intense flashes in the sky. to the ground. in the region. five hundred people seek medical attention to the meteorite spreads. quickly. and concerns the horror of future in the u.s. the government.

movers and shakers flocked to a major gathering here in moscow to chew over the state of the world's economy all a. crisis. budget cuts in britain a strike against police with thousands of layoffs in the. takes a very close look at whether few officers more crime. well it is a pleasure to have you with us today. started off very strange let's get to it now straight to our breaking news for you this hour it's not been your normal morning across russia have a look at this. people

in the euros region are having basically seen burning objects raining down from the sky a meteorite exploded above the earth causing a meteor shower let's let's join us he's a really good let's go now to talk more about this because ultimately i had a pretty terrifying morning and i'm not even in the part of russia the biggest country in the world and yet we have what is essentially a dolphin display in the morning skies absolutely that's the map behind me basically what happened is there was an asteroid which entered the atmosphere and then broke into several pieces thereby turning into a meteorite happened around nine o'clock in the morning so all these people there were driving you know you can see right behind me imagine me traveling driving to work and then all of a sudden you see this absolutely tremendous what is the world's we're under attack absolutely and actually that's what a lot of people want to go to it look like you didn't do that i'll get to that in a second but let's get down to some figures that at this point we know that the

blasts the explosions obviously when it enters the atmosphere breaks apart so there's an explosion yes apparently the windows shattered. and doors were flying out in all i know three hundred buildings have sustained some sort of damage three hundred three hundred buildings yes five hundred fourteen people have said that they need medical assistance i'm all of them eighty four yes eighty four of them kids and at least nine are in critical condition how are so many people being injured. and no not always know who it was mostly imagine if first of all the impact was such you've heard that you've heard the noise the impact was such that like i said the windows were flying out and the glass was shattering a lot of people who were by the shards of glass but we also know one woman a postal worker who actually had to be hospitalized because she had a heart attack yeah oh that's unfortunate that's pretty bad now what about it how did we get this startling footage because basically what i was coming into work i was getting a call from the newsroom saying we've got lou. loads of food is coming in but how

do we get it well this is the twenty first century welcome. and a lot of people actually have this they have a video registry or whatever you call them video capture things that they put in their cars just in case something happens but i think most of the time that is just that's my opinion and i think we put them there just in case something unique like this happens all the stunning footage absolutely well this is i think this is a security camera for an office and again i'm only going. to get it actually does look like an explosion that's what happens and that's how people actually got injured so that's where it's no surprise that early on in the morning people think you're under attack when you see the streaks across the sky and you hear these sonic booms all the fracturing all of this heavenly body and it's cops really incredible really. really a lot of things are heavily about it except maybe the appearance we do know that schools and canoe gardens are staying closed for today in fact mr emergencies not only put two twenty twenty thousand of their personnel in but they also have

advised people to stay inside not go anywhere and the thing is it's not over yet because in a few hours the whatever's behind this asteroid is coming next to my right well there has been there has been speculation this is sort of a teaser sort of a harbinger of the larger asshole what is known as the. i mean the pretty much. the parents are coming next to me do we know anything about the saudis will the timing of what's to come next because it's happening today do we know anything about this one no this is kind of a little surprise well i mean if you know the seriousness however these scientists say that we're expecting a rather large meteor through a twenty twelve fourteen great name which is supposed to be a record which is supposed to be passing next to earth at a record breaking distance so it's actually close but a lot of people are actually saying that this is what we've saw this morning and that is is actually part of it it's just you know one of the one of the stores are lit. is there following it then we shouldn't we shouldn't be bracing ourselves for

