times you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. thousands of protesters in cairo clashed with police near the presidential palace as massive demonstrations are underway across egypt calling for the president to resign. a crude violation the pentagon accused of breaking america's own embargo on buying iranian oil well tehran rebels and record export cash.

authorities in turkey say a far left militant is responsible for the suicide attack on the u.s. embassy in the capital on courage that left one security guard dead. two am in moscow i met good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story this hour around six thousand have taken to the streets of the egyptian capital to protest against president morsi while thousands more are marching across the country at least fifteen people have been injured now in fierce clashes in cairo as angry mobs attacked the presidential palace with firebombs bell trues at the center of demonstrations with the latest we know how chaotic scene in the capital of egypt that's clashing have broken out somehow become a crisis and for security forces the president. many marxists comprised the

presidents of building and create supposedly or you want to talk about the promise which not the police and i'm time we take us comes off many demonstrations across the country of course there are still thousands and chris where as well he said it will not cry until like a month have been mass this comes off the several protests converged in front the presidential palace on to her scrap a sponsor friday's date that never ends protesters called this 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 they seem not so i'm not some demonstrations across the country today but the main one outside of cairo has of course bamako sayit which is when mr a week of the mahdi clashes the scene doesn't die i put aside to day's an important day for the country as it is the year anniversary on the bloody football massacre that took place in port side on the first of february two thousand and twelve is of course has been

a kind of contention for those who come for signs and i was the verdict on twenty one the famine so i was told i am a sentenced to death so today they came on the streets against the government against the biting very angry scenes and if you see many been gathering shot xandra osage downtown for the moment the focus is definitely here in the capital with these chaotic and violent street hospitals all young arrest in egypt comes despite a peace agreement signed by opposition and muslim brotherhood leaders thursday journalist and middle east expert ahmed five t.v. things those behind the accord have ignored demands from the streets. those who have signed it some of them have openly indorse morsi during the year are now for forty presidential during the presidential elections so it's only to present those who signed it and not the masses of the people you gyptian people demands have been overlooked and. this is just

a beginning it is going to be tough to remove morsi than it was to remove mubarak but the people and the youth of egypt are determined to not settle for anything less than bread freedom social justice and human dignity france declares it's one initial offensive against islam s. in mali later this hour an exclusive account of the like with some chilling details about the plight of civilians caught in the crossfire. but first washington sanctions on the sale of iranian oil may have been violated by none other than the united states military itself that's according to the u.s. special inspector general for afghan reconstruction the pentagon admitted it can't account for some of the fuel it brought in as part of it may have been resold by turkmenistan or he's got it she has details. the 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 up its 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 could 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 to many countries the situation starts to look more like

blackmail than anything else and 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. stay with us still to come aiming for the stars but last seed a rare failure russian u.s. satellite elaboration is a rocket bringing communications equipment to choose minutes after takeoff. but before we get to that a suicide bombers struck the u.s. embassy in turkey's capital on korea killing a security guard and himself authorities say the attacker who was reportedly a member of a far left wing group detonated explosives while passing through an x. ray scanner at the entrance to the building artie's policy or has the latest. now according to eyewitnesses there was this massive bang also panes of smoke that have been erupting outside of the american embassy all 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 just to islamic militants who have launched attacks in recent years in turkey you also have in addition to this violence from syria that continuously spills 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. more on the events that are growing drawn by lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review live from baltimore in the u.s. thanks for being with us so most religions attacks in turkey are against government institutions or have been so far why do you think this time of foreign embassies been targeted. it's obvious right now that is a whole escalation you need tire region going from north africa into the middle east and president. obama administration to the french and the british. has obviously. the the insurgents to the

point that they are now targeting these western powers however the united states and the british and the french are also supporting tens of thousands of jihadi treatments in syria and in other parts of the region so you have well armed well prepared trained terrorists on the border originally with turkey and syria probably now inside turkey and therefore if the new potential for a violent terrorist action made it against the united states and we're right now putting ourselves in a very very bad position in allowing this to happen to the u.s. government if those shoals and facilities though all those situations that you've cited were radical islamists in jihad as this is a left wing member who's been accused of this attack how do you think that ties it . well first of all we don't know that for sure i mean first the united states government state department has said they don't know who killed the who carried out the terrorist act or so i read that one terrorist specialist or counterterrorist

bashful says any time you solve one of these attacks and this can twenty four hours he's very suspicious so we don't know now could be they have cited this revolutionary people's liberation party but we don't know the question noways the environment that's being created and the amount of dangerous individuals that are spreading into this whole area from syria and turkey and back and forth that i've been on then supported in funded by obama in other countries of the west trace of the cage are for. all kinds of i to view these individuals to be active being you don't have to tell this per person to do this you just create the right environment provide the ammunition and the sons and certain idiology take over how do you think how do you think this will play out domestically for i don't want well i think he i think the situation's absolutely getting worse for turkey i think that turkey is

turkey is now very concerned about the situation in iraq they're very concerned about the rising level of activity around with the kurds energy and desire for kurdistan inside that would take off part of turkey so i think this is very bad news is obviously great opposition inside turkey and i think the the president other prime minister is behaving and foolish who are actually have this close working relationship with the west and he's actually undermine his own country and his own security i think this is symptomatic of a rise of militancy in turkey. i think it's a rising move of course the entire region i think all these advances though they're not one farm the other kinetically they're all part of a change i look at the situation now with france taking the lead in mali and with that cool if you knew the activity there so you have to see right now that you've gone from one combustible situation to another and while he sat there with these

are being fueled by a horrendous horrible foreign policy coming out from the west and from the obama administration and the worst thing we're doing which is impacting the situation in turkey is working without qaeda in turkey for the overthrow in syria or for the overthrow of bashar assad but this is a very very dangerous policy and i believe this is directly connected other much you know evidence yet to what took place in turkey in the last twenty four hours all right lawrence freeman for me is that intelligence for your magazine thanks for i thank you. and more news still to come in a little more than a minute stay with us here on r.t. . here the reindeer is interesting for the herders. and when it suffers. people do their best to help.

