egypt's president mohamed morsi imposes emergency law on three cities which have seen deadly rioting in recent days. the french military machine or rolls over islamic militants in mali amid fears the country could be seeking to recall an ais its former territory. and britain's prime minister david cameron of finally commits to holding a referendum on breaking away from the e.u. sparking a new wave of criticism both at home and abroad. and

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r.t. he recapping the week's top stories with our weekly good to have you with us as of violent unrest rages on in egypt president mohamed morsi has declared a state of emergency in the cities of port sayyid so was and is merely a echoing in the days of former leader hosni mubarak that is after a massive march in port siad it turned bloody leaving a four people dead and hundreds injured correspondent bill troop is in cairo where she has come under clouds of tear gas amid mass protests. in a televised press statement for president mohamed morsi sorry to see this going to take us to me i hears the questions continue in cairo. president hundred mostly declared a state of emergency for thirty days according to the constitution with that means is that is that basically the saddle retests will be banned and security forces will have the right to arrest. and protest this without charge and in addition

censorship may be legalized across these three countries three cities misfeature president mohammed morsi also said to be a carthew course the city's between nine pm and six am ante on sikorsky dialogue with the opposition things that just escalated to a great extent here in cairo and the clashes continue between anti government protesters and security forces who are firing an excessive amount against the point where even at this height it's almost impossible to bring people i've seen people running costs past me many are unconscious people carrying are injured protesters back into the square it's a safety of course that continues to be violence across the country in serious for example with the army have been deployed as one is the continued bloody seems import science which have seen dozens killed and hundreds injured leaving many to question you know how this is going to end with a state of emergency in place this will also mean to be able to arrest and possible

unrest between security force forces and protesters in the next few days bill true reporting for two there from cairo now a political activist some a fallacy says the muslim brotherhood still remains silent to the key demands of the protesters. alist the fear that people in the street. challenge them a challenge that or thirty particularly in terms of constitutional amendment we are hearing all the times that people in muslim brotherhood do not want to change the constitution and seize as a constitution is a pistol over the globe. saw i think is the more people exercise placed on them the more they can react to positively under try to accommodate all political trends and all political factions within a. new political system i'm afraid that the muslim brotherhood would like to manipulate the state operator's force of sake people speaking about this issue and

we have to build a new democratic system built on. neutral state apparatus in egypt other than a state a party to serving one political party. still international period. the british prime minister's opponents get hot under the collar. this is david cameron pledges to hold a referendum on the country's possible e.u. exit if his party wins the next election that story just ahead. the french intervention forces continuing its advance in mali the troops have entered timbuktu one of the major northern mali in towns occupied by islamist fighters for the last year paris is allies including britain and the us are continuing to provide logistic support for the military offensive but the coalition now finds itself fighting the same sort of people that helped bring to power in libya as probably what the reports from paris was that they've been. using wanted

peace you wanted freedom you wanted economic progress france great britain europe will always stand by the libyan people of course. but a regional crisis probably wasn't mischievous out cause he anticipated when he was spearheading the military operation to topple moammar gadhafi although the former french president couldn't say that he hadn't been warned had personally i play a significant role in establishing peace in those regions of africa should the situation in libya be unstable al qaida will establish its rule a lot and will return and libya will be another afghanistan the terrorists will flood into europe cut to paris and almost two years later mark is out these words could well be ringing in the areas of need what i saw was these six sasa francois hollande having just sent troops to mali france's new leader could well be learning

that every action has a reaction. secu so not only do the range intervention in libya not help the democratic process which is what they said they were after but if that is if it opened up the floodgates for weapons stockpiles insiders to leave the country and go solve a lot of this is a more somali where the recently deployed french military were reportedly stunned by the technologically advanced weapons that are in the hands of their adversaries nobody seems to think that perhaps organized groups come from somewhere other than mali it seems they came across the nearby libyan border libya is as i say central to all this problem because all the plot of weapons it's been produced by the collapse of the darfur region but also a complete failure to establish any kind of real state you have essentially also crating in different parts of libya and you have across much of this hour a situation where people have arguments where the interests of extenso bribery and corruption or grabs is commonplace gadhafi was bitter opponent all right it was

