was. in town splashes in the skies burning debris falling to the ground i mean breaks up over russia's urals and showers down on the region. but also this hour more than one hundred people seek medical attention after the meteorite spreads panic and destruction over the russian region with some twenty thousand imagine surpass and i'll put on high alert. concerns of a hollywood horrify resurface in the uighurs as the government's fault for surveillance is millions spent on biometrics research. and financial

movers and shakers flock to a major gathering in moscow to chew over the state a world economy amid currency manipulation and the neverending eurozone crisis it. looks as the budget cuts in britain strike against police with thousands of layoffs in the past year r.t. takes a look at whether less offices means more crying. this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program and of course we start with one of the most important stories today our breaking news story actually is out people in the eurozone russia has been burning objects raining down from the sky after a meteorite exploded a bar that causing a meteor shower and. has more for us now in reno so i would this is also say. that

they saw a huge white five ball as well and they saw some sort of a mushroom cloud and heard a huge bang so what eyewitness reports have basically people are saying that this is very much like the world the world's coming to actually coming to reality and reliving it armageddon war of the worlds you name it basically this is just the rundown of events that happened around nine o'clock in the morning local time and you haven't got people were on their way to work to school whatever when all of a sudden they saw arguably the most amazing if not the scariest thing is that they have ever seen and i think before i say anything further and you can see it behind me this is what they saw let's hear it from the people who are actually there and told us about it about their experience of a of this once in a lifetime event. the propellor bill is just what it took for young people are not normally but what we. want to. first there was a lot of sense names around and then in

a few seconds we heard the blast. and we had just the windows blew together with three. i thought the plane crashed right so now we're building a no house. but the woods only of two words that we were told and one of the crushed. and it was really horrible i felt really scared. well basically everything that we've heard about some technical difficulties there but we're really getting information by the every second we're trying to connect to somebody new but basically what's happened people obviously obviously were panic stricken there was some something flying through the air there was tremendous thunder it was certainly felt and. felt and it was appeared to be an

explosion and we'll get to what people actually were thinking which was a little bit later we're being told that at least one hundred people have actually turned to medical professionals to be treated for the woods that they have received from the glass shards which were apparently flying everywhere and you have seen the pictures i mean the buildings that we saw that was actually a school where the windows were blown out in the middle apparently very early in the on the school day and at least four children have sustained some injuries from there but we also know actually that children are being told to stay home nobody is going to school or to will kindergartens i don't know that the minister emergencies are saying that they're keeping keeping everything out. tabs they have twenty thousand personnel on high alert just to be ready just in case something else happens but this isn't the asteroid this isn't anything out of well it is an extraordinary event i shouldn't be so if you think i'm going to do they say

regarding. communications and radiation levels at the moment of this well just when this happened and again you can see the pictures right there it really does look amazing but when the all happened obviously people started calling each other to make sure that everybody was ok and trying to figure out what exactly happened what was that flash of light and these cell phones were down there was absolutely no cell your connection it is picking up now it is a little bit better but there is still kind of suffering in some places and in others and what you can see behind me that's the school that i was talking about this is i think this is the gymnasium and the windows are just gone completely and it would be really good if we could get the pictures of the sink plants that was also in the region you should see the damage that was done there that was just this is the school again but there was. yes this is the think plant that i was talking about and you will see in just a second that there is a humongous hole in the middle of that building and this is another thing that we should we should keep in mind is that she has been a closed region for

a very long time during the soviet era it was essentially this center of the nuclear research and it was it was kind of a you know top secret facilities are all over the place there and there is there is a want nuclear storage facility called me out and a lot of people are now saying that this is really in the best graces that none of the asteroids and there were at least five. of the asteroid it's really fortunate that none of the asteroids have actually landed into that facility because that obviously would have been we would be talking about nuclear disaster there but again the minister of emergency emergencies is saying that all nuclear facilities in the region are working a top notch nothing out of the extraordinary happening pretty dramatic songs of the day absolutely in in shanab. and all of us actually here so what about that asteroid. expected to be to be here later on not actually here hopefully but. just to go part of the earth well it's going to be in the asteroids don't exactly

