egypt descends into deadly political strife with street battles between pro and anti regime mobs leaving three people dead including a u.s. national. as washington's hunt for whistleblower edward snowden goes on a four star u.s. general is under investigation for allegedly disclosing a cyber attack against iran's nuclear program. and the german state t.v. channel is accused of paying its guests to criticize russia's judgment in the case of the notorious punk protest group pussy riot. a welcome it's good to have you company you're watching r.t.

coming she live from moscow. deadly riots are engulfing egypt a year on from president mohamed morsi his inauguration rival rallies by his supporters and opponents have been escalating into all out street violence over the past week three people were killed on friday including a u.s. national in alexandria washington has reacted by allowing its nonessential staff to leave the troubled country until conditions improve artie's bell troops reports. tension is rising across the country in the lead up to the anniversary of president mohamed morsi s inauguration on sunday fierce clashes raging between supporters and opponents of president morsi in the coastal city of alexandria where u.s. citizen legislator stabbed to death we don't know yet whether this was a targeted attack on the u.s. citizen and gyptian also succumbed to his injuries from bird shots in these brutal civilian on civilian clashes the latest death we had is from portside aides. during

an explosion meanwhile the islamists the supporters of the president saying that he was legitimately democratically elected and that therefore he should only be removed from office in the form of an election so they have mass protest in cairo. opposition forces gathered on the harir mr brotherhood releasing a lot of dissent recently there's been a number of their offices who have been torched and fire bombed by protesters who are really angry at the group egypt is witnessing a security vacuum and an increase in violent clashes on the streets particularly during protests many citizens are reaching out to private security firms to secure their homes i spoke to some of those people affected by the ongoing violence in the shadow of the brick. building. is preparing for the expected violence between supporters and opponents of the egyptian president on sunday some a says he has

already fortified his small shop just of cairo as to his square with sheets of. them in my kiosk has been robbed and destroyed a few times to produce clown shoes i'm going to be keep my shop as i'm afraid of what is going to happen in the violence i don't want to lose everything. with the police taking a back seat those who can afford it are reaching out to private security firms like this one general manager a former high ranking police officer but to what it says his come. he is preparing for the worst as protesters demand the resignation of missing brotherhood president mohamed morsi. that went on june thirtieth there may be violence between the opposition forces and the islamists so we're sending more people to the places were guarding we're giving our staff and clients special training and information how they can secure their premises and how they deal with clashes. companies like these are plugging the gaps amid

a deepening security crisis across the country lynchings are on the rise the latest brutal mob killing happened just a few days ago near the capital civilians are increasingly armed and protests are becoming more violent as citizens bring guns to clashes leaving many to fear for their deaths analysts say the breakdown of security is because citizens no longer fear the police who have been accused of being reluctant to provide security they also blame the government which has failed to confront the interior ministry they are responsible for the bigger they're full of law and order if they don't take the necessary steps to fix it they may want to they may wish to but if they're not actually solving it the buck stops at their door it will find a very difficult to get the ministry of interior to reform of the police services to reform precisely because inside the police force inside the ministry of interior there are so many people that are really quite opposed to the muslim brotherhood instead of promising change president morsi played with fire in his wednesday

speech to the nation praising the police and functioning for their work with violence on the horizon many will be forced to attend egypt's me through writing private security industry to protect their own homes and businesses true. while president morsi enjoys strong support from the united states and has no intention of giving in to the opposition that is according to a political analyst and author william angle. this is like a festering boil that's that's been boiling as long as morsi has shown that he's done nothing to improve the fundamentals of the economy and the economy has generated the youth unemployment bulges explosion and that i think is a lot of the tender box that you seen on the streets right now he's trying to ram a sharia constitution down down the throats of the gyptian people and that goes against egyptian cultural tradition ninety eight or eighty percent of the population are sunni muslim the other thing is the military hasn't yet we didn't as

