the presidential palace in cairo comes under fire bomb attack from protesters as massive demonstrations across egypt calls for the president to go. a leaking blockade the u.s. military sends accused of violating washington's oil embargo against iran to run rebels in record export revenues. a security guard is killed and several people injured as a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance to the u.s. embassy in the turkish capital ankara. and the british government pulled the welcome mat as fears grow of a flood of european immigrants despite its plug in the u.k. as the world's best definition.

it's just gone midnight here in the russian capital you're live with r.t. and me to bomb would say at least a fifteen people have been injured in fires and clashes in cairo as angry mobs attacked the presidential palace with petrol bombs there at least six thousand protesters in egypt capital and thousands more marching across the country demanding the present mostly stands down from power belts shoes in cairo forty. we've got term us it seems here in the capital has 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 north to figure out protesters are responding out with fireworks also we've just seen as police are removing tents from my months long sitting against the president's side the

presidential building where they also set fire to triple fires on the sides 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 the engine from the front line now it's very chaotic scenes here this comes off the several protests converged in front the presidential palace antari scrap 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 lots and lots of demonstrations across the country today but the main one outside of cairo has of course me of course i equally when mr a week or so of bloody clashes the scene doesn't die for science day's an important day for the country as it is the year anniversary of the bloody football months ago that took place in full sight in the first of february two thousand and twelve was of course has been a point of contention for those who come here for signs and as the verdict on

twenty one defended so much smaller than a sentence to death so today they came on the streets against the government against the fighting very angry scenes in addition i've been gathering shot xandra osage down sound for the moment the focus is definitely here in the cafe so it is a chaotic and violent street after it was. the end rests in egypt comes despite a peace agreement signed by opposition and muslim brotherhood leaders on thursday journalism middle east expert ahmed fanti says a days behind the accord have ignored the demands of from the streets those who have signed it some of them have openly indorsed morsi during the iran of forty presidential during the presidential elections so it only represents those who signed it and not the masses of the people people demands have been overlooked and. this is just a beginning it's going to be tough for it to remove morsi than it was to remove

mubarak but the people and the use of egypt are determined to not settle for anything less than bread freedom social justice and human dignity france declares it's won the initial offensive against islamists in malim we've got an exclusive report on the collateral damage of a conflict assumption in accounts emerging about the human cost. america's oil blockade against iran if the immersion may have been violated by none other than the us military itself the pentagon has admitted a con to count for some of the fuel it brought in for its operation in afghanistan it's not suspected that iranian petrol made up a significant percentage of imports as artie's can achieve she can explain. u.s. gives money to the afghan government to buy fuel for its forces now u.s. officials the special inspector 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 most probably did come from iran and it could mean that the u.s. has violated its own sanctions thereby letting us taxpayer dollars go to the reigning coffers the sanctions that the u.s. has put in place not only for 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 it rains oil exports in two thousand and twelve leading to a very deep plunge in the iranian currency but continuous robust demand from its top buyers as well as the purchase of new tankers allowed the way in 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 many countries the situation starts to look more like blackmail than anything else i 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 sanctions but the whole world which is of course creating more tension heading for the stasi but lost at sea has been a rare failure of the russian us and liberation as a rocket carrying communications equipment ditches minutes after takeoff. a suicide bomber has attacked the u.s. embassy in the turkish capital ankara killing a security guard authorities say the attacker who was reportedly a member of a left wing group detonated explosives as he was passing through an x. ray scanner at the entrance to the building which is correspondent policia brings us more details. now according to eyewitnesses there was this massive bang or supremes of smoke that have been erupting outside of the american embassy or american embassy staff have been taken to safe rooms inside the embassy this blast

did happen in a part of ankara where there are several other embassies 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 who could have carried out this attack back in september there was that notorious 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. and professor of international relations for bill can do university in turkey believes that the u.s. should be less involved in other countries of this twelve void such attacks in the future. for surprising. election campaigns were much expected before mr obama was reelected now he does post he has been reelected. he was reelected who are domestic reasons. but now of course he is likely to find being drawn in directly at any rate into issues to do security and into issues and cost africa the americans maybe letting the french and british play a lead role in north africa but of course american intelligence assets american.

history and the risk must be. american institutions and. elsewhere. meanwhile in syria internal conflict is taking on international dimensions syria's opposition groups and israel in a strike on syrian territory the government has for retaliation stay with us for more on the. stream quality. if you're away from.

