deposed president morsy and security forces on saturday have resulted in the deadliest violence since the military took power official figures but the number of those killed more than seventy the muslim brotherhood says another sixty people are out on life support r.t.l. true is reporting from cairo. i went back to the city in. the violence to end it and spoke to many of the eyewitnesses and also the medics running these very makeshift hospitals inside

cup snowden has to continue waiting. a final decision could take up to three months. >> would he even be safe if he left the airport and stayed in russia? >> russian security experts and media have been speculating about that for quite a while now with some experts suggesting that he may be would not be safe to leave the airport because american special services could maybe even follow him on russian territory, even sees him. all though it is safe to assume that probably the russian authorities would want to avoid this embarrassment. in any case, despite the worries snowden does have about his security, he seems to be quite comfortable with the prospect of staying in russia. he may even want to stay here and not move on to south america . he had his lawyer tell the press today he maybe even wants to learn russian and get to know russian culture. for russia, the case for snowden is far from over. >> thanks for the update. how much pressure is all of this putting on u.s.-russian relations? >> well, it is obviously putting

whistleblower edward snowden finally submits a request for temporary asylum here in russia. also this hour seven people i killed and over two hundred injured during the last violence overnight in a trip as bikers of the ousted president morsy clash with blades. antigay denies claims easier or used one of its military bases to launch a strike on syria or pull based on an os he sorts. this is all see coming here live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. cia leaker edward snowden has officially requested temporary asylum in russia the whistleblower has been stranded in a moscow airport for over three weeks now and let's not get all the details live from aussies andrew farmer how they're angry so what do we know about mr snowden's current status or we do know that perhaps his three week ordeal in the transit of moscow sheremetyevo airport is about to end that's because the russian migration service has confirmed it has received an application from him for temporary political asylum in russia and even though that might take three months to process we do know that within

edward snowden. most of the protesting. with. the. it's a pleasure to have you with us this morning here. in the russian capital. now lawyers have pledged support for edward snowden's application for refuge in russia following his meeting with russian international human rights activists. of course that's where he's been holed up now for the past three weeks details from. he 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 the lack of paperwork but also because of america's aggressive pursuit of him which led to the grounding of the bolivian president's plane over european aspace of course last week and edward snowden says that such the such an aggressive pursuit is not just endangering 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 and also be

announcement from matt snowden not actually i have to emphasize that from snowden himself but from people who met him on friday. pretty sure russian authorities russian officials don't want snowden to be heard so i think they you take care of it guy right now thank you very now we have some of us from sound from earlier today from the meeting let's go to that now can i guess. everyone here is that snowden could be subjected to ill treatment and yes intimate he said he felt he was living conditions will finally be important you think there but he knows that he cannot sleep forever. now these are quotes that was from a woman he was actually in the meeting with with snowden so that's a pretty big sound that we have there when you say maria. i don't know i don't know if we've asked maria here but back in the studio we're going to wrap this up for now but i think both of these guests for being here with me today. both you and maria from moscow moving right along in the newscast so other things happening today as we look at edward snowden's future and what it may hold it's important to look at

coming up on r t edward snowden's travel plans are still on hold the former n.s.a. contractor remains in russia up he's now seeing amnesty from more than a dozen countries and it looks like venezuela may be snowden's number one defender a deeper look at that up ahead. and it's now day fourteen of the bradley manning trial it's the defense's team's turn to call of witnesses and a bit to help the whistle blower's case will get the latest from fort meade coming up. the streets of egypt are still packed with protesters demanding for the removal of president mohamed morsy and now the nation's army has offered morsi and ultimatum to resolve the crisis more on the unrest in egypt and today show. it's tuesday july second five pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you are watching r.t. well he's the n.s.a. contractor who leaked america's surveillance secrets to the world now edward snowden is desperately reaching out to the international community to protect him from the wrath of the u.s. government wiki leaks announced today that snowden has applied for asylum in no fe

edward snowden know would face espionage charges of the second he steps on u.s. soil despite american assurances that he won't be executed or tortured os cases of other whistleblowers suggests he is right to be wary of going home r.t. if you can has more on washington's crackdown on lead. by relentlessly going after whistleblowers here we picked some of the most notable ones the u.s. government is sending a message this is what's going to happen to you if you speak out even if you think you're doing it. for the public good even if the public things you did the right thing in edward snowden's case fifty five percent of americans consider him a whistleblower not a traitor and yet even as many americans are thinking to snowden for greater awareness about the government's blatant snooping on millions of absolutely innocent people snowden still had to flee the country so was not to share the fate of his fellow whistleblowers had he stayed he would have been in jail facing life in prison or maybe even the death penalty the example of bradley manning is right there the

all the leech information from snowden is building up a picture of how the u.s. global surveillance operations are structured let's take a look at what we know so far first off there's the nucleon system it listens into phone calls wherever they're directed and it's thought that if it catches a suspicious keyword it'll be flagged and subject to further scrutiny then there's the pin well system this program is said to trawl for suspicious activity through videos on the web whether it's a live skype call with friends or family or you tube video that's been uploaded then there's a who you phone where you phone from and when the call was being made all stored by the main way system it's reportedly capable of building a facebook like friends list to profile you just from your calling habits and lastly we know of marina program in charge of recording your online life said to be able to catch store and record sent emails before they reach your recipient these are four of the systems that make up the u.s. surveillance network the ones that we know of the workings of anyw

and wiki leaks files twenty one questions on behalf of edward snowden the surveillance whistleblower whose month of leaks has left many nations either fearful or reluctant to get involved. and president obama deals with european outrage over america's spying on politicians on citizens saying the tactic is nothing new and everybody's doing. and egypt's president mohamed morsi takes fire from all directions takes the side of the government protesters and several ministers resigned in solidarity with the opposition. live from moscow with me thank you for joining us this morning straight to our breaking news for you this hour an unmanned russian space rocket has crashed just seconds after launch it was carrying three satellites meant for russia's global navigation system within a quarter of an hour brings us the details here live on the program good morning to you may do you know. exactly what happened well it was quite a shocking morning for those at the bike nor baikonur cosmodrome and as you can see here. now a russian project on rockets which was care. three. lies just went out of co

that snowden's papers are being processed now as there are for. to be completed before he has a chance to leave the airport and than he is in for a way to get his asylum so before he gets that what are your thoughts do you think russia should grant the whistleblower temporary asylum. well i do i think i think russia should i also think actually lots of other countries including the western european countries in the european union countries should have. offered him asylum as well no i think it's pretty disgraceful that a lot of countries including britain did their best to stop snowden from seeking asylum you know people have a right to asylum. it's important that people from whatever government can say i think my government has been doing wrong and has been breaching people's human rights and i need to apply for asylum in order to be able to speak out about it edward snowden if he went back to the states i think he would face enormous problems speaking out he may well be confined there in the way that the united states is treated bradley manning g

i had with snowden is expected to release his first public statement since arriving in moscow right now the whistleblower is meeting human rights activists an apple trans and. also this hour telecom giants exposed by snowden's latest leaks are accused of cashing in on visas data by giving the u.s. government unfettered access. under age of braces for more wild projects building more than a week old data clenches cause by the military backed ousting of the country's president. this is all see coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. and they say whistleblower edward snowden is expected to release his first sponsored statement since arriving at a moscow airport more than two weeks ago right now he's amazing russian and international human rights activists in the transit zone where he's been stuck in limbo. rivaled the activists that snowden reportedly harmed papers or is there already i would say more than one hundred reporters and journalists it's really really creating an interesting situation sure middle of once again just like it was several weeks ago when ever