to whether they continue to back morsi as they have done under water enormous washington pressure so much i think this is to make and break situation the obama administration continues to back the muslim brotherhood which is a very unfortunate thing but that's part of a larger geopolitical genet that washington and the state department have built up morsi has already indicated he's going to take a fair to one kind of brute force state power reaction to try to terrorize the opposition and to. disbanding but that's not going to work at this point and as more demonstrations and walk as our nans for the upcoming days in egypt is always on going to bring you the latest developments on air and of course online at www dot com. what happened to the arab spring dream does egypt's first freely elected president bring any change fear poverty economic failure and violence remain

due to egypt's attempts to escape chaos leave it wallowing even deeper. egypt a year in chaos. the american government is reportedly targeting a retired general accused of spilling classified information about a cyber attack james cartwright was once the second highest ranking officer in the u.s. military is now suspected of revealing details on the stuxnet virus that temporarily shut down iran's nuclear sites three years ago. in two thousand and ten when the u.s. carried out this cyber attack against iran general cartwright was vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and he was reported to be one of the crucial players in this cyber attack he resigned in two thousand and eleven and he's now apparently being investigated as the niekerk of that story as you remember the niek about the obama administration having carried out this cyber attack against the watch came

before the election last year and the timing raise a lot of questions because president obama all but bragged about that operation as he ran for reelection as you remember everybody kind of assumed that it was one of those authorized because the administration information all the time to further its own goals but the timing of this particular about the general being investigated is also very interesting he hasn't been charged with any crimes and yet again from an unnamed source that he's being investigated and this is happening at a time when the hunt for edward snowden is in full swing is the administration trying to make a point here trying to sort of say that they are targeting even the sources of those leaks that they like it really is not clear at this point not clear whether it's their way of trying to fight the perception that the administration deeks all it wants and targets only those whose leaks embarrass the government. well nancy caught up with former pentagon official michael maloof to get his view on the

stuxnet probe and he thinks the case has become a source of embarrassment for washington. i don't buy into the argument that it was a planned leak by the administration to lead us to let the world know that we had stocks in it i think from the us perspective it probably was a very serious it was very serious damage although it was almost an open secret that stuxnet came from the israelis in the united states but having someone actually had it in a high position may confirm that i think just reinforces the fact that the united states itself is engaged in cyber warfare. and it really has very little room to complain about other countries that are engaged in cyber warfare the united states was caught involved in in cyber warfare at a time when it too is a gate when it's when it's complained about others hacking into into u.s. systems. meanwhile the father of the fugitive whistleblower edward snowden has set

out the terms under which he thinks his son would voluntarily come back to the u.s. firstly he should not be detained or imprisoned before trial should not be subject to a gag order and should be tried in a location of his choosing that is according to a letter from snowden senior released to the media and all of this comes as the fierce year old ex cia employee remain stuck in the diplomatic limbo in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport let's take a look at where snowden could potentially be heading next to cuba appears to be a tricky option at the moment the u.s. state department said back in two thousand and six that have an or had promised to stop accepting u.s. fugitives iceland has held informal talks on whether to grant snowden asylum and wiki leaks affiliates are now awaiting comment from the interior ministry there venezuela meanwhile says it would be likely to grant the whistleblower refuge with the president nicolas maduro applauding the man's bravery and another south

american destination ecuador looks promising but that can't country cannot yet grant him asylum because he's not on ecuadorian soil whistleblower's plight has captivated the global media but investigative journalist duncan campbell says the real story is being sidelined. a lot depends on on russia but i think the russian game will be a speed to stand back and as an international territory we can do nothing and wait for other players to act but i do think that the focus is wrong because all of this distraction about snowden and where the years and what he might do next i was completely undermined the tremendous gravity of the successive documents and revelations that he's made about the scope of american and allied spying on the civil and commercial affairs of the world i think many americans recognize the true values for which their forefathers for from the war of independence onward would

see snowden a real hero but that is never going to give the flick to the. demographics when the price is so tainted disgraceful and so silent in simply reporting what he's got to say if there was a dissident in russia or china or the middle east speaking out in the way that snowden is doing it would have massive coverage that's not happening meanwhile the u.s. army has restricted access to the guardian newspaper's website for thousands of defense personnel are cross the country the move against the british daily comes after its revelations of the n.s.a. spying activities r.t. therof the has more. this is a nation is regarding reports in the us media that the u.s. military sense of the message to them that they have been filtering content regarding government surveillance programs and this came on the back of reports

