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. fires and clashes have erupted in the egyptian capital cairo as angry mobs attacked the president palace with petrol bombs thousands of protesters are marching across the country demanding that president morsi stand down from poem. is in cairo forty. we've got term a six scenes here in the capital as clashes have started by the president obama says you can see behind me reportedly bought the most groups threw molotov cocktails over the gates of the presidential building the security forces are right now on the vehicles and have been sending our not to take us protesters are responding out with fireworks also we've just seen as police are removing tents for my months long sitting against the president's side the presidential building where they also set fire to triple fires on the sides but in the last few minutes has been i must say push by the security forces protesters have been fleeing in this direction in the background there's about ten ambulances are removing manjit from

the front line oh it's very chaotic scenes here this comes off the several protest converged in front the presidential palace on to her describe as part of friday's day of the never and protesters protest against the president's people are still chanting in amongst this chaos that the president must step down they're saying this is the sentiment across the capital the scene of the nazi remonstrations across the country today that the main one outside of cairo has of course me of course i equally witnessed a week or so of bloody clashes the scene doesn't die for science a day is an important day for the country as it is the year anniversary also the bloody football months ago that took place in full sight of the first of february two thousand and twelve was of course has been a front of contention for those who come for science and i was the verdict on twenty one the finding so much taller than most sentenced to death so today they came on the streets against the government against the biting very angry scenes in addition i've been gathering shot exonerating osage down south by the moment the

focus is definitely here in the capital so what is chaotic and violent street after was. commenting on the deepening crisis activists and journalists who can shine don't believe that at this point in no one is in control of the country. egypt has been totally destabilized and remember the egyptian government. for the loan from sunday look there's a protest is a popular protest song about the world bank i.m.f. loan to egypt and all the western newspapers and analysts are saying well egypt's not going to get but lord if if this is the destabilisation that is visiting upon the country but the thing is who can control things in egypt now now a popular slogan of the arab spring which i call the arab sting for nato has been the fear has gone but perhaps the fear has gone along with the fear so has any sense of security and nation building and state building so really can anyone

control what's going on and this is this is rooted partly as well because of the trial against those who accused of being guilty off of the deaths at the football match so really it's also it's also you know opening said that nor can control anything in egypt our current france declares its one day mitchell offensive against islamists in mali we've got an exclusive look on the collateral damage of the conflict with some chilling accounts emerging about the human cost. america's oil blockade against iran it's in marriage may have been violated by none other than the u.s. military itself the pentagon has admitted a con to counsel some of the fuel it brought in for its call peroration in afghanistan it's now suspected that the randian petrol made up a significant percentage of imports as artie's gand she can explains. the u.s. gives money to the afghan government to buy fuel for its forces now u.s.

officials especially specter general for afghanistan reconstruction say they cannot verify that the fuel purchased for afghan security forces in recent years did not come from iran it could be their way of saying that it probably did cover the wrong and it could mean that the u.s. has violated its own extinction by letting us taxpayer dollars go to even coffers those sanctions that the u.s. is putting in place not only bar u.s. companies from doing business with iran but also punish third party countries for doing business with iran but no matter how many rounds of sanctions are in effect they were never watertight even though the european union under a lot of pressure from washington stopped buying uranium oil you have a host of other countries that still do iran's biggest buyer now biggest buyers now are china india and japan and these countries are oil thirsty especially china so china imports of uranium oil india's imports of iranian crude were up

thirty percent according to tanker arrival data western sanctions have you reins oil exports in two thousand and twelve leading to a very deep plunge in the arabian currency but continuous robust demand from its top buyers as well as the purchase of new tankers allow the red to unexpectedly boost exports late last year despite the sanctions the u.s. can't absolutely force those major economies especially china to stop buying from iran political and economic ramifications of such pressure would be significant but the u.s. government is trying their prompting those other countries to buy oil from washington's allies saudis and katori so you can imagine how happy the gulf states are about this whole new business coming in but washington is resolute to put more pressure on other countries to put forward more threats like cutting them off from the u.s. banking system. so for many countries the situation starts to look more like blackmail than anything else was regards to iran and blackmail is essentially what