ahmed groups whatever his faults and they now have the ability to use the chaos in libya to provide a basis the first effects for immediate hostage crisis in algeria said to be in retaliation for the french offensive in mali has already claimed the lives of dozens of civilians taken captive i'm frightened of terrorism this is always been a problem for france whether it's iraq or sarkozy upward this is just a i'm french i was born here and live here my culture is french my origins are there you know i was there like another country telling me. if you were scared of anything that threatens us. france's global allies are showing signs of being sucked into the mali conflict british prime minister david cameron has already acknowledged that battling radical insurgency in the region could take decades rather than months and all this so that france can remedy the knock on effects from

its libyan intervention. r t paris. france has stepped up security measures at home fearing reprisals attacks from islamists who have valid to avenge the mali intervention dozens of foreign hostages were killed when terrorists seized a gas plant in algeria last week middle east expert to wreak ali thinks further retribution strikes are likely to be carried out in africa i don't think europe is under threat from any terrorist group obama is already said that the phrase war against terrorism is a day to the united states will abandon a sort of ironic that the french are now taking it up the french intervention which is many people in the south applaud it because they're completely desperate but if this intervention goes on it'll get worse and worse because these guys are going to fight back and then you will have probably small groups of people taking rangers

resawing and cheerio and incidentally the role of the french played in as curio vice being in encouraging the government to stop an election made way has also left and in fact on that concrete so there's no doubt it will do stabilise and as well. and the outgoing u.s. secretary of state has admitted to the arab spring revolts which washington backed lead to a rise of extremism and have shattered security in the region hillary clinton testified before lawmakers about last year's attack on the american consulate in libya which saw four u.s. diplomats killed she took responsibility for failures that led to the assault while stressing that washington should continue to exert its influence across the arab world many u.s. senator john kerry is expected to take over from clinton some analysts doubt that a new face will overhaul u.s. foreign policy. but 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 what hillary clinton did which was more important than anything else during her four years as secretary of state was to be part of the coalition the phalanx if you will oprah war people which really left to president obama no choice but to go along with the forty thousand troops that the military was demanding that crystal is demanding for afghanistan 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 of the world particularly the middle east and now increasingly in africa as well 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. coming up here on r t he may have his job but he failed to convince his voters israeli prime minister netanyahu clinched a majority in the country's parliament. struggling to form a stable coalition. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives. this is a problem that. they were really good. people were really focused on this problem.

and live from moscow this is our team glad to have you back with us prime minister dmitri medvedev has criticized washington's move to sanction a number of russian officials for alleged crimes which no current court has found

him guilty of speaking to c.n.n. the russian premier said the magnitsky bill passed on capitol hill falls outside of international law and only aggravates relations between russia and the u.s. because of this but i'm not a me but i want to let each country has the right to deny any country citizen an entry visa to his territory this is something normal but it's something that corresponds with international conventions without having to explain the reasons for it i mean the united states could and still can prohibit any russian officials entrance to america in the same way they can examine their accounts or whatever else they have in america this is exactly what russia can do as well but when it becomes a public campaign with congress saying it will draw up a list of individuals who have been involved in a crime what do you think it is if not an extra judicial execution of that convicts these individuals without any trial or prosecution but each of them dmitri medvedev

also spoke out on the twenty two month syrian crisis which shows no signs of abating moscow has stressed it does not support any side in the conflict while maintaining that foreign intervention should be completely ruled out but the premier did say time is not on president assad side. i think there are fewer chances for him to stay on with every new day every week and every month but let me repeat it is up to the syrian people to make a decision not up to russia the united states or any other state now the main task is to launch a national reconciliation process we should think about the future for instance if the opposition which by the way has been formed outside of syria comes to power what is it going to do with its members will exterminate representatives of other islamic movements and other confessional they are already doing this that's why there are two options either it will be

a process of national reconciliation and you will held under the control of the international community or and civil war and there is no in between and you can get more of dmitri medvedev his interview on our team dot com. and also online italy's acts prime minister makes another major gaffe praising a former dictator the holocaust remembrance day edward website for the story. plus prosecutors in romania seemed to be hitting a dead end as they set free another group of suspects from an october arthur after at the rotterdam museum details of r.t.e. dot com. the global political and financial elite met up in the swiss resort of davos this week to discuss ways of driving europe out of crisis but as artie's katie pilbeam reports there were many promises made of the world economic forum but no clear solutions offered. double's twenty thirteen is now

