are doing everything to shift the attention away from snowden's revelations by focusing on snowden himself or even by attacking other countries like russia is the freedom trail is not exactly china russia cuba venezuela so i hope we'll chase him to the ends of the earth bring him to justice and let the russians know there will be consequences if they harbor this guy then i was listening to a former director of the cia saying over russia and china are going to use this meaning snowden to embarrass the west and one would argue it's his revelations that embarrass the u.s. not china or russia the u.s. government is clearly afraid of more revelations from snowden i want to get him caught and brought back for trial and i think we need to know exactly what he has. he could have a lot lot more the debate in the u.s. media has shifted to this case most of this catching. mouth game it's not all about how we're going to catch him so right now the media is unsympathetic to edward snowden although just a week ago some of the same journalists who were almost cheerleading for his capture now were gratefu

well i think the media has taken some criticism from snowden and other people for trivializing snowden's past and sort of getting distracted but i think actually it's been a pretty good vessel for a serious debate about privacy if you know for about three weeks now all the called the op ed pages and the television airwaves are filled up with a lot of back and forth is this a huge privacy problem is it not it's been going back and forth is you traitor is a hero those are awfully simplistic terms but there's been a lot of substantive discussion going on i hear remember a time at least in the past several years where privacy has gotten more thorough screening in the public now talk about the idea of different outlets covering this obviously there are certain republican allies are certain democratic allies is there any ones that you could say are really hitting the mark or are not hitting the mark well it's interesting that. since this issue since privacy is sort of a bipartisan issue there's a there's a there's there's a strain on the left on the left side of the political spectrum that doe

extradite snowden back to the u.s. but he has since fled hong kong and all evidence points that within the hour it will soon also flee moscow to believe that his final destination will be ecuador where he is seeking political asylum. as we understand indeed mr edward snowden is where you are right now you said about an hour it's approximately one zero five moscow time take off to a five so we're right on the money with the timing will have to check in with you soon. thank you. has apparently spent the night at that airport we were talking about it is located within the transit zone of moscow our correspondent you got pissed off is inside one of the top. we're in terminal now from moscow sheremetyevo airport the same exact terminal where edward snowden arrived at around five pm moscow time on sunday coming from hong kong and company my week elites and representatives now at this moment this is pretty much all the precise information we have about them since we were never seen exiting the airport reportedly because we do

for snowden over in a statement hong kong his government claims it had no reason to stop snowden and also said it was clarification over allegations the u.s. had chinese targets r t contributor off things no developing nation would just agree to hand snowden over. chinese american relations it just goes to show how poorly those relations are going because that arrest warrant went out the complaint under the espionage act and under international law as the united states might have it and of course the hong kong government ignored it as most developing nations would they realize that the united states and the way it's been operating is something like a tallit tarion strait and so many ways i suppose averse stub united states were using their back channels trying to get through to xi jinping saying what an earth is going in hong kong they released this espionage act complaint what is it unauthorized communication of a national defense information and immediately the chinese government cooperates with edward snowden perhaps corporate with the russian government and everyone is trying to

snowden has bed and where he could be going let's start off here near honolulu hawaii where snowden lived with his girlfriend they reportedly moved out of this home on may first real estate agents say they left nothing behind on may twentieth caring for a laptop computer snowden arrived in hong kong after exposing secret u.s. surveillance programs to the guardian and the washington post while he was hiding away up in a hotel room here in hong kong the first report on snowden's leak was released june fifth just four days later he gave the guardian permission to reveal his identity while in hiding here the u.s. revoked his passport in charge snowden with the with espionage despite the u.s. effort to get hong kong to hand snowden over yesterday june twenty third hong kong allowed him to get on a plane to moscow this afternoon the white house press secretary jay carney said he believes snowden is still there and he said washington is in contact with moscow and expects russia to examine the options available to them and here is the aeroflot plane at the airport in moscow today that was suppose