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actual staying with us you're on our team quarter past the hour now it may not be so great to be in britain that's the idea some u.k. in the want to promote the potential european migrants there are politicians losing sleep over the potential influx of workers from some states who are now free to live anywhere in the block parties polly boyko has more. 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 and from bol garia the message is that britain isn't so great after all so a lot of people use that sort of was 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 and 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. scathing about the country and we also took to the streets of london to find out what ordinary london is think about the situation let's take a lesson there is these but that's a this makes message isn't it because they end the day i think a waste of time and money and actually these things ought to be part of it's ours over there but evidently i have a job i'm not the same from eternity but. at the moment to 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 in twenty fourteen to enter the country but a lot of citizens in the u.k. east as usual that they feel that it's insulting to those people and a waste of money having advertised ports and previously the shocking truth about the german catholic church later this hour r t investigates how the hospital for priests of sexually abusing children to escape trial there. but first french president francois hollande is set to visit mali as french troops battling islamised insurgents continue to make gains the visit comes amid worsening sectarian violence in the country sparking fears militants could resort to guerrilla tactics and terror attacks observers say the three week long fighting has spread more havoc across the country and its civilians who are enduring the worst

journalist gonzalo one exclusively brings us a story of one of the victims of the ongoing bloodshed. grosser that out what that says but the ellis the war became a real nightmare for the people of this small city in the se google 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 civilians who are 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 my brother was attacked by a group of militants there were 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. if they could just be 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. strausberg based journalist an expert on for as robert harley thinks that trip is more about political grandstanding. he may regard this is a window of opportunity to present this is a great french excess which militarily technically tactic clete certainly looks like let's be honest but it's his opportunity because clearly in the background there is considerable american assistance there now british troops coming in there talking about eight thousand african troops it's not going to be further out i may say the french are very reluctant to approach the algerian from to go too closely

because algeria and france as you know have a long history with out here a bit of a civil war i think this may well be the last chance on house to claim a victory before it all becomes obviously an allied operation and i think that's probably the main reason. remember there is more for you online including why one of president obama's relatives might be deported from the states the president's kenyan uncle living in legally in america for decades and what will become of him find out on our t.v. dot com what's. stalingrad coming back to life but only for six days to commemorate the crucial role the city played in the nazi downfall more on our team dot com. a rocket carrying u.s. communications equipment has crashed into the pacific seconds after launch the

company responsible for the launch says an investigation is currently underway to figure out the cause of the failure or piskun up as 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 a detached 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 rockets 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 star is a collaboration between russia in their gear and to us buoying 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 turning now to some other stories making international headlines this hour tens of thousands of sudanese protesters in iraq have lost major highways in the west of the country angry as what many see as discrimination by the shiite led government demonstration appears to be the largest since the end of last year a group linked to al qaeda has also urged sunni's to take up arms at. least twenty three people have been killed and fifty injured in a suicide bomb attack in northwest pakistan explosives detonated on a crowded street outside a shiite mosque no group has yet claimed responsibility groups linked to al qaeda and the taliban previously carried out similar attacks against the shia population . hillary clinton the united states sixty seven secretary of states formally resigned from her post her successor senator john kerry will replace or after a swearing in ceremony friday resignation caps an especially turbulent for your

tenure marked by conflict revolutions and military intervention. at least nine people have been killed after carrying a truck or a truck carrying fireworks exploded in central china thirteen people also injured some of whom are in critical condition the blast caused the collapse of a part of a highway rescue workers are sifting through the debris for survivors the serious blows to the reputation of the german catholic church have resulted in more and more worshippers turning their backs on the institution child abuse and sexual harassment cases committed by priests that don't even get to court scene is the main reason for the drastically shrinking congregations just a warning you may find some of the details and peter all of us report disturbing. the abuse of trust the destruction of faith the theft of innocence. in one nine hundred seventy nine 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 no 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 christina fifer 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'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 if lapsed catholics but to be brought back into the flock and then. moving in when we

do not make things clear there will always be an aftertaste that 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. and one for jaime for wilfrid that trust has been lost he says he will never set foot in a church again he's committed to getting compensation for himself and those others who claim they were abused by people who are supposed to be in a position of responsibility peter all over r.t. germany. in a few minutes we'll take a look at how tough daily life is for those living in the coldest regions on earth stay with us here on r.t. .

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. the republican v a coup here lies the event some special nomad camp of how. it is situated full thousand four hundred kilometers from moscow into. thousand kilometers from alaska . yes yes come here. what's wrong with him. take a look but his hoop is also fallen. but yes he can't get much food from under the snow because of the pain in his leg he's lost.