riots are raging in egypt at least three people are killed as supporters and opponents of president morsy clash with fears growing of more violence still to come. more. south african riot police crackdown on those protesting furious with u.s. policies as president obama tours the continent in order to boost ties. and a whistleblower in limbo reports say n.s.a. leaker edward snowden won't be able to leave a moscow airport until he secures the backing of south american diplomats.

great to have you with us this evening it's eight pm here in the russian capital to see caffein of and thanks for tuning in to our t.v. well into our top story now a deadly riots between supporters and opponents of president mohamed morsi are heating up in egypt clashes have already killed at least three people including a u.s. national in the city of alexandria true has the latest from cairo. the worst clashes were in egypt's coastal city of alexandria where we saw two people dead including one u.s. citizen the u.s. embassy for their part have removed all non-essential staff see that this could be a targeted attack in addition president of came out calling for dialogue between opposition forces and the president saying we must have a united stand the marines the u.s. marines reportedly have come up with a contingency plan should the violence continue against u.s.

citizens so to me i saw in protests people ripping posters of u.s. buses at the car around five percent saying the mission brotherhood the president tales from is definitely following a u.s. agenda civilian grassroots campaign called commodity which means rebel who collected at least eighteen million signatures calling for the president to step down saying saying that he's incapable of running the country we've seen no change in the last year the islamists for their part those who support the president say that all these opposition protests are in a just a mess as the president was democratically elected as egypt when this is a worsening security crisis many citizens are reaching out to private security firms to secure their homes and businesses i spoke to who are gearing up to morey's protests who say they expect violence and this is something that they really fear in the shadow of the. building. is preparing for the expected violence between

supporters and opponents of the egyptian president on sunday somebody says he has already fortified his small shop just of kyra's to his square with sheets of. list of i got them in my kiosk has been robbed and destroyed a few times in previous clown shoes i'm going to vacate my shop and 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. a reaching out to private security firms like this one general manager a full my high ranking police officer but the we at the white hip says his company is preparing for the west as protesters demand the resignation of mision brother had president mohamed morsi there. 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 the deaths on a list say the breakdown of security is because citizens no longer favored 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 version 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 form a very difficult to get the ministry of interior to reform for 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 new thriving private security industry to protect their own homes and businesses true. cairo. well as we've just heard there the united states wants morsi to have a constructive conversation in order to improve the political situation in that country however dr saeed said deck says he believes another arab spring type uprising could be imminent because the islamist president has been delivered so far take a look. the president one is it is not the all knowing the objectives of the revolution two he was consolidating his own group at the expense of the national interests of the country and also defend that if if the dog if he remained silent

until he is forty years egypt would become like somalia or sudan there are a lot of fields that egypt would be there gyptian evolution is going to be hijacked like what happened in the reagan revolution islamists who wanted the society to sleep and stay put and do not intervene and lives and do what they want the who other thing is about pouring into account the government and not be feared you have to call the account a president because of the one you seem to deliver what people expect. well no open arms from south africans for president obama on his crucial tour to the continent with protesters staging rallies to vent their anger at the american leader south african riot police have fired stun grenades to disperse angry crowds near johannesburg ahead of his visit to the city hundreds had been gathering for demonstrations against u.s. policy in for toria as well as cape town africans had high hopes when president

obama was elected to his office but many feel those have since been dashed american aid to africa has been severely cut while washington has stepped up military operations in the region u.s. officials say that obama's tour supposed to promote u.s. investment and to strengthen africa's democratic party institutions meanwhile salima polya from the south african communist party has no illusions about it. but we feel that the experts that our programs need for instance this. month. it's an indication of where u.s. interest on the kind of good clinton we were and that. the military bases all over the way that the u.s. has court in order that you can have. its kind of diplomatic relations as well as three dimensions we're not the sort of little pulls through a system where the government through the u.s.