the us calls diplomacy which by the way is not working but washington acts to hold not only ran hostage to the sanctions but the whole world which is of course creating more tension heading for the stars but lost at sea there's been a rare failure for russia with such like collaborate as a rocket carrying communications equipment to ditches minutes after takeoff. a suicide bomber has attacked the u.s. embassy in the turkish capital ankara killing two people and injuring at least two others the moment believed to be a member of the left wing group detonated explosives as he was passing through an x. ray scanner at the entrance to the building archies correspondent policy brings us more details. three people have been killed today including the suicide bomber a security guard as well as a turkish citizen who was

a member of the staff at the american embassy now according to eyewitnesses there was this massive bang also prunes of smoke that have been erupting outside of the american embassy or american embassy staff have been taken to safe rooms inside the embassy the last did happen in a part of ankara where there are several other indices including that of germany as well as all fronts the explosion caused no damage inside the embassy itself but it did cause extensive damage to the outside wall there are a number of illegal groups ranging from kurdish separatists to lift to islamic militants who have launched attacks in recent years in turkey you also have in addition to this violence from syria that continuously spalls across the border and in the past artillery from syria has killed turkish civilians what that means is that you have a whole host of groups that could have carried out this attack back in september there was that new taurus mission in benghazi in libya where we had four american

staff members killed including the american ambassador and then just a few days ago you had britain's foreign office warning of a potential threat against the british embassy in tripoli so what we are witnessing is a chain of events targeting western embassies not least of all the united states that seems to be picking up momentum and it is a reflection of the growing anger against washington and other western countries at a particularly unstable time in the region. mark mellman the professor of international relations for bilking jeana versity in turkey says that anchor his foreign policy in the region while he supported by washington could have provoked the attack. the government has been pursuing right wing nationalist groups that are hostile to it but it may have its security made up or taken its eye off the ball virus radical islamic groups who have been passing through turkey to enter syria i think it's really common for people to stumble up for instance to see people coming

from north africa who are parents jihadi types and they then moved down to antioch on the border of syria across so there was danger as we saw in libya that people but the west has supported as opponents of the dictator there against can however decide that they can open fire on the western sponsors or at least one western sympathizers as happened in the american consulate in benghazi in september it is not impossible that such groups have targeted you the us embassy in ankara i suppose if for the sake of argument the perpetrator could be linked to a state to say iran or syria itself then it is possible that it could be argued that it was only a state sponsors attack an invasion of turkish territory turkey is a nato member its allies should in some sense come to say i suspect that the likely response is obviously going to be an intensified security sweep an investigation of how this happened who may have assisted the suicide bomber it's unlikely that it was a solo person. but of course it could contribute to the international tensions but

it could of course turn out to be somebody who has a grievance against united states more from an angle that we're not looking at from some other subsection of the population or from some of these were able to enter turkey marseilles. sexual abuse harassment and a loss of faith the german catholic church later we investigate how much money and destroyed evidence helps preserve accused of serious crimes escape trial it's often a break. from. the world. for you it's technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. you're watching our t.v. it's not so great to be in britain that's the idea some u.k. politicians want to promote to potential european migrants they feel a huge influx from some e.u.

