us to snowden's fresh request for political asylum in russia. i think they'll try to put the pressure on putin i think they will put diplomatic pressure or they will raise all sorts of intimidation but i think ultimately they'll have to accept it and i think we missed the snowden it's understood would have great difficulties flying out of russia because i think the. you know when you bring russia on their way to venezuela or some of those place of refuge would be prohibited i think there's no doubt that the u.s. may try to intercept a flight which so i think as a result of what's left of the stone to avoid jail and possibly harsh interrogation such as confront manning and some of the other whistleblowers i think. severe penalties and run the risk of flying out i think his decision is a practical one seek asylum in russia and i think good greenwald probably the most important documents revealing u.s. spy spying and interference in other countries relations is already touched a ceiling and i think he's whatever questions were to be raised he's rai

was over edward snowden including russia by the way russia from the from the very beginning moscow made it clear that they were not happy to receive so and they were surprised by that and that they would. rather see him leave the country as soon as possible but we would he chose to stay because all the other routes were cut are for him he even had to agree to the condition put forward by president putin that he would not harm the u.s. while in russia but at the same time president putin made it clear and that's a quote for him from him he said russia's not going to extradite eighty one so washington should not expect that because he said no one extradite anyone to us remember russian officials point to twenty extradition requests in the past ten years which the u.s. never acted upon. and political activists jim says that it would snowden should be safe if and when he is granted saddam by russia and feels the countries that didn't stand up for the whistleblower should be ashamed. hume that he will be protected by the fact that not only has he applied for asylum to a government but also i

reiterated that snowden could stay in russia if he stops all activities causing damage to russia's american partners also added that if this condition is fulfilled there should be no hindrance to him getting a refuge if the oscar for it in self well let's discuss the latest twist in the snowden saga with investigative journalist dave lindorff he joins us live now from the u.s. snowden really is pushing this now as a human rights issue could he actually face the death penalty do you think if he does get caught or returned to the u.s. . i would be dubious about the death penalty just because. well it's a shame we look as an inch and in your last story the sentiment supporting snowden is quite. a signal units are the majority of people. that fortunately we have not only losing the picture your phrasing that but also we're losing the sound i'll just ask one more question and we'll just give it one more go . what do you think we'll let reaction though be from washington the fact that snowden has applied for freshness on him from moscow what could be the political reaction then let's give this a

for russia about the people in russia but he was a humorous color right turtle so. we decided that he will read those books first and then i me and some more in the did add words now to get your sense of humor. because he was smiling well you know let's talk about his mood and because you know the man has been stuck in the airport for for almost a month now and you know absolutely not knowing what's going to happen to him next . how do you look to you i mean do you feel excited that the state of the airport is actually nearer and there's some formalities of course need to be taken care of before that happens but how did he in general how do you feel about this whole situation when you saw him today. well i have to say that he looks bad. i don't know if he was excited. or said probably he's currently in a situation where he's expanded. it is very important for him to get a response to become clear about the situation as soon as possible this is what we talked about that. i told him for example if the migration service turns down his request you know what would we do

define russia's presidency of the g. twenty where the most important global economies work in unison to solve the world's most demanding economic challenges or will it be an exercise in kicking the can down the road with each country guarding national interest and why should the emerging market world really take notice of the g seven. to discuss this and more i'm joined by chris weaver he's a senior partner with macro advisory we also have jacob now he is the chief economist with morgan stanley and we're also joined by what it's so part on our low he is the c.e.o. of nestle russia and eurasia all right gentlemen let's start out with the can as we usually do with this program the condition of the russian economy chris where do we stand right now we are. standing still or we paddle in water or. standing still there will actually be a pick up in the economic indicators for the second half of this year we had a weak first half and you're looking across the board macro numbers. pick up in the second half because of the base e

he's waiting for a piece of paper now we know that he's applied for temporary asylum in russia on the federal migration service 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 that piece of paper over to edward snowden which would then allow edward snowden to emerge however it transpires that would just simply. exactly to supply so edward snowden does remain in the transit. in terms of the actual process from here once he does get his hands on that piece of paper to russia that's when his application for temporary

