u.s. authorities about extraditing edward snowden has. come under the legal framework and they want to guarantees that the charges against him were not politically motivated and it seems that those guarantees match we are led to believe that he traveled from hong kong to moscow. he was not alone during that journey he was with a representative a legal representative we are told from wiki leaks and it's wiki leaks who claim that they have really created the smooth passage for edward snowden from hong kong to his eventual destination where maybe it looks increasingly likely that it is where he has appealed for asylum. points between. at the moment it's anyone's guess. the mystery checking in with you to get more information. since he set off to expose the extent of washington spying will mark a whistleblower as odyssey of sorts on may twentieth he. it is true flying from hawaii where he was working as an n.s.a. contractor over to hong kong over the next month he was in the headlines with rev

the government u.s. government was spying on americans but now we have this confirmation and so everybody is contacting us now when we've had a huge surge in orders fill zimmerman is the co-founder and c.e.o. of silent circle a global encrypted mobile service that protects users' privacy from the us national security agency and big data companies we have created an architecture that doesn't share the key cryptographic keys with the servers and servers that we control we don't keep logs of the of the connections between people so a court order can make us give them something we don't have however privacy doesn't come free and annual membership to silent circle cost one hundred twenty dollars the newest kid on the block is secret the mobile app encrypts voice calls and text messages the south african company has clients in two hundred countries with skyrocketing demands recently coming from the u.s. and u.k. the application essentially allows you to create a new identity with a secure phone number. needs t

that the u.s. is trying to get away with being the world's big brother united states presume that it can be the global spy without any kind of accountability to the world whatever the chinese would be doing the united states of be doing it on my far far far greater scale so i think i am i expect ation in this is that the united states will go quiet in relationship to china on these questions and you know the europeans are very unhappy about it because european countries because they the american americans have been spying without any kind of commission on. major european institutions and of course many many individuals and no one will believe that they've stopped doing it i mean how do they know you know how where did they go from being in any case they're justified i mean they've been saying well it's legitimate for us to do this and so on so you know it used to be if you remember that the united states was the global policeman now it's the global spying or updates and expert analysis i want to be

citizen the u.s. embassy for their part have removed all non-essential staff in fear that this could be a targeted attack in addition president obama came out calling for dialogue between opposition forces and the president's saying they must have a united stand the marines the u.s. marines reportedly have come up with a contingency plan should the violence continue against u.s. citizens so to me i saw in protests people ripping posters of u.s. buses at the car around five percent saying the mission brotherhoods who the president tales from is definitely following a u.s. agenda civilian grassroots campaign called commodity which means rebel who collected at least eighteen million signatures calling for the president to step down they say he's incapable of running the country we've seen no change in the last year the islamists for their part those who support the president say that all these opposition protests are in a just a mess as the president was democratically elected as egypt when this is a why

. >> four u.s. soldiers were killed airing a telegram -- taliban attack on the bob graham air base in afghanistan. -- the bahgram airbase in afghanistan. >> thanks for being with us. president barack obama has delivered a highly anticipated beach at berlin's random burgh gate. the address through heavily on history and also drew a number of rowing concerns that have tainted obama's image among germans. >> among them, the prison surveillance program and the expansion of the drone wars under the obama administration. the iconic vandenberg gate -- brandenburg gate has seen previous speeches by john f. kennedy and ronald reagan that made new policy commitments. the centerpiece of obama's speech was an announcement for a renewed push for nuclear arms reduction. >> the sun blazed down as the crowd waited for the president and chancellor. barack obama followed in the footsteps of previous u.s. leaders setting out foreign- policy visions, but first, he shed his jacket. >> we can be a little more informal am

