flames in cairo overnight thousands of protesters attacked the presidential palace with. police with tear gas and water cannons leaving over fifty wounded and one dead. rather red faced pentagon is left to explain how iranian fuel ended up powering the u.s. war machines conflict years. of america's very own embargo against the islamic state. east or west home is best government plans to persuade romanians and bulgarians that the old saying is true is the inflow of immigrants will become overwhelming. and russia seventy years since the battle of stalingrad the bloodiest fighting human history which cost two million lives but ultimately changed the course of the world.

thanks so much for joining us here. live in moscow with news from around the world . violent protests have swept several egyptian cities overnight in cairo the wave of rioting reached the presidential palace this for the first time in more than a week of turmoil petrol bombs were thrown over the gates with thousands demanding the president steps down police there were sponsored with tear gas and water cannons one person killed at least fifty injured reporter bell true was there to witness the mayhem. i personally witnessed a lot of police brutality there's been a criticism of the police in the ministry of interior i'm off the footage was broadcast all the proof of a protest a street beaten and drawing to cross the tarmac i saw this with my own eyes it

could just but i this balcony the man who did not picture any resistance or any threats towards the police caught his trousers by his ankles was trying to face down and then. taken off in a vehicle and later i also saw police come down an employee of a restaurant just off the front line the man was trying to get home he said before the police officer with but shot to shot him he fell to the ground the mistakes taken by an ambulance this comes off to protest is three more talks on the promise yesterday after which the security forces of replying to the excessive use of tear gas many people are condemning the police this morning saying this is another example all police to come if you just make in security forces hands of one of the keep them on the reservation something the president must address there are still people on the hurry square and protest plans in the future opposition forces on not

backing down there has been calls from both sides for dialogue the president said and so awesome dialogue with the opposition forces ahmed el baradei one of the leader of another salvation front said he would engage in dialogue on the condition that they would be the day the government would be to resign and national salvation government would take over and the constitution would be revoked the president himself has said he will not this in t.v. set preconditions we do see this you see this kind of happening any time in the future so we expect the violence in the streets the protests across the country in the coming weeks. reporter bill through the reporting there from cairo and in the meantime activists and journalists chandan says that developments in egypt show that ultimately no one is manning the helm there anymore. egypt has been totally destabilized and remember the egyptian government is waiting for what the egyptians called the loan from sunday look there's a protest there's 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 that loan if this is the destabilisation that it's visiting the country but the thing is what who can control things in egypt 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 by along with the fear so much 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 author of the deaths at the football match so really it's also it's also you know openly said that nor can control anything in egypt are currently you can always check artie's twitter feed for the latest on what continues to happen in cairo or build true whose report we saw just a bit earlier is also posting her own updates and still to come of the program here on r t a alleged atrocities by the army in mali raise eyebrows at the u.n.

and a shadow on what some say is the french leaders crusade visit to the north african state. plus the nation of terrorism while waging wars on terror russia's top diplomat the hints that the inconsistency of the west's approach could be behind the deadlock in syria's ongoing standoff. and for now america's forces in afghanistan may have been running on iranian oil and a clear violation of washington's own fuel embargo against the islamic state the pentagon has admitted it can't vouch for the source of years worth of fuel due to a very complicated supply system guy nature can fix up the story. the u.s. gives money to the afghan government to buy fuel for its forces now u.s. officials especially spoke to 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 come from the wrong and it could mean that the u.s. has violated its own sanctions they're violating u.s. taxpayer dollars. the sanctions that the u.s. has put 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 iran's 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 that many countries the situation starts to look more like blackmail than anything else i was regards to iran and blackmail is essentially what the u.s. calls diplomacy which by the way is not working but washington acts to hold not

only ran hostage through sanctions but the whole world which is of course creating more tension. reporting. great to creative fuel for our website. the online exclusive. it's good to have you with us here and a. lot for off has highlighted what he sees as double standards when it comes to

the our revolution the syrian crisis in particular addressing a major international security forum in munich he said if the world community had stuck to its initial agreements the civil war in syria would not have spiraled into such a state of details on this. the underlying theme of so he allowed rove speech was if you cheat unity with foreign partners furthering discussion however it was certainly not all sweetness and light from the russian foreign minister one of those questions that he said russia wanted to put to the western partners was how could the west justify their quest for regime change in certain countries while turning a blind eye to acts of terror now this is just one of many times he either alluded to or mentioned by name the conflict in syria talking about acts of terror committed by the opposition troops opposition forces within syria there against the

