in towns flashes in the skies burning debris falling to the ground and meteor shower rains down over russia's year old. also this hour concerns of a hollywood whole repute resurface in the you are the government song called for sybil and sees millions spent on biometrics research. and as a budget constant britain's trike against police with thousands of layoffs in the past year she takes a look at whether less offices means more crime. this

is also you coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the show and we'll start with some breaking news this hour people in the year olds in russia have seen burning old tricks raining down from the sky and meteorite exploded above the earth causing and me share a shower i witness as reported several blasts rocking the region and as long trails of smoke in the air and also he's lucid often of has more now so loosely was going on that. hi there yulia will remember i imagine you're driving to work on a beautiful call friday morning and suddenly are massive fireball appears out of nowhere in the sky you're thinking to yourself is this a plane crash is this a rocket attack a u.f.o. when it comes to the urals region and the city in russia is actually a meteor shower this is what took place this. morning really stunning images that

you're seeing there right now now what we know from officials according to officials in eyewitnesses that a series of explosions possibly five to six took place when this meteor exploded in the air raining down molten hot degree on to the ground now this is caused widespread panic and at least three cities witnesses reported the walls of houses shaking windows being blown out cell phones even reportedly stopped working in some areas now we're still getting the details details are still slowly coming in from officials but what we know so far is that there are no casualties no massive injuries at least that's what we're hearing at the moment there has been some concern about potential small injuries at a school unconfirmed so some schools are reportedly being evacuated but we're also hearing that as ink factory was hit by a piece of the media but no leaks reported so far officials did do preliminary testing of radiation levels in the area they say that that is ok but of course

tests are going to continue throughout the day the biggest issue right now is the falling debris and the smoke that the black smoke that people are reported reporting that is hanging in the air so very very shocking developments probably not the kind of surprise you want to see on your way to work on friday morning one interesting fact of note is that the world is closely watching another meteor that's supposed to graze past the earth later on this evening that's the size of an olympic sized swimming pool this is an unrelated incident and of course as it develops we will continue to bring you more information again no casualties reported so far radiation levels are ok at the moment but of course we'll have to keep you up to date as the developments come in. absolutely lucy thank you very much indeed for that update and of course as. well we'll keep you posted on this exciting story indeed our rights and our hunger poverty and

a lack of healthcare it's a modern day europe in greece the continent's most troubled state so and people that are being forced to find ways to cope with the situation like queuing for church handouts and even leaving the country for greener pastures. and a decade behind bars without charge or trial on our bellies being made to barack obama to finally free a british man from gun tunnel obeyed after he was cleared for release years ago all that coming up next. but now the u.s. department of defense has allocated three million dollars for the development of a groundbreaking smartphone face recognition technology it's intended to be used mainly by the military its potential use in law enforcement health care and civil i.d. programs sparked new privacy concerns marina britain has more now on america's formulas for surveillance. the information age was an era nearly everybody in braced by

today's surveillance age experts say is a reality oh most no one can escape we are five years away in new york from zero privacy from every new yorker being tracked and catalogued and watched and that information being saved for pretty much an indeterminate period of private investigator steve rom bomb believes america is being landscaped into an eis wide open society through the advancing market of biometrics technology that uses physiological and behavioral recognition to identify people. a system touted as a national security necessity is being used to build a database where the biometric identity of millions of americans who be gathered and stored when you look at crying when you look at terrorism what we're really focusing on is the individual and so if you are interested in reducing crime or

reducing terrorism you do have to focus on the individual and biometrics is a way. of connecting the person with a measurement recognition of unwanted visitors face recognition and iris scanning are the current tools of the trade however scientists are reportedly developing new technology aimed at identifying anyone from much greater distances if researchers are successful the defense department may eventually be able to detect individuals by your shape heartbeat walking patterns and possibly even older long range fingerprint and iris scanning are reportedly also being explored for the u.s. tool box of tracking are there reasons to have such security devices sure. do i think it's american do i think it's appropriate that somebody can press a button and determine everywhere i've been everything i've done. everyone i know