trade missions what we're saying. is because there's huge imbalance between the us a. transparent us is more than ten times the g.d.p. of the. rights to a democratic dispensation on the courts named tropical development that. they seek to choose for themselves. or moving on the u.s. intelligence whistleblower edward snowden a won't be able to leave russia until he meets diplomats from south america that is according to the latest reports the american still stranded without his travel documents at moscow's sheremetyevo airport r.t. has made a quote you know is there with details on how that diplomatic encounter could unfold. the tricky thing here is that such a meeting has not been scheduled yet and the legal status off mr snowden is yet to be defined so it is indeed impossible for him now to leave this year majuba

international airport based here in moscow where he has basically been stuck in a transit zone since last weekend now the u.s. government has revoked his passport which means that he neither can gather a russian reason to leave the airport nor can he theoretically a boy take its own till next flies supernatural or have ana however there are reports that mr snowden has made a no at times to amy take us on to this destinations now os the story develops as well and the president nicolas maduro will ride in moscow this monday and so will believe album or ralitsa now both in this well and where they were said that they will consider asylum for adverse snowden however there are several difficulties in reviewing his asylum application and now he has to be on the country's diplomatic promises which means that he has to be either within the

country where he is seeking asylum or within minutes here in moscow now meanwhile out with the worse as that while of the u.s. demands to snowden's absolute dition the u.s. authorities have only numerous so patients refused to the door and authorities on their demands to their own citizens there are some speculations of the even as well and president's upcoming visit may actually in the way resolve this ongoing saga and this this. now we have heard from the incoming u.s. national security adviser susan rice she says that snowden's revelation happened weekend to the presidency or damage the country's foreign policy meanwhile the father of the fugitive whistleblower believes that he would return to the united states that is if certain conditions are met and he has outlined those terms in a letter to the u.s. attorney general eric holder lonnie snowden says that his son should not be

detained before trial he should not be subjected to a gag order which is basically something that would ban him from publicly speaking about out about this and he should also be able to choose the venue where those court proceedings would take place now the elder snowden admits that he hasn't spoken to edward since april and he insists that while the former cia employee committed a crime he's not a traitor the thirty year old n.s.a. whistleblower hasn't been seen since he's touched down here in russia and while snowden's future has been subject to intense debate by the world's media investigative journalist duncan campbell believes that it is taking the focus away from what he actually revealed. a lot depends on on russia but i think russian game will be a speech 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 has

completely undermined the tremendous gravity of the successive documents and revelations that he's made about lee the scope of american and allied spying on the civil and commercial affairs of the world i think that many americans record in our eyes through values for which their forefathers fought from the war 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 i'm just. 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 you would have massive coverage that's not happening not even in the washington post which covered his first story where he was once known as obama's favorite general but now james cartwright could be charged for exposing a u.s. cyber attack on iran they were charged marine is being investigated of investigated

for allegedly revealing the stuxnet virus which had this abled nearly a thousand centrifuges at an iranian nuclear plant three years ago are going to educate and has those 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 leaker of that story as you remember the meek the obama administration having carried out this cyber attack against the wall and came before the election last year and the timing raise a lot of questions back them 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 leaks because the administration seemed 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 liked it really is not clear at this point not clear whether it's their way of trying to fight the perception that the administration gets all he wants and targets only those whose leaks embarrass the government. well still ahead here in our team whom to arm in syria while more evidence of bloody acts of violence emerged questions are raised whether the opposition fighters should be the ones to get the weapons from the western allies and report on that later on also coming up a german actress says that she was paid by a broadcaster to lash out at russian officials over the pussy riot trial details on that in just

a few minutes. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so 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 tom harvey welcome to the big picture.