states that are now allowed to live anywhere in the bloc his party will go takes up the story. as one official put it the negative ad campaign about britain would help to dispel the myth that the streets in the u.k. all paved with gold and the politicians certainly are worried and they've got it wrong in the past you see back in two thousand and four the previous labor government got it really wrong they got the figures so wrong about the number of poles that were coming over to potentially live in england they suggested that there would be something around fifteen thousand polish citizens coming over to the u.k. lo and behold less than a decade later the polish community in the u.k. is one of the biggest communities and polish is the second language spoken in england and wales the previous year was the year of the olympics and politicians trump and trumpeting great britain and how london and britain is the best destination the world billions of pounds poured into advertising to really sell the

u.k. but it seems that for immigrants potential immigrants from rumania i'm from ball garia the message is that britain isn't so great after all so a lot of people used to use that sort of as quite farcical the fact that the government is willing to trash its own image and to admit that there are problems with the economy in disarray that there's a housing crisis and that there are problems with schools and hospitals everyone's been having a good old chuckle over the idea of a negative ad campaign and yes some people have actually said that it's quite insulting but remain ians them for vogue ariens but one newspaper has even suggested that people send in their own suggestions for what an anti britain poster would look like and the result has been really quite scathing and quite harsh to britain as a country we've got slogans that include u.k. yuck and come to britain and clean the toilets or even britain we haven't left ourselves because the public transport isn't running so people very sort of mocking

at the same time but quite so. scathing about the country and we also took to the streets of london to find out what ordinary londoners think about the situation let's take a lesson those these pathetic these mixed messages it is hypocrisy in the day a waste of time. actually. seems like to be poised over the devil you have a job i'm not home for me telly. at the moment leave here everything too much expense you westminster is bound by law so they have to follow these rules and they have to allow anybody who wishes to come over in twenty fourteen to enter the country but a lot of citizens in the u.k. as you saw there feel that it insulting to those people and a waste of money having advertised britain previously france's president francois

landers planning a trip to mali to survey what's being hailed as a successful military intervention against islamists the french acknowledged however that the operation is now entering a tricky phase which is likely to involve guerrilla tactics from the extremists observers say the three week long fighting has spread more havoc across the country with civilians paying a bloody price for it we've got the story of one of the victims brought to us exclusively by local journalists according to launch. grosser that out of one of us as but the war became a real nightmare for the people of this small city in the say google region it was one of the first places bombed by french warplanes before more jihadists arrived sweeping south towards the capital america the french intervention left a pile of debris and ashes that's just the visible traces of the war they left it civilians who were left with the scars that will last a lifetime one family paid a deep price for this conflict against the islamist terrorists one of the family

sons was killed by a jihadist soldier inside his own home. late brother was attacked by a group of militants the ridge children among them he started running and got back into our house but they followed him one of the children fired at him but minutes and then another insurgent shot him inside the house my brother fell and was riddled with bullets we laid his body in the house we couldn't bury him because we were afraid to go outside. just because this is just one example of the terror that the conflict is putting mali and civilians through plague and the weakest the most no one was surprised when india bali once jihadist troops arrived it was discovered that the majority of the military were heavily armed child soldiers. we discuss a upcoming visit of president francois hollande to mali with strasburg based journalist an expert on france a robert harness who believes that the trip is all about political grandstanding. he may regard this is a window of opportunity to present this is

a great french excess which militarily technically tactically certainly looks like let's be honest but it's his opportunity because clearly in the background there is considerable american assistance there are now british troops coming in eight thousand african troops it's not going to be further and i may say the french are very reluctant to approach the algerian from c o two closely because algeria and france as you know have a long history with. bits of the civil war i think this may well be the last chance for all the house to claim victory before it all becomes obviously an allied operation and i think that's probably the main reason. there's more news for you online including torture executive executions and a tasteful covering it all up those are the reasons why one cia whistleblower turned against the agency and gone thirty months in jail had to r.t. dot com his revelations. and of find out

all about a world war two era says the city that exists only for six days a yeah we've got all the details about the russian atlantis and i t.v. dot com. iraq and with communications equipment on board has strayed off course and plunge into the pacific ocean soon after takeoff the company responsible for the launch has said it will look into why it happened is archie's you got a piece can off with the details. the zenith rocket with the u.s. communications satellite on board blasted off from the odyssey floating platform but to went off course almost immediately and its engines were switched off. into the pacific somewhere along the equator less than