some u.s. intelligence officials are allegedly making no secret of the fact that they want the n.s.a. whistleblower to disappear make sure you log on to our dot com to read all about it . also while you're there we can leaks founder julian assange praised as a whistle blowing efforts of saying the n.s.a. leaks confirm what he's been saying for years all the details are just a click away. edward snowden's revelations of mass telephone and internet monitoring by the n.s.a. has ramped up the global debate on the surveillance of citizens in the frame once again the multibillion dollar internet for privacy track record has caught them out before arty's business presenting katie pilgrim takes a closer look at the social media titans. web sites like facebook google and instagram have been mining the personal information of their hundreds of millions of users through their computers or mobiles every day from our favorite sports top designers diets you name it we've talked about it they make a digital n

u.s. intelligence confirms it's collecting the private messages of internet users but to defend these claiming the mess of aliens was targeting only nine u.s. presence outside the country british and american papers reported that the u.s. was tapping directly into the service of leading american internet companies getting access to personal e-mails photos and documents and a court order has become the first song to evidence of washington's sweeping data collection program is an associate has more after i popping news that america's national security agency has been collecting information on millions of customers of one of the country's biggest telecommunications providers of arisan further information of the extent of surveillance conducted by u.s. officials has leaked out nine major internet companies they include google facebook yahoo microsoft skype you tube apple a.o.l. and pal talk have been used by the f.b.i. in the national security agency to monitor photos videos e-mails audio and

u.s. give supporters of marriage equality two major weapons the sights and sounds of today's historic decision from here in washington coming up. the iris now faces a new scandal thousands and funds from this department were misused for outrageous purchases we'll tell you more on that later in tonight's show. with it's wednesday june twenty sixth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm margaret hell you're watching r.t. . we begin with an update on the national security agency whistleblower edward snowden and the disclosures he leaves following revelations that the n.s.a. was collecting the correspondence of american citizens the clandestine organization released a faction attempting to explain the legal justification for obtaining that data the only problem the fact sheet isn't all that factual according to senators mark udall and ron wyden in an open letter of the end to n.s.a. director keith alexander the senators wrote that we are disappointed to see that this fact sheet contains and the accur

and a love hate relationship the u.s. press is china over suspected hackers attacks is america's shaky with coverage because increasingly dependent on chinese investment. hello is kevin owen here moscow just after one am watching r.t. good to have you with us and there's no way around it is president obama's declared but to sacrifice previously of the name of security and according to league documents his administration has done just that stablish ing a surveillance mechanism unprecedented in size and scope web history and the call records of hundreds of millions of americans and people worldwide are reportedly being funneled to u.s. spy agencies in a sissy a churkin and with more on the revelations. and a massive leak on the extent of surveillance on hundreds of millions of people dubbed breathtaking by civil rights groups and outraged americans more revelations on what exactly u.s. officials have been popping into the light america's national security agency has been using three of the biggest u.s. telecom companies ver

the u.s. president has warned the chinese leader against continued large scale theft of american intellectual property through hacker attacks the pair up to the two day summit in california but the smiles and handshakes have failed to smooth a raw over cyber espionage geo political analyst william f. and dol says washington lectures of the june while being at the aggressor in the first place. the u.s. is probably the number one cyber warfare force on the planet right now and china is probably playing a defensive game but i don't i don't think the side i think that's a red herring issue right now it's designed by a washington by the obama administration to put pressure on china at a time when the u.s. is doing just that with the so-called asia pivot which is really a china pivot that obama announced in australia back in two thousand and eleven to redirect the american military force posture toward japan with the missile defense which is directly against china towards supporting japan on the the

that embarrass the u.s. not russia or china but that's exactly what's happening now u.s. policymakers are doing everything possible to divert attention away from snowden's revelations and certainly one of the one way of doing this is to present it as a cold war style cat and mouse chase that way you have us media now almost cheering for edward snowden's capture although just a little while ago some of the same journalists were grateful for great for a greater public awareness of the fact that the u.s. government is spying on millions of people who have done nothing wrong but of course has no illusions as to what lengths the u.s. government will go to catch him edward snowden also said it's not the government persecution that he fears most he said the greatest fear that i have about the outcome of these disclosures is that nothing will change from how it's developing it doesn't look like things will change for americans anytime soon but for the world be occasions of his revelations could be significant for example the fact that the u.s. now can't accuse china of cyber atta

