exactly two years since they toppled a dictator thousands of angry egyptian. square on the anniversary of a revolution they say changed nothing. a cia veteran who faces jail for blowing the whistle on the agency's interrogation tactics and exposing torture as a policy he's being prosecuted for doing right. into the use of drone strikes mainly by the united states it was all to schools of civilian deaths in what could be deemed a war crime. and the ripple effect from fresh u.n. sanctions on north korea. to use force against its southern neighbor the

international punished. with worldwide news live from moscow this is with me wrong welcome to the program. on the second anniversary of the egyptian revolution people are back on the iconic square but this time though they're not going there to celebrate not at all the various groups are calling for fresh antigovernment rallies with demands very similar to those that led to regime change that was two years ago at the eve of the anniversary was marked with fierce clashes between. police which left dozens injured. rubber bullets were used to disperse the protesters who tried to tear down a wall preventing them from reaching parliament cairo true explain. what's driving

those who fought for change two years ago right back out onto the streets. just off egypt's tahrir square surrounded by murals of slain protesters law graduates tarik talks about his brother who was killed during the two thousand and eleven revolution two years on tarek says the country has yet to see the changes that his brother died fighting for instead in a deepening economic crisis many ordinary egyptians are barely able to get by. stuff or was killed there close to the course are all i need street in parliament he was shot dead three bullets on the twenty eighth of january so far there has been no justice i'm twenty seven years old and i don't have any work now there are a lot of people like me who are unemployed there are some people reach the point where they don't have food to eat. right now youth unemployment levels in egypt have reached a staggering seventy seven percent which means that young people like tarek will be

unable to pay for even their most basic needs even though they fought in a january twenty five revolution which demanded bread freedom and social justice two thousand and thirteen is expected to be an even harder year for egypt the people who live in these impoverished areas in cairo will be the hardest hit. while a senior economics commentator at the egyptian schrute newspaper says the economy has significantly suffered after two years of political turmoil the problem is that the government is using the same policies to deal with this situation now especially after the i.m.f. loan with the austerity measures taxes mainly on the poor not dealing with the corruption real corruption and the corruption. that was something chronic with the mubarak regime till now with the economy at a standstill and vital subsidies being cut in twenty thirteen families living on a few dollars a day will be on able to put food on. table over roof over their heads this is

despite president mohamed morsi promising to tackle key issues like bread and fuel shortages but it is not just daily economic hardship weighing on people's minds many say important goals of the twenty eleven eighteen they are praising have yet to be realized that evolution started on january twenty fifth which marks. there have been no serious efforts toward reform the police no serious effort to cleanse or to deal with the legal structure and the traditional structure that we inherited from mubarak and that continues to make abuses possible and to prevent any effort to holding abusers accountable for crimes of the past january twenty third team has already seen mass protests across the country as egyptians continue to put pressure on the new president to make their demands a reality the second anniversary of the revolution is for many not so much a celebration but a continuation of the struggle for basic rights. true for r.t.

cairo. and for now in the united states a cia veteran and former chief of counterterrorist operations in pakistan is expected to be sentenced to thirty months in jail john kiriakou was found guilty of leaking classified information to a reporter i first became known to the public in two thousand and seven when he was the first government official to admit waterboarding was torture when earlier this week a kiriakou explained exactly what's driving him i've never gained anything from what i've said publicly so lost everything and i believe i was prosecuted not for what i did but for who i am a cia officer. who said torture was wrong and ineffective and went against the grain i'm not naive i know that national security and intelligence and counterterrorism a very is a very tough arena i knew that there was a

a risk to what i was doing. but i also know that to be seeing another person and serializing human rights abuses under legal paper is not the american way and it's not something that as americans we should be engaged in we are not a lowest common denominator country measuring what is right by what others do and the american way stands for something and it is not torture i never tortured anybody but i'm heading to prison while the tortures of the lawyers who papered over it and the people who deceived it and the man who destroyed the proof of it the tapes will never face justice. we're watching our see live from moscow there is a towering inferno on a skyscraper under construction right in the heart of moscow's business district least one person has been injured and hundreds of workers evacuated from the building after a blaze started on the twenty third floor and had a life or more pictures and reaction of course of r.t. dot com plus the founder of the band file sharing service to mega upload he tells