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 is indeed on his way from his offices here to share metro airport so we are all on standby it's a been a long wait all day long a lot of us were sure that this documentation was good going to come through today all indications pointed that it was going to happen and definitely from the police presence and all of the extra security being brought into this airport right now it does appear as if edward snowden the n.s.a. leaker is going to be coming out of the airport for the first time in the last month this place he's called home here in moscow and possibly stepped foot on on russian soil for the first time. all right lindsey well i bet there are a lot of journalists there keeping your watch and thank you for bringing us this update and will be crossing back to

here in russia so what has changed since then. oh pretty much it looks like pretty much everything. is initial. question the statements that were made he would seek political asylum in russia were met with a reasonably frosty response i would say from. the from the clinton administration from the presidential administration if you remember. at that stage it's that we could seek political asylum but. very specific conditions under which you could do that and that was to cease leaking the information that has so terribly damaged the nexus between the national security agency in the u.s. and what we know social media or the companies through which we tend to mediate our lives like skype and facebook etc. i guess. i don't imagine the russian position has changed i don't imagine. position has changed i said there were some tweets in the last few minutes to the fact. of putin's. press actually had said that russia's position as far as its own snowden's asylum hasn't changed so that's not confirmed it was just a tweet to that effect so.

up for civil liberties in russia and was asking for asylum in the u.s. not hard to guess what the reaction would be regardless of what russians think about snowden according to the most recent polls fifty five percent of americans view snowden as a whistleblower and only thirty four percent consider him a traitor so the majority of americans do not think what edward snowden is saying is propaganda snowden pledge to stop leaking u.s. secrets but guardian journalist glenn greenwald who's been breaking the news about n.s.a. snooping said he has no plans to stop publishing reports on the classified documents he's already received stephen cohen he's professor of russian and slavic studies at new york university he says the whole situation with snowden's asylum is a tough test for russian and american leaders this is a classic case of the testing of leadership both in moscow and washington not only the obama in europe who can be happy about sitting in the moscow airport who didn't invite him but. for a very political reasons obama needs to show he's tough on s

according to russia's federal service of state statistics russia's economy grew by one point nine percent in the second quarter of the year this is an improvement from the one point six percent growth it posted in the first quarter but still well below the best case scenario of three percent despite the slowdown that aggression and other brics countries continue to drive the world economy in a recent survey the world bank revealed that russia has overtaken germany as the fifth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity and russia's brics peer china is in second place nonetheless global economy impacts the emerging world and its prospects what's happened in the last five to ten years there's been a huge investment in new supply of energy in the supply of commodities and what we thought of the moment is it's not china slowdown is the problem i think is europe collapses zero percent growth in europe and buying anything but not buying cars they're not driving around as much and as a consequence china's slowing yes but but europe's just stops out of the same time to be more supply of

in syria will bring peace to the middle east russia should agree the problem is russia doesn't agree russia is different civilization the bad precedent was set i don't like to criticize your leaders because they're your problems by your own person who agreed almost everything and so washington got in the habit of getting what it wanted. but even in boston or mcfaul has said on several several occasions during the reset which he claims to invented we are going to go she ate with moscow and see what they can do to promote our national interest fine but that's one hand clapping a real negotiation real diplomacy is not bad it is that we go to moscow and say here are our interests will you help us and then moscow says we might hear our interest will you help us and then they do something for each other washington doesn't do anything i would defy anybody who thinks i'm being unpatriotic to tell me one major concession that moscow has received from want from washington since the end of the soviet union just one and when i asked this question at all gust meeting places of the american establ

lavish opening ceremony a capacity crowd of over fifty thousand descended on the stadium and it was russia's president to officially open the games after meeting the countries are fleets taking parts delia we have made every endeavor so the participants of this sport festival could feel themselves at home so that they could achieve outstanding results so that they could withstand gracefully the great tension and difficulty of competitions the ceremony lost it for just over four hours and was warm received by both who had the pleasure and good fortune to see it everything is well organized as a very beautiful and pleasant although where and be charged with that these we hope everything will go well and our country makes a good impression on the rest of the world we're so pleased the opening ceremony as he did all our expectations that's everything is just perfect i had no idea that it would be that good and i'm proud to live in russia and see these things happen. not a spotlight falls on the world's young athletes will be going all out to win one hundred seventeen gold medals on offer but the