the world's most influential policymakers pack up their design a suit and head home at least me hair admiring the beauty of the swiss alps as you can see but also trying to look beyond them to work out what exactly was achieved well first we had russian prime minister dmitry medvedev now he spoke about the need to diversify the economy away from oil and crack on with structural reforms but you know we've heard that before that was something. we also had british leader david cameron he came here he had some tough words to say for tax avoiders but really the only topic people wanted to press him on here was the father he will be calling an e.u. referendum for the british public in twenty seven tave the business community here they felt that that was a grammar announcement and that it would do the economy no good already challenged and in a fragile situation with dismal growth figures just released europe was of course

in the spotlight as predicted we had european central bank president mario draghi he said the spending cuts are necessary of certainty is the way forward and german chancellor angela merkel she agreed with him she reiterated that morning and this really comes the same way that we've had process ongoing in greece we've had a backlash in germany as well as spain's unemployment for the youth coming out at sixty percent we also had the premiers from the arab world they came together valiant to improve the future for the people in the region but no clear strategy on on how to do that so you know i can tell you there's been a lot of talking a lot of pledging a lot of promise saying but no clear cut poll that says by have a real fairing but the interesting conversations happened behind closed doors. r.t. davus. and the annual world economic forum was certainly shaken up by

a speech this week by the british prime minister david cameron and as artie's andrew farmer reports the long anticipated address on ukase feature relations with the e.u. has ruffled a few feathers at home as well. british prime minister david cameron has threatened to redraw the map of europe his pledge to hold a referendum on whether the u.k. should remain in the e.u. if they can so says win the next election in twenty fifteen basically he wants more pounds return from brussels to westminster and will try and renegotiate britain's terms of membership but he has warned that he is not successful then the u.k. would probably vote to head towards the exit i was his long awaited european speech and dines at the place many of the euro skeptics within his tory party there are many dieties u.k. business leaders for example say that even talking about an exit at this stage will create uncertainty and could scare away tension investors germany's chancellor angela merkel has said that perhaps a compromise is needed but other e.u.

members are less sympathetic denmark says that the e.u. is not a self-service buffet where members can cherry pick the legislation that happens sleeting the said the e.u. would simply become a mess so while david cameron appears to solve any internal squabbles within the party to take a place in the euro skeptics it also appears that he's driving a wedge between britain and other e.u. member states andrew farmer. london. european parliament member and the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party paul not all says the prime minister is once again trying to delay solving the long standing issue the point is that really goshi action is going to be nigh on impossible we've had a home of underemployed the president of the european council you've had your mom well but also you've had a shoulder tuesday president of the european parliament you've had the prime minister you the list can go on of all of these people who are saying that britain cannot cherry pick this is an attempt by cameron to kick this issue with the long

grass we're talking about a referendum five years down the line and it's all dependent on whether he wins the next general election or not and we know. but if you look at the polls today it's showing quite clearly that comfortable struggle to win the election so i do think that this is an attempt to take it into the long grass but quite frankly this man has lied before and referendums he gave the cast i got and see that we were right we would have the best friends and members. of lisbon he went back home that referendum pledge so i don't think you can be trusted on this issue. under some other international news in brief a deadly nightclub fire has now claimed at least two hundred thirty three lives in santa maria brazil witnesses say a firework lit by the band performing caused of the blaze the flames swept through the crowded venue in a flash filling the air with toxic smoke many victims reportedly choked on deadly fumes or were crushed as panicking party goers stampeded to the exit some witnesses

claim that security guards attempted to keep the only exit of the club shut until they were overpowered the brazilian president has called for three days of mourning for the victims of the tragedy. over one hundred thousand people took to the streets in paris in support of a bill allowing gay marriage and adoption by same sex couples demonstrators waved banners proclaiming equality is not a threat the draft law dubbed marriage for everyone has been high on president francois hollande agenda ever since the election the issue has bitterly divided the nation and anti-gay march earlier this month gathered twice the amount of people then attending today's rally. a bus fell into a ravine in eastern portugal killing eleven people and injuring thirty two more some of the passengers were trapped inside the vehicle and had to be cut loose the bus was reportedly on route to a tourist location when the incident occurred the official reason of the crash is

