find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on our team. tonight on our t.v. rage against america u.s. embassies come under attack by mobs in should mizzy is sudan and the yemen all in response to a u.s. made film mocking islam. meanwhile in cairo the violence shows no sign of dying down either as clashes enter their fourth day despite attempts by the country's most influential political group to calm the bridge. washington scrambles for damage control after deadly anti american demonstrations spread over the arab world but efforts so far failed to appease the angry crowd.

welcome you're watching r t with me kevin no it's no eight pm here in moscow the main news tonight the wave of anti american protests sweeping across the muslim world with unprecedented force this friday the u.s. embassy is in should missy and sudan are under attack tonight and over in lebanon one person reportedly been killed after a mob set fire to a k.f.c. restaurant clashes also continue in cairo and in yemen is artie's middle east and north africa correspondent paula sleep she's in courage for us hi there paula good evening take us through if you would the flashpoints of the protests have been so many this afternoon how bad is the current situation. given me. that is what this is the single grave the region into this year we know that eyewitnesses.

just as we actually had managed to stay quiet to make the ceiling our courts that that was engaging the stick fire primary area the protesters was waving wide. moving along the fifteen hundred feet off center and they we've heard reports of police firing squad cases as they try to climb the walls i think in my quest sequel now it's not quite clear whether or not quite makes it into the embassy quite so quickly hearing that they will pounce on quantities the oil in the french academy can and will see the same scene unfolding in front of the police which at the moment i was in sudan we are hearing. were meant to be backwards in time and we are safe in yemen tear gas supply homs were fired by a holy. place they offered to school yesterday it's a one man it's actually spoke with the world must be so crazy it was all the

american embassy in yemen the united states seemingly. being it's a quick way since there i mean moving to live among a few in the. us it was the was and it was alan who had been injured in this crash woke up where now the trust was sent to the army a race car to get me there for me to see tripoli we are hearing some reports that response was six days so simply a very busy day the end of a station spreading across the middle east you are in a row we hear the u.s. embassy has been under siege will we know it's been a siege for days how are the authorities there coping with your soul now. for the authorities are struggling you have the egyptian president mohamed morsi has time to do it when he's managed to secure some one billion dollars investment that is marking the city streets tired with us why is he not here to deal with the situation. it was disappointing the last few hours on the scene if you change your

view of the toss why are people who only loans into concrete blocks one and it was not a good move if you keep sticking way too tight on people it was written. off this morning finding on the other side next to see all your security police office itself a few filing the loans and loans to cats that this was meant to cause to get it was probably me quickly effective because of these calls to wash away the pain for the coming washing back i know with the so you have lots of people moving forwards and backwards at the same time there have been ambulances to office a living people we haven't heard any reports of serious injuries but we said you know the health ministry put a piece two hundred people have been injured in the last few days of clashes clearly egypt just took a minute to focus on libya that wave of protests of course began shoes they were the killing of u.s. ambassador what's the latest we're hearing from libya paula. an investigation is

under way in libya since the killing of the american ambassador hunt you say we know that civil unrest has been made and we are hearing both from the original photos he's the washington based state al-qaeda was behind the wave of violence to hit that country on tuesday we also know that the united states is sending marines and ships to libya but as of yet no indication in terms of concrete flows of who actually carried out those killings to you in that we were very briefly paula friday was always going to be a potential time for unrest after friday prayers are we expecting more tonight more trouble. it's difficult to assess because sydney in the last half an hour or so the crowds have seen mason in numbers but seventy five days is that traditionally a day when the cops do come to the streets and it is possible because if i was late at night so the short answer is that it's really difficult to tell but i think it is worth noting that. today of course did go out to the muslim brotherhood people

to hold demonstrations and all the provinces of egypt soon expressed the disgust with this and making the now at least the muslim brotherhood the last two people to hold. teaching and ali demonstrations so it is not as if the muslim brotherhood is at the forefront of the island for what you see today friday in egypt because simply be a mob on the streets youngsters and i'll be caught in the crossfire when i'm not listening to the muslim brotherhood they're incredibly angry and they want to make sure that the voice is on its face it would bring us up to date there is appreciated wolf from all the protests let's go now to washington a former u.s. foreign service officer now writer george kenney is joining us on the line to kenny hi there i had a correspondent just now we heard the evening call to prayer there in cairo it's difficult to know what to predict for the rest of the evening but you are in the united states now what's your feeling about how people are reacting to what's been happening. well kevin first of all it's

