central russia. hundred people. firsthand accounts in our special report just a few seconds away. the top currency clashes in the euro zone's plight occupy the hearts and minds of financial decision makers right here who are meeting in moscow stay with us for more on that story. budget cuts in britain police numbers with thousands of layoffs in just the past year a close look at whether a few offices means. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here in moscow. this is exactly what people

saw in cities across the central russia that was quite early this morning about eight or nine o'clock so actually a rather impressive sight indeed it did take a while though before it became clear this was amy to your streaking across the sky and crashing into a plane crash not world war three none of the above let's speak to. who's been keeping very very close tabs on this so you've been monitoring a lot of incoming footage from viewers around the world particularly though in the eastern russian area it wasn't a plane crash it wasn't a missile test go on with indeed it was. here that was broken to the earth's atmosphere and broke into several pieces five or six well not really precise it happened at nine o'clock in the morning and people were heading to people were heading to work whatever and this is what the credit was absolutely unbelievable but of course some numbers now. so there was actually extensive damage and it seems

to be increasing the more we talk about it we're talking about at least three hundred buildings being damaged by the by the explosion i mean it was like a sonic boom. boom was large as much of the reason for this type of things happening if you were running for cover pretty much the glass shattering windows and doors were being blown out a lot of people actually were injured as a result you can see on your screen right now this is actually i think this is a school and you can see the wounded there were about seven hundred people. seven to seven hundred people who have asked for medical assistance and at least eighty four children and seven hundred why so many injuries i mean you see what's happening people first of all running and ducking for cover a lot of people slipping and knocking their heads but also glass flying everywhere . all over the place and of course there's a lot of cuts you saw the blood on your screens as well we know that at least nine people are actually in critical condition because it's not just the injuries from

the glass but also of course some people actually managed to have a heart attack as a result fortunately really what about official response to this the guys in the mosque of ministries telling us well actually the minister emergences has been keeping tabs on this and they're saying and actually told everybody to stay inside the classes in schools and keep the garden were called for today there is no it's in their blood to this point emergency ministry says that they are keeping a close eye on the situation and they do have twenty thousand personnel in the region on high alert if anything else should happen only so the emergency services are on the situation as we speak and any other any other news coming off this at the moment we do know that they have found three fragments of the of the destroyer or your meteorite but we haven't seen pictures of it just yet but we did hear from the some of the people who were there including our own documentary team who have described what they saw and heard when it happened. we saw

a huge hill in the sky like from an airplane and then there was a bright fire and an explosion the feeling was like the earth shattering we thought a military jets may have crashed or that it was some manmade disaster it was a relief to find out it was a natural phenomenon when. i was told that a plane crashed right into our building then we were told that a war has been partly dislodged and metal structures inside were banned by the blast wave it was very scary you know better than just about sums it up doesn't like people thinking it was an airplane crash in the skies some people think in world war three but ultimately they were being yet terrified first the sky falling essentially yes absolutely terrifying it did i why no you're still taking a lot of footage from our viewers who is having it oddly not called now it is ridiculous got many thanks indeed for that. well the initial speculation as to the cause of the flashes in the sky suggest as as i read and i were both saying here possibly a nuclear disaster or some sort of

a high elevation airplane crash well that was one of those artes lindsay fronts now can shed some light on this. maybe difficult to imagine relief felt by the locals in the face of a meteor crashing into the ground but it's because of the region's history that there are seven facilities in the region producing fuel for nuclear power plants there have been a couple of manmade disasters in that area in the fifty's and the sixty's so when this hit there was fear among locals that this was in fact a manmade disaster this area of the world and of the country is no stranger to meteorite hits in fact in june thirtieth one thousand eight what is known as the two goose comedia right crashed into the krasnoyarsk region actually cleared two thousand square kilometers of forest just decimated the entire area there are also several other heads in the following decades throughout russia and the most recent

one before this we've just experienced was about a decade ago what's interesting is that in all of these hits there were no recorded injuries or deaths in fact the only universally accepted recorded injury by a meteorite crash was in alabama in the one nine hundred fifty s. so the fact that there have been so many crashes in this part of the world and there's really been no human fallout no no loss of life at this point has been really an amazing thing and we're definitely keeping a close eye on this situation as it unfolds see who may have been injured. or let's talk more about this now with a doctor uni a professor of physics and astronomy at the university of boom in germany oh it's great to see you today thanks for coming on do you think is it uncommon for meteoroids to hit such densely populated areas as it did in russia this morning or is it just frankly an absolute you know piece of charms. common that.