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welcome back here with our team it's not so great to be in britain that's the idea some u.k. politicians want to promote but tensional european migrants they feel a huge influx from some ease states that are not allowed to live anywhere in the block are just volleyball and 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 in 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. a thing 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 was that it's pathetic this makes messages it is hypocrisy in the day a waste of time and money and markedly different things ought to be prioritized over there don't really have a job i'm not home for me telly. at the moment leave here everything too much expense to 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 that feel that it insulting to those people and a waste of money having advertised britain previously sexual abuse harassment and a loss of faith from our the german catholic church later we've got to get hush money joyed evidence helps preserve accused of serious crimes trial. france's president francois hollande is 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 pay a bloody price for it we've got the story of one of the victims brought to us exclusively by local journalists gonzalo one. grosser that as one of us has but the

war became a real nightmare for the people of this small city in the say good region it was one of the first places bombed by french warplanes before more jihadists arrived sweeping south towards the capital bamako the french intervention left a pile of debris and ashes that's just the visible traces of the war they left it's of billions 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 my brother was attacked by a group of militants the rich older in among them he started running and got back into our house but they followed him one of the children 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. this

is just one example of the terror that the conflict is putting mali and civilians through plaguing 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 discussed the upcoming visit of president francois hollande to mali with strasburg based journalists an expert on fronts the robert highness 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 a 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 longhouse to claim a victory before it all becomes obviously an allied operation and i think that's probably the main reason. israeli warplanes have been reported in the skies over levanon the day after syria accused tell of eve of launching a strike on its military research facility killing two israel has kept a stony silence over the a tag which if confirmed is a direct violation of the union of the u.n. charter syria's key opposition group has joined the chorus of outrage over the bombing of the national coalition a slam be a strike as an attack on the country so venti while the government has pledged to retaliate to talk more on this i'm joined live by u.s. based freelance all right abend shriner. ben syria's key opposition have a supporter of damascus in condemnation of the attack how significant is that.

highly significant the only thing probably not in the office the same with the government right now was their office from. israel that was one of the reasons. we saw the syrian state media reporting their strike. i suppose to what they did to the southern. border after syria and israel here confirmed or denied it and syria why don't i think. at least through the regimes perspective this that actually ok to unite syrian together against this let's cut the israeli strike actually playing to the rebels and i mean they poles have been saying that they've been trying to storm the facility for months right. by attacking israel clearly your objective into the conflict. and by talking to. them that it can hurt you cited were. reckless in doing

so so we want to see how it plays out on the ground. forces to get it one zero zero zero it's going to escalate here serious about the school retaliation. we know that in the past weeks iran and for the talk in syria because there is an oh so we start stop. and go and now they went in diplomats have threatened israel with great what exactly do you think they're talking about here. i don't i don't think we truly know what it was they're talking or i mean it's on barclay. or syria or directly target israel it's more likely if there is going to be in his words. which are you should most likely. i'm. going to go. but i said you are the

syrian i was going to protests from strike. so it's been more than two days now since israel allegedly attacked the syrian target that killed two people and there's still no official comment from israel why. is israel's done this repeatedly were there. who saw the scope once there were they attacked. they would then either confirm or deny and hope that. your country terror group home to tell you force them serial or. other side of the storm so that will be the case. and china a freelance writer is sharing his thoughts here on our team about this issue. as more news for you online including torture executive executions and

a taste of full covering it all up those are the reasons why a whistle blowing against the agency and got thirty months in jail and taught t. dot com players revelation. and find out to all about a world who want to arras the team that exist already plus six days of yeah we've got all the details about the russian atlantis and our team. a rocket with communications equipment on board has strayed off course and plunge into the pacific ocean soon after take up the company responsible for the launches said it will look into why it happened is our he's eager he's going 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 and it

did into the pacific somewhere along the equator less than a minute after takeoff now on the equator the earth's rotation speed for vides an additional booster rocket so they could carry more weight and when it comes to launching from floating platforms besides looking awesome 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's speculation that that could have been the case this start soon raunch is a collaboration between russia in their gear and to us boring companies they've been working together since one thousand nine hundred five thirty four successful launches while this was supposed to be the first launch in two thousand and thirteen serious blows to the reputation of the german catholic church have resulted in more and more worshippers turning their backs on it child abuse and sexual harassment cases committed by priests they don't even get to court does seem

