once in a century blazing across the skies before breaking up friday's medio strike in central russia leaves over a thousand injured and causes widespread damage. rival rallies in egypt as police clashed with protesters at the presidential palace hard line islamists gather in support of president morsi blaming the opposition for dozens killed in the recent unrest. republicans in the u.s. senate blocked the confirmation of president obama's nominee as secretary of

defense chuck hagel claiming they need another week to fully assess the future pentagon chief. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r.t. i'm sean thomas get right to our top stories. people in russia's urals are recovering after the shock of the meteor strike that hit the area on friday the space rock exploded in the sky creating a powerful blast the damage hundreds of buildings including some schools. so there . was well. that's not what.

nasa claims that the meteors explosion generated a power of five hundred killed tons which is around twenty times the size of the hiroshima nuclear bomb twelve hundred people were injured many of them children after the shockwave had buildings and shattered windows or he got a piece going off reports now from the affected region. and the consequences of friday's meteor are still quite a handful it's not only about shattered glass a lot 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 because there are sixty miles away from where the media or fell for more what happened here on friday here's this report it wasn't a bird or a plane or superman but something much louder brighter faster and needs i'm so bored terrifying this big bright lake hume shining 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 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 of dallas the bottom i knew i was told that a plane crashed right into our building then we were told that a wall has been partly disloyal and metal structures inside of a band by the blast wave it was very scary. 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 orbits even the beginning of the and the world in 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 thoughts a military jets may have crashed or that it was some manmade disaster it was a relief to find very typical natural phenomena anywhere 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 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 media didn't hit any industrial facilities including several nuclear sites located in the region. glaurung to a maxwell crouse from the school of earth and space exploration claims that if parts of the meteor were recovered they wouldn't be of huge scientific interest. meteor is an asteroids are 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 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 in word 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 but if but if some of that material can be recovered it will be incredibly interesting and important for scientists and you can log onto our web site r t dot com to find out more about

this unexpected interloper from outer space there we've got a special section devoted to the event including the exact timeline of the incident as well as more images and firsthand accounts. of. the latest round of opposition protests in egypt has ended in violence once again demonstrators attacked the presidential palace police then responded with water cannons and tear gas liberal groups are accusing the president of trying to monopolize power and stifle dissent that's as around five thousand islamists staged a rally in support of president morsi and his policies the hardliners accused the opposition of undermining the democratic process by was ordered to violence the recent wave of unrest has claimed the lives of seventy people in recent weeks but despite this the. splay of loyalty to the regime some experts believe its days are

numbered. what you've had 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 were should go out 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 the groups like morsi so i think what's played 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 they sense that they feel

that and that's what's driving so even the brotherhood steps down he's fully in respects the will the majority or we're going to have a very bloody ugly mess and egypt. on to libya now where unlike egypt the rallies marking the two year anniversary of the anti kadafi uprising have been largely peaceful so far but the mood in the country ahead of official celebrations remains tense as many fear possible unrest and violence in benghazi the birthplace of the revolt a bomb exploded outside a police station but local media reported the attack as purely criminal and lacked any political motive demonstrators in the city voiced their growing discontent over the unchecked power of militias the abundance of guns and what's seen as a weak government in tripoli political analyst dr lucia explains what is the greatest threat to the future of post gadhafi libya. what we have seen over the last two years in libya is that this integration of any 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 spilled over and somali as we have seen over the last couple of months and 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. republican senators have stalled the confirmation process of chuck hagel the white house choice for the next to defense secretary senators will vote on the candidacy again after they return from recess in less than ten days in an unprecedented move the republican minority delayed the confirmation earlier this week this is the first time it has ever happened to

anyone nominated for a top cabinet position the decorated vietnam veteran is known for prefer and diplomatic talks to direct military action and for his criticism of the israeli lobby in washington assistant secretary of the u.s. treasury under president reagan paul craig roberts told us how those views are now damaging hey goals standing with his fellow republicans she had. made a mistake some years ago when he said that he was an american so not an israeli senator and this instant come up goes in the in the last presidential election in the united states the israeli prime minister. supported. opponent of the peace process for the war and treated president of the united states and in very demeaning way. and so obama now is 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. and later in the program a sinister snooping or a necessary safeguard. 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 and i think it's kind of low on the priority but i'd still a point that they should stop doing on. new yorkers how they feel about u.s. government plans to store every tweet ever posted. and talk of a currency war dominated the g. twenty meeting in moscow but can financial chiefs come to a consensus when the world's largest economy refuses to stop printing money or to take a look after a short break. we'll

have the. science technology innovation all the moves developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems. you think you understand it and then something else. and realize everything you. are welcome to the big picture. more news today. again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are today.