most of the three would not populated and you're given the fact that would you prefer. well that's really come out by the feet and even land. that when people tend to get in big cities by so much of the land it's really not populated and so it's really a really bad coincidence of this. week that you know what and what made what about we've been getting reports of over seven hundred people getting injured now ultimately most of that from flying glass from broken windows i suppose off of the sonic boom but what about any possible risk to people's health or the environment i mean any of these things radioactive or who knows what they might be bringing from deep space. no one so there's absolutely no worry about that and. it's kind of still a mess. from they haven't and the main impact if that's the one generates a pressure around in the atmosphere and this is what's dangerous because it breaks

windowless and that has a lot of power. lines that's gone there's no reason no further risk but why why why is it why do you know the saying here at all at sea is absolutely startling foot is i mean as many people could see it as possible inside even in the bright morning hours it still illuminated the land as it flew over how is it that people who are watching the skies didn't see this coming. from the point of i am i'm not quite sure at this point how in marks of the impact radios and fluid from the impact you can estimate of five of the object and the larger the. higher the impact of or less so this must have been quite a relatively large object but if you compare it to going to go skate bend that object was the power nine hundred meters in five and this had an impact on to tahrir square kilometer of the way. to the top down all of the truth and every right that was

a meteorite or nineteen nineteen zero eight when that happened as you said two thousand square kilometers of forest taken out without. we hear you. going in just to stop those can be feeling by a good enough program now but when you have some i want to pick. up probably too small to be seen that the reason that this was not called i understand now there are also reports today that the meteorite that we've seen this morning was actually the beginning of what's to come later in the day and in fact in the next several hours we understand there could be more coming what do you know about that. but i'm not sure if i don't guess you know if you have spent this asteroid that is passing close by earth right now is losing fragment of. it in this we do not think at this point it wouldn't be considered for a lot of risk because first of all that i'm very small part with some people enough in the atmosphere it would not hit. the earth at all and secondly would be ready to

return to earth and so it's not a question of a certain region that would be in danger but rather. to be used to. threaten them on earth and most of them are already i would guess. this is rather a coincidence the fracture or large impact happened in front of the well there certainly some say you know tiny meteorites are fairly common when it comes to space debris coming into the atmosphere but most of them actually burn up on the entry to our atmosphere talk to us from the university of buffalo faculty and physics and astronomy thank you very much for joining us here in our city today thank you. well it's good to have you with us here on the program at r.t. dot com we have actually got a lot of live updates on the meteor that fell in siberia including that some enterprising locals who already cashing in on what's basically become a disaster for some others or someone are trying to sell parts of the crash meteor

online the most expensive being offered well there for something like ten thousand dollars and of course even if someone is willing to dip into their pockets for this there's just no way to verify whether you're buying a piece of meteorite or perhaps just a rusty old stone you've been warned. potential currency war and the european debt crisis will dominate a meeting of finance chiefs from some of the world's biggest economies when they meet right here in moscow the discussions are currently right now underway inside the kremlin for russia the gathering is seen as a launch pad for the g twenty summit this year. has this report. from cosmic sparks caused by media showers to economic sparks caused by the prospect of a currency war now 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 in 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 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 or 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. it was also closely watching the meeting of the g twenty finance heads and there will be many more updates for them just a bit later on the program. still to come for you in the program.

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british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy. headlines. thanks so much for joining us here on our show in moscow where the british government's program of cuts as resulted in

a drastic drop in the number of police offices lowest level in over a decade the radical reform package has already sparked many issues of security. a challenge to. both sides of the argument if the fee is. 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 this 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 just think more about these forms i'm joined by conservative m.p. andrew britain and labor m.p. jim 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 today and the response we've got is a bit of you've got these reforms going to leave it at the same time they're seeing

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 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 and terms of morale. of the police service. in my part of east london we've seen over one hundred fifty uniform staff go in the past two years doctrines and crime which we've seen year on year 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 streets and jim a home for to have a increase in crime in his constituency but the facts are that across the country and 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 times 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 instead of in offices filling in paperwork and small that with red tape to think that they're being in it because. the coalition i've been 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 issue terrorism 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 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. to do that kind of speak about integrity it's not just the police integrity it's the public perception of the police integrity and the reforms will help to improve the public perception of. all right thank you both very much 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. well the meantime westminster has been rather active in other areas as well bringing in free mental health treatment for employees with the. program. the details of why the politicians and parliament are being treatment free of charge.

top secret documents surfaces revealing plans for military involvement. lift the lid on the plans of the world's most feared. twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital libya is braced for the rest of the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled a being held under the threat of violence security tightened foreigners are leaving . protests against the current government are expected in benghazi but of course the birthplace of the revolution. explains why libya has seen any post arab spring optimism destroyed. 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 to strip their countries of fee for mineral wealth spillover into other areas like mali and niger as well and

this is all part of a bigger sort of power play or link 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 there 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. 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 suites 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 in so many levels. the sad state of the u.s. is funneling money into tracking systems that are threatening to make the very concept of privacy a thing of the past it could mean people's every move was being used against them to keep them under surveillance was more important for the future being watched. 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 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. and i've been with you 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 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. 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 port i am. back to our top story here on r t the meaty although crash into a densely populated area rushers your roles more than seven hundred will hurt as a result of the explosion more than one hundred and up having to go to hospital they rival was met by a certain amount of panic many initially thinking the flusters in the sky were a plane crash or even worse a nuclear explosion or the speculation makers right as part of a big asteroid due to pause later this evening or you can get more pictures of it all that i don't call. i don't have a kind of special report is just around the corner.

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