intime sponsors in disguise burning debris falling to the ground and meteorite breaks up over russia as you rolls on showers down on the return. also more than two hundred fifty people seeking medical attention after the spreads panic and destruction over the russian region some twenty thousand images imagines to pass and put on high alert. also this hour concerns of a hollywood horror future sufis in the u.s. has the government starts cultural surveillance is millions spent on biometrics with such. an actual movers and shakers feel to

a major gathering in moscow to chew over the state of the world's economy i mean currency manipulation is on the never ending us out of prices. and as budget constant britain is trying to gainst police with thousands of layoffs in the past year also takes a look at whether that's offices means. there will be live from moscow hello and welcome to the program and of course we start with our breaking news story this hour and it's still being quite you average morning here in russia.

so people in the year also region have seen burning objects raining down from the sky after michele right exploded above that causing a meteor shower on and off he's going to go is here with us in the studio with more so we've heard a lot of eyewitness accounts there like they saw a white fireball a mushroom cloud and many of them heard a massive so what actually happened that well what actually happened is something that some people have described as the end of the world or the world of the worlds but it was actually an asteroid entering earth's atmosphere and breaking into pieces upon entering the atmosphere in those pieces falling dollar and to earth sounds pretty normal but. the people that were actually there the eyewitnesses that we have spoken to they say that it was arguably the scariest thing that they have ever lived through the rest of them. and so she watched right. then came

a little exclusion that not only shattered windows but lord window from the. bottom a little bit at first i was told that a plane crashed right into our and then we were told that and war has been partially dislodged and metal structures inside were bent by the blast it was very scary. so i'm actually surprised the people that we spoke to they started more or less not not really frightened because i mean you've heard the explosion you saw the thing flying i mean look at this debris in the seriously it's like building is literally falling apart because of the impact but because of the impact of the. asteroid explosion i mean it looks frightening it looks like a serious explosion there is a small girl everywhere is really frightening i would say. i'm glad i'm not into levels great no i have. so what about any disruption reported because we are seeing these exactly what we're seeing here right now i think this is the land that was

actually the biggest think land in the country and obviously now it has the hole in the middle of it so who knows what's going to happen to the production of the zinc and everything all things things considered or associated with zinc but it wasn't just the plant that there's also reports of school being damaged or what you're seeing right now is exactly if you can see that their windows the glass is shattered windows are blown out let's talk about people who were injured i mean obviously we're talking about. such destruction we're talking about people who have been injured by the glass and the various degree following we have at this point where the latest information that we have from the ministry of interior has been actually. that i'm getting reports here and the information is coming from local authorities have been around three hundred people have been affected. and in the tribal region due to the explosion number one up just literally minutes ago it was

two hundred fifty we knew do know that at least ten of the people who have turned for medical assistance have been kids and we know that at least three people are actually in critical condition one woman was hospitalized with a heart attack she was working at a post office and when this whole thing happened must have been scared out of her mind and how the heart attacks it actually it looks fascinating but it's really scary stuff if you think about it i mean look at this just look at things falling from the sky in the colors of beautiful but what is exactly happening could be anything so what's happening there now don well the they have restored i think the coverage to normal because obviously when this whole thing happened and we're talking about when this when the exploded it was around nine o'clock in the morning . people were on their way to school on their way to work. and everybody started calling each other to figure out if the other person was ok and the cell

phones were down for a relatively long time but now it looks like the coverage is back up to normal but we do know that. kindergartens as well as schools are actually closed today they told the kids to go home and they we have actually advised and by they i mean the minister of emergencies i should make that clear they have advised people to stay at home today and not venture outside that they do have twenty thousand of their personnel on high alert in the region of this tell us more about this asteroid twenty twelve ga. which is expected to to go. wrong today actually i find it yes i mean what a coincidence that in fact there are some who believe that this could be a sort of a pretty ludes to that asteroid that could but you know kind of a harbinger of the thing to come the asteroid that the asteroid that is supposed to make its appearance in in several hours later later towards the evening that was should be a lot larger than the ones that we have seen falling into day that one should be

about the size of an olympic swimming pool. and if you're thinking about something relatively small i mean we don't even know how big this asteroid was obviously broken to pieces there was some information that they have found a piece of it before but then they have said they haven't heard anything on any other thing that we should keep in mind is that region is it has historically been sort of a nuclear experience you clear experimental regions during the u.s.s.r. era and there is one very important strategically i would say nuclear storage facility if something were to fall on it and we're talking about nuclear reactors nuclear storage obviously i mean you you see the damage on your screens right now you see the damage that has happened to. buildings obviously if that were to happen to a nuclear storage facility we would be talking about a nuclear disaster very possibly but thankfully that. was that is not the case they have measured the radiation levels actually and the minister emergencies are saying

it's all right it's the normal levels nothing extraordinary there of course there were also speculations initially about what has happened and people are people i read on twitter everywhere old a lot of reports are actually saying that this is a plane that exploding in air and salaries and two fighter jets have collided in midair but then most people started writing about the asteroid and obviously this seems to be that was it so yes a very interesting a very interesting beginning on the other friday for people injured evidence and i would say for people all over the world. i mean why would you know anything we are driving at work and there is indeed stories so and of course we are closely watching this story how it develops and we are closely watching and looking forward to hearing some more expert opinion on that asteroid and absolutely want to know what is going to go. on today thank you renay we'll be talking to you later again thank you. are right that most space rocks approaching us but not safely in the planet's atmosphere however one getting all the way through the surface isn't such

