burns's egyptian liberals and islam this clash of the president leaving unspoken peace accord between the two sides in time. under pressure moscow accuses an american coup for forcing a group of russians arrested in the u. asked over a week ago to admit they involvement in a conspiracy against the you are. also on the program the british foreign office denies world war two veterans a russian medal issued to commemorate this service saying the actual bravery was to fall into the past.

international news life this is all she with me thanks for joining us it was a riot is not entirely just where with egyptian square. liberals and islam is slugging as their differences in a hail of rocks fire bombs and even bullets and it all began with an oppositional rally against president morsi and his first ten days in power but the gathering was soon joined by the muslim brotherhood. that's when things turned. what happened was there were two protests organized one by the liberal forces who are complaining against these last one hundred days this plan that he said the barrier to to achieve significant changes the key social issues in egypt and also against the constituent assembly were currently drafting egypt's national charter which is being dropped in quite an islamist way so we had the liberals who were

here to protest against back to the same time the brotherhood came down there was organized protests in the brotherhood and the brotherhood critical party at the end j.p. the freedom and justice party against the recent ruling acquitting twenty five people who were involved reports of involved in the back of the camel one of the bloodiest battles of the eighteen days last year when we had really was liberals and islamists in particular prove i had to go to this meeting on to here which then erupted in clashes because just continue on mahmoud street which is where we've seen many crashes before an event by december and kind of top street and just behind me as you can see by the museum i personally witnessed a lot of rock throwing several very heavy head injuries throwing we have heard gunshots there's been no police presence whatsoever even though in more seize a hundred day plan he did say that he would up security in the country and reassure people that they wouldn't see scenes like this which is what we're witnessing right now there is obviously a growing political islam happening in this country what we saw recently was the

supreme guide of the muslim brotherhood he made quite a contentious statement recently calling for jihad or holy war on jerusalem to wrestle it away from the jewish population and give it back to the most of them so this is a very contentious statement made morsi himself the president hasn't affirmed that distance himself from the statement as of course the spot many fear is in addition we're seeing a massive a sion of the constitution which is obviously key at the moment key articles in the constitution like article two an article thirty six relating to the egyptian penal code and those who really can see women's rights are really seeing a lot of islam is ation in that people are saying. it's the egyptian no should not just derived from islamic sharia but actually following islamic sharia these are one of the ongoing battles within the constituent assembly so basically what we see is in a grassroots level the national level the political level quite a heavy is in my station in egypt. and james the chatteris as a former us senate foreign policy analyst says the brotherhood's calls to seize

jerusalem show us exactly what its goals are and we were seeing a very rapid islamisation of the political structure in egypt and nobody should be surprised at this. there was a lot of discussion about the power struggle that would ensue between morsi in the military and it seems the morsi in the brotherhood have triumphed much quicker than anybody expected and nobody should doubt what their ultimate intentions are in terms of strict enforcement of our sharia and they recreate the caliphate the khilafat and so i think this statement about jihad to recapture jerusalem should not come as any surprise to anyone i don't think the peace treaty with israel ultimately will be honored but we will see what form that takes and what it will take it i think the most important thing that strikes me as it shows the utter incoherence of american policy in the arab world by promoting the islamization of the egypt to the removal of our long time satrap in egypt hosni mubarak and then we

seem surprised that democracy in egypt has taken this direction. well egypt is not the only arab country seeing violence and police brutality in the streets coming out of bahrain security forces once again lash out at peaceful protesters demanding political reforms as the monarchy reinforces ties with as a powerful military is by a great writer. and also later spain's national day of fractious spiny is with catalonia and separatists not taking too kindly to an anti independence march in their stronghold of barcelona. moscow claims that a group of russian citizens arrested in the u.s. earlier this month while for stud midge they were involved in illegally exporting high tech electronics to russia diplomats say the suspects are being put under psychological pressure and all that from aussies peter all over who joins us live now good morning peter so what else do we know about how this highly sensitive case

