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 kurd violation the pentagon accused of breaking america's own in bargo on iranian oil well tehran rebels in record export cash the. turkish

authorities say a far left militants responsible for the suicide attack on the u.s. embassy in the capital that left one security guard dead. three am in moscow i met a good to have you with us here on r t our top story around six thousand people have taken to the streets of the egyptian capital protesting against president mohamed morsi well thousands more are marching across the country at least fifteen people have been injured in fierce clashes in cairo as angry mobs attack the presidential palace with firebombs journalist belcher is at the center of demonstrations she brings us the latest. but you know how chaotic seems how can i ask questions how broken out somehow the government protesters and sense of security forces the president for this are many marches comprised of presidential

building concrete supposedly free martha opera house the promise was not the police and i'm time we take us comes off many demonstrations across the country of course there are still thousands and paris where as well he said it will knock a man so much the monster have been mad this comes off the several protests converged in front the presidential palace on to her a scratch i sponsor friday's date that never ends protesters called this against the president's people are still chanting in amongst this chaos of it that the president must step down they're saying this is the sentiment across the capital they seem not so i'm not so demonstrations across the country today that the main one outside of cairo has of course we have course i need which is when mr a we could have the money question is the same doesn't die who signed today is an important day for the country as it is the year anniversary on the bloody football massacre that took place in cosigned on the first of february two thousand and

twelve is of course has been a point of contention for those who come for signs and eyes the vatican 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 have to say downtown for the moment the focus is definitely here in the capital where these chaotic and violent street hospitals. are a stage occurring despite a peace agreement signed by opposition and muslim brotherhood leaders thursday journalist and middle east expert ahmed fati says those behind the accord have ignored demands from the streets. those who have signed to some of them have openly indorse morsi during the forty presidential during the presidential elections so it's only to present those who signed it and not the masses of the people 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 use of egypt are determined to not settle for anything less than bread freedom social justice and human dignity france declares it's one the initial offensive against mali islam later this hour an exclusive account of the conflict some chilling details about the vital civilians caught in the crossfire. but first washington sanctions on the sale of iranian oil may have violated may have been violated by none other than the u.s. military itself 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 a resold by turkmenistan or he's the guy in a chick eon has more from washington. 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 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 rein in coffers those 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 upped 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 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 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 aiming for the stars but lost at sea there's been a rare failure for watching us satellite for free as a rocket bring in communications equipment ditches only minutes after takeoff. a suicide bombers struck the u.s. embassy in turkey's copple on correct killing a security guard there along with himself authorities say the attacker reportedly a member of a left wing group detonated the explosives it was passing through an x. ray scanner at the building's entrance artie's paulus leader has the latest. now according to eyewitnesses there was this massive bang also pins 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 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. lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review says washington's middle east policies may provoke such militant actions. 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 and funded by obama in other countries of the west trace of attention for all kinds of activities and individuals to be active being you don't have to tell these per person to do this you just create the right environment provide the ammunition and sons and certain etiologies take over so you have well armed well prepared trained terrorists on the border originally

with turkey in syria probably now inside turkey and therefore easily potential for a violent terrorist action needed against the united states and we're right now putting ourselves in a very very bad position and allowing this to happen to the u.s. government officials and facilities. and later this hour the internal conflict in syria turns international was after israel's called out by the massacres and groups after launching an airstrike on a convoy allegedly carrying weapons within a syria's territory more on this after a break. more

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images from politics and seeing from history.