about complaints from a u.s. base in fan francisco that a start there won't table to access any of the u.k. guardian websites and only partial access to the us guardian website they said it seems that this is to do with something called network hygiene now this is preserving their system from any threats externally or internally and i spoke to the end of the press office here in the u.k. and i asked them if anything similar was of course being done with the british military and they told me that this wasn't happening what was being done in the u.s. right now oh it wasn't happening here although they did say that in relation to their computer systems in the military there is some information that is sometimes restricted for security purposes it is raising questions about that suppression of information and to talk more about that i'm joined by the slanted for the take this thank you very much for joining us i think the first question to us kids these

classified documents that have been released by whistleblower and of course in a very similar way to what we saw with wiki leaks although there's been this public release the still classified documents so i mean of the u.s. military justified in you know preserving the system in this way it's nothing to do with network hygiene it is straight attempt to suppress and to control what is being read and understood by in this case the soldiers the other side of the coin is the american governments and the british government are looking at all the internet or the mobile appliances or the landline telephones of you me american citizens british citizens and every single person watching this program so it's a little side ridiculous. side because those soldiers could actually get hold of that information or they have no computer access health problem a toy but it's part of an overall increasing encroachment on free speech and access to information the department of defense actually said in their response that

they're not going to block websites from the american public in general and that would violate they said the hired help principle of upholding and defending the constitution thing made it clear this is just not in the us this lying when they talk about democracy they are. in the head choppers when they talk about free speech they are shutting down as many things as they do you have no reason to believe one single thing that the american government says the bottom line of all of this to control the information and they normally do it by omission in the american channels lots much they lie they just don't tell the truth. well we're going to take a quick break now but the still plenty to come including. this is on the web believed to show the syrian rebels decapitating supporters of president assad just days after the u.s.

reportedly started the insurgency. continues the camp's authorities are coming under fire from the u.s. military fighting for the suicide of a detainee. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you. are welcome to the big picture.

welcome back with our take now i german state t.v. channel is facing similar questions after it emerged that it may have paid guests huge sums to try russia in a bad light one of five celebrities that took part in a talk show about the trial of the notorious punk band pussy riot admitted to receiving a substantial face peter all of a as the details more than

a year after their trial and conviction pussy riot saw still making headlines that's off the local actress on a title black suggested she was challenged by a state broadcaster to talk about the trial and have received money from ted to give opinion on the program as. they pay money for this i cannot tell you how much money and a lot of money is talbot who is one of five celebrities who took part in a discussion show about the trial of the punk collective jailed for hooliganism motivated by religious hatred in response to questions from money well oxon right herbs the worst magazine the i.d.f. issued this statement for our distressed this was not the case and her expression was of a satirical nature for atal bihari is extremely sorry that her satirical remarks were misunderstood and she asks forgiveness for causing the situation they gave the impression all those five if the impression that russia is a harsh dictatorship punishing. girls for

a little artistic action this was the right coverage was not re presenting at all of the opinion in the german people the i.d.f. is among a group of media outlets that receives their funding from the german license fee with each household expected to contribute around eighteen months the fact that the german state t.v. shows five celebrities sharing the same opinion on the pussy riot trial and on the pussy riot case is giving a very wrong impression outside also about germany because this gives. the impression that we all are thinking the same if. a group like pussy riot would try to do the same thing somewhere in the catholic church itself germany i think they could be happy to be caught by the police and not to be caught by the audience in the church the main cathedral in cologne saw its own pussy riot demonstration the judge eventually issued stiff fines to two of the german participants although hearing of the third is being respond all without the need for rory we saw in the