us here at r t he's getting around the law with a brand new start up here are some of the highlights of the interview you can see here at eleven thirty am g.m.t. or on our web site. i'm a businessman i'm driven by the success of achieving something in the business world ok that's not a crime there's nothing wrong with that the government is quite exposed here because the inn was completely prosecutorial abuse and overreach and ignoring due process ignoring our rights spying on us illegal search warrants illegal restraining orders illegal spying and i mean the whole war picture when you look at it shows that this was an urgent mission done in a rush to take them down i want them to go and it was a political decision to do that.

and i'm on that a bit later in the program here an r.t. for an hour there were catalonia has unilaterally declared its right to an independence referendum as the region's government seeks a breakaway from spain and the vote could actually take place next year however madrid has already rejected the idea saying an independence poll is against the spanish constitution and r.k. a spokesperson for the european partnership for independence says catalonia leaving could actually benefit both sides of the equation he does say that declare a should what he has done is just to formalize something that democrats are running now and that is that catalonia is a suffering nation we just declared that was sort of formally it was popularly we all know that's the case but formally that don't we are the political and the legal sovereign subject it's no way to progress when you have latched to be something

that you are not and it was from the three young cats on your nations by doing it we are not the spanish so it's a would be interest and it would be united when we are a separate set in good times. or the optimism is not shared by everybody in spain carlos deck loss a sociologist of a pump a or couple university he says catalonians government is pursuing dangerous policies which may ultimately undermine the region's chances to survive out on its side. carnivals come really cheap and for the moment it's really just a bunch of posturing it's mostly signing declarations and saying you know. when you know in the party that's currently in the government with the help of the republican left. decides that you know they're going to privatized the water and privatized natural resources in catalonia when they're going to get rid of all of their public health care and privatized that what they're basically doing is

auctioning off the territory auctioning off all of the public and state institutions that they supposedly want all of the institutions that you build with sovereignty they're auction them off to private investors so you know the question is can they be can they be independent on their own materially they could if they weren't you know auctioning things off and and granting more sovereignty then the people of catalonia. have been doing all they can to let the government know how they feel for some time over one million of them flooded into boss alone and last year to stake a claim for independence you are going to want to dot com you can see many images from that event. north korea has threatened its southern neighbor with quote physical counts a measure of if it joins the latest round of u.n. sanctions the stock warning came just a day off the north korea announced it would conduct a third nuclear test saying it's atomic and missile programs are targeting the

united states abroad from the anti war coalition says the situation on the korean peninsula is extremely volatile but joanne's recent actions could actually be keeping the balance of peace. korea is the most heavily militarized part of the planet the u.s. won't sign the landmine treaty one of the few countries not to be a signatory to it because they say they may need it in korea there's constant incidence in north korea one of those could blow up and become a major conflagration it's a serious problem every time any country says that they are going to defend themselves from the united states the united states or you're an aggressor and thus we have the new excuse the new pretext to up the ante but i think when you look at the whole picture you can see that north korea's sort of tenacious militancy even if it appears to be bombastic in the west in the way it's presented in the western media it's had the effect of preventing what would have been otherwise i think a war between the united states and its allies south korea in north korea that was

a danger that existed in one thousand nine hundred four a very real danger it started again when bush came into office scratching scotching the normalization process that was under way during clinton so i don't think north korea is sort of. impression that it's prepared to fight is actually accelerating the conflict if anything i think it could lead to new negotiations. thanks for joining us here on r.t. as business leaders get into the nitty gritty of the euro zone's financial plight in davos the push from the u.k.'s prime minister offering britain a say on exit in the euro is the issue causing tension i report on that in just a couple of minutes here on tape also struggling to dig themselves out of debt as payday loans cash strapped families with promises of instant money and other stories right after this break.