a minute after takeoff now on the equator the earth's rotation speed provides an additional booster rocket so they could carry more weight when it comes to launching from floating platforms besides looking or some there are advantages and disadvantages like there's a minimal risk of rockets falling down on inhabited areas but waves could be a problem in fact there is speculation that that could have been the case this started soon raunch is a collaboration between russia and to us boring companies they've been working together since one thousand nine hundred five thirty four successful launches well this was supposed to be the first launch in two thousand and thirteen. now to other international news this hour there are also demonstrations in iraq was sunni protesters have blocked a major highway in the west of the country protests by the minority group take place most weeks but these appear to be the largest since the end of last year and they're angry at what many see as discrimination against them by the government a group willing to to al qaeda has also urged them to take up arms.

a bomb blast in northwest pakistan has left twenty two people dead and injured more than forty on a crowded street with both shia and sunni mosques police say a motorcycle packed with explosives was detonated killing worshippers who were leaving after friday prayers no group has said is responsible for the attack the incident happened close to pakistan's a semi autonomous tribal region with a strong taliban and al qaeda presence. so. serious barriers to the reputation of the german catholic church have resulted in more and more shippers turning their backs on it child abuse and sexual harassment cases committed by priests that don't even get to go to court just seen as the main reason for dramatically shrinking congregations you may find some of the details in peter all of us report disturbing. the abuse of

trust the destruction of faith the theft of innocence or undone. in one nine hundred seventy nine when i was invited to his house he locked the doors and forced me to drink what i now know was alcohol. he asked me what i thought of his penis which was a wrecked then the priest made me perform oral sex on him. the catholic church in germany is facing a crisis attendances dropped significantly over the past few years according to the central committee of german catholics one hundred eighty thousand parishioners stopped going to mass in twenty ten alone many citing church hierarchy unwillingness to do enough about claims of abuse like the ones made by wilfred the priest at the center of this particular scandal is now being moved to a different parish while this church where its alleged abuses took place remains

closed to worshippers but just how difficult is it to bring a criminal prosecution in cases like this if those people go to court now it's very difficult to get to a sentence because the witnesses sometimes died in between the memory has got lost and so those attempts to get to have a trial usually fail christine pfeiffer had been in charge of an extensive study into abuse in the german catholic church dating back as far as nineteen forty five his research claims that the church destroyed files on priests involved in abuse up to ten years also that twelve hundred victims were paid hush money not to reveal what happened to them he was dismissed after a dispute with a senior cleric sheikh over what information would be made public the scandal that this research is no not going to be finished. it's causing problems to them as well

now they're losing members because of the new headlines of the last few weeks there are those within the church that recognize the importance of transparency of lapsed catholics but to be brought back to the flock of them and when we're really moving and when we do not make things clear there will always be an aftertaste something has been covered up this will harm attempts to get people into church because it is a bad foundation for trust and all belief is based on trust. for will for trust has been lost he says he will never set foot to the church a good he's committed to getting compensation for himself and those others who claim they were abused by people who were supposed to be in a position of responsibility peter all over our city germany. if not time for business with katie so katie bill berman you're here with a taste of what's coming up in the business i hear mortgages people getting some of

that was going on they are well in russia they are going up in popularity it's have a last year we had a sixty percent increase but what we do is we compare that number with europe and the u.s. and just look at the rate said a lot of people are struggling to get on the property ladder first time buyers there's a real people suffering at the moment so we're going to look into that as they compare the countries and that's all coming up in the business minutes and after the break so joining us now wait for some of your tips. you know i can kind of sort of understand the mindset of an evil dictator i have trouble understanding what is going on or maybe not going on in the minds of the terrified cogs who believe all the propaganda give up all their rights for the illusion of safety to coach jerry seinfeld who are these people well maybe some of

them may be working at your local school braindead bureaucracy zombies at a pennsylvania school suspended a kindergartner note kindergartner as a terrorist threat because she threatened to shoot another student with a gun that shoots soap bubbles i guess this was all a mix up because the girl she wanted to shoot didn't understand that it was in reference to bubbles and not bullets children in kindergarten can often misunderstand things but the administration of the school seems to be no smarter than six year olds immediately going into total panic mode guess what this is hardly the first time that something like this has happened remember the kid who pointed a piece of chicken at a teacher and said bang the thing is that the real terrorism of the event is that the mental sleeves of fear propaganda that work at these schools are raising a generation of children to be just like them somebody shoot me with a bubble gun that's just my opinion.