yet to be determined though it was raining heavily at the time of the tragedy. a roadside bomb has killed at least eight a policeman and wounded several more in the southern afghan province of kandahar a group of police officers drove out to inspect an explosive package found in a residential neighborhood their truck hit another buried bomb on the way back it is the fourth such attack in the past two days which in total of claimed the lives of at least twenty four people. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu one of the country's parliamentary election this week but suffered a serious setback the results gave his right wing likud bait ten new bloc of the narrowest of victories with just thirty one out of one hundred twenty seats now netanyahu will have to struggle to form a broad and stable coalition to govern israel that could be difficult as other right wing and orthodox religious parties want to have the seats in parliament meanwhile some analysts stake all hopes on the us influencing israel not to launch

a preemptive strike on iran's nuclear sites the editor of the online magazine palestine chronicle ramsey by rude things tehran's atomic program will be used by netanyahu to divert attention from domestic problems seems that israelis are growing the becoming more aware of the deterring the deteriorating economy of their own country of the guard between the rich and poor of the with a state that is seems to be teetering towards the ultra-orthodox at the expense of other classes and other sectors of israeli society netanyahu might use the iran iran scenario in order for him to. distract perhaps from the problems that are soon to emerge due of his new government to regard this of the look in the shape of the government but with he is going to actually. act some of his threats and go after iran and strike iran specially during

a period in which obama i do not thinking is in any political mood to go for another war. against iran i think it's becoming friend tougher for him to do. internet mogul kimock dot com founder of a controversial and now banned a file sharing service says he's engulfed in a major political power play the closure of the mega upload a website caused uproar among international online freedom activists dot com told r.t. he believes the american government went out of its way to persecute 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 they went in was completely prosecutorial abuse and overreach and ignoring due process ignoring our rights spying on us illegal search warrants illegal restraining orders illegal spying going to the whole picture when you look

at it showed us 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 they tend to buy a civil liberties group in the u.s. to shed light on what techniques the f.b.i. is using to track american citizens has literally drawn a blank after the government agency complied with the request but sent out hundreds of almost fully blacked out documents the editor of a twenty four seventh's news j. d. sile says the secrecy surrounding government surveillance gives authorities the ultimate power. the fact is there's enormous power the government now has to surveil the population unfortunately when they black out the ministers that we don't know what their policies are if the supreme court has revised the rules for surveillance we have to trust them we have to take their word for it that they let their body by the supreme court's decisions so we don't know what policies the has allocated

itself we don't we don't know how they're lying there their surveillance techniques open and free society the f.b.i. has to tell us what its procedures and techniques are sit with it we can argue about them and then we have the opportunity to challenge them meant that maybe the courts say sure they're ok but that's only after they're challenged in court and that are discussed openly if all we have to go on is the if you say trust us that doesn't give us very much your we actually don't use them. and after the break he continues its in-depth look at the impact of hiv aids on the african-american community. rep or loopy fiasco actually caused the fiasco by singing

a song highly critical of president obama ironically at a concert in honor of his second inauguration according to the huffington post he was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader the sounds really bad like something out of one thousand nine hundred four where thoughts come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song looping was singing had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was more like a hip hop filibuster stopping the whole show and dragging on and on and on the so i think security just wanted to silence him in general not silence his anti obama pinions so you know looping next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes and everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion.

many in the black community have long memories and today have a clear distrust for government run health agencies part of what drives each of you know community to his or his torkel perspective with disenfranchisement to ski he is very very much aware and a knife in our communities we still have many communities and we're talking about this isn't any conspiracy the government wanted to kill soft so maybe we still have people who still have that mindset people don't like to say. that a government would make an effort to destroy people but black people have had a history. of tuskegee syphilis experiment that was carried on by the federal government for thirty years one thousand nine hundred to one thousand nine hundred

seventy two and people said at that time this is a way to get rid of the black population so that's corriveau to have to think about . that kind of planning but we have an entire museum in washington d.c. called the holocaust memorial museum which ag maintain is the most important news saying in the united states that everybody should go to that museum because it's not just about that day. six million people. it's about a government of intelligent people deciding to get rid of a population. they thought was a country a minute. they say adolf hitler used the term tear in that in german animal people subfield. as he spoke about this in my.