central russia are is reeling from friday's spectacular meteor strike that left over a thousand people injured and caused widespread damage and distress. rival rallies in egypt anti-government protesters once again clashed with police while hardline islamist march in support of the president and sharin or accusing the opposition of inciting violence. and snubbed by his fellow republican senators u.s. defense secretary nominee chuck hagel will be given another try only after

a week. and hawkish views our top stories this hour. live from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with the online on screen twenty four hours a day. people in russia's urals are recovering from the shock of the meteor that crashed in the area on friday the space rock exploded in the sky creating a powerful shock wave and damaging hundreds of buildings including schools. twelve hundred people have been injured as

a result of the devastating explosion many of them children what is your piskun of reports now from the affected region. thankfully the night passed quietly and without any incidents intially out instance there were fears that more meteors were going to hit the area nothing of the kind happened but the consequences of friday's meteor are still quite a handful it's not only about shattered go out lots of old buildings were damaged as well like this factory there behind me where parts of the wall and roof just collapsed which is remarkable since we're around one hundred kilometers which is there are sixty miles away from where the media or fell on friday the explosion was so powerful nasa says it was equal to around twenty new cars dropped on hiroshima thankfully these explosions caused by the media were not accompanied by lethal radioactivity for more what happened here on friday here's this report it wasn't a bird a plane or superman but something much louder brighter faster and made times of war

terrifying speed bright like him shiny across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun it was around nine am when the skies were suddenly lit up by a media war flying over jihad and breaking into three parts and leaving a striking trail of smoke before vanishing just minutes later the city and the surrounding areas were literally rocked by a series of massive explosion. and i immediately called one of my teammates who lives in my building and i you know i couldn't get through to him by phone and work so i was a little bit scared at that point so powerful it damaged buildings and shattered windows all across the city of dallas bottom line you know i was told that a plane crashed right into our building then we were told that a wall has been partly dislodged and metal structures inside of a band by the blast wave it was very scary. but. many were able to film the

unearthly phenomenon of a leader flooding the web with footage as rumors spread of what it might have been a stricken airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning of the and off the world and our t.v. documentary crew that was working in the area suddenly found themselves at the center of events that put up that we saw a huge tail in the sky like from an airplane and then there was a bright fire and an explosion but the feeling was like there are. 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 phenomena anybody except over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from pieces of shattered glass that one of the girls ran out to take pictures yes. and she was thrown in by the wave that came after the the flash and then we. my ears got blocked

and the whole room get got filled with dust just like like a fog it's estimated the media as we need to varied from ten to forty tons and its speed of around twenty miles per second it gave it a huge amount of energy and made it very difficult to detect you know that there are telescopes and networks operated by nasa in the u.s. and what's cosmos in russia and the european space agency others that are out there trying to detect and track asteroids but honestly there's a lot of there's hundreds of thousands and their biggest focus is on the really large ones ones that are hundreds of meters in diameter or kilometers in diameter that could potentially you know do to us what happened to the dinosaurs thankfully no one was killed this time and luckily the meteor didn't hit us with facilities including several nuclear sites located in the region. no once maxwell cross from the school of earth and space exploration says this was an event of huge scientific

interest. meteor is an asteroid on a calm many of them come from the outer part of our solar system perturbations from the planet jupiter and other planets there's a huge. store of of comets asteroids out outside the orbits of jupiter and outside in fact the outer solar system some of them periodically get disturbed by the gravity of the inner planets and get sent inwards some of them are big balls of ice and become comets others are big balls of rock and the impact on mars and the earth and the moon and. what's fascinating is actually you could if you can collect some of this material some of it is primordial if we actually detect it and we can we can get it right after it falls we can actually measure material that hasn't been processed since the solar system formed four and have billion years ago so for scientists it's a fascinating event and i'm happy that people weren't killed by it but if some of that material can be recovered it'll be incredibly interesting and important for