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live live. live . welcome to business i'm katie proving thank you very much indeed for joining me now russian banks gave out a record number of mortgages last year so two trillion rubles which is equivalent to sixty seven million dollars that represents a sixty percent growth rate year on year but that still a drop in the ocean when compared to the amount granted in the european countries

and the united states. to discuss this in more detail what it all means i've now got to the task of just what it really means for other countries as well as hashing out just reading out those growth figures very impressive indeed but what does russia need to do to catch up with europe and the united states them well i think what we should really talk about is whether or not russia should be catching up to its western counterparts and the reason is that what we're seeing in europe at the moment and in certain parts of the united states as while is that there's a sharp drop in property prices as we're taking a look at this graphic spain and greece are often considered to be the worst hit by the crisis but as we're seeing here ireland saw its housing prices drop as much as seventy percent in the past five years while its unemployment has tripled in the netherlands as well the picture is pretty glim so that simply means that many home owners cannot keep making their monthly payments they borrowed one property prices

were on the rise and one mortgages were easily accessible but when the financial crisis hit in two thousand and eight their home devalued pretty much overnight and that means they owe the banks war then what they can sell their homes for at the moment and unlike in the united states where the banks have written down billions of dollars in unpaid mortgages in fact about one and a half trillion dollars since two thousand and eight. personal opinion in most european countries it's not as easy to get rid of your mortgage debt by either declaring bankruptcy and or by turning your home over to the bank so basically there's a mounting mortgage debt there and that's really a burden to european growth as many economists and governments in europe now realize why don't you i suppose this begs the question why didn't the european banks do what the u.s. banks today write off these unpaid mortgages while the european banks at the moment are pretty much stuck between a rock and

a hard place because many european governments received billions of euros of bailout money and they spend the bulk of it on bailing out their banks if they write off these mortgages these unpaid mortgages now that would make their financial systems vulnerable all over again but on the other hand the mounting debt is definitely not allowing these countries to return to growth which is one of the priorities why should i even say the priority this year so you know the consensus is that something has to be done with these mortgages and you know on the on the surface coming back to your question does look like the lower the interest rate the better but let me state the obvious is the real key to a healthy mortgage system is financial stability within the country right now you know despite these impressive numbers that we've been chatting about less than a million russians are bought their homes using mortgages right now if i look at

the figures if i look at the russian economy here. if i look at the figures look at the situation of the russian economy right now it's looking pretty stable. explain not to say listen well the balkan of last year's growth which totaled about forty percent annually it took place in the first half of the year what's that's when the interest rates in the country were at a historic low of eleven point eight. percent i know you're probably laughing because that's outrageous lehi i most western standards will go back to that minute but that really allowed the banks primarily russia's two biggest lenders the very bank and the t.v. to boost their mortgage portfolios by sixty percent in the first six months of the year i mean i think it's important to point out that the situation here in russia is not expected to worsen the share the economic situation so does that mean that the bank should be expounding on this is that what we should expect what that's

certainly what the two biggest lenders of our bank and d.t.b. are claiming they're saying that their mortgage portfolios this year are going to be comparable to those of two thousand and twelve when independent economists really doubt that they're going to be able to keep up that growth and as i said the bulk of last year's growth happened in the first half of the year when the interest rates were at a historic low and now in the second half of the year the biggest banks hiked their rates in fact it's very bang did it twice during last year and we saw a sharp drop in mortgages immediately as you would expect exactly and but even eleven to twelve percent is basically sky high by most you know european standards as we said and it's a huge hit to a potential homebuyers i mean just think about in these united states borrowers on average pay between three and four percent in fact they're benefiting tremendously from all the turmoil in the eurozone be because the dollar and hence the us