are doing everything to shift the attention away from snowden's revelations by focusing on snowden himself or even by attacking other countries like russia senator chuck schumer was on one of the news shows this morning saying president putin. he said putin always seems almost eager to put a finger in the eye of the united states and then i was listening to the former director of the cia say russia and china are going to use this meaning snowden to embarrass the u.s. one would argue it's his revelations that embarrass the west not russia and china the u.s. government is clearly afraid of more revelations coming from edward snowden there's a debate in the us media has shifted to this cat and mouse game and it's now all about how we're going to catch it so right now the media is unsympathetic to edward snowden although just a week ago. some of the same journalists who are almost humiliating for his capture at this point were grateful for edward snowden's revelations which were indeed open and as far as the prospects of being caught here's what edward snowden who sell for that deals i don't h

hold the last place on mr snowden snowden was cited or check in with you throughout the day you going off thank you. now it's noted a journey since he set off to expose the extent of washington spying will mark a whistleblower odyssey of sorts or may twentieth he began his trip by flying from hawaii where he worked as an n.s.a. contractor from hawaii there all the way to hong kong and over the next month he dominated headlines with revelations about the true scope of u.s. surveillance ultimately encompassing about of the entire planet's on sunday though without warning he boarded a flight heading from moscow that was just a day off to washington requested his extradition and next he reportedly set to fly to the cuban capital of havana which will serve as a transit point possibly there from cuba to venezuela he'll go and then perhaps the last leg there the final destination of ecuador possibly that will be his safe haven in ecuador does say it's a considering edward snowden's request for asylum a plea reportedly organized by wiki leaks and for more in quito stake in all of this let's n

snowden and the n.s.a. and everything and that he's not perhaps the most objective person to be present in the news so i guess that if there's a bias question is what and certainly one of the foremost and that was the next topic i was on talk to you about is glenn greenwald and this kind of back and forth that he has with the meet the press meet the press is david gregory right now some lawmakers have said that he should be prosecuted for aiding and abetting the enemy because they say he's not a journalist because it expressed opinions so my first question is what qualifies as a journalist well i think that you know we're always sort of. renovating our opinion of just just what a journalist i think certainly in this case is going greenwald more than qualified he's presented the public documents. to the american public in context. disagree with him but his facts have been basically more or less on target he has presented documents which have not been debunked which have not been declared false so i mean i th

edward snowden or the ecuadorian on. edward snowden was. still here he is set to spend the night. before i say really suggest he's involved he will not fly to cuba monday afternoon. edward snowden's exact whereabouts are currently unknown though he is thought to be still at the airport there is speculation he could be staying out a so-called capsule hotel and so i'm sure metz of you're seeing footage of the airport right now from our news agency ruptly other reports however suggest he is in a v.i.p. zone inside one of the terminals he is believed to be waiting for a flight to cuba now the wiki leaks organization which is helping edward snowden seek refuge says he will leave for ecuador via what it calls a safe route artie's to bang months he has been following developments from ecuador's embassy in moscow throughout the day she brings us this report there was a lot of speculation and a lot of speculation and unconfirmed reports are running around the minute that snowden actually left to hong kong on his way to moscow early on a full closure on the. time the ecuadorian ambassador a

snowden is awaiting a flight. which is thought to be destined for cuba and it's leaving in just a matter of hours he arrived in the russian capital on sunday having fled hong kong with washington in hot pursuit. for. well as far as we understand edward snowden does remain here moscow's sheremetyevo airport in the terminal building behind me as you say here arrived just after five o'clock on a sunday afternoon on a commercial flight. from hong kong he was greeted by the ecuadorian ambassador and three hours after the confirmation came that he had sought political asylum in the south american country. we still believe is mulling over whether or not to grant asylum to edward snowden he is expected to just remain in transit here in moscow before flying in cuba a little bit later on this afternoon but to really put this story in context to rewind and see what's happened over the last twenty four forty eight hours or so really over the course of the weekend because it was on friday that the charges against edward snowde

