a meteor crashes to work in central russia injuring over nine hundred people we've got first hand accounts in our special report coming up in just a few seconds from now. to protect currency clashes in the euro zone's plight occupy the hearts and minds of financial decision makers meeting here in moscow. and president obama's candidate for defense secretary is stalled by republican senators who say they don't know enough about the man heading for the pentagon.

live from our new center here in moscow this is an r.t. with the online on the screen twenty four hours a day picture this it's eight fifty one in the morning in a mid-sized city east of the urals when the sky is lit up by the fiery part of a meteorite about to smash into its final resting place here on earth in this case in the middle of russia well as you can see we've got spectacular firsthand footage from those who witnessed the dramatic arrival and this is just some of it here we have for you on r.t. . joins us live now from the affected region. clearly a terrifying experience for those people where you now tell us what exactly happened today you can hear me there well it looks as if we are having a few communication problems that you can hear me it's bill here live in moscow can

you hear me. going to hear me now i think we'll have to leave it will see if we can get back to our correspondent go to prison all of a little later in the meantime we'll give you more details of this meteorite crashing into russia initial speculation as to the causes of the flashes in the sky went as far as suggesting a nuclear disaster may be to blame. and if you can see from earlier discussed why people didn't actually fear the worst in the area where seven nuclear fuel plants so you can imagine what people thought might be happening was an attack or even a manmade disaster affecting these plants and so when they know that it's now a rock basically from the heavens that has crashed down and done a bunch of infrastructural damage they feel a sense of relief knowing that it's not another manmade disaster they too have been suffered in that area because they're in the soviet era it was sort of a nuclear test facility and it was highly guarded it was very private and so

there's always this fear that something could happen and that what we're looking at right now is one of those one of those tests that went on back during the soviet era now people say it's a rock from the heavens they feel a little bit better about it but all of this area as i mentioned. i mean you talk i would talk about nuclear facilities being in the air how high your speed meteoroid impacted one of those we could be dealing with the fallout it hit and zinc factory imagine if that was one of these fuel facilities morning of eight fifty one of the morning it's not exclusive to that i know it's actually quite shocking the area is just it seems to be a magnet for this sort of thing starting from what we know anyway in one thousand nine hundred eight with the very famous to go. that crashed and desecrated two thousand square kilometers of forest then you've got at least a handful at least for over the next decades that the last one was ten years ago in all of these there are no recorded deaths or injuries. well we can now return to our piskun off he is in the area where this landed in central russia clearly

a terrifying experience for the people where you are now tell us exactly what happened well we just arrived in should have been we've already managed to speak with some of the locals and i can tell you for sure that it seems the whole city is a largely affected by what the scene today because you can imagine it's early in the morning many are already at their workplaces the children are in kindergarten and all will suddenly see this extremely bright flash the man that i spoke to said it was so bright that even looking at it then everybody saw this object moving through the skies leaving this clear vivid trail of smoke them disappearing somewhere and then several minutes after that they heard this. loud explosion. creating both chaos and panic lots of people filmed what was happening a lot of this material is now online and well. one of the videos which shows the actual moment of the explosion.

well some extraordinary footage there at the moment of impact of this meter there in central russia even to scald is that do people feel lucky to have witness what is an extraordinary and very rare occurrence or do they actually feel lucky to be a life. well just imagine imagine seeing all this alive this is really like this is something like what you usually see in a side for a movie but these thousands of people hundreds of thousands the whole city saw this trail of small to be explosion the black great question like we didn't know what was happening and some people thought that it was an explosion of an airplane other start it might have been satellite which went down some were saying that it was

a mediocre or now it's been established that it's a media war but actually the r.t. documentary crew was also here in should have been filming and that they saw the devils happening with their own eyes let's listen to what they had to say. we saw a huge tail in the sky like from an airplane and then there was a bright fire and an explosion the feeling was like there are three 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 a building then we were told that a wall has been partly dislodged and metal structures inside of a bend by the blast wave it was very scary when you go to a miracle nobody is killed because of course it landed away from a populated area but of course hundreds hundreds of people have been injured how

were they actually hurt. well unfortunately over nine hundred people were injured including over two hundred children and well mostly e.'s injuries are connected with the flying glass because of these explosions there were actually three blasts because the media broke into three parts and these explosions were so powerful that locals say well at least one glass broke in each building off the city and another problem is that apparently local getting gardens have a really large windows making them more vulnerable to these loud blasts so that they crack so with all these objects and especially glass flying around that was the that the main kind of cause of all these injuries is when when you arrived what did you see i mean clearly massive effects from the impact lots of broken glass but what about structural damage could you see it was an area that really had been affected by something quite momentous. well no ports within the city itself have

been. affected so much because the media did around one hundred kilometers from should have been so that you can imagine the power of this of going down since this is a pretty large city it's far away also and with all this glass lying around across the whole city obviously there's quite a lot of people in there was also problems with just foreign connection because so many people were trying to call each other and find out what's happening the lines were actually larks for the first couple of hours. and rumors and what actually there are rumors that this was only the first of the batch of meteorites which are something. going to hit the city tonight or it you've got to leave it there thanks very much and the parties you want is going on live there from the urals region where that meteor landed in central russia now what a grady professor of planetary sciences at the open university told r.t. earlier there's no need to worry that more meteorites could follow this explosion

something that your god just touched on these things happen all the time and they sonic boom you played a recording of was obviously just immense and it was the moon shattering glass and causing the boom that caused the destruction not the actual landing of the meteorite and when the reach out landed i believe it's landed in a lake it didn't do any damage so it's this amazing explosion in the atmosphere is it breaks the sound barrier that causes the problem you shouldn't worry about something else coming from this particular object i mean this is this particular thing that is for lennon or has landed there's nothing else going to be chasing down it's total so there's there's no other meter aren't going to be coming from this particular object. well on our dot com we have live updates on the meteor