the u.s. will do everything to stop him from falling from power and i think that's what that's a very important factor the other thing is of course elections are here in turkey for two more years the opposition is divided so he thinks he's in a very strong position. the secular minister focus in on syria now the double suicide attacks rocked the syrian capital damascus has killed forty injured at least thirty one others the explosions went off in a central square with reports the one of the blasts what a man blew himself up inside a police station the square was also the scene of deadly attacks earlier this year too it comes as washington debates whether it should arm the syrian rebels are for assad forces made recent advances recapture the key city. big time the u.s. could approve lethal aid for opposition fighters an amount is now also a no fly zone could be under consideration this just weeks before an international peace conference on syria planned for july well speaking to american media

as a u.s. a attorney under two different a a a you and him as presidents, he has a strong a record as a line prosecutor at the minnesota u.s. attorney's office and out1257bding career in private practice. today we are here to consider his nomination to be the permanent director of the atm. a nomination that is supported by the national association of former u.s. attorneys including those who serve under bush and clinton administrations, several former assistant u.s. attorneys, the administrator of the minnesota bureau of criminal apprehension. the minnesota county attorney's association. the association of the chiefs of police, the fraternal order of police. and the atf association just to name a few. given the atf's important role in the crimes and incidents like the marathon bombing, this should be a top priority for the united states senate so have a permanent director of the atf. it doesn't make sense for the director to be serving in a and a temporary capacity and yet there you has never b

the new u.s. weapons will likely be delivered to the syrian rebels through the cia's ongoing operations in germ -- in jordan. the egyptian government has announced it is severing all ties to the syrian government and backing the rebels fight seeking to oust bashar al-assad. mohamed morsi said he is closing the syrian embassy in cairo and recalling his government envoy from damascus. >> the syrian people are facing a campaign of extermination and planned ethnic cleansing, fed by regional and international states who do not care for the syrian citizens. the people of egypt support the struggle of the syrian people, materially and morally. in egypt, it is nation, leadership, and army will not abandon the syrian people until it achieves its rights and dignity. >> president morsi also called on the international community to enforce a no-fly zone over syria and urged all has blood members fighting alongside assad's forces to return to lebanon. in response, the syrian government said morsi has joined "t

he says u.s. agents conducted more than 61,000 hacking operations accessing computers in china and around the world. and he says agents also targeted universities, government officials and companies in hong kong. snowden worked at the nsa as a contract employee. last week he revealed the agency has been collecting telephone and internet records in its fight against terrorism. britain's "guardian" newspaper and "the washington post" were the first to report on the story. the director of the national security agency has defended the program. >> its dozens of terrorist events that these have helped prevent. >> reporter: snowden's disclosures have sparked global debate about how far governments should go to combat terrorism. leaders of the group of eight nations will meet next week in northern ireland. britain's prime minister is chairing the eventment david cameron says participants will discuss the intelligence gathering activities. they reportedly received the information from the u.s. government,

moscow has been critical of the u.s. chemical weapons claim saying it's failed to present verified evidence that president assad deployed a toxic arsenal foreign minister sergey lavrov also stated that he thought there'd be no point whatsoever for the syrian army to resort to such tactics for more details i'm joined by our teams alexei or ski here for us in moscow give us more on russia's reaction to the chemical weapons claims coming out of d.c. . well first of all the russian foreign minister revealed that it was very regrettable that when the allegations of rebel syrian rebels using chemical weapons at the town of aleppo were made public by the syrian government it's time to ask the u.n. commission to investigate nothing was eventually done but only when the allegations of the syrian government using the chemical weapons weapons appeared to them experts thought it was conduct a certain investigation on this and that also revealed that for some time his partners in the west and israel have been saying all along that th