from facilitating mr snowden's asylum. every person has the right to seek and received so far as right. in trying to fight an agent freeman. of which the united states is a party and so it is. counterproductive and acceptable. for the obama administration. to try and we thought is right. it reflects poorly on the u.s. administration. and you know you self respecting country would submit to such interfere and saw such a lean by the u.s. in its battles. and so. this morning. the u.s. secretary of state told it would threaten. trade. a parent had so many friends morning the u.s. secretary of state called a traitor. edward snowden. is not a traitor. is not a spy. he is a whistleblower he was told the public an important truth. the u.s. secretary of state. is wrong in the mall. anymore . a. traitor not here to the u.s. enemies and there is also a requirement. that the doc. and. congressional aide approve four times neither of these changes you. the u.s. administration was not given. a mandate. but the bomb administration was no

whistleblower edward snowden has formally applied for political asylum in ecuador snowden is currently in a moscow airport and is reportedly waiting to board another flight within the next twenty four hours meanwhile washington is ramping up in the pressure on latin america urging that no country to offer him a safe haven snowden is the seventh person the obama administration has sought to punish for leaking classified data let's get a recap of some of his major revelations that sparked washington's fury in the first place he disclosed documents showing that the n.s.a. has access to huge streams of internet data including emails chat rooms and videos from large companies such as facebook and google and that the u.s. government used the secret foreign intelligence surveillance court to gather an extensive range of information from phone service provider verizon he revealed also . how both mainland china and hong kong have been victims to hundreds of cyber attacks by u.s. hackers and according to his latest leak the u.k. is collecting and storing huge amounts of sensitive data personal d

snowden various edward snowden and the wiki leaks representative traveling with him are healthy and safe and in very good spirits he would not disclose where they are though he said that for their safety because of the very very brilliant behavior of the u.s. administration they couldn't disclose edward snowden the u.s. millions limitation but the wiki leaks legal team were also on the phone they said that they would confirm that they have been assisting in edward snowden's asylum request to ecuador but also to two other countries which they also wouldn't disclose but it wasn't just a political asylum request made to ecuador there were other countries involved as well and julian the songs was also talking about the fundamental right of every human being to political asylum and the fact that that fundamental rights trumps any other countries extradition request so he's calling on all the people of every country to call on their governments to secure the safety of edward snowden and not to succumb to what wiki leaks called the very bullying and threatening behavior of the obama administrat

snowden is slipping away and u.s. officials express their frustration by verbal be attacking the countries that do not hurry to put him in handcuffs and send him to you what's russia says it has no legal authority to arrest him secretary of state john kerry said you know we would be deeply troubling obviously if they have that it would notice not withstanding that they make a decision willfully and if there was adequate notice there would be. without any question. on the relationship and consequences the u.s. state department has also sent out warnings to the states that may accept such as cuba venezuela ecuador asking them not to do that and to turn him over to do was well on route to his destination snowden is of course choosing countries that would not be easily pressured by washington in the meantime u.s. politicians and pundits on television use what seems like a cold war rhetoric when they comment on the story presenting russia and china as the enemies that snowden is helping one form of special said russia and

snowden remains in russia.eyond that, i wouldn't want to speculate about next steps except that we have communicated to the russians our hope that they will look at all options available to them to expel mr. snowden back to the united states. >> does the u.s. government believe that if he is allowed to leave russia, then you probably -- the u.s. government is probably going to give up on getting him sghak. >> i wouldn't want to speculate about that. i don't think "give up" is really a way to characterize the situation. right now we believe we understand where he is and we're having appropriate conversations about that and i won't want to get ahead of that. >> quickly on immigration, one of the house democrats who's tried to be involved in the talks has said that it's not -- doesn't believe it is a blow to immigration reform if it doesn't -- if a version of it does not pass the house before the august recess. seems to be different from where the white house wants something to pass the house before the august rec