strike including how some enterprising locals are already cashing in on what's become a disaster for others some are trying to sell parts of the crashed media online the most expensive being offered for ten thousand dollars but of course even if someone is willing to dip into their pocket for this there's no way to actually verify whether you're buying a piece of meat right or just a rusty old stone. of the news now this hour potential currency war and the european debt crisis are dominating a meeting of finance chiefs from some of the world's biggest economies here in moscow for russia the gathering is seen as a launch pad for the g twenty summit later this year. has been following discussions in the kremlin. in fact a lot of conflicting statements have been said about this talk of the impending

looming currency war which has led some folks some market watchers to be quite confused as to what we'll actually see coming out of this g. twenty talks here in moscow now at the center of the whole controversy of crisis is japan to do with aggressive monetary and fiscal policies it has seen a weakening of the and so what this has resulted in this essentially a clash between the countries very little consensus we did hear from a russian finance minister. who has said that this is certainly an important issue that of currencies that is very much on the table but at the very same time we've seen other world leaders come up and say that you know what currency wars aren't really a threat they're trying to calm down the market to some have even questioned whether japan's actions constitute a manipulation of the currency basically when a country is in the dire fiscal situation such as of course as we all know many countries are today like japan for instance is one option that

a country house is to devalue its currency so making something like this a twenty dollar bill worth less you can do that by a variety of means for example by printing cash and why would you want to do that when your currency is worth less your manufactured goods are cheaper on the market and that gives you a temporary boost in the economy which could be pretty critical in tough times like this now what we've actually seen the fear here is that when a country does that your trading partner strike back they say hey we're going to lower the value of our currency and that sets off a currency war such as the one that we saw in the one nine hundred thirty s. which has led to the great depression now japan insists that it is simply trying to stimulative on a me it's not doing anything to prompt a full scale currency war of course no country here wants to see that but the reason that we're seeing so much disagreement and so little consensus among the countries is that you know what for example the united states its policy isn't all . difference the fed in the u.s. has been printing money like crazy so these developed countries don't really see

any incentive in isolating japan in trying to really squeeze down this currency manipulation issue because they don't want to mess around with their economies essentially so that is really the crux of the issue you see coming off then our business desk is also closely watching the mission of the g twenty finance heads in moscow ortiz business correspondent touched. on what's catching their attention. the other issue that's being actively discussed by the finance ministers here in the last go is the of the so-called financial transaction tax in europe that the european commission claims will bring in additional thirty five billion euro to the european coffers earlier today i actually spoke to the head of the o.e.c.d. on fugu rio who said that this measure would only work if all of the world's leading economies would agree to it and he explained why you could watch that

entire interview later on on r c and of course all the details of the g twenty finance ministers meeting a coming to you in the business bulletins at eighteen thirty g.m.t. . still to come in the program libya prepares to mark the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled the preparations includes setting up roadblocks across the country and nato forces gathering in the capital the number of those protesting against the new government increases. the report on how a new system developed for the u.s. military could put an end to previously that. stream quality. favorite. if you're away from.

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financial headline news to report. continues here in the u.s. senate republicans of stalled in a tent by the white house to make chuck hagel the secretary of defense he fell to vote shorter sentences decided to push for more time to find out more about him. as more. well those who blocked the vote on chuck hagel nomination this thursday know very well that he will eventually be confirmed as defense secretary there are enough votes in the senate to confirm him but the stalling of the vote together with the humiliating treatment that the senators gave chuck hagel two weeks ago at his confirmation hearing this whole process is seen as a message all by itself those lawmakers showed that they could crush anyone who would allow themselves to dissent from washington's core foreign policy beliefs chuck hagel remarks at the confirmation hearing disappointed even his supporters

during the hearing which to many seemed like. mr haygood had to backtrack on many of the statements he had made before including that war with iran should not be an option including his criticism of israel's actions and some other foreign policy views that he had expressed as a senator so throughout that long an exhausting hearing mr hague kept apologizing for much of the previous statements he had to take from previous positions he had taken and he bent backwards to show how quote unquote mainstream his views are in the senators kept accusing him of not being again quote unquote mainstream enough to get the job chuck hagel swore to defend basically all of washington's foreign policy orthodoxies his confirmation process has been humiliating in many ways than it demonstrated the state of u.s. foreign policy of policy basically intolerant of an ill turn to do vision alternative claude having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk

going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison of ghana's than the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of course those are just words but they may very well show how eager many many in washington are to discuss new wars without even having finished the old ones. libya is braced for fresh on rest the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled gadhafi is being held under the threat of violence security is tight and foreigners are leaving on mess the first protests against the current government are expected in benghazi the birthplace of the revolution former m i five agent an emotion 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 us 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 or link 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 stabilized 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 school groups as well fighting over their territory without any of the promised ability wealth and democratic values that were suggested when the nato went in so it's become such a mess and so many levels to some other international news now here in south africa athletics superstar oscar pistorius has been formally charged with the murder of his girlfriend the man known as the blade runner will be held in custody until court hearings begin on tuesday model cardboards shot dead at the paralympians house on thursday in the suburbs of pretoria. thousands of anti-government protesters attacked in major highway in the bahraini capital of minimal it's a day after a sixteen year old protest in a police officer died during the demonstrations marking the second of a. three of the countries after a few years ago protests in the country began to demand more freedoms and rights

for the shia majority in the nation run by so. 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 being used against them to keep them under surveillance of the mood important looks at the future of 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 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 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'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 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 biometrics surveillance and domestic drones was limited to science fiction movies like minority report burning up or not are. to bring you up to date for the moment but

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