[00:56.21]or it will intervene with its own plan.
[00:59.39]Reports from Moscow say the fugitive former American intelligence analyst Edward Snowden has applied for political asylum.
[01:07.41]He’s been at an airport in Moscow for more than a week.
[01:10.24]He faces charges of espionage in the United States for disclosing secrets about internet surveillance.
[01:16.00]Steve Rosenberg reports.
[01:17.45]According to a consular official at Moscow airport, Edward Snowden’s asylum application was submitted on Sunday night.
[01:24.24]It was delivered by Sarah Harrison, a member of the Wikileaks legal team.
[01:28.81]But will the Kremlin agree to it? Earlier President Putin appeared to suggest otherwise.
[01:34.33]Mr Snowden, he said, could only remain in Russia if he agreed to stop leaking secrets that were damaging America.
[01:40.84]And since there was little sign of that, the Kremlin leader added, the American,
[01:45.86]who’s currently in limbo in an airport transit zone, should choose an onward destination.
[01:50.77]The French President Francois Hollande has said there will be no negotiations with the United States until Washington guarantees it will stop spying on its allies.
[01:59.86]Secret files suggesting that US intelligence had kept America’s allies under surveillance were leaked to the European media by Edward Snowden.