whistleblower edward snowden is off the radar with no sign of him the flight to cuba reportedly booked on spending the night at a moscow airport. footage from our correspondent on the seat snowden is meant to be sitting in if you will into u.s. airspace where america might have a chance to intercept the aeroflot jet. says snowden is safe but keep his exact whereabouts secret we can extend however confirm ecuador has given him refugee travel papers. washington appears desperate to corner its former intelligence analyst criticizing every country he passes through and demanding is immediate the footage. international news in comment live from our studio center here in moscow this is the twenty four hours a day so the world's media have turned into a plane spotters tracking one transatlantic flight that was supposed to be carrying the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden away to safety from the hands of the usa who wanted him extradited well the fact is it appears that he wasn't on the plane nobody saw him boarding the plane bound for cuba from moscow airport where he was reported to have s

government agencies and that was one of edward snowden's revelations snowden gave china a great political counterargument to u.s. constant accusations against china now the u.s. can't accuse china of cyber attacks without being accused of hypocrisy so there is an interesting dynamic behind all this the u.s. one and china where the semi-autonomous government of hong kong to give them the man who had leaked u.s. secrets but one of those secrets is about activities of the u.s. government against china so it's possible that china's dilemma was to either think edward snowden or to arrest that hong kong says they've done everything in accordance with their own laws now as far as russia edward snowden has been in transit in russia and russian authorities say they have no legal authority to arrest him but u.s. politicians and pundits on television use what seems like a cold war rhetoric to present washington as the enemies that snowden is helping and the imagination of some german is running. wild as they joke about how edward snowden is being briefed by the russian president in one form of socia

for snowden over what the u.s. is reportedly revoked edward snowden's passport and notified hong kong and russia but it didn't stop him from traveling let's cross live now to washington and talk to. so it's going to any news on what washington is trying to achieve and indeed further more on what the relations are now between washington moscow concerning snowden. well bill the u.s. has reportedly revoked edward snowden's passport but apparently it was too late it was done yesterday but apparently it was too late for hong kong officials to stop him from flying well while at the airport in moscow snowden doesn't really need any any passports he is in the transit area where he's heading with still don't know we know that the state department has asked cuba. not to accept him or to expel him to the united states if he arrives there this is turning into a global trace for the united states the speed with which they strip edward snowden off citizenship is indeed as sounding there has to there has to be a process in place

computers well now apparently edward snowden saying it works the other way as well and then snowden starts his journey to a quote unnamed democratic state with the help of wiki leaks activists in order to avoid extradition to the united states while british activist peter tatchell though believes that it is the u.s. who should be concerned about the revelations and not edward snowden. but she will deny the states will be doubling its efforts to try and intercept him and to get an extradition from whatever country they can i think the context of this is that the united states spies on its own citizens it also spies almost a distance of millions of other countries millions of people in other countries and this is done without the permission of those countries it is technically illegal and what is extraordinary is that it would snowden was employed by the united states as a spy yet now they are seeking to arrest him for spying it seems complete enough to see when the united states is spying on its own citizens and citizens around the world on a massive scale without governmental into strict o

snowden. it's a similar approach he's taking with congress where he's doing an end run around lawmakers, pursuing new policies on climate change that don't need approval on capitol hill. >> this is a challenge that does not pause for partisan gridlock. >> reporter: mr. obama said the state department should approve the keystone pipeline only if it adds no new greenhouse emissions. >> the net effects of the pipeline's impact on our climate will be absolutely critical to determining whether this project is allowed to go forward. it's relevant. >> reporter: and the president is largely staying out of the fight over immigration reform, just as the senate reached a breakthrough on the issue, a key house republican appears to be slamming on the brakes. >> the house will do its own legislation. we're going to do our own plan, which is going to be far more methodical, we're going to take our time. >> reporter: getting back to edward snowden, a smokpokesman the national security council noted the u.s.