military forces mostly u.s. . yes there are which are going to be drawn down and it's really kind of interesting because he can almost equate it to the u.s. government here in the states you know we we lower the number of federal employees and we replace them with two or three contractors and all we talk about is the government's the size of the government is shrinking but the cost is going through the roof but we never talk about that same thing is happening with the u.s. military all anybody talks about media or anybody talks about is soldiers in uniform but under the radar are contractors wearing civilian clothes you know the baseball caps you know the go t. like i got on the and the sideburns and the tats ole over in the cargo pants and they're all they're all former military or former policeman here in the states they're most an aries and we're employing a d o d n state and everybody is employing civilian mercenaries ok michael so if we if we go on what you're saying are we really withdrawing if we leave thes

to the u.s. president and congress this is of course the first time that this prison program has been publicly brought to light u.s. officials in particular members of congress aware of this program have been keeping quiet about the sweeping activity of violating the privacy of american citizens and of course so all of this comes after a secret court order was obtained by the guardian and uploaded online this document revealed that u.s. telecom giant of arise and has been giving the n.s.a. information on absolutely all of the phone calls being made within the united states as well as between the u.s. and foreign countries according to the secret court order which was issued as we know in april and expires july nineteenth phone calls of millions of americans are being traced through horizon absolutely regardless of whether or not there is reason to suspect that subscribers are involved in any criminal activity and it's also been disclosed that this operation has actually been ongoing since two tho

the u.s. approach u.s. approach is not our approach that we work together as but we work together as partners to achieve our common goals. thank you very much madam president read. >> thank you very much. now on behalf of the -- for four minutes. >> and president and commissioner the events of the last few days the information published by the guardian last week with regard to the u.s. system surveillance called prism and acted by the nsa allegedly in cooperation with i.t. world giants like apple, facebook, google, microsoft, skype, you youtube and al well trusted major giant companies of course shocked they are european citizens and for the acidity group we are very clear that while security is important this has caused for our citizens a major breach of trust and for us in the snd group the ministerial meeting on the 13th and 14th of june is something that we regard as vitally important for the parliament and all the political groups give the commission their support and holding to account eric holder, th

in two thousand and ten when the u.s. carried out this cyber attack against iran general cartwright was vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and he was reported to be one of the crucial players in this cyber attack he resigned in two thousand and eleven and he is now apparently being investigated as the niekerk of that story as you remember it the neat about the obama administration having carried out this cyber attack against iran came before the election last year and the timing raised a lot of questions back then because president obama all but bragged about that operation as he ran for reelection as you remember everybody kind of assumed that it was one of those authorized the leak speakers the administration information all the time to further its own goals but the timing of this particular about the general being investigated is also very interesting he hasn't been charged with any crimes and yet again from an unnamed source that he's being investigated and this is happening at a time when the hunt for edward

now u.s. politicians and pundits on television use would seems like a cold war rhetoric when they comment on the story presenting russia and china as the enemies that snowden is helping one former official said russia and china are going to use this to embarrass the u.s. and one should argue it's snowden's revelations that embarrass the u.s. not russia or china but that's exactly what's happening now u.s. policymakers are doing everything possible to divert attention away from snowden's revelations and certainly one way of doing that is to present it as a cold war style cat and mouse chase that way you have the media on board almost cheering cheering for snowden's capture although just a little while ago and some of the same media. they were grateful to snowden for greater. government is spying on millions of people who've done nothing wrong kind of give it all right or to his gun it should thanks very much for that there we also spoke with attorney in a story in general horne who told us why

also though dismissing the conspiracy theories of u.s. officials. meanwhile the u.s. is trying to throw the world off. saying it's. terrorists. that extremists even use them in the. u.k. has more bad news in store for the british public. another. billion pounds from government.

