well are americans actually fat or is this just a myth from some hater countries the centers for disease control have declared obesity to be a disease as a twenty point nine percent of adult americans are obese and that is an all time high people blame the sedentary lifestyle as the cause yes if you were out all day at work and then all evening after driving the home of sure doesn't help your waistline but problems can have multiple causes and the authors of the book rich food poor food believe it could be tied to eat foods that are allowed in america but are banned in many other countries across the globe some of these chemicals and techniques and foods that are banned by some other countries are a less strong which is in many snack products which lower scale worries but kills your body's ability to absorb minerals brought native flour which saves tons of time for the baker but beats up your internal organs and of course our good old friend synthetic growth hormones which are in livestock which have been linked to cancer big problems really have simple solutions you can run around and exercise as

much as you like but if you're being pumped full of these chemicals that are illegal in much of the world well your chances of fitting into that bathing suit are ironically slim but that's just my opinion. and us in this case is the u.s. and its mines on just about everyone in the world including its so-called friends and allies washington seeks total global information dominance and this is being done we're told just like care would need people better if the u.s. monitored its intelligence community rather than snoop on the rest of us. are welcome to sophie and come. oh i'm so three shevardnadze and today we're

looking at what's going on in the arab world including egypt where the president has just been forced out of power. the egyptian revolution cycle has moved on and turned on itself morsi is out forced from power by a popular cruise as the people and the army celebrate unity. political islam as egyptian presidency lies in ruins drowned by the voices on top hear. how the arab spring zouaves broken on egypt what will be exposed if they rolled back across the arab world where the arab spring is demonstrably worst. what chances do multi-faith societies have under political islam we speak to a woman of arabia a princess of the east. our guest today is her royal highness saudi princess best not been saudi activist a writer and

a businesswoman and she joins us live from london your world and it's great to have you on our show today thank you so it's nice to be on your show on the russian t.v. for the first time so was that from the latest news we're witnessing a coup in egypt where military have taken power but how did the population and that's millions are celebrating is this really a military coup or the victory of the people. now i think it's actually both. the victory of the people is the. army itself because maybe it's very foreign to other people to know that the army and egypt has for so long protected the people and you know swarmed on protecting the people rather than the government so it's not actually something unusual for the army. to buy. by

the people. and since most he has. and power by a democratic election. the army has hold very hard to be independent and mr mercy has fought very hard to have the army under his power so i think it's just a very normal reaction from from the army to to be where he is and. definitely said rating that the army. certified his identity and kept away from from the political game and what about the muslim brotherhood i mean it's a very well organized political machine well entrenched in their region with millions of supporters how do you think they will react to a coup overthrowing of their man well actually it's nothing i have to mind you and i have to remind everybody that the muslim brotherhood ten years ago was considered

a terrorist party and it's hasn't been recognized by the. slavic. community in egypt. except recently so we have not actually as if we're talking about a very great party that's been in power for such a long time it's really it's been considered as a as a. terrorist party for a long time since i've been nasser so what i'm saying is that the muslim brotherhood shouldn't be very surprised about their short. fall being in power because they were not supported by the egyptians themselves since a long time it's not the short notice. alarm to the egyptian people it is the word because the world doesn't know doesn't know the egyptian culture doesn't know the egyptian history doesn't know the edge. the muslim

brotherhood's history so rather. than really said a big thing of the muslim brotherhood failure i don't think by any means that this brotherhood. is a political movement it is rather just more politicized by other powers in the world and ok so what it's not just muslim brotherhood in egypt political islam in general we see taking up the vacuum filling in the vacuum of the overthrown dictators of the arab spring states why is that. could never be tired and not backed by big powers. systems cannot survive on its own and this globalized world. and the fight over the middle east and it's a picture of what has been going on for the last. let's say two centuries we're just seeing that as. who want smaller right now rather than actually.