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. 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 richness is 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 senior clergy 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 are losing members because of the new headlines of the last few weeks there are those within the church that recognize the importance of transparency if lapsed catholics are to be brought back to the flock a woman. really moving and when we do not make things clear there will always be an aftertaste that something is being 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 wilfrid that trust has been lost he says he will never set foot in 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 r.t. germany now to other international news a bomb blast in north done has left twenty people dead and injured more than forty on a crowded street 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 yet said it through sponsible for the attack the incident happened close to pakistan is a semi autonomy as tribal region the strong taliban and al qaeda presence. hillary clinton america's a six three seven the secretary of state has formally resigned from her post as a thetan to john kerry who will replace her after swearing in ceremony on friday resignation kept on especially toben toy year tamiya marked by conflict revolutions and military intervention. it's. sunni protesters in iraq

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 they're angry at what many see as discrimination against them by the government a group linked to al qaeda has also urged them to take up arms. right it's now time for business with katie pilbeam a kiddie in america and other places a lot of people have struggling to get mortgages a year in russia is a different story i mean all across the globe people are struggling but here in russia actually they're becoming more popular because at some point last year they did become more affordable but still sara expensive so we're going to be looking into contrasting the prices in europe america and russia and seeing how they swear i really for first time buyers they're the ones that really suffer in all of this because it's hard to get on the ladder so all of that in the business bulletin after the price is over there are like tips from kitty pilgrim coming up.

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cool. while come to this is one case you coping thank you very much indeed for joining may also i should say in a russian banks gave out a record number of mortgages last year totaling two tritium rubles which is equivalent to sixty seven million dollars and that represents a forty percent growth rate on year by the us to the top of the ocean when compared to the amount granted in the european countries the united states so i've. just had now just to see how russia fits into this and already compared with other countries and those numbers they sound very impressive indeed. not nearly as impressive as

you are in the u.s. i gather so what does russia need to do to catch up well or another way of looking at it is should russia be catching up to its western counterparts what we recently saw in europe and in certain parts of the united states is actually a pretty sharp drop in the property prices let's take a look at the graphic here pretty much everybody agrees that spain and greece were the hardest hit by the crisis but actually what you're seeing here is that ireland in terms of housing prices saw a drop of as much as seventy percent of the past five years while the unemployment there has tripled that simply means that many home owners can no longer keep making their monthly payments they borrowed one property prices were on the rise when mortgages were pretty accessible but when the global financial crisis hit in two thousand and eight their homes devalued almost overnight and that means they owe the banks more than their homes are worth at the moment and that really presents

a problem but unlike in the united states where the banks you know off billions and billions of dollars over the past several years in bad mortgage loans in fact let me give you the exact figure was one point five trillion dollars since two thousand and eight. but in most european countries it's not as easy to get rid of your mortgage loan that is overdue by you know either declaring bankruptcy and or by transferring your home over to the bank so it's really a problem this mounting debt and since everybody is very concerned with growth returning to growth a lot of the economists as well as governments in europe realize that something needs to be done so something needs to be done why done write down these mortgages as a u.s. bank. wall while they're very concerned with. returning to growth they're

just as concerned with maintaining the stability of their banking systems as we all know many of the governments received billions of euros of bailout money over the past several years and they spent the bulk of it on bailing out their banks so now if they allowed these borrowers to default on their debt that will really threaten the stability of their banking system all over again definitely not something that they want right but on the other hand returning to growth as i said is a priority so they realize that they have to do something on the surface the lower the rate the better but in actuality a lot depends on the property values so in turn that depends on the macroeconomic picture so let me state the obvious. a stable economy is definitely the key to the balanced mortgage market ok so let's pick up on that on right now because