the army against civilians now he also went on to ask the question of who decides which state is a candidate for regime change it seems that some are whereas some aren't looking at the ongoing situation in syria where it's been deemed that bashar al assad must step aside by foreign powers not once again reiterated today by the united states vice president joe biden in his address here in munich where is some states aren't considered candidates thinking more here about the gulf monarchies where we've also seen protests in public uprising there of foreign minister lavrov spoke directly to those western powers when he talked about furthering international discussion saying that if well they kept their promises to speak to all sides in the syrian conflict that not conflict could well be over by now. and the foreign minister sergei lavrov has also met with the leader of syria's key opposition group for the

first time after were set up in november last year we're going to trial so as soon as we get them here on out. for now reports of extra judicial killings by the milan army have escalated all the way to the un blocks anti genocide envoy says he's deeply concerned claims by activists that. the army which is largely backed by french troops is committing ethnic reprisal attacks and other atrocities and this comes as francois hollande is on a visit to the north african country are his forces are fighting islamic radicals and while there the french president announced the mission won't be long and will wrap up in a few weeks strasbourg based journalist robert harness it believes that our land is simply trying to score cheap political points with the truth. he may regard this as 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 now british troops coming in there talking about eight thousand african troops it's not going to be and further out i may say the french are very reluctant to approach the algerian front you know too closely because algeria and france as you know have a long history with. bitterness 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. now britain is removing the welcome sign from its doors as the government fears the flow of migrants into the country might skyrocket the authorities think that promoting the u.k. as a great destination may have gone just a bit too far it is polly boy as 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 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 see that sort of as quite far cicle 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 for 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 scathing about the country 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. feel that it's insulting to those people and a waste of money having advertised britain previously. well as britain is highlighting all the downsides of living romania has launched its own campaign of beautiful women that would like kate middleton and very cheap booze old appearing on the list of the top advantages of living in quite

a collection of all the posters the dots he told. us to look up for you this hour here with hatred and racism in the israel football league takes a look at the jerusalem team making its extreme right stream really angry. plus the u.s. expresses outrage over the terro bombing of the american embassy in turkey but critics say it's washington's practice of poking its nose into other country's affairs which ultimately provoked the attack more on that and other stories. 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 realized everything you thought. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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thanks so much for joining us here in our. live in moscow. a leftist a group of opposing us foreign a strategy and its influence on turkish politics has claimed responsibility for the attack on the american embassy in turkey capital ankara a security guard was killed when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives right on the mission's doorstep this was on friday lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine explains why turkey has become a target for radicals. it's obvious right now that there's a whole escalation. tire region going from my own north africa into little east and president. obama administration. in these areas has obviously inflamed. the insurgents to the point that they

are now targeting these western powers however the united states and the british and the fragile are so supporting tens of thousands jihadi treatments in syria and in other parts of the region so you have well armed well could prepare trained terrorists on the border region with turkey and syria probably now inside turkey so i think this is very bad news it is obviously great opposition inside turkey and i think the the president other prime minister is behaving foolish to are actually have this close working relationship with the west and he's actually undermining his own country and his own security. who gets the odds he will topic shortly here in the program for now though a jerusalem football team whose fans are renowned for chanting racist and see arab slogans as just signed to muslims on for the first time as a foreigners are openly disappointed at the move which some say is light welcoming

in the enemy. we have reports on the boiling anger that's never far from spilling over. the games in there but the actions out here these really football team they told us of them is making headlines not for what it does on the pitch but what it does oafish the only leading team in the country never to have signed an arab player because of family pressure is a bastion of israel's political white if i am one other thing i am doing the don't live that the enemy will be a player in my team or you could see. that it was. chance like this we hate all arabs only the target of the racist croquet no it doesn't happen often but tonight's matches between d'etat jerusalem and a local israeli arab team the police are not taking any chances which is why these gates are for the jewish fans and the other side of the stadium is for the palestinian supporters now the match has just finished and as you see the bay