treasuries are considered a safe asset therefore keeping the interest rates and the mortgage rates in the united states pretty low while by contrast in russia by an apartment for say three hundred and fifty thousand dollars which is about the average for moscow and paying eleven to twelve percent mortgage. means that by the time you're done with your twenty year loan you would have paid three times as much more than one million dollars for you and the million dollar question is are you going to be able to sell it for that much well as definitely something to think about before you make the plunge yeah listen i'm going to stick to rent right now. so thank you very much indeed. moving on after a hectic christmas period most priced men are putting their feet up not russian ones though they're busy running around to post boxes of online shoppers russians

have been keeping their fingers firmly on the buy button bargains in foreign stores making the most of the january sells a broad tanya or has a story wrapped up for us. european sales are sluggish as consumers are tightening their belts russian shoppers who continue to splurge both at home and abroad may be the cure for the ailing european economy now small it's hyland designer shops that don't even have a website at home could sell their shoes and dresses hair in russia via a special postal service are going to rise by the russian and italian post big spenders in conventional shops russians are set to prove it online and i killed the report suggests the country's economy or school global suspense is five billion dollars in two thousand and fourteen russia old raise it over to germany last year

in terms of internet service with more than fifteen million daily users that's the most in europe and the internet penetration is increasing by about thirty five percent a year market watchers believe the furrows through say it's highly postal project will help russia's digital shoppers shake up italy's retail market if only both postal service is famous for this p.d. operations manager deliver on time. i'm going to say rush them a check out some stocks we'll see what happens and we did have some gains out today and doing above that i've got the r.t.s. around bird for to send a parish on the my six run flat to positive other biggest gain is today we had we tell a mag meet. as well ending the day around three percent in positive territory the ruble that let's see what happened there and i can tell you it's pretty much the same performance that we've seen for the majority of the week really because it may

go to higher against the u.s. dollar losing out to the common currency which check out european markets look at international now we've got a recovery on our hands here as you can see ending the week up beat now we've got euro zone manufacturing it hitting the eleven month high with a healthy german figure out really how we do offset a french decline also u.k. manufacturing grows and that's despite the snow in january which can often put it down be on the spanish stocks i want to mention this a slump after a short selling ban was lifted but we ended up with gains on mainland stocks it's going to see us they are indeed enjoying a rally with the dow jones briefly about the fourteen thousand mark that his data showed hiring increase in january after accelerating more than previously estimated at the end of twenty two and we also had manufacturing grew as well so lots of days to digest a lot of it positive. and we move on tax dodges across europe no longer have any.

swiss law takes force today which will allow foreign governments more powers to crack down on tax evaders according to the new tax administrative assessment act group requests in accordance with the international standard will be possible now but swiss law makers have been keen to point out that fishing expeditions large scale demands for information on possible tax dodgers well not be accepted according to the global organization of parliamentarians against corruption due to corrupt practices ranging from bribery to theft and tax evasion would be equivalent to the home find economies of whites learned south africa and. asked all the business bobbie about ls in two hours time next they all say catches up with director brian de palma from he talks to ati eight talks about about spies invasion and the military about power was america.

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seven billion messages a day i you know well that we're working understood dollars per annoyed because i would like myself a very strong. views about what our american foreign policy is and so needless to say i've probably been followed around since the sixty's because i made very political antiwar pictures of me in the sixty's. so i sort of accepted basically. and my last picture political picture or back then would not see the my country because i was criticizing our foreign policy and the fact that what the hell are we doing in iraq and these terrible things happen when you put these young boys in these worlds where they don't understand what they're fighting for why they are there so i can understand why all over things were being followed all the time we probably are your drama that's.