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two fifteen pm here in moscow this is our city now the euro zone's plight will be the subject to close proceedings in the plush surroundings of davos and comes amid wide attention in europe as the u.k. prime minister tries to smooth ties with his e.u. partners they've been mildly angered by his promise to let britain hold a referendum on whether to leave the union. is following the world economic forum for us. we've got e.c.v. president mario draghi he has taken to the states to address europe's current issues which includes stagnates growth this comes a day after prime minister david cameron from birth said he was talking about how to do with tax avoiders and also we had german chancellor angela merkel she was saying that can be no only way and no letup in the spending cuts despite european union warning that there is social unrest in the likes of greece and also her homeland as well germany where people to have been protesting against wages now the

spades unemployment rate for the u.s. will sixty percent that's really sent shivers down the spines here in davos yesterday and that was another issue and today we're also going to be talking about own drash in the arab world as well particularly syria what can be done to really improve the future for this part of the walls they are going to be providing we have live coverage here in davos the route out the day and i'll be back later with the business president at six thirty and eight thirty g.m.t. . i think a few later in the program u.s. senator john kerry is widely expected to win confirmation from the senate as the next secretary of state this coming after a hearing before lawmakers on thursday president obama's nominee will replace hillary clinton as the country's top diplomat over some analysts who believe he will do little to change the old face of u.s.

foreign policy. well the clinton legacy is pretty much i think the legacy of american wars and a counterterrorism policy that has usurped the usual prerogatives of the state department john kerry will not be able to fundamentally change the course of u.s. foreign policy which is again set in motion a set in stone if you will because of the power that the cia and the military really wield over the direction of u.s. relations with so much of the world particularly the middle east and now increasingly in africa as well as well as of course south asia so every virtually every important issue that he's going to deal with. you know in those parts of the world will be. issues which have been essentially preempted already the policy set

by the military and by the cia and i think that there is very little chance that john kerry will challenge any of the fundamental directions of u.s. policy such as for example the drone war in pakistan. and it is this controversial use of drones to target terrorists that has become the focus of a major u.n. investigation a human rights activists a highly critical of the use saying it often results in wider civilian deaths than officially acknowledged and aside from the lack of transparency the whole legality of the tactics is now being questioned as ati's and i see it choking up reports. what we have going on as a group of top notch international law specialist spare headed by the un special rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism launching this investigation into the drone attacks carried out by the united states in recent years there are going to be looking into the drone strikes taking place over somalia yemen have got to stand pakistan and the actions of israel when it comes to the occupied territories

the group plans to look into our. from twenty to thirty specific strikes one of the areas they're going to concentrate on are the so-called double tap strikes where rescuers for example people running to save victims of a drone strike were attacked by a follow up or are people going to funerals this is been something that's been a big concern lately with dozens of people dying in those incidents so this is what they're going to look into this is something that's going to last a while they will look into the numbers of casualties the identities of casualties and really the legal liabilities that might follow and this is something that we're not really expecting any kind of legal serious accusations to come out of but one of the things they're looking into is whether or not work crime is a term that can be used a very strong term so this is something that we're going to have to find out when this reports as finally reveals in the months to come what prompted this investigation is of course growing concerns that the increased attacks and killing civilians and children on the ground this is something that's been

a big concern for years this is something that's causing huge anti-american sentiment in places like yemen specifically where recently in the latest drone strike two children were killed and we saw a group of countries russia china and pakistan addressed the u.n. human rights council and saying look we need to investigate this further so this investigation is now being launched and it's also you know the numbers really speaking for themselves one hundred seventy eight children died just in yemen in recent years eight hundred ninety one civilian since the year two thousand and four just in pakistan so this is something that needs to be addressed and the goal of this particular investigation is exactly that strategy that we go now starting with libya which is reportedly become rather free by the british foreign office warning that u.k. citizens should leave the city of benghazi officials said there was no evidence to suggest any specific or imminent threat to westerners other countries though including germany the netherlands all followed the move with their own warnings

last year an attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. sword's unpassable three other americans killed. at least seventeen people were killed and thirty four injured when two buses collided in bolivia who said the crash happened when one of the vehicles crossed into the wrong lane now this is the third such incident in the country this week alone bolivia has the highest mortality rate road accidents in all of south america. now cash any time you need it payday loans have become a burden for the u.k. government as it tries to keep people away from banks offering an easy but rather expensive pound. looks at why it's so hard to break the bad money. payday loans tools have become a common sight in britain's towns and cities with the threat of a triple dip recession hanging over them more and more cash strapped families are

