it's. here with r t n right now on your screen mrs colorado where protesters outside the u.s. embassy are refusing to be silenced furious at an american made film that ridicules the prophet muhammad. the intense anger against the video is spreading across the region with other u.s. missions under attack while all flights to and from the libyan city of benghazi are suspended. washington struggles to contain the fallout from the film saying it had nothing to do with its production but all assurances failed to diffuse the anger.

and welcome to r t i'm karen broadcasting from our studio in moscow now protesters in egypt refused to leave the streets outside the u.s. embassy in cairo for a third day sporadic clashes with police continued to flare up stones were hurdled by both sides and tear gas fired to contain the crowds angry over an american made film that mocks all of the prophet muhammad local journalist bel true reports from the egyptian capital. we're still basically saying quite violent street fights between the protesters and the police which have been ongoing all nights we've seen protests throwing molotov and rocks and the security forces responding with quite heavy amounts to take out the minute she arrived at probably about six o'clock this morning and saw that building security barricades have gnawed concrete blocks on

the wrist street leading to the embassy behind me and while this is happening the police push the protesters right on to here which is quite close to the embassy and have been since keeping them at bay so right now i don't think anything is going to finish anytime soon the protest organized today was by the muslim brotherhood which is of course the organization that the president of egypt hails from they call for peace spoken trold organize protests off the friday prize usually with the muslim brotherhood they do actually deliver they have these quite controlled protests some criticize them for being too controlled usually finished at nightfall so i imagine what happened here is as has happened before because the security barricades have been there many times before in downtown cairo once the barricades erected i am mountain and the police who would draw this peaceful protest organized by the mission brotherhood will take place and. what may happen which is happened in the past is when the muslim brotherhood lead the scratch and when the protest finishes

the peaceful protests vicious today the struggle is with people who have other grievances like saying against the police or the government may well stay we may see continued clashes with the security forces the cheese the protests organized by i'm in islamic groups and they were peaceful but they did breach obviously the u.s. mission in order to take down the flag what we've been seeing since since yesterday morning has been a younger crowd expressing except for grievances as well as condemning the anti islam film they've been saying that they are they are unhappy with police tactics with the government so i'm not sure how these protests is moving at peace because the people to identify exactly who they are hoping. cause the us the government to apologize over the film this has been done to a certain extent although of course the u.s. government has to be very careful about cracking down on freedom of expression otherwise i'm not really sure how these kind of issues can be strong. anti-american

raphe sparked by the film has swept across the arab world the protests that started in libya and egypt have struck in almost a dozen countries now including yemen iran iraq and tunisia that's while in libya the ongoing turmoil has led to all air traffic to begin being suspended for security reasons or just corresponded in the region loosely cough enough brings us more. well it seems like every hour we're hearing more updates about potential protests spreading across the region this is of course turmoil in the arab world over the offensive video denigrating the prophet muhammad we've actually seen the protests spread to right here in lebanon there are a lot calmer than what we've seen in other parts of the middle east there were protesters both in the city of tripoli where a lot of the syrian fighting has actually spilled over into as well as in the southern city of sirte don we've also seen protests reported in israel were protesters reportedly burned an american flag there as well as pakistan where there were a lot calmer than some of the other protests local officials there had called on

the expulsion of the u.s. ambassador there. given the large number of aid that that country gets i doubt that we would see that actually happening we've also seen protests spread to morocco sudan and tunisia now of course the most violent example that we've seen to date has really been after of course the tragic killing of the u.s. ambassador in libya has been in yemen where. hundreds of protesters stormed the compound they were able to breach the heavily fortified outer perimeter setting fire to a building and several cars there there's been conflicting reports about numbers of injured and killed although the latest we're hearing is four people were killed in that protest but for the moment really all eyes are really on what happens in the arab world after friday prayers a lot of times we tend to see sort of fanning the flames of crisis situations like this and really the place to watch is going to be lebanon right here in lebanon where the pope is making his first visit to the country since the beginning of the

arab spring the country of course has a very painful sectarian christian muslim sunni shia divide past and of course of ghana stand where killings have been reported in the past associated with the burnings of the koran by u.s. . people associated with the u.s. troops we really have to keep an eye on what's going to have. and there are after friday prayers within libya there's been reported a number of arrests of people who are six suspected to have been involved in in those attacks we are also now hearing from the u.s. the special is that this wasn't a sort of spontaneous protest in reaction to the film that this may have been a planned coordinated attack scheduled to take place on the anniversary of the eleventh anniversary of nine eleven investigations are still continuing with that situation and we also know that the u.s. is sending a small group of marines over to that country as well as additional war destroyers to the area just in case just to see what happens there but again as