a very serious thing any time an american ambassador is killed in the line of duty so many americans not just those in government are grieving over the situation. then also i think that. it's important to take a step back and ask a couple of general questions about what's happening first of all it seems to me we ought to. remember and recognize again the importance of the principle of the sanctity of diplomatic premises and diplomatic exchanges and it is it seems incommensurate but i think it's relevant to look at what the british government was trying to do recently. threatening to enter the ecuadorian embassy to seize julian assange that's just a high class version of what's going on now in the middle east and i think any time that any country and especially

a leading western country begins to wear away at the principle of diplomatic immunity that's terribly dangerous for everyone and so we reassert now the sanctity of our diplomatic establishments in the middle east we should be very mindful that that this is a core principle and it's much better to have diplomacy than it is military action and so you have to have protection for diplomats george i want to i think it's also you know i was going to say we do have a little short of time i want to get your thoughts about the catholics for what we the apparent catholics anyway for what we've been saying in the last couple of days how come that such things like cartoons and films that are often nothing more than particularly bad taste invoke responses like we appear to be seeing now after all is much worse on the web that could potentially offend muslims in it why this now well. that's true. i can't really speak to all the motivations.

these groups that are now agitating in the least because i'm not to be honest the middle east expert but i think it is again a teachable moment in the sense that the us government officials should say loudly and clearly hey we in america have laws and traditions that protected free speech you know not to like what a person is saying but it's we're free to criticize. islam or judaism or christianity i myself have been critical very critical of mormons recently but that's the way that our system works and it is the moment that we say ok you can't say these things in public well then the islamist. radicals have won and even if we can't have a complete conversation because. people don't have a understanding of those traditions they have experienced their entire lives a kind of censorship and so it's so unfamiliar that they don't really understand what we're saying still we should take this opportunity to make that point because it is again

a central feature of our history of our culture and it's one that we should be proud of with the pictures we're seeing of you show the nose i'm talking to you and mentioning anything else is happening today these protesters are raging on how can the u.s. try to win back and restore its image in countries like libya like egypt or is it indeed. at all as we stand tonight. well that's an excellent question kevin and thinking about this it seems to me that that a large part of the problem is that the protesters are poor they're on happy they would like to have a better situation for their lives and that puts the u.s. in something of a dilemma because here we are we're supporting saudi arabia we're supporting bahrain where we're giving some rhetorical support to the so-called arab spring but is it the case that we're really supporting economic justice genuine democracy in these countries i don't think that case has been made and so where if the u.s. were to genuinely support the aspiration. ins of the of the poor and the struggling

middle class in these countries then there we would have other problems in the consistency of our policy with regard to these these regimes that we're supporting for for other reasons for oil and so forth so it would put us in a very difficult situation and to be honest i'm skeptical that that hillary clinton or this administration is up to that challenge so the short answer your question is no we're not going to be able to manage it yeah but you touched on it then of course the u.s. as you just mentioned does have serious strategic interests in the region probably isn't going to pull back even after the burst of hatred is that how could washington deal with the people in power there when the public in those countries seems to be what we're seeing now increasingly anti american well the smart thing to do of course would be to shift our dependence on oil over to renewables and to try to become less of

a hostage to politics in that area but but because american politics is hostage to the oil companies it's unlikely that we're going to do that so the most likely near term scenario is that the u.s. continues to be embroiled in these very muddled and confused politics in the middle east and doesn't really manage. to help sort them out so i would i would tend to be pessimistic about how this all turns out it's nice to think of an arab spring and democracy and and thousand flowers blooming in the middle east but the problems there are are extremely serious in the the the things that the people over there have to cope with are almost impossible to solve even by themselves so. so i i would expect that we're going to see a lot a lot more trouble along the lines of what we're seeing today george we appreciate your comments george curry their former korea u.s. foreign service officer thanks have so much. thanks gov responsibility for video