its role. and i think that we're entitle to privacy. author and journalist a.j. jacobs recently spent three months documenting every second of his life with a small camera and like a bluetooth it's remarkable it holds ten hours of video esquire magazine editor at large subscribed to self surveillance for an article about life logging yet he believes the market of high tech cameras and consumer biometric applications will soon make little brother and equally big concern and i think that we are. going to have a private moment in the future and i always tell people listen if you want to have an extramarital affair you better have it right now because you're going to be able to have them five years because everything will be tracked your husband or wife will be able to know exactly where you are at all times as companies like apple moved her words fingerprint readers and facial recognition insiders say that consumer electronics will generate an entirely new source of revenue for the

biometric industry and industry estimated to bank more than nine billion dollars globally this year however the top cash cow is expected to remain government spending on security the bit in the past five years the department of defense has shelled out an estimated three billion dollars on biometric programs. hard to believe that just ten years ago the concept of facial recognition biometric surveillance and domestic drones was limited to science fiction movies like minority report marina point aren't you. going to see international is taking a petition to the u.s. president to call for the release of a u.k. citizen who's now spent more than a decade in guantanamo bay. was held under suspicion of links to al qaida but has never been charged to face a trial and he was cleared for release in two thousand and nine but her amazing detention on the less so total is b.

wilna a defense counsel for going ton a prison as has almost cases not an exception. shocker amr was sold for a bounty the united states drop of leaflets to go and offered five thousand to twenty five thousand dollars for every quote arab terrorists who would be turned in in an area where people make two hundred dollars a year that was enough as a leaflet said to feed your family for a life so any arab you found you could sell for a bounty there are about one hundred sixty people at guantanamo today about fifteen of those are people who really could be charged with war crimes like khalid shaikh mohammed they were brought to guantanamo afterwards of there are other you know one hundred fifty or so people eighty six of them have been cleared for release and are sitting there the others are not even charged with anything or thought of to be really bad guys these are people ignored president obama faces opposition within congress and there's no doubt the people of that many republicans that pandered to

fear but obama cannot let that stop him from doing just that these people need to be out shocker aamer should be out of guantanamo there is no reason for him to be there british police have been given a severe occulting the number of offices on g.c. hitting a record low as the country would g.'s is expensive and it's continuing financial struggles that it's having an effect that having any effect on the u.k. security elsie sa fast trying to figure out by asking both pro and anti motion legislative. well the home secretary's announced plans to set up a national database where police officers will have to declare second jobs this is aimed at raising professional standards earths is also part of why the reforms that are seeing the number of police officers drop to the lowest levels for eleven years is the impact of a twenty percent cut and whitehall funding to police budgets takes effect which is think more about these reforms i'm joined by conservative m.p.

angie britain and labor m.p. jim fitzpatrick thank you very much to both of you for joining us jim i'm going to start with a lot of the police officers that we were speaking with we've got is a bit and you've got these reforms going through but at the same time they're seeing the number of police. and police. i mean it's quite confusing time i think for police officers as to what's being expected. i understand that there may be slight consolation but given the battering the reputation of the police is hard over recent months the government had to take steps to shore up the reputation in terms of morale. the police service. in my part of east london we've seen over one hundred fifty uniform staff gone the past two years. and crime which we've seen year on year for six years for the past two years has been an increase in crime last year of nine percent saw some parts of the country are

being imposed are affecting the safety of people on the streets what do you say to . the lowest level of police officers now for eleven years. so i may not know the the police are having to take their share of the of the spending reductions along with the rest of the public sector to get the deficit under control and what we're actually seeing is it's not about numbers it's what you do with the police or innovative ways of maintaining a police presence on the street and jim a home for you have a increase in crime his constituency but the fact of the across the country on average last year crime fell by. and he fell in my force in leicestershire by eight percent as well so we are seeing a overall reduction in crime across the country at the same time we're cutting police numbers but they're doing innovative things like sharing back office services with other forces to save money and keep those police out on the streets where people want them to be instead of in offices filling in paperwork and that with red tape what do you think of that they're being in it because. the coalition i've been an event where they're cutting public services across the piece i was in