scientists. and it auntie dot com we've got a special section on the exploding space rock and they have a kit rent we're going to check out the exact timeline of the incident as well as more images and firsthand accounts i. egypt has once again been shaken by burning buildings and stone throwing protesters were tear gas and water cannon unleashed in response as rallies against the president and ruling islamists have routinely turned into clashes with riot police the renewed on rest began on the second anniversary of the country's revolt and has been taking place weekly since then this time however there was a massive rival rally organized by hardline islamist thousands gathered in cairo to show their support for president morsi and islamic law demonstrators lashed out at the opposition player for violence that has taken at least seventy lives in recent

weeks but despite this display of loyalty to vicodin a ship many experts believe it's days are numbered. what you try out in egypt in the last two years as in effect a coup by twelve percent it's the actual number of eligible voters who voted for the sharia constitution and that's the muslim brotherhood and the majority of the egyptians so they are dead set against any kind of shari'a constitution they want to have their democracy they want to be able to breathe openly and worship god in their own way and not be told what to do and now i think the interesting thing is what's happening in washington since the second obama term began i think what we're seeing is on the obama have it that this entire muslim brotherhood experiment of the arab spring has turned out to be a catastrophe and they're pivoting their energies towards china and downgrading their support of groups like morsi so i think what's playing out now is the

brotherhood is finished in egypt i don't see any way that there's going to be a reconciliation and the people the people smell that this sense that they feel that and that's what's driving so even the brotherhood steps that are peacefully and respects the will the majority or we're going to have a very bloody ugly egypt. to libya now where unlike egypt rallies marking the two year anniversary since the end to get out the uprising broke out have been largely peaceful so far but fears of unrest and violence are still strong as a mixed mood in the country ahead of official celebrations in benghazi the birthplace of the revolt a bomb exploded outside a police station and local media reported the attack was purely criminal an act any political motive there is however a growing feeling of discontent over the power of militias the abundance of guns and the lack of government control and if you can analyst talk even have a louche explains what trends in post gadhafi libya threatening the country's future. and what we have seen over the last two years in libya is that this

integration of a new form of central control paving the way for the fragmentation of the country into three states at the same time there is around lawlessness in the country there is an outgrowth of fundamentalism of the criminals that has over and somali as we have seen over the last couple of months a little bit more than two months and at the same time we have this but sort of. strife breaking out between the front militias and the country so yes a lot has changed but not for the better. chuck hagel will be given another shot of becoming the u.s. defense secretary after the senate returns from recess in less than ten days a stalling vote by hagel fellow republicans saw him fall just short of landing the new job earlier this week and he's going to has the details. 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 and

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 and it demonstrated the state of u.s. foreign policy basically intolerant of an ill turn to do vision alternative thought having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before it 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. assistant secretary of the u.s. treasury under president reagan paul craig roberts told us how some of haggles previous comments have backfired against him she had. made a mistake some years ago when he said that he was an american. and israeli senator and this instant come up. in the last presidential election in the united states the israeli prime minister. supported. the peace process for the. heated president of the united states and a very demeaning way. and so a bomb and i was answering back to the israeli prime minister by appointing a u.s. senator who did a very very rare thing and asserted his independence. of the

israeli government u.s. authorities applying to fall away every tweet have a cent and a huge archive. they're doing a lot of other stuff that they should be doing like killing people across the world you know there's only so much we can do i think so our tweets are kind of low on the priority but it's still a point that they should stop when. they are in the program nori healthiness quizzes people in new york called whether that kind of interest is a necessary safeguard or a sinister form of sleeping. and attempts to study the shaky global economy are being made at the g twenty gathering of finance heads here in moscow report on the cracks within their ranks and much more feel.

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he's continues now an r.t. there is a new big game against big brother being played across germany where activists are teaming up to destroy as many surveillance cameras as possible the players claim their message is serious and that they're protecting their privacy threatening a major protest and later in the day. explores whether their actions are valid or just another form of vandalism. q if you ever get the feeling that someone is watching you whilst walking through the streets of the german capital there may be more to it than paranoia. the amount of sensitivity civilians on the rise and it's not as bad yet as in other countries for example in the u.k. there were millions of cameras installed but still the number is rising and that's worrying us. that increase has seen some berliners take quite drastic action and fight back against what they see as the invasion of their privacy the target for