a result of these clashes in the ongoing clashes in cairo we've had very very heavy security presence around the embassies in this region in fact we even drove past the u.s. embassy here in beirut and a lot more security presence than normally seen here. we'll be updating you on the anti-american demonstrations across the middle east and north africa throughout the day right here on our plus you can always get the latest by following her on twitter and coming up in a few minutes our team looks into just who's behind the call traversal anti islam film that is called such widespread outrage. also we look at how the film and subsequent anti-american protests have damaged washington is the efforts to build friendly relations with the muslim world. all right let's now talk to eric dennis a who is the director and founder of the

french center for intelligence studies. thank you so much mr dennis effort joining r.t. today now the muslim brotherhood has announced it's canceling nationwide protests and was only present for a symbolic protest on top where square tell us why have they changed their minds do you think there could be some outside influence on their decision yes i think so because in most of the country as you see in your report. we faced a very important radicalization process so i think the. try to the game even if i think they are just being this seemed to organize everything the u.s. has been supporting revolutions in the region and it effectively put the new libyan government in office but who really holds the power in the country well i think we should also have the specific bottom view of course it's always a big deal when innocent diplomats are killed like lisa when i see are and what we

knew or saw the u.s. government is not responsible for the movie but we should always keep in mind that the process i mean. what we call the democratic revolution has been supported by the us but in fact there have been so bloated everywhere. make up and now the people the been supporting. moving against u.s. interests and this is not a surprise for franchises that we have been talking to u.s. counterparts for years and we say you are doing a mistake because fundamentally one day or number do something one going to state this is what we call the boomerang effect that's right now what do you think are the u.s. will will they rather change their foreign policy in the region following a sense event well it's very difficult to to to see because it's something new in the u.s. strategy remember a few years ago after of the attacks of nine eleven. did decide to

understand why the world was so angry against washington and the and then the most attrition of the. accused the us not to know this is to get poor so they decided to change their policy and they were supporting them is but i think the problem is that this list doesn't want only us for they want to change the world into and to install sharia everywhere this is why the pretext of the new the it was probably going to stay just to get in the position against washington now it certainly isn't the first time in which the united states has anger at the islamic world i mean we saw a rage after u.s. soldiers burned copies of the koran and urinated on dead afghan bodies do you think that america can ever recover face in the arab world. but it's difficult to see you because i think could have good relation with the local governments the new ones

because they need the need i mean just for maybe some for some you know they need us reporters but i think there is a game called pigs game between all of the local governments and not for instance morgan morsi midgett what i want to see and what you see us with mint and we do this. in the streets to put some more pressure against first of all the state but also against all the western powers to get some more money or to get some more power again. i'm afraid that's all the time we have eric to say thank you so much for a time director of the french center for intelligence studies. we've got more opinion on the developments in libya egypt and other arab nations all of. our home you can also find the latest dates those are posted live right as they come in. and of how the situation is developing. in our you tube channel there we've got all the videos

from the protests in egypt and the rest of the region along with expert opinion. is. now the u.s. state department has denied any involvement with the film but the statement has failed to diffuse the anger and the controversy surrounding its production is still under investigation. reports. the anger over this film has been growing like a snowball so has the confusion over who made it at the beginning our colleagues at the a.p. news agency reached to the person who posted the video on you tube someone named.

by phone he confirmed that he had made the film identified himself as an israeli american the israeli foreign minister said there was no such israeli citizen and who ever had shot the film was and i quote an unspeakable act then our colleagues tracked down this embassy it was cell number which brought them to the home of someone named nakoula mr nakoula told them that he had produced the film and that he was a christian caught and put whatever made the film its trailer when viral and an egyptian american coptic activist from washington d.c. sent an e-mail to journalists around the world promoting this of kember eleven event and included a link to this fourteen minute clip in egypt journalists translated some of the footage into arabic and brought tested and then it all started when muslims in that part of the world believe that if the film was produced in the u.s. the u.s. government is responsible and part of the obama administration's damage control