the fire brigade for twenty five years. the fire brigade. reporting mechanism for second jobs for for many many years a lot of the reforms that they are very sensible in east london we pioneered neighborhood policing. popular across a piece of the six officers and. the marine unit in my area. we've been told that there will be no night patrols on the river as a result of these cuts this is a security assurance of counterterrorism issues as well as an issue of safety on the streets so we have different experiences in terms of our constituencies and everybody wants to support the police and we have a different economic strategy to deal with the deficit and the financial measures that need to be in to just essence what we want to do is support the place we both want to see. best to do that kind of speak about integrity it's not just the police

integrity it's the public perception of the police integrity in the reforms will help to improve the public perception of prison. all right thank you very much for joining us you can join in our debate online dot com we've also been on twitter a lot of the public have been getting involved in this debate as well as members of the police. reform to join in the debate about the late this please. also westminster has been active in all the areas to brightening pre mental health treatment for m.p.'s the five thousand pounds been put aside for the program along with full details on why they politicians and parliament are being offered the treatment free of charge. and also find football fans on their way to a champions league match died after the plane crashes at donetsk airport in ukraine so find out why it came down at all so you don't home.

today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trolling for asian. leaders on the edge ahead of the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled the gadhafi regime foreigners are scrambling to get a flight out while government forces and allied militias tighten security around the country there were fears of violent unrest and made growing calls for protests against the current government there have been reports of nato troops arriving in the car trip ready by the west for supporting democracy says former m i five agent . the people who invest a lot of hope in the arab spring i think now they're beginning to realize the harsh reality that a lot of it was backed by the west and the west wants to strip their countries of

the mineral wealth and we're seeing the spillover into other areas like mali and niger as well and this is all part of a bigger. between us wanting to secure the minerals losses of africa generally and stop china getting them so in terms of democracy in arab spring you know i think it's very naive to think that that's what the west is trying to help these countries to achieve be seen and an absolute mess left behind by the nato invasion of libya which is what happened two years ago let's not mince words and that was problematic in so many levels not just the international legal level where suddenly aggressive war could be justified as humanitarian intervention even though it destabilized an entire country and results in many more deaths than could be prevented. but we're also looking at a situation now where the country has lost its stability where there are reports coming out from independent journalists about militias still holding great swathes the country under their power where we have competing fairly fundamentalist politicians police groups as well fighting over their territory without any of the

promised ability wealth and democratic values that were suggested when the nato went in so it's become such a mess in so many levels. bahraini people have been so successful overthrowing their regime the international day of love became a deadly day of protests for them at least one teenager was killed and dozens of demonstrators wounded on the second anniversary of their poor reform uprising bat and london based bahraini activist dominic kavakeb it's asked that the government is only pretending to be resolving this standoff peacefully. we're looking at two years in which we've seen no reform we've seen nothing change i mean we started this uprising two years ago and on that day the first martyr of the uprising was killed and now two years later on the same day before to february another teenager has been killed and this me and shows and displays unlockable for continuous human

rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets are behind it's good the dialogue has come back on the agenda and there is discussions happening but it seems that you know this latest latest escalation of the security against the people is going to possibly put dine in jeopardy within the ruling family i think of course there are those who simply want to please the international community to say look we're having this dialogue and there is not a great thing was continuing the violations on the streets the people have come out on the streets time and time again saying that they they won't go out and they said you know go home until this reform and i think the fact that they stayed out for two years is clearly proves that so the only solution is through dialogue and has to realize that. more people are without walk in greece that at any time says the economic crisis began as the employment rate creeps up for twenty seven percent international loans up all that stopping the country going bankrupt and as for my

greek and. says it's at the human level that the deep cancer really hitting hard. well it seems that it's getting worse not better this is the famous rescue of greece from the european union they say that will reach thirty percent of unemployment it means that while thousands of people lose their jobs every day in greece this is starting to become a humanitarian crisis and i think it's something that no one expected to see in the european union you see extreme poverty you see people that they tried to get a plate of food from the church we have two hundred fifty thousand people every day trying to get to the church to find food we're talking about young people that they want to find a job in greece trying to leave the country we're talking about people that don't have access to primary health services and i would reckon about things that no one