in moscow and i say whistleblower edward snowden finally submits a request for temporary asylum in russia according to lawyers. seven people are killed and over two hundred injured during the latest violence overnight in egypt as bikers of the ousted president morsi clashed with police. and he denies claims israel used one of its military bases to launch a strike on syria a report based on r.t. songs. this is as he carries you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. cia leaker edward snowden is officially request temporary asylum here in russia according to a lawyer who's been working with him they whistleblowers been stranded in a moscow airport for over three weeks now and that's now get the details live from his andrew farmer andrew nice to see you so what do we know about edward snowden status right now well as we heard on friday he had asked that well he had said that he would apply for political asylum but we were still waiting for that to be official and now today his lawyer has come out and said he has lodged that cation it is worth noting that except of preconditions f

he has to live in russia right now. and i already boycott russia. i don't inve there i don't travel there. the per capita income she thousand. it's 50,000 in the u.s. i feel bad he is not able to live in this great country. but i don't think boycotting russia is the best idea, ishe right idea. it just hurts people who want to buy caviar, volunteered da and nesting dolls. russia is a thug, not a military threat. >> let's talk about what they're talking about boycotting. lindsey gray a.m. ham said we some boycott the olympics. 25% of americans devil -- disagree. >> whoa would we allow this punk, snowden -- he wants to be a hero, bring yourutt back to the u.s. and stand up to these charges. why would we allow him to ruin -- >> an overwhelming majority say don't boytt the olympics but there's a lot of support for what ed snowden did, revealing nsa overreach. >> he can come back and face the charges but the hopes and dreams of the greatest americans t be gassed because of him and because of president putin trying to stick it to us like he does an every i

seven up russia's men beat japan to win the ball event while the women go out in the loft late as new zealand dominates the rugby world cup sevens. plus all the fun is the spotlight moscow b.d.n.f. pre-season with a one nil defeat to ukrainian giants tonight out here and meet talk of reviving and instil european league. and green kings austrian janish bob wins the russian open by two strokes teenager paddleboard here you know becomes the country's new national champion. but first to the rugby sevens wild cup here in moscow and in the last big tournament before the sport's elim pick debut russia's men beat japan to win the ball event with overall victory for both men and women going to new zealand after the russian girls lost in the quarterfinals as richard reports. hopes were high for the russians as fate hosted the rugby sevens world championships however those dreams were extinguished on saturday as russia's men would finish bottom of a group with two defeats and a draw but didn't have a great post stage obviously everybody saw every or so and it will we felt it ourselves you know w

russia has fallen over the view of safe places for himself dmitri and just. for your information we're getting reports that actually advert snowden did say that he was scared that he wouldn't be able to get to latin america safely because of the latest incident with the believe in president's plane actually and is it is he likely to to get it's i mean the political asylum here in russia what we've heard there the terms of president putin i think these are very legitimate demands that we're going to have made you know on the same demands were made for example i may need when he lived in france that he should not get involved in particular. nor damage the interest of. the wants of what in huge with the damage i called the interest of our american partners so if snowden agrees you will be doomed. if i can be a door bell live in russia by probably it will be about before he is security. if he is given asylum how well this affect relations between russia and the us. well i don't think that it will have a positive effect because there american elite has sort of far

up for civil liberties in russia and was asking for asylum in the u.s. not hard to guess what the reaction would be regardless of what russians think about snowden according to the most recent polls fifty five percent of americans do snowden as a whistleblower and only thirty four percent consider him a traitor so the majority of americans do not think what edward snowden is saying is propaganda i was on he's gonna touch down in washington stephen cohen professor of russian and slavic studies at new york university he believes it would snowden's case has landed moscow and in washington rather a quite a predicament this is a classic case of the testing of leadership both in moscow and washington neither leader the obama nor prudent can be happy about sitting in the moscow airport who didn't invite him to show but he can't seem very political reasons obama needs to show he's tough on snowden. i can't believe that the united states actually wants to put on trial because it was a fair trial a legal trial all she would have the right to subpoena american offi

