RussiaToday-Video-News-World:'Project Fear': UK launches PR offensive against Scottish independence

Scotland is looking ahead to its September 2014 vote on whether to become an independent country but in London, the government is campaigning hard against succession. RT's Polly Boiko has been investigating the warnings from Westminster that Scottish nationalists have dismissed as scaremongering.



Tensions are high as NSA leaker Edward Snowden officially submitted application for temporary asylum in Russia on Tuesday. After Russian and international human rights advocates and lawyers met with Snowden at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Friday, the US said it was disappointed in Russia for considering the whistleblowers asylum. During a daily press briefing State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki was given a thorough grilling on the Snowden affair by journalists, including AP's Matthew Lee and CNN's Elise Labott and was left lost for words at almost every turn.


Opposition groups in Bahrain have called on the government to allow a major demonstration calling for greater freedoms, which is planned for next month. The Gulf state's been seeing violence for more than two years now, with thousands of anti-regime protesters clashing with police on a daily basis. Let's go to Saeed al-Shehabi - London-based activist from the Bahrain Freedom Movement.


NSA leaker Edward Snowden has officially requested temporary asylum in Russia, according to a lawyer who's been working with him. The whistleblower's been stranded in a Moscow airport for over three weeks now. John Laughland, Director of Studies at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation, joins RT's studio to discuss the matter.


Travellers on their way to Britain might want to leave their phones at home after it was revealed they could be seized and browsed through by police. And amazingly it's totally legal, as Tesa Arcilla reports.


The man who exposed America's global surveillance network, Edward Snowden may be looking to settle in Russia - at least for the mid-term. The whistle blower has been stuck at a Moscow airport for three weeks now - because he lacks the papers to leave. Live to RT's Andrew Farmer and we are joined by RT contributor Afshin Rattansi.


How "neoconservative" is American foreign policy today? Is democracy promotion the top priority? Hasn't the neocon agenda just weakened America's position? How can the neocon worldview hold when there are so many contradictions? CrossTalking with Matthew Feeney and Mark Jacobson