fall of the schedule it is supposed to be here around you know one thousand nine hundred twenty five g.m.t. tonight but who knows maybe decided to make it an early appearance it's not like they're actually keeping tabs with. the scientists back here on earth the so people are saying that this actually could be a part of it kind of you know sort of a teaser of what's what's to come but hopefully. as bad as it's going to get because you really don't want to see the entire thing flying towards earth and landing so where is the area where it's asteroids actually have a tendency to do so it seems like a very stuffy scary end fascinating it's not every day that you see these absolutely amazing pictures i think it we're going to see we're lucky to have seen this i mean remember the goose that was back in one thousand eight obviously none of us were alive there but that is something that still puzzling scientists to this day so maybe this is another one of those things and clearly thanks for sharing your optimism with us my pleasure we'll talk to you. so most space walks

approaching earth burn up safely in the planet's atmosphere however one getting all the way through to the surface isn't such an uncommon event for us and some scientists estimate hundreds of them actually reach the ground every year however because of the internes burning in the atmosphere most and up too small to cause any damage to produce a display like the one above the urals today and finding a fragment of freshly fallen meteorite takes a great deal of luck since ring in ninety seven percent of space rocks found on earth have fallen long ago and being injured by a foreign emitter right is an even rare event with only one universally accepted k.'s and modern history for kilogram rocks trunks through the roof on an alabama home in one nine hundred fifty four interrupting the owner's afternoon up one of her on the arm and leg a bit of history here for you. so being the biggest country on the planet is no surprise russia gets it a fair share of direct hits and let's not look at the most well known so the

biggest was the so-called phenomenon of a century ago when asteroid to be a comet exploded in siberia leveling around two thousand square kilometers of forest and other collision happened less than two decades after the brand that's want to be terrified clashed in southern russia so the biggest piece found a way to almost three hundred kilograms. it's nineteen forty seven an estimated seventy tons of extern to exit material reached the overall size of the meteorite was estimated at approximately one hundred tons and just over a decade ago siberia was hit by another asteroid explosion not a major one with its power only approximately two hundred tons of t.n.t. .

let's go back to earth now so they whiles economic woes slowed by tit for tat currency battles and europe's painful crisis or come to light at a meeting of the g twenty financial heads and the leaders of central banks here in moscow so for russia the gathering is seen as a launch pad for a broader g. twenty summit this year and more that from r.t. is this a couple of now. from cosmic sparks caused by media showers to economic sparks caused by the prospect of a currency war this has been raised by japan essentially lowering the value of the yen and this has opened a massive rift between rich countries who are heavily in debt and growing faster growing countries developing countries that are heavily dependent on exports who are quite worried about a wave of competitive devaluations now what does all this financial mumbo jumbo mean basically in tough economic times it could be pretty tempting for a country to lower the value of its currency for example taking this twenty dollar bill and making it worth a little bit less now why would someone want to do that because when your currency

is devalued that makes your export goods cheaper on the market and that sort of creates a short term economic growth now the fear with that is once you start going down that path as japan did europe can say well hey i'm going to lower the value of my currency america could follow suit and so on and so forth and that's the kind of clash that essentially leads to what we know as an economic currency war at the last time that happened was in the one nine hundred thirty s. and as we all remember that had some pretty devastating consequences one of the hot topics of debate is likely to be voting rights at the international monetary fund where countries like russia and china have less of a say despite the fact that they have trillions of dollars in reserves and so they are going to be pushing this is an ongoing issue for a revision in the way the i.m.f. is structured to the developing economies have more of a greater say now another major issue is of course debts and deficits with the finance minister is likely to try to come up with some sort of

a new pact to reduce the borrowing a lot of the major financial issues of course as russia becomes the first big emerging economy to assume the annual presidency of the g twenty summit. hunger poverty under lack of health care it's modern day europe in greece the continent's most troubled 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 great greener pastures. 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 id programs sparks new privacy concerns marina port and i 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 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 i am in