whistleblower edward snowden has formally applied for political asylum in ecuador snowden is currently in a moscow airport and is reportedly waiting to board his next flight in the next twenty four hours meanwhile washington is reportedly ramping up the pressure on latin america urging all states to deny him refuge r.t. contributor option retards he believes that no developing nation would agree to just hand snowden over. chinese american relations it just goes to show how poorly those relations are going because that arrest warrant went out the complaint under the espionage act and under international law as the united states might have it and of course the hong kong government ignored it as most developing nations would they realize that the united states and the way it's been operating is something like a tallit tarion strait and so many ways i suppose the first stub united states were using their back channels trying to get through to xi jinping saying what a nerd is going in hong kong they released this espionage act complaint what is it unauthorized communication of a national de

snowden has revealed.ays all the citizens in the world have been affected by the u.s. surveillance programs revealed by snowden. i'm looking at a rough log. our department is translating the news conference and the guardian has a live blog of the news conference. the prime minister says there will guarantee the safety of people who publish opinions to the media and work in any form of communication. he says no human being will be considered illegal because of his immigration status. we do not do that in ecuador. we turn now to michael ratner, president emeritus of the center for constitutional rights. he is a lawyer for julian assange and wikileaks. julian assange has gotten political asylum by the ecuadoran government and remains holed up in the ecuadorean embassy in london because the british government threatens to arrest him if he steps foot outside. he just recently met with ecuador's foreign minister who went to the embassy to speak with him. michael ratner, what is the latest you have since wikileak

that's a question mr snowden. but that's taken away from what was you know more thoughtful but he had a motive didn't he now if his motive was out to wish to be flee. because he doesn't want to face the same fate as bradley manning he doesn't want to face fate therefore he wouldn't stand up for what he stood for right yes see in other words we did want to say so what i try to do in asking questions is i do the best i can over my career and it's the best questions i could but was in the best answer and hopefully be audience make up their own mind how do you see this kind of attack on journalism ever before or do you see that this is the worse it's been terms of crackdown of whistleblowers of the obama administration etc i think we're supposed to. i never i never heard of a correct almost right now. you know it's well he's already charged the third is the eighth person in charge of the espionage act the world war one piece of what if the nature of the law but isn't the government breaking the law i don't know so do

snowden. the attorney general speaks with this counterpart in hong kong, seemed to have gotten assurances that this eveninngs were going the attorney general here wanted and that didn't happen because china clearly took the reins here. so it seems in some odd way that the cold war is back. >> you think the longer, ari, this goes on the more embarrassing it is for the obama administration? >> it is because what people quickly measure is presidential influence. why are they doing this? why can't president obama get snowden released to us? these are the things that pass right up the chain to the person at the top. whether it's deserved or not deserved, partially deserved, that's the way it is. so the longer it goes on, the much more tricky this will be for president obama. >> thanks very much. a reminder, you're going to want to say tuned in here next hour, our entire hour, a special report, the nsa leaker on the run, we're tracking his moves. 6:00 p.m. eastern right at the top of the hour. >> ju

whistleblower edward snowden want to be in the u.s. for espionage is in moscow after getting off a plane from hong kong r.t. has been told that diplomats from ecuador are at the airport to greet him whistleblowers allegedly checked in for an onward flight to cuba suggesting have and will be just another transit point on his way to another country not sure where at this point speculation as to the whistleblowers final destination some sources suggesting he'll go on to venezuela well for all of this and more let's cross now to our tease paul scott he's standing by at sheremetyevo airport paula give us the latest. yes they would be wrong wouldn't it if america's one of america's most wanted men wasn't to keep us guessing about his exact whereabouts. but we can. confirm that edward snowden has arrived. at the house can. flown in from hong kong where of course they are they allowed him to leave despite american requests to stop extradition proceedings against him the question is what is his next move some quotes attribute it to julia saunde