whistleblower on the run and word snowden finally submitted a request for a temporary asylum in russia and is expected to and he's transit limbo at a moscow airport in a matter of days. campaign against scottish sovereignty the british government paints a grim picture of how in a panic this would damage scotland with repercussions ranging from currency problems to hi i'm obama roaming charges. and as the world student games draw to a close and russia with a record a medal haul for the host nation the competition comes under fire from critics alleging the event has become politicized. this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina josh and welcome to the program a fugitive whistleblower edward snowden could soon be able to leave the confinement of the moscow airport transit zone where he has been stranded for over three weeks now the u.s. intelligence leaker has officially request a temporary asylum in russia with a view to seeking long term refuge in south america well r.t.s. andrew farmer joins us now with more on this from cher major airport andrew we know that t

for resource that maybe russia can actually. be transferred into a better financial tradition for for the money that they're not being held in europe or the united states and to start to do. that will be more convenient for banks or investment companies or for people. to. do people in russia. we started to reduce taxes on financial transactions on savings on didn't. it for the inflow of crypto stuff that in two thousand and ten to be pretty much station then money started to go back last year and this year because of flow of capital and this sort of maybe it after cyprus we can make the case that the russian banking system is one of the safest and we make that i think so i think russian banks have better capital position than many banks and in europe the united states right now. explain well basically russian banks were much more conservative. as in most banks in the war. our company is. always saying that it's really difficult to get loans get credit. interest rates very high but that is one side of the story for brinks. that m

who is wanted in russia as a terrorist and a man named thomas who is wanted in russia for kidnapping in two thousand and two thomas received residency in the west and russia has repeatedly asked for his extradition the u.s. denied the request now as far as. he was the right hand of the internationally recognized chechen terrorists on mill busyness a quick reminder of who was he was killed in two thousand and six in one thousand nine hundred five shamil basayev and his gang attacked the city of buju on the skin took up to one thousand eight hundred residents of that city hostage in a hospital including one hundred fifty children at least one hundred forty people died as a result of that attack also as he gained power in the region. i have stated his objective to have all muslim legions in russia break away from the country that was in the ninety's it was a call to start a war on all fronts and all along with him was modern among other human crimes there was the hostage crisis at the moscow theater nord-ost in two thousand and two one hundred thirty people died there so the right hand

was the blower on the run and what's known finally submit a request for a temporary asylum in russia and is expected to and is transit limbo at a boston airport in a matter of days. a campaign against pot of sovereignty the british government paints a grim picture of how independence would damage scotland with repercussions ranging from currency problems to high moral baal phone chargers. and what made weapons destined for syrian rebels and out in the hands of pro-government forces sparking concerns that the u.s. is unable to control which groups get ahold of its deadly firepower. it is one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t was marina joshie welcome to the program you just have whistleblower edward snowden could soon be able to leave the confines of a moscow airport transit zone where he has been stranded for over three weeks now u.s. intelligence leaker has officially requested temporary asylum in russia with a view to seeking long term refuge in south america farmer brings more on this from shipment to the airport. after being here for three weeks mr snowden should walk

and russia you also have the legal barrier for extradition is between russia and the u.s. will aid. no treaty between the countries be russia does not exclude i to countries where someone could face the death penalty and under the charges that snowden faces he may the political and see the last reason would be. the political reasoning behind it snowden obviously is not it carries he hasn't won he is in children he one of the men sincerely believes that his government has been doing what his government has been doing is wrong and illegal and that the american public should know about it so that they're able to put pressure on politicians on legislators how can the public opposed something that he knows nothing about what also speaks to his possible status of a political refugee is that fifty five percent of americans see him as a whistleblower and not a traitor and that's despite this cat and mouse style coverage in the media as snowden was seeking asylum in all these different countries it was easier to portray him as a traitor because in that context the conversation is not about s

