RussiaToday-Video-News-World:Terrorist-friendly? US denies Russian requests to extradite criminals amid Snowden row

The US has expressed its concern over the fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden's bid for temporary asylum in Russia. Moscow's expected to grant that request - and says the lack of an extradition treaty with Washington makes handing him over impossible. However, US routinely denies Russian requests to hand over suspected criminals living in America.



The EU has agreed to put the armed wing of the Lebanese group Hezbollah on its terrorism blacklist - at a meeting of Foreign Ministers in Brussels. London insisted on sanctions - after blaming the group for last year's attack on a bus carrying Israelis in Bulgaria. European leaders are also concerned by Hezbollah's role in the Syrian conflict - where it's fighting alongside government troops, against rebels. For more insight on this, Dr. Franklin Lamb - who's an international lawyer and political analyst, joins RT


More than a decade after US led forces invaded Iraq - there is a legacy of horrific birth defects. Scientists blame the weapons used by the US military. Fallujah is the best known example, the number affected there is 14 times higher than in Hiroshima after an atomic bomb was dropped on it in the Second World War. But RT's Lucy Kafanov was the first to take an in-depth look at the lesser-known extent of the human suffering in Najaf.


The Muslim Brotherhood has lost its position in the Egyptian government, but popular support is still strong. Thousands are on the street protesting what they call a military coup. We talk to Osama Morsi, the son of the ousted President Mohamed Morsi, about democracy, the Brotherhood's future, his father's whereabouts and to what end are they prepared to fight.



'Out with the Mafia!' Anonymous-backed anti-govt protests grip Spain

In 30 cities across Spain thousands of people protested government corruption and called for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's resignation. In solidarity with the demonstrations, hacktivist group Anonymous knocked out the ruling People's Party website.





The European Union has cut off funding to all Israeli entities that operate in disputed areas of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. That's part of EU pressure on Israel to keep inside its original borders, before their expansion in 1967. The decision will affect more than half a million Israeli settlers - and has provoked an angry reaction from Tel-Aviv. But Europe says it's merely formalized a position that had been stated many times before. To discuss this further member of European Parliament Paul Murphy, and the Jerusalem Post's chief political correspondent, Gil Hoffman, join RT.


Russian riot police detained dozens of protesters during unauthorized rallies held in several Russian cities after anti-corruption blogger Aleksey Navalny was sentenced to five years for embezzlement on Thursday morning. On Friday, Navalny and his accomplice Ofitserov have been freed pending appeal on the condition they adhere to travel restrictions stipulated by the court.


In Egypt, at least 3 people have been killed in overnight clashes - as backers and opponents of ousted President Mohamed Morsi held rallies across the country. That's after the military warned supporters of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood against stoking further unrest - and disrupting the transition to a new government


Who's Edward Snowden more of a problem for now, Russia or the US? Has he sent US-Russian relations into a tailspin or did he just reaffirm the sad state of affairs? Is the 'Russian Reset' dead? Today we discuss the fallout from the Snowden case with Stephen Cohen, Professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University and Princeton University.