looking for a quick way to make ends meet with a loan from one go dot com you can borrow up to one thousand pounds for up to thirty one days. people can actually just turn off. the wine access online ask for two with longer especially up to four hundred pounds it can be in the bank within fifteen minutes the buy now pay later culture has landed britain's with a whopping one point four trillion pounds in loans and credit cards the northeast in particular has seen a big increase three three in the number of the payday loans that are popping up on the high street here in this part you can see there's not just one of these payday loans but right next door to. this area is one of the poorest in the u.k. and when you take a closer look at these promises of instant cash they come with sky high interest rates. then there's no such thing as easy money but the people with

financial options and these authors can appear to be lifelines the working providing death advice dave days that what takes just moments to approve can lead to years of debt misery what happens is if i haven't got the money at the end of the month to be a repeat it then of course the rest will continue on and then we're going to look pretty and want to try and pay off the period norman borlaug first. saw the most try one the first go on to quick witted want to pity you clear and it's just a never ending cycle and people are getting stuck in this trial. this practice of rolling over a loan has become increasingly common and with some companies not carrying out proper credit checks people he simply don't have the means to pay back the money can end up with their debt quickly spiraling we went to meet one of the representatives of leading payday loan providers and why the industry seems to be

lending so irresponsibly it doesn't make any sense to lend to somebody who can't afford to pay you back so the members i represent spend an awful lot of investment in the best technology to make the best assessment of somebodies affordability on the front end of the process we don't want to mentor somebody who can't pay back and we don't want to get people into financial difficulty but these are areas you know i thinking in the some of the poorest communities so that seems quite targeted why are they choosing these areas where you'd expect that people wouldn't be able to pay back that money what you're finding is these lenders are setting up in secondary high streets where the rates are low or they're also setting up where there's a demand the situation has changed from when we used to be able to be flooded with all sorts of offers of credit to the fact that we unless we've got. an exemplary credit history we can't going to access to credit the government says it's conducting an extensive review of the payday lending sector with this site on

tighter regulation but in the meantime and dave has some clear advice for anyone thinking about taking out a payday loan nor. for new or avoid the why. so r.t. reporting from sunderland. all right in just a minute we're talking about a gizmo those gadgets and gurus technology update is just around the. right wing t.v. host glenn beck is going to build his own utopia plans to put together a massive social experiment building his own city which will be totally independent from the evil grasp of government and the outside world where residents will have

to learn how to survive on their own make their own things and grow their own food the future city called independence usa when we based our libertarian principles with hints of iran flavor there will be no handouts and no help for the self-sufficiency minded residents but back may need some help himself because building the city could cost about two billion dollars the thing is that commentators about politics like glenn beck and you horse truly have a very easy job it is easy to point out what is wrong with society but it is another thing entirely to try to change it and i want to salute clint beck for actually doing something and putting his money where his ideological mouth is now why would i want to live in the i know rand paradise of independence usa under the rule of lord back no no i wouldn't taking marching orders from a tiny portly man known for crying on camera doesn't suit me but if you're a hardcore libertarian here is your chance to make all of your dreams come true but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome to technology update despite our five senses not everything is quite what meets the eye this episode looks to shed some light on devices they give us a glimpse i was hiding just out of sight. remember the earth was the center of the universe until copernicus and galileo came along man's origins were unknown before darwin changed everything and the notion that there was something smaller than an atom was nearly unthinkable until ernest rutherford. even today the quest to gaze beneath the surface just goes on and on. recently we took

a peek through the glass walls of school cars hypercube many of russia's up and coming innovators had gathered to attend the annual prize award ceremony the competition sifted through roughly fifteen hundred clever ideas all looking to come home with one of the five top honors winners were crowned for the top i.t. project the leading innovation for helping society as well as a trio for best idea project and production ready invention but in addition to the award ceremony there was plenty of other innovation minded activity going on previous finalists and runners up were also invited to show off the latest developments on their path to full fledged startup land a few government officials are on hand to get an up close and personal view of the country's leading young minds and while the winners may have taken home the glory one of the top competitors from a past you can price. in the time since the competition these develop.