and you are watching archie glad to have you back with us and german activists have a kick started a new game against big brother across the country people are teaming up to destroy as many surveillance cameras as possible players claim their message is serious and that they are protecting their privacy artie's a peter oliver explores whether their actions are reasonable or just another form of vandalism. if you ever get the feeling that someone is watching you whilst walking through the streets of the german capital that may be more to it than paranoia. the amount of sensitivity civilians in germany is on the rise and snot 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 points are awarded for the amount of camera 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 of the ovi 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. have 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 service the advancements of things like smartphones and the amount of

pictures taken and uploaded to the web every day should 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 of a r.t. . and remember you can always stay up to date by heading to our web site twenty four seventh's there for you right now despite facebook being one of the most successful websites in history recent reports suggest it is not paying its own way as it turns out even after reaping over a billion dollars in profits in two thousand and twelve the social media giant allegedly paid zero taxes find out on r.t. dot com how that is even possible plus. it's bold enterprise and australian billionaire clive palmer plans to build a replica of the ill fated titanic online we tell you how the man is going to try

and make sure that the new cruise liner will not share the destiny of its predecessor. a two day meeting of the g twenty finance ministers and the central bank heads it was wrapped up in moscow the leaders announced that they have agreed to refrain from devaluation fearing a highly damaging currency war parties lose the calf and take a look at what sparked concerns that such a financial battle could take place and what is 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 and 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 this 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 but 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 as 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 i've 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 were. there deficits back a theoretical hurt unemployment and other sort of domestic internal issues why some

currency war tactics work for some and not for others or to use financial guru max kaiser will tell us more more of the full program later in this hour but here is a little taste of what to expect. everybody is doing it then is well i devalued recently by over thirty percent in the u.k. the pound has pound sterling has fallen by over ten percent against international currencies and yet their export market is up barely point one percent so it hasn't worked for them they showed up to a global currency war with their feet paper and it hasn't done anything for them you know if you show up to a gunfight with a knife chances are you're getting out of your guts ripped out shot dead in the street like a dog show up to a currency war with paper like mervyn king or ben bernanke where these other central bank lands and you'll also be eviscerated gunned down in the street by the gold vigilantes and that's a good thing. now let's take

a swing around the globe to look at some other stories making headlines around the world in bahrain there have been clashes after the funeral of a teenager who was allegedly shot by the authorities during a rally hundreds of threw stones at security forces who then responded with tear gas that is feared this new outburst of violence could hold talks proposed by the government and the instability into your long uprising in bahrain has already seen dozens of protesters killed and hundreds detained for voicing their discontent. in athens and small has returned to the city as austerity hit residents have turned to burning wood to heat their homes many could no longer afford gas prices after taxes went up by four hundred fifty percent and despite all the harsh government cuts and communists predict the two thousand and thirteen. see the greek economy hit new record lows. police in pakistan say at least sixty five people

have been killed and up to two hundred injured in a bombing in the south west of the country the remote control device went off in a shia area of the city of quetta many women and children were among the victims a rash of similar assaults against shia communities have been carried out by hardline sunni groups in recent months earlier we talked to robert naiman policy director at just foreign policy who does not see an end to such sectarian attacks and we think we know is that this is result of. turning by a particular group of militant sunni extremists. who. attacked before as recently as january their ideology. curtis for in. this particular group. takes this ideology t.v. extreme violence against civilians are simply a turning point no political where the drones are program is coming under scrutiny

in united states i'm lisa leaves of the u.s. government i won't complain about that won't publish information. now street cameras and other kinds of surveillance across the u.s. give the citizens the feeling of having less and less privacy but it seems that what you've done in the past won't be forgotten as the library of congress is now creating a database of all tweets ever posted more harshness 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 now why not they're quite every day 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 i think so our tweets are kind of low on the priority but it's still a point that they should stop yeah 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 thought of that because i mean like you could tweak things i mean i've talked to it for about three years now and i kind of member what we had back then but if they can find out 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 rude surprise strike your facebook and they track everything you do and i mean

they have the right so in the. in between which private is doing this for your protection do you believe that you trust them to use this not as a way to surveil. you are invade your privacy yeah i believe they're mean what more could they do me if in the if you put stuff out there those who don't want to be out there soon do it where you should just keep your private stuff to use simple and store them all over the place whether or not you think the government storing our tweet is an invasion of privacy the bottom line is you better think twice before you tweet because you never know who might be listening. might be back with more news around thirty minutes time but before that as promised the latest edition of the kaiser report that's after a short break right here on our.

some countries want oil but that's kid stuff who needs oil when you could secure the world's largest supply of truck so-to located exclusively in sweden and meeting sweden for absolutely no logical reason as 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 the 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 having their taxpayers pay for their sons to die in afghanistan based on totally bogus arguments that make no sense but that's just my opinion. wealthy british. time.

to get the market. to go find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to the report. i am max kaiser this is the kaiser rate for it you know if you show up to a gunfight with a knife chances are you're getting i've got stripped out shot dead in the street like a dog shot to a currency war with paper.