work has been to make it clear that they too find this film despicable in hillary clinton's own words this gusting and reprehensible she also said this let me state very clearly and i hope it is obvious that the united states government had absolutely nothing to do with this video we absolutely reject its content and mass. but the words apparently did not make it to the right ears and the rage went on in egypt in libya in tunisia and in yemen people stormed u.s. embassies despicable violence became the price the leaders of those countries have paid for letting the mob vent out this initially but the u.s. appears to be in a difficult position now they can't really lesh out of those. yours or the people there because washington cheered so greatly for the changes that swept the region of the current levy and government essentially ols its powers in the united states

also there are still questions as to whether it was just the angry mob which attacked the u.s. consulate in libya or whether an organized terrorist group jumped on the bandwagon of this film hysteria and perpetrated the vicious attack the chaos the influx of arms into libya during the war against qaddafi created perfect environment for extremists of all kinds so there's still a web of questions around what happened on nine eleven this year. now the notorious film is not as threatening not just u.s. diplomatic missions in the arab world but american interests in the region and general washington has spent a great deal of time and billions of dollars to befriend some muslim countries but all those efforts are now proving to have been in vain arches more in a fortnight explains. anger is rising rage is spreading and american flags are burning throughout the arab world this isn't exactly the type of relationship washington envisioned after barack obama became president i've

come here to cairo to seek a new beginning between the united states and muslims around the world the new u.s. leader promised to turn the page and mend relations tarnished by george w. bush's war on terror he even granted his first foreign television interview to al arabiya an arabic language channel my job to the muslim world is to communicate that the americans are now you have to be washington invested huge resources in building a massive social media presence comprised of nearly two hundred different accounts to spread its message of friendship by the end of last year the u.s. had spent seventy million dollars assisting foreign citizens with the resources to bypass online firewalls and censorship. the bitter irony is that a youtube clip posted by one american instantly buried massive efforts made by the u.s. government as americans were being held hostage by

a small group of extremists people here in america think when they put their views on you tube and now the technology is such that it can be seen all over the world i think people in. some of these places don't understand this is not the view of most americans this is not the view of the u.s. government according to many experts a large majority of the arab world has grown too familiar with the anti muslim. sentiment america is accused of cementing the policy of the americans towards this part of the world is in either quit it doesn't call for dialogue doesn't call for development it doesn't call for progress it calls for the moving of those units because it puts american interests and some western interests a cause for war and the invasion of iraq as we have seen destruction of afghanistan no progress on the peace level in pakistan thinks the spark for it to you know all come out in violent forms as we can see now on the screen and this is what's happening within forty eight hours the fury that began in egypt spread to libya

yemen lebanon and iran in afghanistan you tube was shut down but tensions in the muslim world seem to be only increasing there has been a lot of simmering nancy american feeling right across the entire arab world it's there it's worse in pakistan where polls show there were ninety percent of the pakistanis americans their primary am enemy america's middle of blunders and it's made enemies in the arab spring countries america helped revolutionize the line between friend and foe and this blur despite all the time and money washington has spent using the internet to promote its islam friendly foreign policy the world wide web has also served as a platform that enabled one american extremist to infuriate millions overseas and darrelle years of progress very important i r.t.

new york and i will be keeping you updated on all the developments in the islamic world hit by violent. protests here on r.t. and on r.t. talk come. all right to other news now in britain one point seven million families are currently waiting for social housing this comes against a background of spreading debt across the country and a huge number of homeowners having their houses repossessed smith reports from london on one of the biggest housing crisis the country has ever faced. the biggest social issue facing britain today there's a chronic housing shortage and an increasingly didn't laugh today it is housing stock that isn't being replaced it's to do with the recession but a crisis was looming even before that house building has fallen by seventy percent

of the last fifty years while the population has grown by twenty percent and so the prime minister has pledged to unleash one of the biggest building programs this country has seen in a generation but his opponents own convinced by those words especially coming from a government that slashed a billion pounds from investments in affordable housing shortly after its election and affordable housing building starts have collapsed by sixty eight percent council building stocks have collapsed by ninety seven percent we've not seen before. in our history and it's the responsibility for you all sorts of government policies and desperate times call for desperate measures one council is reportedly considering asking people to rent out rooms in their houses to solve the shortage of accommodation meanwhile more than half of social housing in some areas is under

