central russia 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 hard line islamists march in support of the president and shari'a law accusing the opposition of inciting violence. and by his fellow republican senators u.s. defense secretary nominee chuck hagel will be given another try but only after a weeklong test of his anti hawkish views our top stories.

from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with. twenty four hours a day people in russia's urals are recovering from the shock of the meteor that crashed to earth in the air on friday the space rock exploded in the sky creating a powerful shockwave 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 position 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 glass 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 or sixty miles away from where the media or fell on friday the explosion was so powerful nasa says it was equal to around twenty nukes 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 many times of war

terrifying because big brain like him shiny across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun and it was around nine am when the skies were suddenly lit up by media or flying over 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 in work so i was a little bit scared at the point so powerful it damaged buildings and shattered windows all across the city but the minute 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 were banned by the blast wave it was a very scary because the. media were able to be under fisa naaman our leader

flooding the web with footage as rumors. read 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 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 phenomena except over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from pieces of shattered glass not 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 network operated by nasa in the u.s. and what's cosmos and 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 any industrial facilities including several nuclear sites located in the region. nor is maxwell cross from the school of earth and space exploration says this was an event of huge

scientific interest. meter is an asteroids are common 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 a solar system formed four to have billion years ago so for scientists it's a fascinating event and i'm happy that people weren't killed but if but if some of that material can be recovered it'll be incredibly interesting and important for

scientists at all to go comb we've got a special section on the exploding space for all can the havoc it wreaked we're going to check out the exact timeline of the incident as well as more images and first hand accounts. he gypped is once again being shaken by burning buildings and stone throwing protesters with tear gas and water cannon unleashed in response as rallies against the president's ruling islamists have routinely turned into clashes with police the renewed unrest 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 courage to show their support for president morsi and islamic demonstrators lashed out at the opposition blaming them for violence that has taken at least seventy lives in

recent weeks but despite this display of loyalty to the current leadership many experts believe it's days are numbered. in egypt in the last two years as an 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 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 of the people the people smell that this sense that they feel that and that's what's driving so either the brotherhood steps down 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 anti kadafi uprising broke out have been largely peaceful so far but fears of unrest and violence are still strong and there's a mixed mood in the country ahead of official celebrations in benghazi the birthplace of the revolt a bomb exploded outside a police station but local media reported the attack was purely criminal and like any political motive there is however a growing feeling of discontent over the power of militias the abundance of guns and a lack of government control political analysts talk to even have a new she explains what trends in post gadhafi libya are threatening the country's future. 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 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 at becoming the u.s. defense secretary after the senate returns from recess in less than ten days a stalling vote by hagar's for the republicans saw him fall just short of landing a new job earlier this week what he's going to church can 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 question 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 an inclination 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 and exhausting hearing mr haygood kept apologizing for much of the previous statements he had taken from previous positions he had taken and he bent backwards to show how quote unquote mainstream

his views are in the senator's case 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 the mill target of vision alternative claude having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the positions traffic go 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. u.s. authorities are planning to file away every tweet have a sent in a huge archive. i think. priority. people in new york kind of interest is. all. right. with. technology innovation. developments.

today. these are the images. from the streets of canada.

there's a new big game against big brother germany where activists set up to destroy as many surveillance cameras as possible. and protecting their privacy threatening a major protest. later in the day. explores whether their actions are just another form of. 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. very 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 point to rewarded for the amount of cameras smashed as well as bonus points for creativity although many privacy campaign is an easy this more militants approach we're not a particular big fan of while and even if it's violence against things that's a form of protest we do not support of all the 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 in state no i don't think so i think we have a strict law that the only personal belongings or the personal. 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 at our web site of the moment an image of two palestinian children killed by israeli soldiers scoops the twenty twelve world press photo award it turns out the reason shocking images doing the rounds on social networks sparking mass outrage on a more than r.t. dot com. a russian man raids a mental health center to rescues girlfriend claiming she was unfairly sectioned at the request of his mother you find out who is in trouble now. that is another international news this hour in our world update police in pakistan certainly sixty three people have been killed and up to two hundred injured in a suicide blast in the southwest of the country a remote controlled bomb went off in a shiite area of the city of quarter with numerous women and children among the victims a spate of similar assaults against communities have been carried out by hardline

solely groups in recent months. clashes have broken out in turkey between police and kurdish protestors on the fourteenth anniversary of the rest 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 the p.k. k. as long fought for kurdish autonomy demanding greater political and cultural rights . now street cameras and other kinds of the. violence across the u.s. give its citizens the feeling of having less and less privacy but it seems what you'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 and half as 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 everything are you ok with that no absolutely not. so what 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 a point 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 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 a store. i mean those are really surprised the truck your facebook and they track everything you do a lot i mean they have the right so they stay along as the invention was five it is 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 to use simply 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.