the russian economy is stable. good growth prospects going forward but having said that less than a million russians applied for mortgages this year and that's may well definitely and you have to also keep in mind that out of that million the majority actually applied in the first half of the year. the overall growth rate for the year was forty percent bought as i said the majority applied in the first six months when the interest rates were at an all time low of eleven point eight percent i know what you're thinking right now that's actually high high by most european standards but we come back to that in a minute battle out the russian banks mainly the top two lenders is very bank and be to boost their mortgage portfolios by about sixty percent in the first six months will they listen what thinking at the moment is growth prospects going forward it's all set to work so what does that mean does that mean the banks of set

to expand in this sector in mortgage is or not necessarily so that's certainly what they're claiming. to be are expecting their mortgage portfolios to at least be comparable to what we saw in two thousand and twelve but most independent experts actually doubt that be able to do that as i said the bulk of last year's homebuyers really applied for mortgages in the first half of the year when the interest rates were at a historic low but then the banks actually went and increased their rates in fact as bear bank did it twice last year and that sharply brought down the rate of warming certainly certainly a long time boring like mortgages and as a result of course but i mean you have to also keep in mind that eleven to twelve percent is a sky high by. international standards in the united states boars now pay between three and four percent actually pretty low rates and ironically

mainly because of all the problems in europe it makes the dollar and hence the u.s. treasuries very attractive keeping the interest rates and hence the mortgage rates pretty low but by contrast being twelve percent annually for your mortgage here in russia means that if you why say a three hundred fifty thousand dollars apartment which is the average for moscow by the touch by the time you're done paying your twenty year loan you would have paid three times that much more than one million dollars so the million dollar question really is are you going to be able to sell it for that amount definitely something to think about before. into the more i'm not going to plunge my rent this year and i'm just going to keep focusing on. thank you scott for us there for informative. move on then after a hectic christmas period most postmen are putting their feet up but russian ones

though they are busy running around to post boxes of all life shoppers russians have been keeping their fingers firmly on the buy button sucking up bargains in foreign stores making the most of the january sales abroad tanya has the story wraps 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 italian 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 will double to plan to five billion dollars

in two thousand and fourteen russia already 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 first through say its postal project will help russia's digital shoppers shake up italy's retail market if only both postal services famous for this p.d. operation manage deliver on time. we're going to say russian check out those stocks we can see they managed to finish up the day above the line we have the r.t.s. there are four tenths of percent up for the my six just three basis points retail america needs as one of the best performers of the day it was up around three percent the russian ruble finished up the day mixed as expected this was the weekly performance pretty much you can see it's higher against the u.s.

dollar but lost out to the common currency and the european markets and they staged a bit of a recovery actually this friday ended the week euro zone manufacturing hit the eleven month high it was healthy german figures offsetting a french decline though you came out of factoring also grew in the us despite the january snow i also want to mention the fact that spanish stops slums that's after a short selling ban was lifted it was an all or floor yes now but u.s. stocks as well this is the big story because they are rallying as you can see just that we've got the dow jones back above the fourteen thousand mark for the first time in five years that's off today to show the hiring had increased in january and manufacturing grew reaching a nine month high as well as that showing the industry really improving. i will move on the tax dodgers across europe no longer have anywhere to hide a new swiss law takes force today which will allow foreign governments more powers

to crackdown on tax evaders according to the new law which is called the administrative assistants act group requests in accordance with the international standard will now be possible but swiss law makers have been keen to point out that fishing expeditions in other words laws demands for information on possible tax dodgers will not be excepted now according to the global organization a parliamentarian against corruption losses due to corrupt practices including tax evasion a quote to combine the confines of quantum is of switzerland south africa banned. a lot of money for the business for now for today even but more coming up here in r.t. we catch up with the director brian de palma who talks to ati's. about smiles invasion and the military that powers america.

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 the somebody shoot me with a bubble gun that's just my opinion. more news today. and fleda. these are the images. from the street canada. operations are.

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