. in hartford north of london there are more than three thousand families languishing on the housing list while five thousand seven hundred homes are under use and the problem isn't just with social housing decades under supply i have seen house prices birol out of reach banks where lends to first time buyers paying high levels of rents mean they're unable to save up for the huge deposit lenders now require means the average age spread by your first home is approaching forty years old and many will never be able to afford their own home. to greece now where four russian tourists have been killed in a boss crash the russian consulate has confirmed in deaths and also says thirty people have been injured some of them severely their bus crashed on the highway from the region of child key to the city of. an initial investigation says the

driver lost control of the vehicle on the slippery road and the bus overturned the russian tourists were headed for thessaloniki airport to fly home. and later this hour a man the taliban tried to brainwash during six weeks of being held hostage he shares with us his unique insight on what it's like on the other side of the war on terror. when i was captured by the taliban and when i was in prison i had to listen for hours and hours and hours to tell about recruitment tapes suicide recruitment tips they talk of are they saying were chair of pashtoon history pushed in geography pushed through and poetry this is a nationalist movement in their view they are simply trying to free themselves of foreign infidel invaders exactly like their fathers and grandfathers in order to have what they feel is a proper islamic government. more

of the world's main news making headlines this hour a bus house crashed with a fuel tanker in eastern afghanistan killing fifty one people as the vehicles erupted in flames police and soldiers are removing bodies from the wreckage but say the victims will be difficult to identify it happened in the gulf ne region which is part of the main supply route for nato goods coming into afghanistan from the north. six chinese patrol ship entered waters near disputed islands claimed by both china and japan and move us further heightened tension in a long running territorial dispute between asia's two biggest economy it's japan is demanding all the vessels leave the waters but at the moment only three of the six ships have left earlier this week japan announced it had bought the islands from a private owner ignoring warnings from china. thousands of argentinians have

taken to the streets of the country's major cities to protest against the government of president cristina fernandez a protesters carrying no to reelect inside. fear of the populist president will use her control of congress to extend her term in office that number was reelected with fifty four percent of the vote last year but her popularity since declined being involved in corruption scandals. the u.n. nuclear watchdog the i.a.e.a. has rebuked iran for defying international demands to curb your rein in richmond and address fears it might be seeking atomic weapons the resolution is viewed as a move to pacify israel which is growing impatient with diplomacy and sanctions and wants the u.s. to set up clear boundaries for a possible strike meanwhile to her rejects all accusations saying that every country has its right on peaceful nuclear program. time to cross over

to the business desk metal prices rising sharply what is going on all of the suits for eon the metals market as well as on the equity markets are all courtesy of the u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke he and his latest monetary policy moves let's take a look at the european equities well i tell you all about it european stocks are continuing to demonstrate pretty hefty gains at this hour as you can see the footsie is putting on around one and a half percent the dax is pretty much of the same welcoming the fed's promise to keep the interest rates low for at least three years and to buy up to forty billion dollars a month of mortgage backed securities that would stabilize the u.s. real estate market here in moscow this hour the r.t.s. is gaining around four or five and a half percent on friday and then why is sex is not that far behind three and a half percent they're all in line with global indices following the much anticipated u.s. federal reserve quantitative easing read money printing and of course the move

would boost the appetite for risk making russian assets both bonds and equities more attractive to investors some of these stocks you can see are outperforming on the my sex and fact they include in the financial sector v t v five and a half percent grid company in morris case putting on more than a thousand percent and bucking the upward trend as financial corp sees downward has boosted the one hundred sixty two million dollar a loss in the second quarter and stay with system it has reportedly eyeing india's mobile operator error cell the local media says the deal could be worth for a house billion dollars system is not new to india small market has been operating there under the m.t.s. brand. and on the currency markets this hour the dollar is weakening to be euro and the russian ruble is managing to. the strain tend to both the euro and

the dollar on wall street overnight we saw a pretty similar picture the equities there jumped to lifting the s. and p. five hundred to its highs finish those two thousand and seven hours will set new highs a day after it revealed its latest i phone model and financial problems make some americans with a losing faith in the banking system according to the federal deposit insurance corporation so-called on the banks population has grown to eight point two percent of the u.s. households instead of using bank accounts these americans rely on cashier's checks and short term lenders to manage their finances that means they're only more vulnerable to high fees and interest rates but they also have no access to either credit cards mortgages or college or low. oil prices are continuing to skyrocket again to wall time month highs in fact what we're seeing is that all

b.t.i. is if over one hundred dollars a barrel and metal prices including gold silver and copper surged to mull time on tires on thursday on a weaker dollar and of course all the inflation concerns following that fed reserve move silver is seeing a bit of a correction after a jumped five percent in the previous session of course we'll see if that trend continues we'll bring you all the latest in about fifteen minutes all right we look forward to thank you natasha. and surely we'll talk to a man who was held captive by the taliban for more than a month first i'll be back with the headlines.