technology innovation all the developments around russia we've. covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm charged market is a big issue. speak your language. programs in documentaries in arabic it's all here on our team or teams in the world talks about six of the r.p. interviews intriguing story to tell you. the arabic to find out more visit arabic don't teach don't call. your washing aussie life from moscow welcome back here's an escalation of violence hyping up in egypt they were eating muslim brotherhood has a should a warning claiming that outside forces of all the top protestors against president morsi the clock is also taking for the islamist leader as the on his one state ultimatum for government action approaches into immense crowds the term into hours there is a mislead it showed no intention of leaving cairo's tahrir square and now live pictures from the scene

russia. and sandstorm brazil thrash favorites italy to nail to make up the beach tennis while champions at the t.v. event here in moscow. but first major sports after italian super sport rider and i answered that he died in a horrific crash during the world superbike round here in moscow because i didn't get out of reports. the second level moscow stage of the superbike world series started brightly but finished tragically where they contributed to an incident their first race where several riders crashed out on the slipper a track including twenty one champion carla striker britton storm sykes then suffered his second deck nicol problem of the weekend as his motorcycle stopped and burst into flames during the fourth lap then knew the way through the race it began to rain heavily and the teams that used it starts to change tires shows there is was leading for the most of the way but his team made more kamil andriy closed the gap late on to win his second race at the moscow track actually was

at those last championships in south korea russia finished second overall behind the u.s. with nine gold medals equalling their best to have a result this time russia's head coach predicts and more this. igs gold yet the squad includes olympic champions like paul wall to you and they seem by a high jumper on the cheat sure and hammer thrower that hanoi sanker and so with the weights of the home crowd also behind them the host nation has the potential to repeat their edmonton success of two thousand and one where they edge the u.s. to finish top of the medal table athletes of this country will be at their peak and will indeed the lever deliver their best performances in front of the whole. you know non olympic yeah that is also without a big football tournament the world the political campaign ships are one of twenty thirteen is biggest advance and moscow is ready to do a cousin by showing it can successfully host a global sporting show bits consented by the above r t. on meanwhile the russian volleyball team became the world league champions for the third time after a stra

edward snowden wants to remain in russia he told human rights activists during a meeting at a moscow airport transit zone that he's applying for temporary asylum. the former n.s.a. contractor promises to stop leaking documents that harm the u.s. which is the kremlin's condition for giving snowden refuge plus. that snowden could be subject to ill treatment in the u.s. are looking to me we talked in the activist who met snowden about his current predicament and whether they think russia will offer him a way out of his transit lounge limbo. also with the white house insists snowden must be returned to the u.s. with one state department spokesman even suggesting moscow shouldn't have let him hold a meeting at the airport because he faces criminal charges. from our studio center here in moscow where he's just turned eleven pm this is our team with you twenty four hours a day and we start with our breaking news story an essay whistleblower edward snowden says he wants ten prepared asylum in russia and promised to stop releasing leaks that washington to secure it he told russian and interna

release of the stadium for the world championships in moscow less than two weeks away the number of russia stars have decided to may spare home national championships but that happened a few of the same ideas so a ten year isn't by a vote was beyond dive star but show because world record holder is a twenty ninth of a glittering career i was looking for the perfect swan song in the russian capital amazingly the thirty one year old's last major triumph came five years ago the beijing olympics she missed out on gold in london but the volgograd native say is she's getting back to advanced and she easily won the national championships with a clearance of four meters and seventy five centimeters some of. them also well look i really think i'm beginning to return to my best for him today wasn't my best performance as i had a few problems getting my legs going but the technical side of my jumps is a lot better than the last few years this is really pleasing for me and i will continue to work ahead of the world championships and i will be an excellent forum when the competition gets underway. does

challenge to russia so why the u.s. would admit such a thing isn't clear there are voices of course within the u.s. administration who are very much against. an escalation of the war general dempsey and others so it could be coming from those sources. think it's too difficult it's too early to say. israel's previous has said it has been get some weapons from syria that's a red line for the. east bank why they could have carried out this latest attack. well. i think that the reason they carried it back is because the rebels are losing i mean the foreign terrorists the foreign mercenaries they're losing the debacle into israel i think giving them a helping hand. the last attack remember in may was against a military training center in damascus i was very frightened because the syrians have had to retrain soldiers since the start of this war in order to be able to deal with the non conventional warfare techniques being used against them so again targeting military and scientific training centers is part of this really stra