reports say u.s. officials are already in the process of filing charges against the twenty nine year old less than a week after the whistleblower revealed america's citizens spying to britain's guardian newspaper at the moment no one knows where snowden is he was last seen checking out of this hotel in hong kong that's where he remained for a while after revealing his identity to the global media it's thought he may still be in hong kong the chinese territory has an extradition treaty with the united states but the process could stretch out for months and could potentially be blocked by beijing. the american surveillance program reportedly has much larger goals than just spying on its own citizens is our building correspondent peter oliver has been finding it. among the information that was revealed by whistleblower edward snowden is a map that shows where around the world the united states was listening in to people's telephone conversations this maps generated so that countries with minimum wire tap

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the u.s.a. and abroad or within the united states, including local telephone calls. well refusing to confirm or a threat to comment, of horizon come in and internal e-mail, defended the release -- verizon extended the release. saysecutive vice president the law authorizes the federal courts to order a company to provide information in certain circumstances and if verizon were to receive such an order, we would be required to comply. get yourlike to opinion. 3881 for republicans. 202-585-3880 ro45 -- for democrats and 202-585-3882 for independents. to help us gain some perspective, we are joined by a longtime national security writer and author. can you give us your perspective and your assessment on both of these programs we have been talking about. first the program and the data that was collected from verizon. caller: -- it is extraordinary the loops be nasa security agency has taken. this is an agency that was developed to spy on people outside the united states. this program allows them to

and while the u.s. and its allies claim they have chemical clues against president assad and use on reports on the ground suggest i won't quite the opposite pull scott has more on why some think it's actually the rebels who have been spraying illegal agents on the part. so what exactly do we know about the use of chemical weapons in syria while the country is believed to have one of the largest stockpiles in the world with some estimates putting it at one thousand tons in september two thousand and twelve the country's then foreign ministry spokesman said government forces would never use the weapons against the syrian people but the recent un report confirming chemical weapons have been used raises more questions than answers as to who's the guilty party and more finger pointing and allegations continue there's increasing evidence that the rebels do have access to a chemical arsenal only last month turkish media reported twelve members of syria's al qaeda linked al nusra front had been arrested in turk

michelle has more. >> u.s. companies can sell a host of communications products to iran citizens without getting permission, cell phones, modems, satellite dishes, laptops and tablets and software. >> the most impact will be on software updates for phones. iranians complain the sanctions prevented them from updating apps so they were using older and slower versions of fwtwitte and facebook. this will empower the people at a time when the government is trying to stifle their access to one another and outside information. supporters of iran's movement are skeptical this move will make any difference in giving iranian's any freedom. >> i think the problem in iran is not that people need phones or don't have phones or don't have technology, the problem is that the regime monitors, you know, all their tivities because they control the communications networks and it uses equipment and surveillance to monitor people. >> in 2009, the victory was disputed leading to large protests and violence in the streets of tyran. f

if there's a role for the u.s. to play in that, that's up to the afghans to decide. >> brown: u.s. officials also have to address another karzai decision today. he suspended talks on how many american troops would stay in afghanistan and under what conditions after combat forces withdraw at the end of 2014. in berlin, president obama played down any suggestions that the overall peace effort has foundered before it began. >> we had anticipated that at the outset, there were going to be some areas of friction, to put it mildly, in getting this thing off the ground. that's not surprising. but i think that president karzai himself recognizes the need for political reconciliation. the challenge is how do you get those things started while you're also at war. >> brown: underscoring that point, five afghan police officers were killed yesterday by fellow officers in a so- called insider attack. the taliban also claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on bagram air base in kabul that killed four american troops. it came just hours after international forces handed over full security cont

last weekend the u.s. president and his chinese counterpart met for a private bilateral summit focused on cyber attacks and virtual espionage washington blaming beijing for being an online outlaw today the tables have turned courtesy of n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden the n.s.a. leaker told the south china morning post of the u.s. has been hacking chinese and hong kong computers since since zero nine snowden alleges that the u.s. national security agency's targets included the chinese university of hong kong public officials and students allegations that give weight to claims by officials in beijing that the country has been the victim of u.s. hacking efforts america's turned into the world cop they think that they can basically set the standards for everybody else to follow their own paranoia global paranoia and outrage has been rising ever since one of america's best kept secrets known as prism was revealed the n.s.a.'s clandestine electronic surveillance program records digital communications and al