moscow incident did you know did you. despite denials of any wrongdoing from the c.d.f. and other. questions being raised over the objectivity of german state media feature all over r.t. berlin. you can get more details on all of the stories we've been showing this morning at our website at r.t. dot com there's plenty more there too including when it comes to the palestinian territories mcdonald's is not loving it the fast food giant has refused to build an outlet in the west bank you can find out why online plus the final frontier now says voyager spacecraft enters an unexplored zone side our solar system and you can follow that journey take. a new video of a beheading allegedly carried out by syrian rebel fighters has caused outrage on the internet. has the details i have to warn you may find the images we're back to

show you distressing. plus disturbing and brutal footage has appeared online and what you see is a group of men with what looks to be a kitchen knife in their hands decapitating one by one three men on the ground it's all happening on a small hill than in the distance there is a group of women and children looking on all of this is happening to the cries of akbar god is great to be three men purported to be supporters of the syrian president bashar assad now at the same time the video appears under the heading of free syrian army cannibals decapitate an orthodox christian bishop it's not clear whether or not the bishop is one of the three men but what we do know is that a syrian bishop was killed while trying to protect religious sisters in that franciscan monastery in the north of syria this video appears some six weeks after similar brutal footage was also captured online and at that time there was the leader of a syrian rebel group known as the fabric brigade showed biting into the heart of

did syrian soldier all of this highlights the brutality of the syrian opposition and the extremist elements inside it it comes after meetings of the friends of syria in which the united states pledged support to say and weapons to this opposition the u.k. and france indicating that they will model over this although indicating they support for such measures all of this is a very warring scenario and that is why countries like russia have indicated their outrage of weapons being sent to syria saying that it only perpetuates the conflict and benefits at the hands of extremist elements there. as the mass hunger strike a grand time of my day is the hundred fifty day mark a leaked u.s. military report is strongly criticized the camps authorities there accused of failing to prevent the suicide of a mentally ill detainee last september guards were allegedly negligent failing to

notice the man lity for was holding. advocation in his cell he died after taking the pills all at once the yemeni citizen had been held without charge for over a decade and his lawyers say he had lost ohio of race report to state phase that the hunger strike is that guantanamo of many of whom being force fed could also attend suicide and serve as a new u.s. president the fighting to use his authority to shut down the prison. there's one hundred sixty sixty cheney's at one time or prison right now there might be six seven or eight who actually should have their day in court charges should be filed due process this is a basic requirement of civil liberties due process some of them should be in court with charges filed and let them have their day in court one hundred sixty should at liberty been there they should be out on the streets the president obama has been

blogging on this he's been claiming that he can't do anything and that's simply not true he's operating a drone assassination program claiming he has the power to do that is present the united states and yet somehow he's claiming that he doesn't have the power to close down a military prison and he's the commander in chief of the united states armed forces is not a bit strange. a quick look now at some other world news this hour the brazilian president has met the leaders of twenty five youth organizations in a bid to find a way out of the popular unrest raging in the country meanwhile small demonstrations are continuing in several cities mass outrage up to more than two weeks ago over high spending on next year's football world cup while social services and health care remain severely underfunded. iraq is facing a new escalation of sectarian violence at least forty people have been killed over the past two days in bomb attacks targeting several cities and in clashes between

shia and sunni militant groups the last few months have been the deadliest the water or nation has seen in over five years with over two thousand lives lost. barack obama is in south africa as part of his visit to three countries on the continent seeking to boost america's relations and trade ties there but he's not being welcomed by everyone hundreds gathered for street demonstrations against u.s. foreign policy africans had high hopes when obama can't became u.s. president but those have since been dashed american aid to africa has since been severely cut while washington has stepped up military operations in the region some observers say a bomb is working for geo political profit on a continent play china is now the main trading power. of the trip is not to help. african people to help develop these african nations

this is a very. calculating glorified publicly ratios tour to three careens and most people in africa are going to realize and do realize they're ready this country is doing nothing to help that continent and what they do know is that the overthrow of colonel gadhafi led by nato has billick pastor free so the african people are not pleased or happy with president obama and he's good or for absolutely nothing certainly be enticed some private sector companies to make a few investments but this is really pathetic in terms of what africa needs. i'll be back with more news in half an hour's time next i would be mohsin with breaking the set.

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