tajiri some supporters are walking out behind me but it will be another hour and a half before the police give permission to the arab fans to leave the stadium but keeping the two sides apart does little to dispel the hatred in march last year hundreds of baitullah fans rampaged through jerusalem or after a game chanting death to the arabs and randomly attacking arab workers or bizarre born they try to say that there are just a few resources five to twenty people but that's not right racism is in the d.n.a. of the steam it's in their blood. we fetched turkey is a football legend in israel he was the first arab to play for the israel national team and to represent the country at the olympic games. i remember playing against the steam their supporters cursed me because i'm an arab muslim if this is not racism what is it that problem is about to get a whole lot bigger team owner a russian israeli tycoon

a coyote guide to mecca recently announced his decision to hire two muslim payers from chechnya and. it's not good they're doing it for nothing these players from church here aren't with the jewish people they're not with the team we have different values. while other countries have faced international sanctions for racist incitement by fans israel has so far avoided such close scrutiny but fears are growing that the beautiful game there is slowly being turned into a source of violence racism and hatred policy r.t. jerusalem. into the r.t. world out there we go now starting with pakistan where an assault on an army outpost in the northern part of the country has now left thirty five dead including twelve attackers the pakistan taliban was quick to claim responsibility ten civilians all from the same family and thirteen soldiers were among those killed a spokesman for the armed group said it was in retaliation for a drone strike on two taliban commanders last month and another blast yesterday

just about sixty kilometers to the north left twenty six dead. the spanish prime minister has been forced to deny that he received more than two hundred fifty thousand euros worth of secret payments over a ten year period speaking in front of his conservative party not in order hoyer said he will post his tax declarations online to prove the allegations are false the scandal erupted last thursday in the national spanish newspaper published records allegedly showing prominent members of the ruling party taking hidden donations. a quarter of a million twitter users have had their accounts hacked at the company's information security director admitted user names e-mails and other data had been stolen along with logon passwords twitter said professionals were behind the attack and pointed to similar ones between this and the one that was a previous attack of the new york times which the newspaper blamed on chinese based

operators. well it was the bloodiest battle in human history and a turning point in world war two seventy years ago the soviet union snatched victory in stalingrad defeating the nazi death machine. followed the commemoration of. the great modern day volgograd to mark the end of that terrible battle seventy years ago with a parade by troops the laying of wreaths from various delegations and the assembled crowds here remembering all those people that died there as many as two million actionis say there's also a little bit of controversy surrounding the name stalin grabbed the city's now. but the city administration say that they want on certain special days to once again refer to it by its old name stalingrad which is a controversial decision given its connection to that controversial figure stalin

himself but as for this parade today this commemorative events it will forever have the connection the word stalin grad not just with this place but with what happened to him. seventy years ago the nazi war machine failed at stalingrad. here a reconstruction of the german surrender andrei is playing the part of powerless promoted the day before to field marshal by hitler in a bid to stop him capitulating boulder's when paul is realized that hitler wanted him to commit suicide he said he wouldn't give him such pleasure and he chose to live. for nazi germany this military disaster was the moment hitler's hubris really caught up with him for the soviet union it was at last a decisive victory over the invaders the ravage so much of the country this basement of stalingrad largest department store had become palaces last

headquarters soviet officers entered to find it packed with wounded starving and freezing german soldiers this is what had become of what had started out as the largest army the world had ever seen. the vermont six army had surged up to the city in the summer of one nine hundred forty two hitler wanted to clear the way to the oil of the caucasus but stalin grad but first a sideshow became an object of obsession for both him and stalin fyodor fought for his very life battling house to house as the germans and their allies took ninety percent of the city to the quest and what i've. read it was how the ball there was a re were firing and when we went to get water from it it was water and blood mixed . in november soviet commander of sprung a huge trap cutting german forces off from the supply lines surrounding them inside

the frozen city by the end of january it was all but over the city was a ruin only the few biggest buildings remained standing. fears buddies but you know absolutely far people it was very important because finally we stopped retreating offices the general started to learn how to win a stunning grant as many as two million people died in the battle their bodies still being discovered today but although the red army of the soviet people didn't know it yet they had reached a turning point in the bloodiest war in human history tom watson r.t. and on our website r.t. dot com we've got a whole section dedicated to the second world war i there you can find stories of the people who witnessed the horrific events of the stalin ground battle as well as learn more about those who actually led the red army to victory.

so my colleague bill daughter's here in half an hour's time but before him it's abby martin and bring in a sense of just a moment. represent the 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 where thoughts come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song loop it was sunny had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was my.