whistleblower edward snowden who is wanted by the u.s. reportedly in moscow after touching down on a flight from hong kong well now reportedly wait to board a plane to cuba and from there to an unknown destination meanwhile our teahouse learn ecuador's ambassador to russia has also arrived at the airport and could be meeting snowden there our reporter standing by at the airport to bring you the latest on that but first gavin make faden director of the u.k. center of investigative judge. thanks for joining us here on r t so snowden's revelations of cyber spying has increased tensions between the u.s. and china hong kong and neither guaranteed his safety but also refused to arrest him so what message do you think is being sent in that case to washington and i think the the situation is complicated because the chinese clearly have of their own agenda but aren't prepared i think publicly to be pushed around in a sense by the united states and i think that would be a large factor in that in that decision. and julian a son jay explained to us e

national security agent whistleblower edward snowden. is currently in transit for the night at a moscow airport after flying in from. ecuador and diplomats met him after he landed he's now expected to fly to cuba. international safety from the u.s. . and before he even left hong kong snowden's passport reportedly revoked the u.s. which is told russia deported human rights activists. with new allegations even. while he was running for the senate. from. twenty four hours a day and it's a whistleblower edward snowden who is wanted by the u.s. has formally applied for political asylum in ecuador and that's according to a tweet by the country's foreign minister snowden is currently in a moscow airport waiting to board his next flight on. well let's cross now to. the airport tell us what has happened since snowden landed here in moscow. speculation. fifteen pm local time. he was greeted by diplomats from the ecuadorian embassy he was greeted by the ecuadorian he was here to meet him upon his. flight from hong kong. he has not been spotted and

this but you know so much snowden's case is similar to that. called themselves defenders of human rights and fight for the freedom of information you have to. do such people need to be hunted down and put in prison i personally would like to avoid cases like these it's like sharing a pig lots of shrieking little fun. it's not the first time that the issue of snowden's extradition makes the headlines previously in the united states china to extradite him from hong kong now one of the official reasons if you believe it or not was that when the united states. put in their papers extradition papers to the chinese authorities the claim of the police was denied because in the papers it was not specified what edward j. snowden stood for his middle his father's name was not explained in the papers that's why the chinese authorities denied the extradition now this of course caused a fury across the atlantic with some politicians in washington point. figures that beijing and moscow for failing to cooperate with washington some have even been saying that

snowed snowden in my mind the only thing that's very really important. is it's really how the government is cracking down on. your mole over the place but that's far from most of the media's focus instead snowden is the source not the substance of the n.s.a. scandal is all the rage betraying your country's kind of a fashion statement what to me that national security kim carr dash is an old technique called change the subject when you don't like what the subject is about how you change you personalize it or you try to see what the problems are with the people who are delivering the message and ovoid actually explaining the message itself in this case a massive spy scandal has been turned into a possible case of treason as an alice in wonderland first comes the verdict then the trial with pundits. eager to shoot the messenger we need to get very very serious about treason and old by the way for treason as in the case of bradley manning or edward snowden you bring back the death penalty from questioning whether the reporter who broke the scandal with snowd

edward snowden just to confirm that president putin has said that it was snowden is at the moment in transit in. port and that will bring you plenty of reaction and live analysis is on this and in particular what is the reaction in the states. this the latest developments we could not go to washington . the white house says hong kong officials had received washington's request to arrest noting and still made quote a deliberate choice to let him go so washington clearly takes it as a snub from china here's the president's press secretary we are just not buying that this was a technical decision by a hong kong immigration official this was a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant and that decision unquestionably has a negative impact on the u.s. china relationship we were never there in response to the u.s. request to arrest noted in the government of hong kong issued a statement saying that the documents the u.s. provided did not fully comply with the legal requirements on the hong kong law but also in that same statement the governmen