their fight the cameras themselves the phenomenon has even produced an online game cam over the rules are simple film yourself destroying c.c.t.v. cameras posted online and points are awarded for the amount of cameras smashed as well as bonus points for creativity although many privacy campaign is uneasy this more militants approach we're not a particular big fan of while and even if it's ones against things that's a form of protest we do not support all the we support the message. is contest will culminate in a protest ahead of the european police congress in berlin law enforcers fear the movement and its methods will only rise in popularity and public damage i don't think it's it's a group that is committing these crimes i think these are some people from the left

wing political corner they want others to compete with them to destroy cameras and what about allegations that the rise in c.c.t.v. coverage was turning berlin into an all well state no i don't think so i think we have a strict law that the only personal belongings or the personal. the ground you own can be protected by a camera you're not allowed to point the camera at a public street and so i don't think there's. big brother watching everybody or germany does. some very strict laws when it comes to personal image rights even global giants like google of how to censor the faces of anyone snapped on this street view service the advancements of things like smartphones and the amount of pictures taken and uploaded to the web every day is sure to make it even more difficult for those who prefer to keep their anonymity the authorities deny that

big brother is watching you in berlin however as the amount of c.c.t.v. in the city goes up it becomes increasingly difficult not to get caught on camera peter all over r.t. berlin. over on a website of the moment an image of two palestinian children killed by israeli soldiers scoops the twenty twelve world press photo award it turns out there are even more shocking images doing the rounds on social networks and sparking mass outrage find out more at r.t. dot com. also online a russian man raids a mental health center to rescue his girlfriend claiming she was unfairly sanctioned at the request of his mother who's in trouble now. on a website r.t. dot com the finance chiefs of the world's biggest economies are united in chorus against a looming currency wars following high level talks here in moscow for russia the gathering is seen as a launch pad for its hosting of the g.

twenty summit later this year obviously couple of takes a look at what sparked the currency battle talks in the first place and what's behind the apparent unity. japan is actually at the center of this crisis because of its aggressive monetary and fiscal policies that have led to a weakening of the yen basically in tough economic times one option that a country has is to artificially make the value of its currency worth a little bit less so for example making something like this twenty dollar bill worth less you can do that by a variety of means like printing money why would you want to do that because when you do you value your currency your manufactured goods your goods your exports become cheaper and that gives you a short term economic boost which is something that a lot of these countries europe the united states japan certainly desperately need in these tough economic times there are many problems with this approach but of course the biggest one is that when you start to do something your trading partners will say hey your stuff is cheaper i want to follow suit and do the same thing and

that results in a tit for tat economic clash that we know as a currency war what we're hearing right now is finance ministers essentially saying the currency war thing it's probably not going to happen does that mean that that's the case we don't quite know perhaps japan and other countries have gotten the message behind closed doors the other issue that a lot of experts have really brought up here is that there is no consensus in the g twenty on this issue because of internal divisions for example would you have us doing isn't really all that different from what the fed in the united states does which has been printing money furiously so there's really not a lot of incentive for countries to sort of get together and take a tough stance on this issue another battle that we've really seen emerge in these talks between the united states and europe over a stereo versus debt basically the europeans have been pushing for countries to stick to agreements that were decided upon several years ago to cut down borrowing and debt they think that this sort of tough austerity measures medicine is the kind of thing that's going to help this economic crisis come to an end well countries

like the united states and we in fact have heard that the u.s. is blocking specifically this push they don't want to reduce their borrowing because they're heavily indebted and if they stop borrowing if they reduce their deficit that could theoretically hurt unemployment and other sort of domestic internal issues. time now for some other international news now in our world update police in pakistan said sixty people killed and over one hundred seventy injured in the suicide blast in the southwest of the country the explosion happened at a market in the shiite area of the city with officials saying it was a sectarian attack a spate of similar assaults against shiite communities have been carried out by hardline sunni militant groups this year. clashes a broken out in turkey between police and kurdish protestors on the fourteenth anniversary of the arrest of the leader of the kurdistan workers party known as the p.k. k. demonstrations took place in several provinces across the country security forces use water cannon and tear gas to disperse crowds as long fought for kurdish

autonomy demanding greater political and cultural rights. for the first standards agency says the number of people involved in horsemeat will never be known means he says just over one percent of products tested recently for horse d.n.a. in response to the crisis had shown positive results the meat industry is under intense scrutiny across the european union after tests last month showed the presence of horse and pig in beef products. in our street cameras and other kinds of surveillance across the u.s. give its citizens a feeling of having a less and less privacy but it seems we've done in the past also won't be forgotten as the library of congress is now creating a database of all tweets ever posted the office took to the streets of new york to find out whether the government is once again showing too much interest in people's private lives.