is being handled in the u.s. all we've seen is the statement being issued by the russian foreign ministry regarding the four russian citizens currently still in custody who have been charged with the illegal export of military technology the foreign ministry spokesperson said they wanted a review of the decision not to allow these four russian citizens to be granted bail and also that they wanted to be put to what they've called the exertion of intense psychological and moral pressure in order to obtain a confession from these four russian citizens now the press has been awash with tales that the forward part of a spy ring this is being dismissed out of hand by the russian foreign ministry they point towards the charges that have been leveled against them by the f.b.i. their criminal charges they're not being charged with any form of espionage. for russian citizens they are part of a group of eleven that wanted by the f.b.i. in connection with this move into export they call it the illegal export exporting

of military technology so this is obviously something that's going to be developing for a little while yet the russian foreign ministry though adamant that they want the russian citizens to be at least be released on bail. thank you very much indeed for that update. runs by a devastating debt crisis mass protests and a rise of radicalism but it's not all gloom for the e.u. that the blog has been awarded the nobel peace prize for peace across europe but the reaction has been to say the least buried with cheers in paris and sharp contrast to shocks disbelief and asses international investor and author james rogers says the blocks achievements are in for. i assure you next week or next month when people are rising in the streets again in parts of europe they're not going to care about this though. no one is going to remember it except whoever gets the jack but the judge is going to be spent just like that but there's going to be

a lot more pain in your europe has been spending money they don't have that's going to have to stop and it's going to cause more riots in the streets more social unrest more governments failing and perhaps even countries failing and perhaps even people pulling out of the euro conceivably if you have a huge amounts of tension in europe and the your role of breaking up that could increase tension and not diminish tension and could lead to war again in europe. before that to be a long way away but it could happen to you this causes if the present circumstances cause the year old to break up and that has to europe's unity is already underway in spain where tensions over catalonia is better for independence came to a head even as they nobel peace prize was being awarded calls for a breakaway state in the spanish region of catalonia are among the largest in the e.u. with feelings running high among the people that i'm a scientist heritage proud as is expected in the capital madrid two that's going to

be a part of a chain of synchronized happening in more than thirty five cities around the world today but with regards to catalonia mikhail a senior research at the your peer think tank front has it's part of a bigger problem. this really reveals a kind of a kind of real crisis either in spain or in a lot also a few up in countries and obviously we can disconnect the cats are doing you know issue from the global financial crisis that is going on in the european union but that said when it comes to. this attribution of a noble prize to the european union obviously it comes into contradiction with both what the european union is doing on the european level and what the. opinion is doing in the rest of the world so i think that i mean the same way that we've seen of the same way that happened a few years ago when obama got the nobel peace prize i think that what is going on there that you can see it that the nobel peace prize is much more

a symbolical stance a symbolical process or decision that has the aim of just favoring some actors in order to push them to do better than what they are doing. while the praise for keeping the continent at peace those who defended it at the time find out about as an expiry date to the lives of british world war two veterans who served in the russian. bureaucracy. realize it's. different every book has a similar story. so why is religion a waning in his president laurie oftenest pose the question to. you can tell an ordinary russian. in the blink of an.

anthropologist in those days different clothes different food. different animals but what about. my journey began in the big city was all shiny skyscrapers and shopping much like any other prosperous russian. so i decided to. a small town just outside. dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia. with cabbage and making sure you can have as a start the main dish. although it would draw. most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting only if you

decide to participate. when you look upon martin. as in the middle of a swamp only accessible by transport in the summer months and winter a path is clear that a dog's it's inhabited by siberian a large muslim minority that migrated head before the russians. and this. israel siberia maybe not the stuff of tourist brochures but distinctive enough to show that after all these yeahs siberia still don't quite like anywhere else.