u.s. is set to provide military aid to the syrian rebels. and now has high confidence of the small scale use of chemical weapons by. the talk is government stepping up the pressure on protesters with another crack down on a rally in crowds and. the prime minister though issues his final ultimatum. that iranians go to the polls to choose their new leader we look at the spending his last days in office as we review the. president with an agenda. this is just off the nine am here in moscow this is a global news with me rule re sushi let's go straight to the u.s. capitol right now. washington has given the green light for the syrian rebels to prop up the opposition plan for a limited no fly zone over syria has also been drawn up and comes off to the u.s. administration concluded that assad's forces had used chemical weapons quote on a small scale the latest details now from a port. this is quite a game changer being announced by the obama administration what we know is that the u.s. has decide

so threatens as bad as the u.s. economy economy will no longer have the current say do you feel that's a threat going on here as well i think that the federal reserve isn't threatened so much by the loss of the dollar the reason they're there and they because of. not going to bring down the dollar i think they're more worried about alternatives to the u.s. dollar being out there and that kind of undercutting u.s. monetary policy actually taking away the anonymity of a quite removed one of the argument that governments have again right but to think that the whole point the people going towards the bitcoin is because the trust of of global central banks is getting is dwindling i would agree with that entirely partly i don't think there is global central banks are actually coming out and saying we have a policy that is going to make your money worth less so people are looking for these other channels that work well or not it may just take you further off the grid but i don't think it's the only reason that people are a

although u.s. air and the new american made commitments to maintain the services of small and medium communities, that may be difficult when reality takes place. of you are asking the airline to maintain a route that is not profitable as we see emerge is in the past sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. there are two slides to the slot going and a lot of what is being said we have to see. we have to find out what the american has to do. and whether it is consummated as a new airline. >> you mentioned there would be plenty, your word, slot portfolio would be sufficient to meet the needs of small communities. is a commercial decision made by the airline. >> i thought senator ayotte's dental was well taken that 70% of flights might be between these two airlines' but barely 50% of passengers and that is a pretty significant difference in looking at how they compete and where they compete. before i run out of time here i do want to mention a topic that has been around long time that if there wa

u.s. war atrocities meant he simply wanted to make the world a better place. because system names himself as the source who exposed the unparalleled surveillance network spying on hundreds of millions of americans saying he knows he'll suffer but insists he's done nothing wrong. and. he tweets sweet british police urged twitter users to tone it down for a series of arrests for abusive online messages. hello this is our tease roundup of the top stories of the week with me kevin now in very good to have you company and first night of protests is underway in ankara with riot police formations charging stone throwing protesters tear gas and water cannon a ready in action as a speak the demonstrators remain on deterred a record number of protesters were reported on saturday night now more are expected tens of thousands are gathering every day in ankara to protest the government's growing islamist policies and what protesters see is the authoritarian tendencies of prime minister erdogan even mor

the u.s. soldier and whistleblower goes on trial. a supporters hail him as a hero. the government alleges children -- alleges treason. >> floodwaters here in germany are on track to become the highest ever recorded. the army has been called out to help emergency services. >> here in germany the areas are bearing the brunt of the flooding. the downtown area where three rivers meet is especially largely under water. >> it is a flood of historic proportions. it has reached a record high set more than 500 years ago. many restaurants have been completely inundated. deal the way to get around is by boat. >> it is quite extreme this time. >> we have had our share of floods, but are rarely anything like this. >> the city shut down it's a drinking water supply. people are hoping the floods have peaked. once again, the town center is inundated, reviving bad memories of the historic flood of 2002. federal authorities say that gave the locals valuable experience. >> we are saying that lessons were learned