edward snowden is on the run this hour. the nsa leaker is currently on a flight from hong kong to moscow but that is not his final destination we've learned. where will he go? we have the breaking details for you moments away. >>> then an ar show stunt goes horribly wrong. a wing walker gets killed when too close to the ground. >> white house faces scandal after scandal, what is the president going to focus on this week? climate change. we'll take a closer look at that. fox and friends starts right now. >>> sunday morning on the east coast, we begin with fox news alert, breaking news overnight. nsa leaker edward snowden on the move. the post reported he left hong kong, now on his way to moscow. his final destination a mystery. there's speculation. >> peter on the story live in washington, d.c. good morning, peter, what do you know at this hour? >> reporter: clayton, we know we called the airline edward snowden is using to leave hong kong. they told us a passenger named edward snowden is currently on board flight su 213 from

snowden. likely placed directly into the car and it looked like a diplomatic vehicle. where i'm standing here, there are a number of diplomatic individuals including one bearing the ecuadorian flag. we assume that was the ambassador of ecuador here in moscow. it would appear he's receiving some sort of diplomatic assistance. he can with a core has always been one of the countries that was thought snowden could reach out to to seek some sort of protection that could ultimately try and seek refuge there. at the moments as i say, perhaps the ecuadorian ambassador's car, leading us to believe that he is still here but perhaps heading toward that country in the near future. >> again, that's where we think ed snowden is. we know he came from hong kong. i want to bring in nic robertson who is in hong kong. we've seen the back and forth. we saw hong kong say we had to let him go because we didn't have the proper paperwork. justice pushed back and said, no, we were getting the proper paperwork and they

snowden private. correspondence with private affairs or his whereabouts and travel instead on the credibly important revelations that he has given us the answer to the question why is simple because they failed to do their job to actually expose all this so now they're blaming somebody who has exposed it and it makes them look bad to go for the government the media coverage of the n.s.a. scandal oh litmus test for journalism that most are failing instead of cleaning up their act and dwindling ratings networks are busy looking for bad guys elsewhere instead of looking the real villain in the face when you consider that as recently as one thousand seven richard nixon was forced to resign in large part because he thought well. this is a huge change in our perception while the media war breaks out over supporting or hating edward snowden as little airtime as possible is actually dedicated to the spying on unsuspecting citizens itself the biggest privacy leak in recent u.s. history has shown the media to h

for snowden crossing continents. with new allegations that even barack obama was monitored while he was running for the senate. international news and comment live from our studio center here in moscow this is r.t. with you twenty four hours a day. and it's a whistleblower edward snowden who is wanted by the u.s. has formally applied for political asylum in ecuador and that's according to the country's foreign minister is currently in a moscow airport waiting to board his next flight tomorrow afternoon when it's across now to paul scott who is at the airport tell us what has happened there at the airport since snowden touched down from hong kong. pretty much a case at the moment of the calm of the storm edward snowden arrived here at moscow . fifty. six hours ago was greeted by officials from the were. durian embassy and indeed by the ecuadorian ambassador it's not clear whether the ambassador is still here at the airport or whether he has made his way back towards the embassy but it seems pretty certain that edward

that snowden is in a safe place now even snowden himself has said on t.v. that he doesn't think he's safe from the reach of the u.s. so what makes wiki leaks so sure that he is. well i cannot go into details but. what julian said earlier today is correct we believe that he is in a safe place and he is well and he is a kompany by. a member of our staff. so i believe that at the moment at least he is safe yes now i know that you can't go into details but you could at least tell us where he is heading i don't expect you to tell us where you is right now but it is ultimate destination. planned all to my destination of course is ecuador. i'm sorry i can't go into details of his whereabouts or his plans and i think that would be. my hesitation there should be seen in the context of the call up this morning by the u.s. government actually if for rendition of snowden that they were calling out to other countries to arrest him and hand him over. what comes to mind of course is the is the cia rendition program so for recent years it's a serious serious. and of course

