and a similar, much larger rally, was held last night. despite that, the interim prime minister is still moving forward. he s hoping to have a government in place by early next week. the white house says there is no indication that russia is prepared to send intelligence leaker edward snowden back to the united states. president obama spoke with his russian counterpart by phone yesterday about the fate of snowden. he is wanted in the u.s. for leaking intelligence secrets and has been hiding out at moscow s main airport. yesterday snowden made his first appearance in nearly three weeks. our phil black explains why. edward snowden is increasingly a frustrated man. he has no travel documents and few options. now, that s why he called a group of human rights workers based in russia to the airport where he has been effectively camping out we believe for the last three weeks or so. and it was during this meeting that he made a statement. some of which was videoed, it s the first time we
russia seven people in the last two years that they requested that we did without any clamor, without any ranker, without any argument and according to our sense of the appropriateness of meeting their request. that s what we would hope they would reciprocate with here today. reporter: those seven were high level criminals. from 2007 to 2012, the u.s. at moscow s request deported more than 1700 russian citizens back to russia. more than 500 of them criminal deportations. and wolf, the irony here is there s no extradition treaty because back in the old cold war days, the united states didn t need did not want one fearing that they d have to turn over dissidents to moscow. now, president putin says he doesn t want this case to hurt
say may because it s not known whether snowden is on it. we have team coverage from latin america to washington to new york. we re going to start with phil black in moscow, who just filed this report before he took off on that flight to cuba about what snowden may do next. take a look and listen. reporter: edward snowden has spent the night in the transit area of moscow s airport, trying to get his next step has been a very popular exercise here in moscow over the last 24 hours. the sudden dash from hong kong to russia took a lot of people by surprise. we now know he hopes to get to ecuador, where he s officially asked for political asylum. that s his goal, but he s still a long way from getting there. at moscow s airport, there were early signs the government of ecuador was playing a role in the fate of edward snowden. the flag was a giveaway. this was the ecuadorian ambassador s car parked outside, and this official from the embassy somehow got lost inside the terminal.
guessing what edward snowden s next move will be. at moscow s airport, there were early signs the government of ecuador was playing a role in the fate of snowden. the flag was a giveaway. this was the ecuadorian ambassador s car outside. and this official from the agency somehow got lost inside the terminal. i don t have any comments. are you here in relation to mr. snowden at all? reporter: the world learned of mr. snowden s sudden departure from hong kong when he was already in the air, bound for moscow on an international flight. a big group of journalists waited to meet him, but snowden stayed inside the terminal. then the government confirmed he had formally asked for assignment. ecuador is already protecting one man, wikileaks founder, julian assange. assange has been living in ecuador s london embassy for a
to answer concrete questions. also, mr. foegel s possession were a compass, pocket knife. wads of cash, sunglasses, not one but two wigs. all of which could, describe the contents of my purse. in fact it does. the state department is saying much less than you are. one very brief comment from state department officials today. here it is. we can confirm that an officer at moscow was detained and released. we have seen the russian foreign ministry announcement and we have no further announcement. we also got an email from the cia saying if we really had to say something, we could say they declined to say anything. the russians are being far more forthcoming. they described mr. fogle s actions as, quote, a serious crime. some experts have said by the way that these sort of incidents happen farely