the u.s. is working with hong kong to bring snowden to the united states, but the hong kong government said today that the u.s. request did not fully comply with hong kong law. what went wrong? >> reporter: it's a game of cat and mouse, and the u.s. lost this round. a senior u.s. official said the u.s. government was expecting a lengthy process. they were anticipating a lot of back and forth with hong kong authorities before nay got this resolved. clearly he took full advantage of the fact that the wheels turn slow, he got out of there because there was nothing to hold him. >> that was not a faulty request from the u.s. government? >> he's claiming that the processes take a long time, there's back and forth. and again, while they're trying to resolve this, there was nothing to hold snowden. >> is there anything they can do to stop snowden now while he's in moscow waiting for the flight to venezuela? >> george, it does not look like there's much the u.s. government can do at this point. snowden

in the book, a number of u.s. case studies. the u.s. can get out of this, but it involves fixing the policies you talked about. >> how do you fix it? >> there are two tracks. one, we have to have more political ideas rather than just having the republican and democratic parties having a monopoly on discourse. and we'll have to change the budget rules. those big budget numbers you talked about have to be fixed and currently our leadership isn't doing it. >> we have the biggest business in the world and we're operating without a real balance sheet. that's a problem. look, fed chairman ben bernanke, he gave some specifics for a framework of when stimulus could end. because let's be honest, monetary policy is something that's been very clear when fiscal policy has not. markets got spooked this week. did he do the right thing, do you think? >> we're expecting too much of the fed. the government needs to do its part and politicians really are not. i think the fed was trying to communicate a gradual exit. i didn't see it as that newsworthy, bu

the u.s. will do everything to stop him from falling from power the other thing is of course elections are here in turkey for two more years the opposition is divided so he thinks he did a very strong position. iranians have chosen a pro reformist moderates president to take the place of the all out to getting a hard line president. asserting that rouhani received over fifty one percent of the votes of the promising to open dialogue with the west and some of the most important issues maybe out of his reach as with a national explains that. people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate the victory all of us on the money and that is there right now. that's a heart transplant mixed feelings among iranians mixed comes into this is known as a reformist and carries the hope of many specially in terms of greater freedoms boiron hands and surrounds diplomatic isolation the country has been on the top sentence for years now over its controversial nuclear program during his campaign rouhani ha

u.s. threats and demands for the whistleblower to be extradited. washington accused of trying to shoot the messenger by presenting snowden as a dangerous fire while ignoring follow from the revelations of its spy program. making sure we are. but r t looks at those at the bottom of british society who say they're really bearing the burden of the austerity as the chancellor announces billions more in budget cuts. six pm in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story russia won't hand over america's most wanted man n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden who remains holed up in transit at a moscow airport for a fourth day president vladimir putin said that means students never actually crossed into russia and so is beyond the government's reach artie's alexei or shows he has more from sheremetyevo airport. ever since edward snowden touched down in moscow on sunday it's been the biggest mystery for the last seventy two hours or so what his next move would be he was sup

lethal decision the u.s. is set to provide military aid to the syrian rebels now has high confidence of the small scale use of chemical weapons. and the top of his government stepping up the pressure on protesters with another crackdown on a rally in crowds and. the prime minister issues his final ultimatum. and as iranians go to the polls to choose their new leader we look at the man spending his last days in office review the legacy of president. with worldwide news live from moscow with me research thank you for joining us today. washington has given the green light for the arming of the syrian rebels to prop up the opposition and plan for a limited no fly zone over syria that's also being drawn up and it comes off to the u.s. administration concluded that assad's forces had used chemical weapons on a small scale details now from our correspondent we're in a port. this is quite a game changer being announced by the obama administration what we know is that the u.s. has decided that it will provide military

the u.s. government has filed criminal charges against edward snowden the man who told the world about the scope of america's global surveillance network washington now wants help from hong kong officials because snowden's been hiding in the chinese territory since unleashing the revelations about the national security agency that he's going to china has the details. word snowden has been charged with espionage theft and conversion of government property now the u.s. justice department has also reportedly asked hong kong to address that word snowden the united states has an extradition treaty with hong kong and snowden could fight extradition if he's arrested there but the treaty has an exception for political offenses so snowden's defense team in hong kong may potentially invoke that part of the extradition treaty edward snowden's revelations as we all know have shed unprecedented light on the u.s. government's massive spying program he revealed that even if you're not doing anything wrong yo