thanks for staying with us here on our eleven minutes past the hour now it may not be so great to be in britain that's the idea some in the u.k. want to promote to potential european migrants their politicians are 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 long john in 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 garia the message is that britain isn't so great after all so a lot of people see 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 you know some people have actually said that it's quite insulting but for remaining 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 so. scathing about the country and we all say it took to the streets of london to find out what ordinary london is think about the situation let's take a lesson was the but that's a this makes messages it is hypocrisy in the day i think a waste of time and money and actually these things are to be part of it's ours over there i don't really 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. that ease as you still that they feel that it's insulting to those people i'm a waste of money having advertised britain previously and still to come the shocking truth about the german catholic church. later investigates are it was possible for priests accused of sexually abusing children to escape brought over. but first french president francois hollande set to visit mali is french troops battling islam in the surgeons continue to make gains the visit comes amid worsening sectarian violence in the country sparking fears the militants could resort to grill of tactics and terror attacks observers say the three week long fighting the spread havoc across the country and its civilians who are suffering the worst journalist exclusively brings us the story of one of the victims of the ongoing bloodshed. 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 by marco 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. one brother was attacked by a group of militants the rich 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 just me 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. strasberg based journalist an expert on france robert harnesses thinks 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 sees an opportunity because clearly in the background there is considerable american assistance there are now british troops coming in and 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 algerians from to go too closely because algeria and france as you know have a long history with the. bitterness of a 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. i mean sure to check out our t. dot com for more of the news we have online on right now one of president obama's relatives might be deported from the u.s. president's kenyan uncle apparently living illegally in america for decades what will happen to him find out about r t dot com plus. stalingrad coming back to life only for six days to commemorate the crucial role the city played in the nazi downfall more on that story at our team dot com. a rocket carrying u.s. communications equipment has crashed into the pacific ocean only seconds after takeoff the company responsible for the launches says an investigation is underway

to discover the cause of the failure or hear a fisking of has 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 provides an additional booster rocket so they could carry more weight 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 time 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 well this was supposed to be the first launch in two thousand and thirteen

. turning now to some other stories making international headlines this hour. thousands of sunni protesters in iraq have blocked a major highway in the west of the country angry as what 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 qaida has also urged sudanese to take up arms against the government. at least twenty three people have been killed around fifty wounded in a suicide bombing in northwest pakistan explosives detonated on a crowded street outside a shia mosque no group has yet claimed responsibility groups linked to al qaida and the taliban have previously carried out similar attacks against the shia population . very clinton america's sixty seven secretary of state has formally stepped down from her post her successor senator john kerry to replace her after a swearing in ceremony friday resignation caps and especially turbulent for your

tenure marked by conflict revolutions and military interventions. at least nine people have been killed after a truck carrying fireworks exploded in central china thirteen people were also injured some of whom are in critical condition the blast led to the collapse of part of a highway rescue workers are sifting through the debris now searching for survivors . serious blows to the reputation of the german catholic church of 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 seen don't even get to court seen as the main reason for dramatically shrinking congregations just a warning you may find some of the details and peter all of his upcoming 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 witnesses sometimes died in between the memory has got lost and so those attempts to get. to have a trial usually fatal christian vi for 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 after 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 clergy over what information would be made public the scandal that this research is no not going to be finished. is 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 are to be brought back into the flock element. meaning and when we do not make things clear and 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. 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 were supposed to be in a position of responsibility peter all over r.t. germany. surely warplanes have reportedly flown over lebanon only two days after syria accuse the netanyahu government of ordering airstrikes near damascus the alleged attack on a military research facility if confirmed would be a direct violation of the u.n. charter damascus has promised to retaliate for the bombing by the opposition

national coalition has come out against the strike the group claims the attack breached the country's sovereignty but some experts take the rebels condemnation of the attack with a pinch of salt because as professor you became a lucia told us earlier it may play into their hands. the main thing the right now is to remember that this comes on the heels of systematic targeting of syria and other bases by the syrian free army and the syrian opposition all side like to remind you that this sit in opposition has already thought of a lot of station on the edges of the golan heights last year so this comes as a continuation of the of foreign to this royd the syrian army by the opposition and now by the moscow's them sun moves by the is an eighty's so what we are witnessing now is a reflection on the political class that the syrian opposition as suffering from

being unable to achieve anything significant on the ground they have resorted to help from the zionists directly i don't think that is a policy of making public comments of strikes be it. strikes that they launch outside the bond that is the international law. cross-talk still to come here on r t stay with us. rep or loopy fiasco actually caused a fiasco by singing a song highly critical of president obama ironically at

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

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear sees some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know. welcome to the big picture. total recently said.

hello and welcome to cross talk or all things are considered on peter lavelle on forgetting iraq largely ignored by the media mainstream iraq is faced with a number of serious fault lines growing authoritarianism corruption separatism and political fragmentation this can hardly be the legacy washington wanted but it formally ended military occupation on top of this baghdad appears to be crafting its own not a western form paul. to cross talk or rock i'm joined by pepe escobar and some paolo he is a journalist and author in london we have sami ramadani he is a. senior lecturer in sociology at london metropolitan university and in jerusalem we crossed a mare javedanfar he is a middle east expert. in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want pepe escobar from go to you first how would you describe iraq today because.