an impact and call as well as we are calling bruce willis i'm sure his friends been going off the hook for quite some time now. so we you know we have plenty of asteroids and comets stories or throughout two thousand and thirteen we've got one comment i saw on that is coming in a few months it'll be visible from the days of summer all the way to the days of winter will be the brightest thing in the night sky from the moon so maybe two thousand and thirteen to the end of two thousand and thirteen you can see it with your naked eye it's going to be soaring across the sky for a few months that's going to be incredible and then in two thousand and twenty nine we've got a profits are this thing is big. thing i'm going to be talking to you know it's big enough to cause major damage if it were do we know what they're saying about a prophecy that is going to pass so close to earth that it's going to skim across the atmosphere and knock out a bunch of satellites like a bowling ball they simply basically this is something that happened in one thousand eight hundred that. that was the big one was that when i was siberia. it

was a little bit in a different direction from where this happened it was a lot for there but speaking of japanese creech and you know i think it's important to mention that this was actually a hub for nuclear research and one of the maybe the biggest nuclear storage facilities in the country called my dad is actually interested if you have to have been sick and the first thing that a lot of people i think about where it went looking for is whether or not that was damaged and lucky for us it wasn't because that would be the thing is that people if you had all your stuff your conspiracy theories that you would have a nuclear facilities then you always see or you see you are foes or floating orbs or little green men for goodness sake but going back to what you're saying about the twenty. eight in siberia it wiped out two thousand square miles of forest and there are many many documentaries about it all over you tube and on our to you as well. according to investigators the meteorite if indeed it was a meteorite. as it came towards the ground it actually exploded before touching the ground it was an air we'll explain. that is why they couldn't never find the

creator or the actual revenue thinking of remnants they do say that they have found three fragments of this particular asteroid i'm sorry meteorite. and they also but this is an unconfirmed report they say that they have found one crater at least six meters in diameter so that's pretty big yet again the impacts you have to understand and that's where it's coming from again the report about the craters unconfirmed but they have found three fragments so it would be interesting to see to analyze it and see what exactly those things are made out of yeah so. that was that's one thing that we should be looking out for. me that's coming up mid to late two thousand and thirteen that we're all going to be able to watch for months. apparently is coming from the i saw nebula which basically spits out an into the highway of debris that is not going to be spilling. out of the sky we're going to talk about this i think as well absolutely because we're still we're still taking in. if indeed you have any footage you can share with us you can just get in

contact with it dot com arena anything else to give us on this actually let's talk about the speculations because some people first saw it at nine o'clock in the morning that everybody's awake when people first thought they could get up thinking up all different things and this is just some of the examples that the eyewitness told us what they saw. tell us what we're. trying to find absolutely and then in a loud explosion this not only shut it. down for a. plane crash trying to building then we were told that a wall has been partially do slow launched and metal structures inside and. it was a very scary. problem so very very speculations about what it was but what do you know. as one of russia's russia's politicians famous for his outrageous comments and statement. had already said that he knows

that this indeed is not a meteorite this is americans testing their new oh joy way to kick off the weekend in style thank him for. klitschko a great pleasure thank you very much thank you. for it's well we'll continue to cover the story here at r.t. as i was saying it all to you dot com we're taking any photos that you may actually have for us because of these our study comes on people's cars all over russia we continue to get absolutely startling footage so i thank you for joining us for this story and we'll be covering it throughout the day here on a c for now though let's shift gears here now to the world's economic woes stoked by tit for tat currency battles and europe's painful crisis will be coming to light this is the meeting of the g twenty financial heads and the leaders of central banks right here in moscow russia the gathering is seen as a launch pad for a broader g. twenty summit this year let's get more details on that now from our correspondent from off. 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 goosen 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 major financial issues of course as russia becomes the first big emerging economy to assume the annual presidency of the g twenty summit. part as you see council for libya proposed to mark the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled gadhafi preparations in. setting up roadblocks across the country and nato

forces gathering in the capital as the number of those protesting against the new government continues to rise and that's coming up for you shortly. the u.s. department of defense has allocated three million dollars for the development of a groundbreaking smartphone state of face recognition technology though it is intended to be used mainly by the military its potential use in law enforcement health care and civil i.d. programs sparking new privacy concerns. has more now on america's fondness 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 at the border 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 we do think 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 entitled 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 subscribed 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 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 move 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 nine. all right i'm back with more news after a very short break hope you can stay with us who were nazi. mission three couldn't take three. three. three. three. three. download free blog mediocre for your media projects a free media party dot com. speak