citizen the u.s. embassy for their part have removed all non-essential staff in fee that this could be a targeted attack in addition president of bomber came out calling for dialogue between opposition forces and the president saying we must have a united stand the marines the u.s. marines reportedly have come up with a contingency plan should the violence continue against u.s. citizens so to me i saw in protests people ripping posters of u.s. bus tickets acquirer and dissent saying the mission brotherhood the president tales from is definitely following a u.s. agenda civilian grassroots campaign called commodity which means rebel who collected at least eighteen million signatures calling for the president to step down they say he's incapable of running the country we've seen no change in the last year the islamists for their part those who support the president say that all these opposition protests are in a just a mess as the president was democratically elected as egypt when this is a worsening sec

it is just the latest example of china's buying spree in the u.s. chinese investment in the u.s. is headed for another record year. as of april about $10 bon

meantime, the u.s. top military officer said he is concerned about the security of the nsa itself. >> you cannot stop someone from breaking the law 100% of the time. you just cannot stop that from happening. you can certainly increased scrutiny in terms of their background investigation and reduce the number of them and put different degrees of oversight in place. thehile grappling with limits of protecting the american sense of privacy. governmenth african says nelson mandela's condition is now stable, but he remains critically ill. of well-wishers have been praying, singing, and dancing outside his pretoria hospital where he is being treated for lung infection. family members have been giving updates on his condition. >> it does not look good, i am not going to like. that for us, as his children and grandchildren, we still have hope, because when we talk to him, he looks like he is trying to open his eyes. there is an element with many of the foreign media were they just across boundaries. that are st

where u.s. drone strike has killed at least seven people in pakistan days after the country's new prime minister vowed to stop such attacks intelligence officials claimed the victims were militants but there has been no disclosure of the identities of drawing strikes which according to reports have killed more than five hundred civilians including women and children began in two thousand and four. under new clear power plant is online in india and it would seem a welcome relief for countries suffering from critical power shortage construction was repeatedly delayed by protests balancing the public safety concerns and the needs of a growing economy has not been easy as artie's maria fanaa reports. the few has been loaded and the first customers will soon get the first energy from the could nuclear plant a joint indian and russian venture and it seems the launch of the station thought to be the biggest in both india and the world couldn't have come at a better time defeats it a little in that ther

the u.s. is trying to track him down. >> brown: ray suarez has our coverage of opening statements in the trial of george zimmerman, charged with second- degree murder in the shooting death of florida teenager trayvon martin. >> ifill: and judy woodruff talks to two authors who are tracking the shift of power from washington, d.c., to the cities and states, launching a "metropolitan revolution." i think when you have coalitions of mayors, civic leaders, business leaders all coming together and showing that change can really happen on the ground, that is a powerful example for washington. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> bnsf railway. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for

clothianidin was already in use on a 88 million acres of u.s. crop -- u.s. crops. bayer completed the study in 2007. in 2010, the agency reversed itself and from the study to be insufficient. tom theobald saw where it fell short. >> it consisted of putting four colonies on two and a half acres of crops, the seed treated with clothianidin. is completely disregarded is the fact that the colony upper bees, over several thousand acres, it was the key study upon which conditional registration was granted to clothianidin, and it has failed to satisfy the requirements of registration. >> epa called for a new field of study, when that may take years to complete. is epa told "earth focus" it working to develop suitable designs for pollinators studies and peer review for future pollination studies, a process that will allow the agency to pursue more rigorous testing of pesticides and other impacts on pollinators. for some beekeepers, this may be too little, too late. >> this is where epa has gone wrong, because you know, they were created to protect the environment. in the w