expected to see it seems that the plan for growth is taking two margin too long to take place so something has to change i do believe that germany has stuck to this plan and doesn't want to admit the mistakes where we listen every day of things that could have big been better for greece if the plan was better if they had made a better estimation about what would happen but this is something that's not only numbers it's one thousand people human beings in the european union that lose their jobs every day this is creating a humanitarian crisis inside the euro zone. unders agrees bartels its financial problems germany faces serious issues of its tone violent clashes have taken place between protesters and police as hundreds of neo nazis marched in the city of dresden the rally was held to mark the sixty eighth anniversary of the allied bombing of the industrial center in wall to a day that has become a focal point for the extreme right in germany thousands of anti fascist protesters

formed a human chain around the city to try and block the demonstrators. in the u.s. senate republicans have voted against naming chuck hagel as secretary of defense delaying his confirmation fifty eight senators voted in favor of haig will take in the post sought to short of the sixty required to go to the next stage of the naming process republicans say the delay will allow them to find out more about the candidate has come in for criticism for saying the jewish lobby had too much influence in washington. chinese patrol ship is have entered waters near to a group of disputed islands that have been a bone of contention between china and japan for months now talk e.o. claims there it for its own after having bought it from private owners last september but the whole dispute could be stoked further by washington does that some of the guests in peter levels crosstalk coming up at about six thirty g.m.t.

. yes is really behind this dispute the us is blowing off japan's fear of falling behind china or losing his primacy in asia and is also blown off the field by the new asian nations towards a resurgent china so just vietnam the philippines and other countries as long as these asian countries fear chinese or bullying them but u.s. has a role to play and they can sell weapons you know and they can stay profitable let me play the devil's advocate. say the united and japan feels more strongly strongly about going in. to take military action to take to take over these islands because it has the united states' backing then china has an excuse to take military action against japan then the united states and japan can declare war on china i don't think anyone really wants this and if anyone with any rationale can sink

through it is it is a dangerous game so i can understand that yes it gets headlines to talk about oh yes it will sell american arms but that is not what's happening here. and just to remind you of our breaking news story burning debris has been raining down from the sky in russia's urals after i meet her right exploded above the earth windows have been a shattered reportedly injuring at least four people and a cloud of smoke is currently in there after five or six blasts rocked the region people why evacuated from buildings and normile communications disrupted. has been restored and one meter right piece has already been found with radiation levels

said to be within safe limits and initially there were fears the incident could have been a military aircraft even and listen so russia's rescue service has predicted more meter right pieces well for fuel. what i usual story data source will bring you more details as soon as we gather them up calls the child up and see if he's here chilled out it scares. me to write the finest i just speak. out. loud spectacular pictures are coming from that was all right and then a few minutes stay with us for our latest special report.

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music. concert the show today how to sing we just had a studio break like i'm on the systems to the tune of eight which is a big city devoted to the united states. to have a great big mass shootings from the receipts to sandy hook school cause someone to kill them and stop the bloodshed on this one comes to prevent them. is there a consensus. i never knew adam lanza personally but i was in the same high school as adam he was

younger than me just a little bit younger. i always thought he was different i always into something funny he rarely talks and you don't he was a shy kid. i don't know anyone who was friends with him i also don't know of anyone who was particularly mean to the what i do know is that it was very clear that this person was not like everybody else. can imagine the level of mental illness that would be present to murder show. america's you know so many go on this there would be an american bond every tree with a gun. for kids growing up in this environment is good for them at an early age to least see the gun and respected because they need to know what kind of damage it can do. this is our first task as

a society. keeping our children safe. this is how we will be judged. people don't understand what the european union is they don't understand how it's going through and they don't know who the people who are running it. but they know that they would chosen by the people and so. when they see the results that

less than perfect they say who do we blame and they don't know who to blame because they don't know who these people are. when i started out as a young environmental activist i had no idea that i should end up as a watchdog in the brussels machinery. but i was stunned to discover how fragile the political decision making process is and to realize how easily it can be manipulated. there's a dark force behind this machinery an entire industry operating in the shadow often in secrecy and very confidential.