welcome back you're watching r t with me lucy catherine of another act of brutal violence allegedly carried out by a group of syrian rebel fighters has stirred outrage unverified a video posted on the web shows the beheading of three men i should warn you you may find the following images rather disturbing now the footage you're seeing now purports to show supporters of president bashar al assad being to capitated with a knife spectators at the execution including women and children this comes just days after american media citing unnamed officials confirmed that the cia has

started to arm the syrian rebels are honest us looks at the possible ramifications . of 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 u.s. is making a terrible mistake in giving this undifferentiated very. over simplified black and white picture of 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 groups 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 that 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 me that 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 of 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 can't resist that's something that as many as seventy percent of americans want us to stay away from syria let. them out after a decade of warfare in the middle east some while all summer rain pouring oil into the fire from left to right it might be high time was to rethink it. if that's what you're going to see. well it gives us some other world news for you in brief this hour of course we begin with thailand rate soldiers have been killed in a roadside blast in the province no groups have yet claimed responsibility for the bombing at least five thousand people have been killed in the muslim insurgency that has plagued thailand south since two thousand and four. british prime minister david cameron has made an unannounced trip to visit the u.k.

troops in afghanistan he travelled to camp bastion where he pledged a permanent memorial to the hundreds of british service personnel who had lost their lives in the ongoing conflict his trip comes amid faltering efforts to negotiate with the taliban and just days after the militant group had attacked buildings near the presidential palace in kabul mr cameron is now in pakistan to the pakistani capital of islamabad which is the next stop of his trip. several hundred trade unionists in athens have staged a peaceful demonstration against severe or steered the measures and planned job cuts they're angry over a government plan to close some state agencies and to sack employees greece has received financial bailouts from the easy who would have failed to help the country out of its crisis. we've got plenty of other stories for you on our website here's a little peek of what is waiting for you there. childish sounding crime and what a very grown up punishment

a man who scribbled anti banking slogans in chalk on the streets of america now faces a decade in jail had on to r.t. dot com to find out why u.s. authorities are keeping him gagged. and another click away online and say cheese the f.b.i. may have your picture on its facial recognition database the u.s. government agency is now being sued for collecting the photographs fingerprints and iris scans for millions of americans again those details for you at r.t. dot com.

technology innovation. developments around russia. the future covered. dozens of people have been arrested in st petersburg as authorities move to subdue a confrontation between protesters and gay rights activists police in russia's northern count all separate of the two a bible groups voted to prevent crashes officials said they had been contacted by locals to stop the gay rights rally they complained violated the russian law on

what legislators describe as the promotion of quote nontraditional sexual relations both gay rights and nationalist activists refused to leave the premises were arrested. one of germany's main broadcasters has found itself in quite an embarrassing situation it is being accused of paying its guests in order to criticize russia a celebrity supporter of the protest group pussy riot who slammed the trial is absurd on air says that she was paid to do so the channel now says that all of it was actually a joke r.t.s. peter all over explains. after their trial and conviction pussy riot still making headlines it's off the local actress on a title block suggested she was chased by a state broadcaster to talk about the trial i have received money from ted f. to give opinion on the program aspect they pay money for this i can't tell you how much money 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 who were jailed for

hooliganism motivated by religious hatred in response to questions from money well 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 is extremely sorry that her satirical remarks were misunderstood and she asks forgiveness for causing this situation they gave the impression all those five if the impression that it's a harsh dictatorship punishing. girls for a little artistic 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 a catholic church with all three many 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 the hearing of the third is being despond all without the need for rory we saw him. incident despite denials of any wrongdoing from the c.d.f. and it seems questions all being raised over the objectivity of german state media peter all of a party girl in. ok what we're about to show you if we can get that cued up live pictures from turkey is talk some swear they are in istanbul thousands as you can see of anti-government protesters have gathered near gezi park witnesses claim

heavy police presence turkey's seen weeks of. frankly actually more than a month of on rest after police broke up a sit in against a government redevelopment plan for that area live pictures again that you're seeing there. and of course we will bring you more on turkey in the next hour but for now up next it's technology update which discovers the latest innovation in russian medical science i promise you it's more exciting than it sounds. good lumbered sure kirby was able to build the needs most sophisticated robots which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything change mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care what you're only on the altie dot com.

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