came close to hard war not just cold war russia georgia began with no doubt about that russia reacted by moving in the south has said it began the fight with the georgian army that was in effect an american proxy army we created that on the we armed it we trained it we were american the minders the military advisors somewhere in georgia maybe traveling with the georgian troops there was a discussion in the white house led by dick cheney that the united states should bomb the russian army in the south or study. really hold our georgian army there on the ground because no one really wants to wage a war with russia that's another example that's another example that is however that russia would never really i mean you would need ever. well i don't know about that so far i mean where is that written that we would never go to war we became we were extremely close in the cuban missile crisis we were extremely close in berlin on a number of occasions there are probably occasions we haven't been told about and in my judgment we were close in georgia in two thousand and eight no fault of russia

does not cooperate with russia on the extradition of criminals is that in the past ten years russia has made at least twenty extradition requests that were either ignored or denied take a listen and with each skilled cause or the united states systematically refuses to hand people over to russia for prosecution including those accused of serious offenses you know we have plenty of examples of such behavior around twenty cases in the last ten years we've been denied the extradition of killers because of outlaws and people implicated in corruption in washington so it's the lack of an extradition treaty which they themselves are not willing to conclusions and now one name on that list of russia's extradition requests that the u.s. never acted upon is ileus a lot of he's wanted in russia as a terrorist alias of metaphors the right hand of the internationally recognized chechen terrorists now quick reminder of who was in one thousand nine hundred five shuttle bus i have and his gang attack to the city of blue john of his and took up to one thousand eight hundred residents of that city hostag

and made it very clear earlier when this saga began that russia doesn't give anyone up russia does not extradite and it certainly doesn't extradite to countries that have the death penalty so this is not but the thought of the snowden saga continues here at sheremetyevo airport we'll keep you updated with this breaking news that snowden possibly could be asking for political asylum here in the russian federation of course any so well waiting to hear more from you but by the way do you think of this latest threat and probably can change the relations between russia and the u.s. somehow affect. certainly it can it already seems like like both the u.s. and russia are trying to avoid any kind of diplomatic row over this we've seen a lot since this saga has began we've seen planes detained we've seen international law broken the one thing that russia most certainly is going to push and make sure they make very clear is that international laws have to be followed here this is probably why there are russian lawyers here certainly if this is the case and he is asking for political asylum he's

in syria will bring peace to the middle east russia should agree the problem is russia doesn't agree russia is different civilization the bad precedent was set. i don't like to criticize your leaders because they're your problems by yeltsin who agreed almost everything and so washington got in the habit of getting what it wanted but even in boston mcfaul has said on several several occasions during the reset which he claims to invented we are going to negotiate with moscow and see what they can do to promote our national interests funny but that's one hand clapping a real negotiation real diplomacy is not bad it is that we go to moscow and say here are our interests will you help us and then moscow says we might hear our interest will you help us and then they do something for each other washington doesn't do anything i would defy anybody who thinks i'm being unpatriotic to tell me one major concession. that moscow has received for more from washington since the end of the soviet union just one and when i asked this question at all gust meeting places of the american establishment i

currencies in latin american currencies much less so in russia russia's been relatively you know a haven emerging are currencies but elsewhere it's been a great deal of volatility and they're pointing the finger to the fed they're pointing to the e.c.b. saying you're doing what suits you without taking into account you know the effect on us and i think there's you know i would like to overstate it anyway but but you know you can definitely see that there is there are some kind of let's have a. eating amongst ourselves to see what our strategy is at the g twenty rather than being part of it so i don't that's it was right out of time gentlemen many thanks my guests and thanks to our viewers for watching us here on on the money see you next time and state of art. do we speak your language or not a day of. school music programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news a little turn to tip angles kidneys stories. you hear. that all teach spanish find out more visit eye to eye dog all t. dogs comb. thanks. please play. the blame. breaking news here on our t.v. fresh viole

