welcome back. edward snowden has a message for the people of great britain and a tv network gave him a couple of minutes of air time to deliver it. a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. they ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves. an unreported un andlized thought. and that s a problem because privacy matters. privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be. snowden, of course, who is under russian protection at the moment is wanted by the u.s. government for spying. he did make those remarks from moscow. the uk s channel 4, they do this every year airing what they call an alternative christmas message after they run the queen s christmas message. sometimes it s goofy.
is real concern for human rights on the ground. michael? fred, thanks so much. fred pleitgen there in new york. still to come here on around the world on the run but on the air. we ll tell you why fugitive american edward snowden addressed british television viewers from moscow today. [ sniffles, coughs ] shhhh! i have a cold with this annoying runny nose. [ sniffles ] i better take something. [ male announcer ] dayquil cold and flu doesn t treat all that. it doesn t? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms plus has a fast-acting antihistamine. oh, what a relief it is! female announcer: get beautyrest, posturepedic,
sometimes it s more controversial. this year it is edward snowden. elise labott is our foreign affairs reporter. elyse, the u.s. government can t be happy about this, channel 4 giving edward snowden air time. any reaction there? not today on this holiday, michael. kind of staying quiet about it, obviously the government keeps referring to edward snowden as a fugitive and that he should come home. you might note that he joins the ranks of mahmoud ahmadinejad the former president of iran in delivering this alternative alternative message. they would say he s in that kind of company. over the last year, you ve noticed edward snowden started as just leaking this information but now in becoming more of a provocateur speaking out and this christmas message he urged people in britain and obviously around the world are also paying attention to rally against this mass government surveillance that we ve seen. let s take another listen to what he said, another part of