your language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's all here on. reporting from the world talks about seventy ip interviews intriguing story for you to. try. to find out more visit our big. dog called. it's a friday afternoon here in the russian capital this is all it's here with me will receive. british police have been given a severe crippling the number of officers on duty hitting

a record low all of this as the country reduces expenses and it is continuing financial struggles but is it having any effect on the u.k. security. try to figure out by asking the people on both sides self defense. the home secretary's announced plans to set up a national database but police officers will have to declare second jobs this is aimed at raising professional standards earth 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 and. thank you very much to both of you for joining us jim i'm going to start with the a lot of the police officers that we were speaking with we've got is a bit of you've got these reforms going through but at the same time they're seeing the number of police officers and police morales. 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. crime which we've seen year on year zero for six years and reverse and for the past two years have been an increase in crime last year of nine percent so as certain 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 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 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 facts are that 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 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 it with red tape to think that they're being in it because. the coalition have been and 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 issue terrorism issue as well as an issue of safety on the streets 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 with forethought to see. how best to do that and speak about integrity it's not just the the police integrity it's the public perception of the police integrity and the reforms are announced they will help to improve the public perception of precinct also important. other areas as well bringing in free mental health treatment. for the program. why the politicians and. the treatment.

today. these are the. day. of the revolution that toppled the regime. and security around the country there are fears of. growing calls for protests against the government. troops arriving in the capital tripoli. for supporting democracy. 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 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 play i think between the u.s. wanting to secure the minerals or sort of africa generally and stop china getting them so in terms of democracy an 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 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 and 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. well bahraini people haven't been so successful in overthrowing very g.m. either as 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 the program form uprising a london based black radio activist dominated cab says that the government is only pretending to be resolving the 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 the fourteenth of february another teenager has been killed and this really shows and displays the lack of reform the continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets of bahrain it's good that dialogue has come back on the agenda and there is discussions happening but it seems that 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 simply will not go until there's reform and i think the fact that they stayed out for two years clearly proves that so the only solution is through dialogue and i think the regime has to realize that. i let's do it now into the r.t. world update we go some of the global headlines for you in brief this hour of violent clashes have taken place between protesters and police as hundreds of neo

nazis marched in the german city of dresden the rally was held to mark the sixty eight on a verse three of the allied bombing of the industrial center of world war two a day that has become a focal point for the extreme right in germany thousands of anti fascist protesters form a human chain around the city to try and block. the demonstration. and in the u.s. in the u.s. senate i should say republicans there have voted against naming it chuck hagel as secretary of defense delaying his confirmation fifty eight senators voted in favor of hagel taking the post too 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 into criticism for saying the jewish lobby has too much influence in washington. and in chile a fire has ripped through the city port of injuring twenty seven people and burning

down seventy houses strong winds stoke the blaze forcing five hundred families from their homes emergency services battle but flames for five hours before bringing it all under control. authorities in serbia say they've filed a plot to assassinate a national leader by burning down a government plane few details of the plan have been released to or who indeed was the intended target the country's national media has been questioning the prime minister's association with an alleged drug smuggler if you could admits to meeting the man known by the name misha. denies any wrongdoing. or to coming up after a short break here a nazi the latest edition of paedophiles crosstalk could be construed as.

helicopters flying through the air the night rounds of assault rifle ammo popping as the choppers buzz over the land now this unique form of hell of terror is no longer restricted to those in vietnam. in the middle east now houston miami residents of the good old usa can get in on the fun houston residents in terror called nine one one and scrambled for cover and even to schools put on lockdown as the military helicopters participate in a multi-agency training for ill in miami at night in the middle of downtown onlookers caught video on their telephones of blackhawk helicopters pumping loud blank on to the people below and maybe even as i speak a flexibly scheduled military drill could be happening in jesper county south carolina you know when i was a kid they tell us about how that year old soviet union.