and you know, snowden -- look, let's look at snowden here. some might try to say that, oh, he's a great human rights crusader. he is not at all like the great human rights crusaders in the past, the martin luther kings or the gandhis who did civil disobedience because he -- first, he flees the country. daniel elsburg, when he released the pentagon papers because he thought it was the right thing to do, stayed in america and faced the consequences. second, he's hurt other people. a gandhi or a martin luther king didn't hurt other people as they did their resistance, and they faced the consequences. so i don't think snowden in any way can be compared to those people and should not be made a good guy, hero, or anything like that by anybody. >> and finally on this subject, senator, are you concerned that watching a man the u.s. really thinks has exposed government secrets, has been charged with spying and with theft of government property, as we sort of track him around the world, are you worried that the u.s. looks kind of powerless to stop this

despite the blow to british intelligence from snowden's leaks the u.k. financial chief announces a funding boost for the country spying agencies while slashing welfare spending. and deadly scenes of on rest egypt yes again is the opposition to mark the first anniversary of the president's inauguration with nationwide protests. welcome you watching r.t. with me andrew. america's most wanted man edward snowden remains stuck in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport he's believed to have been there since sunday the national security agency leaker has asked for political asylum from ecuador but the south american country says it could take months to process the request with aussies to see catherine of joins us now live from outside the airport lucy what is the latest. well aside from the thunderstorm that's beginning to crack above us not much in terms of details regarding snowden's whereabouts or information we know that he suspected to be holed up in the transfer area of the sheremetyevo airport he did leave via flight from hong kong here to rus

snowden rushed. if the russian government wanted to cooperate, is there any question in your mind they could grab him and turn him over is this. >> the question is whether he's illegally in russia. if his passport wasn't revoked, there is no requirement for the russians to turn help back over to the u.s.. >> no requirement. >> no requirement to hold him -- well, there would be no legal authority to hold him. if in fact state department did revoke his passport last week which i heard they did, then he's traveling around unless wikileaks or someone has somehow arranged for him to have a passport from another country that none of us are aware of at this point, but if the u.s. passport was his only passport, then he's not traveling legally and even though he's technically not entered through his passport control, he still is in position where they could grab him and have him deported back to the country of his citizenship or deport him back to his last country that he entered from which in this case woul

has revoked snowden's passport. there are also reports snowden could spend the night in moscow before he goes anywhere. to phil black, live for us now at the moscow airport. what is happening there, if anythi anything? >> reporter: well, fredericka, we know the flight edward snowden was aboard flew in five hours ago we haven't seen him since. one witness on the aircraft, one person got onto the tarmac, into a car and his baggage was put into that car. they assumed it was snowden and seems pretty likely. he has not emerged from the north american nal so we believe he is in there waiting to connect with a flight to his next destination. as you say, it has been affirmed he is applying for asylum. here in ecuador, we have seen a number of diplomatic vehicles from ecuador's ambassador. we have not seen the ambassador but his car has been parked here the better part of the day. we assume he is within the airport, within a secure area, talking, meeting with edward snowden. at some point within the next 24 hours or so he wi

nsa leaker ed snowden is in russia.e got off a plane in moscow a couple of hours ago, has not been seen since by reporters staking out the scene there and we don't know if he's headed to another country's embassy, but we will stay on this story and return to it in just a few moments. >>> but first, paula deen was one of the food network stars until a lawsuit by a former manager of her georgia restaurant accused her of using racial slurs. deen acknowledged using the n word a long time ago. the celebrity chef agreed to arpts questions on the "today" show where she's made numerous appearances, but on friday she was a no-show. >> at one point she asked to speak to me. i spoke to her late afternoon on the phone yesterday and we talked about the fact that it would be an open and candid discussion, no holds barred, all questions within the bounds of what we would talk b her people, per publicity people have told us that she's exhausted and will not be showing up. >> hours later deen posted a video in which she said she was sor