meaning which is superior and divine which everybody has been singing in the last. two to three years fund arab spring it has nothing to do with with god it has nothing to do with equality it has nothing to do with humanity it has to do who has more power on the ground you take it out you put another nothing changes if we don't change the systems as themselves we can never actually change whatever is happening in the middle east whether now in ten years of in twenty years the people will still be a rising like in iraq because. it was brought down in the name of democracy and ten years after the fall of saddam or do we see in iraq destruction wars bombs bloodshed and democracy. fighting over day to day bread people and secured goods being great and this was never that happened in the

time of saddam i'm not saying that saddam was a good one but i say what is the alternative we are making wars and revolutions we don't want not thinking about the consequences what is the solution what what can we put instead of morsi and more but all these tyrants because it all the same for me as a human being that all the same that all exercising the same power what i'm saying is if we don't put the system in place we are looking for a long term out of revolutions in the middle east that will never quiet in the end the country it would be and. it would be another iraq. the next one is syria so we're just creating. terrorism as we go along down down the way in the name of the. so you think this could that just took place in egypt could actually spillover if the region i think it's one of them and i think that's not going to be the end

in egypt. it's going to spill over the whole the whole. the whole region and it's not only the whole region and it's the whole globe that is undergoing a shift and economy europe spain greece the states. south america north america brazil look at look at the globe look at what's happening you have to connect things together you cannot just talk about egypt without talking about syria with the with talking about. brazil without talking about europe the economy everywhere is driving that evolution's and this is what nobody i have seen we are naming actually out of illusions by a religious show. but basically it's economic it's unemployment it's it's not giving the proper human human rights the social human rights security social security environmental security child security government security border security

this is all our issues which are very important to do today person and we're not actually really addressing these issues we had at that icing issues and looking at the very secular way which is the political way which is you know naming religion is the cause of reform or of evolution it is not it is economic and this is what you are seeing you know qatar and saudi arabia today expressed no objection to the military coup in egypt but they are supportive of hardliners in syria i mean they're pouring huge amount of money in weaponry into a country that's ripped it apart by a savage war why such a dramatic difference in dealing with those states well i would like to ask that question myself you know that it is. so many contradictions even the states you know when we look at president obama's remarks about bringing down

a modesty and seeing a democratic when you can say you know you can't say anything except it contradicts every single via bird and any human being in the middle east who should be seeing what's democratic and what's not if i have i don't know actually exercise them democracy in my country if i do not exercise the thing in my country how can i ask it from other countries there's a lot of contradictions on the scene on the political scene and everybody is confused and confusing the masses about the messages they're sending from the top p five security. club. i call it the club but would you agree that the two countries qatar and saudi arabia are actually competing in exporting hard line islam to the region and thus you know it all comes out to control who will control the region through hardline islam well let me tell

you something actually decided it could not do anything on its own there is support from different parts of the world for these things as russia is supporting syria so that it is a game it's like a game it's like a football game everybody tends to put the ball in the other. person's field all governments feel it's a game of power and this is blankly you know name and naming get down to the court and distilling every single. agenda and the region to the core it's not a. starter but it's not about it's about who has more power in that region and whether it is by islamic agenda or by democratic edge and what evidence you can put to it it is a fight for power. all right so we're going to take a short break now coming up next what's up for levanon and saudi arabia how watertight is it when it comes to revolutions stay tuned.

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i would rather i asked questions to people in positions of power instead of speak on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more. the civilized world produces more food than it needs. while people die of hunger in other countries. millions of victims every year. where a meal is the most about nutrition. oh yeah.

the band is flood or droughts to blame. and it was a bad year without a train to madness we couldn't clods anything with the one who would it all there was great hunger at the joints are. above is a good help comes too late and without good intentions. charity diplomacy and business going out to. a land. where all told i'm a language of war but i will only react to situations i have read the reports i'm like no pollution and no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point i come on to say it's nice to carry out a call as all your dog is no god or a little bit ago no more weasel words when you have a direct question please prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a battle freedom of speech and

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welcome back to sophie and co now apart from egypt syria is another very contested issue at the moment and we talk to her while highness princess boss not been so what you're well highness you are a saudi princes who grew up in lebanon and is how syrian the syrian conflict must also be a very personal thing for you know what's your take on the whole thing definitely it's you know i can never distance myself from my origins of my mother's actually background my family in syria i have a big tragedy in syria that is suffering right now along with millions of other syrians i am here and i my heart goes to all the syrians including my family including two that i feel i have seen on the borders of jordan and lebanon and my heart goes out to the governments who are responsible about such horrendous.