this is the welcome back decades ago thousands of britons laid their lives on the line for that country and its allies but getting recognition for their bravery today seems harder than showing at. the start. i think the worst journey in the world went in churchill's description of the grim ordeal that faced the british soldiers who were part of the arctic convoys during world war two. getting supplies to russian forces the convoys face danger from above and below from nazi you base and aircraft it was going into the spray and the cow. there i mean the temperature world blouse hero i mean i was nineteen years of

age eighteen years of age going up to russia and then do an order. but we done it were a good hour because the chopper to. kill stories and memories are among the most harrowing of the war for the russians it was more than just supplies it was psychological support contributing hugely to the war effort that's why in april the russian president awarded the issue of medal to the allies he taking part in the convoy missions but incredibly the push governments blocking russia from rewarding british veterans for their valor. r.-t. course in recognition of your outstanding contribution inter allied cooperation due to world war two the description american attack. apparently unless the british government. is a non starter what i think. forgivable war the foreign office says it's

against the rules in order for permission to be given for an award to be accepted there has to be a specific service to the country concerned and that service should have taken place within the previous five years john's wife says that's ridiculous they're all late eighty's early ninety's some of them what on earth are they supposed to do over the last five years they still pray at maine or what they were during the war it never leaves. so was i being painted i'm not being given this. i think it's disgraceful absolutely disgraceful angry not just from a whole while the ship might those. and those who passed on across the powers please cite to me this disgusting john says it's time the current prime minister says that to be the decent thing. we was there then dyce

yes we were all in together. the russians the americans the belgium yes we were all in it together they currently we've been left there because you lay we can lift this medal everybody else's game early but the foreign countries get a win ok campaign is in both britain and russia are refusing to back down in pushing the government to get these men properly rewarded for their bravery. mission. really extraordinary service and the arts. people during the work to see that. t. pivotal war time he found friendship real adversity illustrated by jill's

pictures and stories of his time working with the russians downsizing and bartering these are the medals that john received to his heroic deeds cheering world war two he was taping along with the other veterans involved in the arctic convoys to add the it's called medal to their collection but as long as the british government continues to refuse to allow them to be awarded they won't be adding that medal that they say. serve r.t. london. stories that also dot com including how you are selection fever has knocked some americans literally off their feet one of the wrong brothers secret service agents hit the bottle and pulses out on the side of. me right after the presidential visit to this issue. also find out why europe's most neutral and stable state is mobilizing troops preparing for mass civil unrest. russia has said that a damascus bound civilian flight from moscow was only carrying radio equipment

rebuffing to his claims there were weapons on board foreign minister sergei lavrov said the congo was transported in accordance with international. there was certainly no on this plane and they simply could not. cross was carrying a cargo that was being shipped from russian supplier to a legitimate customer in a legitimate way it was a cargo of electrical supplies from a dock station's. purpose equipment but it is not barred by any international convention which is a shipping documents comply with all relevant requirements and delivering services types of cargo by a commercial ak areas is a perfectly standard practice. on wednesday on cross crumble fighter jets to force this plane to land and send soldiers to seize the cargo after around nine hours at a tech share port with passengers barred from leaving the plane the contents were confiscated and the chatter was allowed to continue on this attack upon minister

later said the flight was used to transport russian made to the syrian government but he was based analyst jeff steinberg says that. our attempts to hide its own smuggling to say when. turkey saudi arabia qatar are involved in violating international law it's an open secret that there are massive amounts of weapons many of which were originally taken from stockpiles in the libya they're going into the hands of the armed rebels many of whom are radical al-qaeda linked. the jihadi so turkey has blood on its hands is or mean the rebels so i think that this incident was an attempt to cover for their own lyall lation of the same sions and their

own abuse any kind of. mediating factor in this crisis. more analysis and a timeline of all the stories lined up for years dot com they can also find exclusive and first hand reports from the passengers on the crew of the sea when a plane in deception by taking they described how badly they were treated at. great britain has signed a military treaty with bahrain which focuses on the joint training of troops that involves to the country in case of external aggression the geo comes amid fear among the country's opposition which continues to accuse the security forces of a violent crackdown on peaceful protesters demonstrators parks and manana streets once again on friday calling for the monarchy to ease its choking grip and move forward forums police lashed out of them using riot gear to disperse dirani while at least ten people were arrested and dominic kavakeb from bahrain's justice and development movement believes it was tenacious i have too much to lose from reforms