an uncommon to fans actually and some scientists estimate hundreds of them actually reach the ground every year however because of the intense burning in the atmosphere most and up too small to cause any damage or produce a display like you just saw in the year old's finding a fragment of freshly phillip meteorite takes a great deal of luck considering ninety seven percent of space rocks found on earth have fallen long ago and being injured by falling meant to write as an even rare event with only one universally accepted case in modern history one of four kilogram rock struck through the roof on an alabama home in one thousand nine hundred fifty four interrupting the oven is afternoon nap when it hit her on the arm and leg.

and actually being is such a huge country russia has no surprise russia gets its fair share of direct hits all the time from space so let's not look at the most well known right now so the largest buying of the last century was the so-called. norman and one asteroid thought to be a comet exploded in siberia leveling around two thousand square kilometers of forest also another collision happened less than two decades after the event and that's when i met her right crashed in southern russia the biggest piece found weighed almost three hundred kilograms and now back to say we're in one thousand nine hundred forty seven ice an estimated seventy tons of extra terrestrial material reach there and the overall size of the need to ride that time was estimated at approximately one hundred tons and just over a decade ago it was hit by another asteroid explosion not

a major one but with its power only reach approximately two hundred tons of t.n.t. so loads of that stuff is coming over to russia and has been actually coming from there. so let's move on now let's go back to earth the world's economic woes stoked by tit for tat currency battles and europe's painful crisis will 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 and more on that now from his list of cabinet. 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 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 boost an 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 of 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. leiber prize to mark the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled mubarak personally includes setting up roadblocks across the country and nato forces gathering in the capital as a number of those protesting against the government that's replays the ousted regime increases. later but now the u.s. department of defense has indicated three million dollars for the development of a groundbreaking smartphone face recognition technology intended to be used mainly by the military its potential use in law enforcement health care and civil i.d.

program sponsored new privacy concerns on his marina portnoy has more now on america's families 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 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 worn like a bluetooth it's remarkable it holds ten hours of video esquire magazine editor at large subscribe to self surveillance for an article about life log 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 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 new. and i came behind bars without charge or trial and now a please be made to barack obama to flame me a british man from gong tunnel mode i. was cleared for release years ago this story

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exception shocker armor was sold for a bounty the united states dropped leaflets to though and offered five thousand to twenty five thousand dollars for every quote arab terrorist 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 or one time o'day about fifteen of those are people who really could be charged with war crimes like khalid shaikh mohammed they were brought to guantanamo afterwards are there 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 appear to fear

but obama cannot let that stop him from doing just that these people need to be out shocker armor should be out of guantanamo there's no reason for him to be there. british police have been given a severe qual pain with the number of officers on duty hitting a record low of the country reduces expenses made its containing financial struggles but is it having any effect on the u.k. security first tried to figure out by asking quote and and emotionally just later. 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 and this 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. 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 to the response we've got is a bit of these reforms going through but at the same time they see the number of police. and police morales. i mean it's quite confusing time i think for police officers as to what's being expected. i understand but 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. and crime which we've seen year on year for six years. for the past two years been an increase in crime last year of nine percent so as 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 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 streets and jimmy who have a an 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 time we're cutting police numbers but they're doing innovative things like sharing back office services because the forces to save money and keep those police out on the streets where people want to be sort of in offices filling in paperwork and that with red tape to what do you think that the being in his face because. the color should have been a notice of in the way they're cutting public services across the piece we're being

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 or we have a different economic strategy to deal with the deficit and the financial spirity measures that need to be introduced essence what we want to do is support the place we both want to see crime reduced as well best to do that kind of speak about integrity it's not just the the police integrity it's the public perception of the police integrity in the reforms will help to improve the public perception of prison k. 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. leave baze on their head of the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled the

khadafi regime foreigners are scrambling to get a flight out while government forces and allied militias tighten security around the country and there are fears of violent unrest and growing calls i mean growing calls for protest against the current government and there have been reports of nato troops arriving in the capital tripoli but the west cares little for supporting democracy says former m i five agent. people have invested 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 us to strip their countries of mineral wealth i mean we're seeing the spillover into other areas like mali and niger as well and this is all part of a bigger sort of power player between the u.s. wanting to secure the minerals or says about africa generally and stop china getting them so in terms of democracy in arab spring i think it's very naive to think that that's what the west is trying to help these countries to achieve we've seen 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 on 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 of the country and 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 nato went in so it's become such a mess and so many levels. and coming up is breaking the set with host up in knots ahead when alex.

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house of a. radio guy for a minute. what clothes were about to give you never seen anything like this i'm telling. ya soon guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking up the set well there is seemingly no shortage of disturbing news coming out of the pentagon these days the latest now by the announcement that the you know d.c. is creating a new medal of honor a medal that honors those brave men and women who get behind their videogame like consuls and assassinate suspected terrorists from their air conditioned offices yet the drone king is now warning his drone operator minions for their outstanding valor it's called the distinguished warfare medal it will be awarded to individuals for their extraordinary.