that's inflamed the arab world reportedly rests with los angeles filmmaker. or a cop to christine american and convicted fraudster know some of the actors claim all the insults to islam in the video were added later by the film's producers while some american bloggers claim that a full movie might not even exist at all what is sure though is that the video has left us policy across the arab world facing a deadly blowback when appalled explodes more. 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 but americans are not readily 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 inadequate and doesn't call for dialogue doesn't call for development it doesn't call for progress it calls for them moving it as us 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 palestine 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 due to push shut down but tensions in the muslim world seem to be only increasing there has been a lot of simmering nancy american feeling a right across the entire world it's there it's worse in pakistan where

polls show there were ninety percent of pakistanis americans their primary an enemy america's middle of bloggers and it's made a lot of enemies in the arab spring countries america helped revolutionize the line between friend and foe has blurred 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 the rail years of progress during a port ny artsy new york. of course we're also closely following the developments in r.t. dot com we want your thoughts as well as to who you think is to blame for the anti american violence in the arab world right now and this is what you're telling us more than half of you hold washington responsible you can see this saying it's a blowback for america's foreign policy just under fifty version is responsible

american islamophobia for fueling the breast slightly fewer think radical anti western muslims are the cause the remaining fear if you believe the violence is being orchestrated by arab regimes is it always good to hear from you had to r.t. dot com still plenty of time the cultural thanks if you know why you're there to wear a carrying lie footage from where the current erupted and which is spreading across north africa and the middle east we've also a timeline of the violence as it's been unfolding r.t. dot com. let's take in some other at news stories now tonight britain suffering its worst housing crisis in modern history with a number of new households increasing faster than the number of homes it can build over one point seven million families and i waiting for a place to live out is laura smith's got the story. the biggest social issue facing

britain today there's a chronic housing shortage and an increasingly thin laughter dated 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 over the last fifty years while the population has grown by twenty percent and to the prime minister's pledge 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 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.

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 should 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 deck a few under supply have seen house prices birol out of reach banks where the lenders 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 buying your first home is approaching forty years old and many will never be able to afford their own home. or smith. developed for reign in oil is on the rise to

spite american sanctions and an e.u. burden on the country's crude the international energy agency says to rand's crude sales are rising now edging over a million barrels a day european and u.s. sanctions were imposed to put pressure on iran over its nuclear program which to round meant turns is purely peaceful but iran's resources are still a hot commodity across the region with turkey china and india all currently top importers political analyst chris bambery says continuing to block oil trade with iran could harm other economies there always bargo dissension implemented by the united states and its european allies and having great difficulty in even getting their friends to implement its embargo for instance japan is desperately getting a waiver trying to get a waiver from washington in order to continue really in oil imports it needs iranian oil but more importantly iran is discovering new markets china is continuing to take really an oil so as india the americans best route to try ensure

israel that somehow sanctions are working in order to see if you know what sanctions are going to beggar arounds economy just like they did in iraq and therefore we don't need to around a moment why netanyahu is a g. obama to do it iran is a major world economy a world player and actually of europe ruses out on its economic read and economic contacts in around these new other economies are going to step in and fill the breach and therefore in europe there is a fear is going to be excluded from the iranian markets as a result of these sanctions that i think that is actually what's going to happen. for russian tourists have been killed in a bus crash in greece the russian consulate confirmed the deaths and said thirty other people have been injured some of them severely their bus crashed on the highway from the region of chilcot the key to the city of thessalonica an initial investigation says the driver lost control of the vehicle on a slippery road then the bus overturned the russian tourists were on the way to thessalonica airport to fly home. more world news week long clashes between kurdish