in bahrain. you know obviously it doesn't send a particularly fantastic message when you are sending weapons to a country that is using weapons against its people on a daily basis to kill to injure to crush protests to crush essentially democracy but i think. the reason why why the u.s. and other countries do that is because they want to keep bahrain as an ally seen as an ally of western countries and therefore they want to try and keep that relationship but what these governments don't realize or they are too few to realize is they have a huge amount of leverage they have a lot of ability to convince the right not to pressure them into reform perhaps they misunderstand the strength they have will perhaps you know they're scared that their interests which are tied up in that region could be damaged if they you know if there were a democratic change but the reality is the people of bahrain calling for democracy they're calling for change but doesn't have to be against the western interests actually i could be very much in the interests of the west and i know the rest of

the world democratic and stable country to some other news stories from around the world now at least. ten people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing in pakistan the talk occurred at a local market or the northwestern regional the country and supposedly targeted function as a pro-government militia the group was created as a counterweight to the taliban the pakistani military has launched several offensives against the time about which seeks to oust the country's government. in colombia students and activists some moves the streets demanding changes in the country's economic policies police responded with tear gas and water cannon and arresting the seventy people they protest against financial inequality demonstrations were not limited to the council only has around three hundred thousand people participated in a nationwide. religious same clothes on u.s. public policy increases a growing number of americans skipped sunday service. has been asking new yorkers

will they feel about going to church. a new pew poll indicated one in five americans has no religion and more and more americans are becoming atheists is america losing its religion and if so why this week let's talk about that i think as we get smarter we realize all the religions are the same you look at each different book every book has a similar story. it's all the same we're on one planet there should be one war doesn't matter if you're in pakistan or new jersey the more people that maybe keep to themselves i mean you can be religious without going to a sanctuary or something along the perception it's probably changed i just got baptized last year everybody has their own way of coming to their beliefs but for us it was just you know we're getting older you know closer to those they say the

pearly gates. but we are grose was insurance you got baptized for insurance purposes. oh believe what you want to believe but don't force it on the people who are using it for you know things that hurt other people is that what it is is that people see organized religion as something detrimental to other people well i'm speaking i guess for mostly myself here but yeah that's what makes sense to me yeah when you see wars being waged in the name of religion it makes you think yes the bottom line is american seems to be losing their faith in organized religion which might be less of a sign of their waning spirituality and more of an indication that it might be time to reorganize. and in just a few minutes north talks with a head of the council of europe to discuss its current relationship with russia that's possible light.

looters that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these paul it's no prepackaged comfort but they joy is a while these guaranteed guineas a zoology professor he works in the u.s. and travels to these remote areas in russia every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like this anywhere else in the world. we're going off the list below sea line. if i go wrong the wrong and surprise you will go straight to the water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper failed. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot a grizzly here by every small weaver this sort of bears are so full but they have

a very good sense of smell be able to think that we have to keep an eye a wind direction and the distance between them and us up all that could be dangerous so we won't go yes we shall but people require. it. and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away and they're usually the first to avoid contact with humans but during spawning time when both people and bears go fishing people often shoot at them to scare them away and every year here in the region you hear about someone being killed by the predators. but at the mugger down nature reserve where we are no one disturbs the bears. another local resident to haiti's peace being disturbed here is the howlers sea eagle in has a wingspan of two and a half meters ignace only here in russia far east because of the bundles of salmon

and sea gulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gainey focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here mara island it has the biggest colony of seagulls in the region. the climb up was tough. but the prize was worth it. if there was no security here it would be no reason to go you'll have tons of people coming here not just to get some for only on the beach here nothing is guaranteed you have to struggle to get your piece of bread there is nothing really all you can fly on oprah did you have to rely on yourself to bucks. or so we're going to have to be the fat. maybe for the wildlife here the lack of visitors is for the better but when you stand on top of phenomenal and like this in just cantelupe wanting to share the

beauty. toyota welcome to spotlight on all rather than today my guest on the show is. the council of europe parliamentary assembly has started it autumn session amid controversy over a report on russia although polled the best reports since russia's especially to account for the resolution contained strong and arguably unfair criticism eventually stammered bass propositions made to add a russian delegation stayed there with chairman said again that rush can bypass the pace.