-russia relationship. the focus has now shifted to how russia will deal with snowden's request. the u.s. government continues to demand that russia hand over snowden. now, under russian law, a decision on an asylum request has to be made within three months and this period can be extended by three months if necessary. >>> demonstrators angry over a recent legal decision in the united states are refusing to back down. they're demanding justice for a black teenager who was shot dead. the case has sparked a nationwide conversation about race relations. a jury in florida ruled that neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman killed 17-year-old trayvon martin in self-defense. it found him not guilty of murder or manslaughter. zimmerman is of white and hispanic origin. protesters say the decision to acquit him was based on race. about 400 people gathered at a park in los angeles to vent their anger. police dispersed the crowd and closed the park. some protesters smashed windows of nearby shops and damaged vehicles. police arrested 13 people on suspicion of damaging property. >> if y

rugby sevens world cup here in moscow and in the last big tournament before the sport's a limpet debut russia's men beat japan to win the ball event with overall victory for both men and women going to new zealand after the russian girls lost in the quarterfinals as richard and port reports. hopes were high for the russians as they hosted the rugby sevens world championships however those dreams were extinguished on saturday as russia's men would finish bottom of a group with two defeats and a draw but didn't have a great post asia obviously everybody so everyone saw and here we were we felt it ourselves you know where we're the best critics to ourselves and we knew we had to put things right and we knew we had to focus and you know it probably a little bit too late but still you know as i said you get everything to play for and. have a home crowd something to cheer for however the beauty of rugby sevens told them and it's about those teams have been knocked out early still have something to play for russia went into the bowl tournament for both sides with the worst records and they immediately

what's a lower on the run edward snowden finally submits a request for temporary asylum in russia and is expected to end his transit limbo at a moscow airport in a matter of days. campaign against cottage sovereignty the british government pains a grim picture of how independence would damage scotland with repercussions ranging from currency problems to imo roaming charges. and western made weapons destined for the syrian rebels and up in the hands of pro-government forces sparking concerns that the west is on able to control which groups get hold of its deadly firepower. this is r.t. coming to you from the russian capital on marina joshie welcome to the program. fugitive whistleblower edward snowden could soon be able to leave the confinement of a moscow airport transit zone worry he has been stranded for over three weeks now the u.s. intelligence leaker has officially request a temporary asylum in russia with a view to seeking a long term refuge in south america and our genes are farmer joins us now was more on this outside of chairman of the airport hotel andrew so we know that. th

edward snowden abandons his asylum request for russia rejecting the government's conditions that he stop. extradite him to any country that has the death penalty. and president obama deals with european or american. politicians. saying that tactic is nothing new and everybody's doing. and a russian rocket with three satellites to the baikonur cosmodrome in kazakhstan seconds after blast off. contamination could lead to a total evacuation of the area. and egypt's president mohamed morsi takes fire from all directions as the army takes the side of government protesters several ministers resign in solidarity with the opposition. worldwide news live from moscow this is the with me rule re sushi thank you for joining us today we start immediately with breaking news for you this hour edward snowden has withdrawn his application for asylum here in russia and the whistleblower was apparently unwilling to stop leaking damaging revelations about washington's surveillance habits which was one of moscow's conditions he still has requests for refuge of being considered by almost twenty other nations

leaker edward snowden asks russia for asylum as he struggles to put an end to his legal limbo in a moscow airport transit zone sparky american outrage towards the kremlin. plus fury boils over in america following the court verdict acquitting george zimmerman of killing black teenager trayvon martin protests raging across the nation. in a pack of the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on. syrian state t.v. says the military has found a chemical laboratory producing poisonous materials for rebel forces sources claim there was a plan to stuff shells with the substances and attack damascus a middle east correspondent has the details. the syrian army has found chemical materials in the town of jobar which is on the outskirts of the capital city of damascus initial reports said that the syrian army seized a factory that was occupied by a group of foreign backed militants and that chemical materials were found inside their factory now we do see canisters we do see white packages that they have uncovered and it does seem as if they were producing chemicals