fighters and security forces have killed at least seventy five militants and four soldiers in the southeast the military claims as part of a large scale offensive which is seen over seven thousand troops deployed to the area kurds make up the majority of the population in the volatile area and have been fighting for autonomy since one thousand nine hundred four with hundreds of militants believed to be in hiding in neighboring iraq. a new u.n. envoy to syria has held top level meetings in damascus including one with an opposition group head of planned talks with president assad like debris he expected to call on nations with political clout to weigh in and stop the bloodshed that's now killed over eight hundred thousand people on thursday syrian government forces carried out airstrikes on the commercial capital of aleppo after rebels once again tried to take over the city clashes have also been raging in western and southern parts of the city and in several theories of the. japanese cabinet panels called for the phasing out of nuclear power over the next three decades but move comes as the country struggles to make the shifted its energy policy after an earthquake and

tsunami devastated the fukushima nuclear plant in twenty eleven the government closed down all the time it plants after the accident her for some of them have since been reopened to cope with the country's power demands around one third of japan's energy's curry generated by nuclear power plants. the bus is pushed with a fuel tank released in afghanistan it's killed fifty one people as the vehicle erupted into flames it's not known why they collided i did a separate incident in the country a nato service member was reportedly killed in a militant attack in the east violence as recently surged again in afghanistan with most attacks conducted by taliban insurgents. few minutes from now we talked to a man who spent forty five days in taliban captivity he shares with those his unique insight of what it's like on the other side of the war on terror. well as captured by the taliban and when i was in prison i had to listen for a. hours and hours and hours to tell about recruitment tapes and suicide

recruitment tapes they talk of are they seeing of pashtoon history pushed in geography pashtoon 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. for that very soon but right now dimitri's here the business task dimitris been a rally actually in full swing to the markets today isn't a russia gaining a subset last time i looked that's right it's a huge game fantastic actually pulls on the russian market indeed almost seven percent six point nine to be to be exact that's on the back of the latest moves coming from fed chairman ben bernanke agreed to stimulate the economy with a new wave of who wanted to do easing off all around buying up of assets not just

bonds but shares also now we're talking about an open ended program which could be worth up to a trillion dollars and the previous one was worth six hundred billion dollars that's a lot of money to support the economy is more steam jacobson. short term of course what happens fundamentally here is stead you make money cheaper and as such you will want to see tangible asses like all the gas gold overall to go off in order to have the system to reset itself so yes it will create an increased appetite but you have to remember this is almost like a science definition of insanity which is state you keep repeating the same experiment expecting different results what i'm trying to say with that is of course this is the third time we do quantitative easing include and then also we have operation twist so effectually this is going to do nothing to the unemployed in southern europe it is going to do absolutely nothing to the growth of the us may

just off the coals still remains in place. right now is so widely anticipated move is pushing the markets up for the second day in a row now yesterday we saw a jump number off the set. and now friday's session is also moving over to mess that up more than one percent now over in europe this is also coupled with the fact that the e.c.b. is going ahead with its golden boy program so there we are seeing the closing bodies out also around one officer at fort hood both london and. now when it comes to the euro dollar rate has been changing the pause month massively from one point two to one point still brings in one day when the russian ruble also managed to strengthen very much against both cards and especially against the dollar more than a two percent boost to one hundred percent against the. now that's on the back of high oil prices of course with the stimulus coming ahead in full swing both in the

u.s. and in europe also of course hopes for higher demand for energy all pushing oil prices . now and in turn that is also helping russian stokes' gain as you can see there almost seventy percent of yachts yes the mice. it's a bit weaker than that more than four percent that's on the back of a storm of people now and if we look there separately at different stock stories performing the my six there are six percent as well of the financial peers around the world m.r.s. k. the federal bridge company electricity is up around nine percent in the trade i have to say our system investment corporation was down almost three percent since we. were so it's. europe is demanding basically identical prices for gas in every country now european commissioner. has said the russia quote knows the rules but does not accept that europe cannot accept the fact that

gas in some member states is thirty percent cheaper than in other new e.u. nations the move comes amid the e.u. commission's anti trust probe into gas probes of activities the e.c. is investigating whether gas from the resorts it's unfair competition and price fixing however gazprom maintains its business practices comply with the law of all the countries that it is present yet. that's why i have given the south indeed a rally all across the board good stuff now on the way thanks to me tree as promised we talked to a former taliban hostage about the us agenda in afghanistan as he sees it.