and free blog video for your media project a free video done to our t.v. dot com. page of the sands and to deadly political strife with street battles between pro and anti regime mobs leaving three people dead including u.s. nationals. 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 out against iran's nuclear program. and german state t.v. channel stows conversely by allegedly paying guests to criticize russia over the case of the story is protest group pussy riot. this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital marina joshie welcome to the program

deadly riots are engulfing egypt a year on from president mohamed morsi is an ocular ation 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 non-essential staff to leave the troubled country until conditions improve artie's beltre 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 port so i eat. during

an explosion meanwhile the islamists the supporters of the president saying that he was legitimately democratically elected and therefore he should only be removed from office in the form of an elections they have mass protest in cairo. opposition forces gathered on the hariri 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 of says he has already fortified his small shop just of cairo as to his square with sheets of.

list of got 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 through what he says his come. he is preparing for the worst as protesters demand the resignation of missing brotherhood president mohamed morsi the man a they 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 their 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 it's a 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

thanking them for their work with the violence on the horizon many will be forced to attend egypt's me thriving private security industry to protect their own homes and businesses tree. and president morsi enjoys strong support from the united states and has no intention of giving in to the opposition that's according to political analyst and author william. 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 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 in ninety eight or eighty percent of the population are sunni muslim the other thing is the military hasn't yet weighed in

as to whether they continue to back morsi as they have done under water enormous washington pressure so 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 agenda that washington and the state department have built up morsi has already indicated he's going to take a share 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 as more demonstrations and walkouts are announced for the upcoming days an edge of r t is always on alert to bring you the latest developments on air and of course online at r.t. 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 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 army general accused of spilling classified information about a covert cyber attack james cartwright was once the second highest ranking officer in the u.s. military and he's now suspected of revealing details on the stuxnet virus that temporarily shut down iran's nuclear sites three years ago are just vanished you can have the details 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 at the niek about the obama administration having carried out this cyber attack against iran 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 the same formation 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're targeting even the sources of those leaks that they like it really is not clear at this point not clear what they're. trying to fight the perception that the administration gets all the wants and targets only those whose meek's embarrass the government. caught up with foreign pentagon official michael maloof to get his view on the stuxnet probe 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 let us the let the world know that we had stuck to that i think from the u.s. 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 in a high position. 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 again when it's when it's complained about others hacking into into u.s. systems now the father of the fugitive whistleblower and snowden has sent out the terms under which he thinks he's son would voluntarily come back to the united states so he should not be detained or imprisoned before

a trial should not be subject to a gagging order and should be tried in a location of his choosing and that's according to a letter from snowden senior released to the media all of this comes as the thirty year old x.e. i implore we remain stuck and diplomatically ample in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport well now let's take a look at so worse no one could potentially be heading next. so cuba at this point appears to be a tricky option the united states department said back in two thousand and six that . had promised to stop accepting u.s. fugitives islands' has held informal talks and whether the grant snowden asylum and wiki leaks affiliates are now awaiting comment from the interior ministry there that is iowa says it would be likely to grant the whistleblower refuge with president nicolas maduro applauding the man's bravery and another south american

nation destination acqua door looks promising but of course none of these countries can grant him asylum while he's not on their soil the whistleblower supply has captivated the global media but investigative journalist duncan campbell says the real story is being sidelined a lot depends on russia but i think we're rushing game will bespeak to stand back and use an international travel 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 the scope of american and allied spying on the civil and commercial affairs of the world i think that many americans record in the eyes of true values

for which their forefathers fought from the wall of independence on woods who would see in snowden a real hero but that is never going to be reflected in the demographics when the price is so tainted and disgracefully so silent and 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 not even in the washington post which covered his first story. now the u.s. army has restricted access to the guardian newspaper's website for sounds of defense personnel across the country the move against the british daily comes after its revelations of the embassy spying activities are december first reports. this information is regarding reports in the us media that the us military is into the missive to them that they have been filtering content regarding government

surveillance programs and this came on the back of reports about complaints from a us base in san francisco that start there won't be able 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 us right now what isn'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 flowerless for they take this thank you very much for joining us i think the first question to our skids the

use of 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 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 government. 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 can actually get hold of that information or they have little thing computer access health problem of but it's part of an overall increasing encroachment of. 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 holding in the funding the consultations they've made it clear this is just not in the u.s. this they are 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 not so much they lie they just don't tell the truth. and still ahead for you in the program. harrowing food of surfaces on the web believed to show syrian rebels decapitated supporters of president assad this just days after the u.s.