the library of congress announced that it's storing our tweet is this just another method of surveillance or is it a way of archiving the times this week let's talk about that did you know that our government is starting to store all of our tweets they're archiving them in the library of congress not surprised you're not surprised by that why not they're quite every day are you ok with that no absolutely not. so do we do about it you know i don't know because they're doing a lot of other stuff that they should be doing like killing people across the world but you know there's only so much we can do it i think so our tweets are kind of low on the priority but it's still important that they should stop there and yet it's just another way that they can surveil us right yeah that's what i think how would you feel about your government storing all those tweets that scares me the soul of that because i mean like you could tweak things i mean i've talked to a for about three years now and i kind of member watch would back them if they can

find out and just kind of see what it was that's quite scary have you ever tweeted something that you might not want stored for all time usually a tweet recipes and food related things so i'd love it if this story. i mean there's a really surprised the truck your facebook and they track everything you do a lot i mean they have the right show and they stay along as the invention was private they're just doing this for your protection do you believe that you trust them to use it not as a way to surveil you or invade your privacy you know i believe they're mean what more can they do i mean if you put stuff out do those you don't want to be allowed to do with where you should just keep your private stuff so you should put on twitter and all over the place whether or not you think the government storing our tweets is an invasion of privacy and the bottom line is you better think twice before you tweet because you never know who might be listening.

that's the way it is at the moment here on t.v. in just a few moments it's all special report on the murky areas of european democracy not be about the news team and off enough no. some countries want oil but that's kid stuff who needs oil when you could secure the world's largest supply of truck a soda located exclusively in sweden and meeting sweden for absolutely no logical reason is a possible you say well supreme commander of the swedish armed forces general sphere guru and son must have watched red dawn too many times because he thinks the russians are a common general durance and declared that if invaded by russia sweden wouldn't be

able to last a week against the onslaught therefore sweden must immediately join nato he said that currently it is not quite possible to invade sweden but due to the two thousand and eight war with georgia it is possible for russia to somehow push through established european borders bring their forces up to sweden's gates putting the generals country in danger but guess what according to your own council of the european union georgia started the war so by that logic if the two thousand and one with georgia is the example of the future then don't kill russian peacekeeping troops and you'll have nothing to worry about but general goran so also made the point that president putin is rearming the russian army hinting at a threat well being heavily armed to defend yourself is a bad scary thing then joining up with nato seems to be pretty hypocritical if the people of sweden want to join nato well that is their choice but they shouldn't be tricked into have. their taxpayers pay for their sons to die in afghanistan based are totally bogus arguments that make no sense but that's just my opinion.

every six months there was an e.u. summit and every six months to your team it's just a few days before. location and date were kept confidential the booking was made two years and. left behind was a clear message to the following you summit on the heads of governments a few days later. adopt the single market the monetary union infrastructure projects a flexible labor market deregulation downsize public services austerity measures and so on and so on the whole your liberal agenda for them basically our picture

got confirmed by an american scholar stepping into the topic maria green cowles i was interested in doing something about europe and something about the european union i started talking with some of the c.e.o.'s and in particular the corporate affairs managers of these firms to ask them what happened and everybody had a little piece of the story and then i met with keith richardson. keith and i would talk about different things and he would give me some ideas and i'd go and i'd talk with other individuals and then i'd come back with more questions and sometimes steve had the answers and sometimes he didn't and finally i believe it was on my seventh meeting with keith when i said to keith you know i can write about this i can have all these different interviews but i really want to see the pieces of paper and keith said to me.