so weight is for the moment here on our table but with the news team with more about forty minutes from now in the meantime robert forster in his inimitable music style targeting u.s. gun policy that's coming up shortly and juice news. united states is based on. you know i care rest that you'll never have the fall of snow lay low for the news is welcome to the show today come on out to sing we've just got a studio upgrade like i'm on the system is devoted to the debate which is basically devoted to united states the same way for great pick mass shootings from the receipts to to sandy hook school while someone killed them and to stop the

bloodshed of this one bombs to prevent coming is there were two months into the scheme past we can still expect guests from opposing factions the military some see back as a representative of the black splotches you know white missing to be on judgement reach peace compassion in abundance the illegality fire retardant seas above and beyond i agree but why ban guns once you learn to read them you kidding the second amendment is the sacred law beyond gun guns are evil people are just it's just that john trying to mask is only happen when people don't have access to semiautomatic weapons and we were given this precious right to bear arms not for hunting bears but to protect just you don't from predictive americans who are defending the land from the colonists no property from our own freaking government mistakes the winter when it comes to pay to try to take power they take the people look at hitler stalin killed all our chickens listen chavez george the third in fact is that a brit x. six the seventy seventy six lumps

a bunch of you can't tell him what comes try to tell god let's hear from general but it's the first time we've had you both in the studio together frankly i'm shocked by what this loss of valuable american lives is a tragedy eleven thousand gun murders each can be truly we need to stop this insanity to see justice arm the citizenry leave guns to the criminal smugglers of the military with mission is the key. we need a war on drugs and we're like our war on drugs coming from my cold hands far away general place i understand numbers but the second amendment play a little can you provide a defense like the old with your son. when temperance should introduce a maturity knoll called a gun you've been taking your meds the feds will go away to warn you david koresh of the school shooting that incident in connecticut was a deliberate orchestrated fake spike set up with aim to get away with something that's the best some better reason to keep the campaign says. but some like saint

are waiting to take the united states in to get a permit to take their shit in this car the only one standing in the way of it if the slaves want guns let them be our supremacy doesn't depend on weaponry with skulls media money in it we control every aspect of your life through ideological examination but if you think you can just stop your reading what you're waiting for the authorities strip you of your liberty for the simple might seem to be if you once are bold. globalists.

well i guess that sums it up and brings us to point to the end of our report on guns in the divided states of america sadly it's not our place to pass judgment but listen with a question and a last comment if your passion for the second amendment were missed by down the budget and then independent a bonus media. the previous new president's day would always be there but. if it's in a very significant tipping it begins so what follows the first look at the. weekends with the troops stay safe everyone.

helicopters flying through the air day and 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 of terror called nine one one and scrambled for cover and even to schools put on lockdown as a military helicopters participated in a multi-agency training thrill in miami at night in the middle of downtown onlookers caught a 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 would parade their tanks around how there were soldiers all over their oppressed country even in one

thousand nine hundred four or will meet in a point to describe our military helicopters would eternally be overhead and a dystopian nightmare world now we're living the nightmare the united states is a huge country there's plenty of room on remote army bases to do your training also last time i checked afghanistan evil which is don't look like downtown miami just who are you training the kill anyways knock off the terror training. but that's just my opinion. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so

many i mean i have my hands down i believe that i'm seeing the same thing really messed up. in the old story so personally apologized and said. the worst you're going to. find out superman the radio guy in fort lauderdale minestrone probably. close to good use never seen anything like this i'm told. i'm having mine and so today palestinians clashed with israeli soldiers and several demonstrations held in support of some aerosol we political prisoner who's been detained by israeli forces he was initially arrested by the israeli army in two thousand and two and sends to thirty years in jail for protesting under a deal brokered with egypt he was released in two thousand and eleven along with full.