reportedly start of arming the insurgency. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so please you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

welcome back this is r.t. a german state t.v. channel is facing some awkward questions after it emerged it may have paid gas huge sums of to portray russia at a bad light one of five celebrities that took part in a talk show about the trial of an authorial spawn band pussy riot admitted to receiving a substantial fee has the details. after their trial and conviction pussy riot still making headlines the local actress on a tile black suggested she was chased by

a state broadcaster to talk about the trial i have received money from ted to give opinion on the program aspect they pay money for this i cannot tell you how much money a lot of money is 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 manuel oxon rights magazine the i.d.f. issued this statement. has stressed this was not the case and her expression was of a satirical nature for all it is extremely sorry that her satirical remarks were misunderstood and she asks forgiveness for causing this situation they give the impression all those five if the impression that russia is so harsh dictatorship punishing you know. for a little artistic action if you write 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 a 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 all the hearing of the third is being despond all without the media rule reeky at least. incident begin with. despite denials of any wrongdoing from c.b.s. and it seems questions being raised over the objectivity of german state media

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and the video of a beheading allegedly carried out by syrian rebel fighters has stirred outrage on the internet you may find the images we're about to show you distressing well in the food three supposed supporters of president bashar asad are being decapitated with a small knife in front of a group of spectators including women and children this comes just days after american media sided unnamed officials confirming that the cia has started to arms here is rebel forces. takes a look at the possible ramifications. a bloody conflict raging on for over two years violence to get the syrian president to step down versus more violence from a leader refusing to do so at least ninety thousand lives taken and counting from the get go washington supported the opposition the us is making a terrible mistake in giving this undifferentiated very oversimplified

black and white picture that the rebel opposition really good guys and assad is the bad guy it's a very very dangerous mistake. dangerous because the opposition is not even close to being a unified political force in reality made up of an array of groups. the free syrian army is a network of thousands of militias and maybe they come up to about eighty thousand people what's scary is how many of these people want you know an extremist government and i think it's more you know it's at least half horrific videos such as this one have shown that in the uprising the enemy can not only be killed but. there's ten thousand fighters with al nusra front which is al qaeda in iraq reconstituted in syria they might as well call themselves you know al qaeda in syria but you know they want to rebrand while the west and russia remain at odds on where u.s. support of the opposition could lead. washington has its mind set on providing

vetted routes of rebels with small arms and ammunition they're deluding themselves they think that they can cherry pick which factions of the opposition to support but somehow or other we can control the flow of weapons because we give them only to select people. many experts indicate that american politicians are kidding themselves if they think the arms flow can ever be managed and this question of how to give arms to one group but keep them out of the hands of another can likely never be answered i don't know if i've even heard a clear and unambiguous answer. the obama administration or any foreign policy about where those weapons are going and how we can actually secure the fact that they're going into the right hands but you know who are the right hand russia which has been sending arms to the assad government under a contract that began before the violence says that the united states arming the

diversified opposition would kill not only more people but any hope for a peace settlement potentially turning the syrian crisis into never ending chaos like of again a step even if assad is pushed out after years of bloodshed there are no assurances that his departure will bring peace moreover the us goes ahead with any shape or form of involvement in syria which the opposition would embrace the tide could turn much quicker than american officials may desire loyalties are temporary and guns and weapons like diamonds are forever so today they may be your friend and tomorrow there are points the finger at you this is something that as many as seventy percent of americans like you must stay away from syria let. them out after a decade of warfare in the middle east some while some are free for a while and the fire left like it might be high time you want to rethink it.

that's the tricky part see. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world 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 afghans u.s. foreign policy africans had high hopes when obama became the u.s. president but those have since been damaged american aid to africa has been severely cut while washington has stepped up military operations in the region. 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 downed liest a war torn nation has seen in over five years with over two thousand lives lost.

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 smaller demonstrations are continuing in several cities mass outrage up to more than two weeks ago over a high spending on next year's football world cup while social services and the health care remain severely underfunded. and coming up it's time to crunch the numbers prime interest is after the break on our team. do you see good leverage or kirby was easy to build on these most sophisticated radios which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything to nj mission to teach me reason why you should care about human to endure. this is why you should care only.

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good afternoon and welcome to prime interest i'm parian boring and washington d c here's the problem headline that are out today. john coridon is being sued by the u.s. which will get to end in minutes but edward snowden can't pennies to languish in airport limbo as he attempts to seek asylum in ecuador and preparation for blowback by the u.s. the president of backward or preemptively we now see a trade up for discussion in congress or his representatives saying it was a new one and a blackmail the economic impact could be servier i mean we have a backward or export market depends on the u.s. but the fact already face and out of whole battle for renewal. according to usa

today snowden is purported to be any moscow airport after flying from hong kong on sunday no need to shrug this off as a one off whistle blower as they are we have an interview with the producer of the atlas shrugged movie john actually a lauro to share in just a bit. ok back to me a show of the european sovereign debt trade one that john corazon painted the brokerage firm m.f. global just under two years ago and the futures and history regulator the c.f. you see if finally decided to bring charges civil though they may be but in a damning complaint filed and federal court yesterday the former new jersey senator and governor is alleged to have had a hand and the one point six billion dollars loss of customer funds and these are civil charges not criminal and the trustee of the bankruptcy was who used to be an f.b.i. director and recently requested to be.