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 title 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 long 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. we're not 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 it in 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 burning up or not you are. now a decade behind bars without charge or trial and now a pretty is being made to block a bothered to find it free a british man from going to fade after he was cleared for release years ago this story and much more aftershock right.

today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations the role of the. wealthy british study all. the time to play with let's go. around the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports on our.

air watching aussies good to have you with us i'm listening to national is taking a petition to the u.s. presidents to call for the release of a u.k. citizen has now spent more than a decade in growing tom obey. was held under suspicion of links to al qaida but has never been charged to face the trial he was cleared for release in two thousand and nine but for mays in detention nonetheless tom was be well on that kind of counsel focus on tom a prison most says all most 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 their other you know a 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. 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 clipping quoting from the number of offices and use of his hand record low as the country chases expenses it made it a continuing financial struggles but is it having any effect on the u.k. security chiefs our first try to figure out by asking us pro and anti motion legislators. 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 earth is also part of why do reforms that are seeing the number of police officers drop to their lowest levels for eleven years as the impact of a twenty percent cut and whitehall funding to police budgets takes effect but just think more about these forms i'm joined by conservative m.p. angie britain and labor m.p. 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 you've got these reforms going to leave it 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 in the past two years. in crime which we've seen year on year for six years for the past two years have been an increase in crime last year of nine percent saw some parts of the country the cuts are being imposed are affecting the safety of people on the streets what do you say to. the lowest level of police 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 police 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 to have a increase in crime in his constituency but the fact of the across the country on average last year crime fell by. eight percent and in fact it 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 times with 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 to be instead of in offices filling in paperwork and snarl that with red tape what do you think that they're being in his favor because. the coalition i've been in notes of in the way they're cutting public services across the piece i was in the fire brigade for twenty five years twenty three years the fire brigade. reporting mechanism for second jobs for for many many years a lot the reforms that they are very sensible in east london we pioneered safer

neighborhood policing very popular across a piece of the six officers in our district there being reduced to two officers 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 issue 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 we have a different economic strategy to deal with the deficit and the financial measures that need to be introduced essence what we want to do is support the place we both want to see crime reduced. 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 precinct which means you also important right thank you very 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 latest police reforms. more people are without work in greece than at any time since the economic crisis began after an employment rate creeps up to twenty seven percent international lines are all that stopping the country going bankrupt. kailash says it's a big human level that the deep. well it seems that it's getting worse not better this is the famous rescue of greece from the european union they say that when we reach thirty percent of unemployment it means that one thousand people lose their jobs every day in greece this is starting to become a humanitarian crisis and i think it's something that we know no one expected to see in the european union you see extreme poverty you see of 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 are talking about the people that they want to find jobs in greece the trying to leave the country we're talking about people that don't have access to primary health services and we're talking about things that no one expected to see it seems that the plan for growth is taking to 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 few months or a crisis inside the euro zone. and that's not

a provocateur our breaking news story around one hundred fifty people have sought medical attention after a miscarriage exploded above the earth with burning debris raining down from the sky and russia's urals and there was a large bang and windows were shattered and houses across the region schools and kindergartens have been closed in the screen and mobile communications disrupted although they've since been restored want me to write a piece has already been found all the radiation levels are said to be within a safe limits as in fact tree has been badly damaged by the foreign debris as well and initially there were fears the incident could have been a military aircraft or even a missile. and of course all k.p. posted on that developing story and hugely exciting as well in a few minutes stay with us as far as special report on the gray zone of european democracy.

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monetary union infrastructure projects a flexible labor market deregulation downsize public services austerity measures and so on and so on the whole your liberal agenda for the basically our picture got confirmed by an american scholar stepping into the topic maria green call's i was interested and doing something about europe and something about the european union i started talking with some of the c.e.o.'s and in particular the corporate affairs managers of these firms to ask them what happened and everybody had a little piece of the story and then i met with keith richardson. keith and i would talk about different things and he would give me some ideas and i'd go and i'd talk with other individuals and then i'd come back with more questions and sometimes steve had the answers and sometimes he didn't.