genocide and i really mean genocides i've been there i've seen what is happening over there children are being slaughtered on the street and they're crossing the borders what do you mean under government i mean all the governments of the world whoever it is has that it has at its possibility about this thing about either the opposition or the government both of them and the games themselves and i think both of them if they have listened to reason before it a head of broke loose we wouldn't be seeing ten million refugees on the borders it's been a head game by both parties the opposition and the government and i think we we we should just sit down in that debate and think up. who is. benefiting from all this i'm sure the syrian people are not benefiting because i've

been there i've talked to these refugees i've still to talk to my family on a daily basis definitely that not happy from this situation and they say on a daily basis that if i can go back to my country i don't care what happens over there i don't care who rules as long as i want as i go back to under my roof this is the song that i've been hearing from mothers from wives from children. over the borders from the head of the tribes on the borders also of syria and jordan and whoever is really transmitting the picture in the media from both sides from the government or from. the opposition i'm not seeing what's happening down the street or they choose not to see it because it's really a tragedy it's a human tragedy more than you ever saw in afghanistan and iraq it's it's.

it's a mass genocide that's what i want you to read for and the west it all comes down to shoot what do you think should assad go. when it's a very hard question to ask on air i'll tell you something i'm not with us and i'm not against and i'm not to the opposition and i'm not against them i'm with the people of syria whatever the syrian choose. to have should have we should not be putting our heads and arms inside syria syria should solve its problems on its own we we we should say to every country in the world they should everybody should choose their own country their own government their own solutions nobody should lead. other people's problems but unfortunately it seems like in case of syria they really don't have much say in

what happens to them i mean about syrian people and that's a bet says a lot about both sides it says a lot about the opposition and it says a lot about the government. so i would i wouldn't be choosing either of them actually to be to be the spokesman of the syrian people and what about lebanon when you talk it's a global thing what's going to happen in lebanon will always talk about lebanon and how beautiful multiethnic it was back in the seventy's and that's also under threat of extinction right now especially with syria. have you know lebanon has been the field for everybody since a long time for the palestinians for this is that i.e. it is for the sea it is the feeling for every single war everybody fires his own battles on the land of of lebanon the most beautiful country in the world was and you know i grew up in lebanon and i grew up in those beautiful mountains and those

in a society that didn't even know what religious. sects ordered . rather than actually being christian or being a good muslim lot of being whatever they'd have peace of besides themselves and when the game. started and lebanon and nine hundred seventy five and the army has engaged with the pet. it started as an argument and it ended in a civil war so i think this doesn't happen actually just by accident it just happens by. very. clearly to. take the war for the head and that's why the civil war this state endeavored and for twenty years don't ever think the war has ended in lebanon it's just a continuous war but in a different phase and

a different face how do you regard saudi society right now because i remember you say that it is more backward for lack of a better word than it was in eighty's every year that passes i see things going back more and more back was the time. i really. i'm really impressed by. two years ago his policies his governess of the of the society of so i did it took the woman straight ahead he put it on t.v. he has turned his death into those voices of extremists who would according to. to favor the woman you know really. imprisoned them behind closed doors. he did not listen he went along with his agenda that i thought was. the

core of. the people who would not use to and so he was acting as the bedouin who really was taught. as its basic form and any university that taught you extremism and how to treat people in a very extremist way if it were up to you first thing that you would change for women in saudi arabia. the very first thing well. the very first thing is just establish. a woman. you know recognizing women as a human being. having. put it on that list. of equal. and punishment and rights this is the first thing i would call for. rewriting

of the. constitution or writing a constitution because you have laws we don't have a constitution you are a very outspoken person how does the saudi royals react to that aren't you afraid that you may be called back to saudi arabia and punished for what you're saying or for you for what you're fighting for i do not. if you go out of front and you say something. for the just as a truth i'm not fighting so i did it i'm not fighting the law and i'm not fighting the government i'm not fighting the king i'm not fighting anything i'm calling quote unquote reform that's what i'm calling for i'm not going in front of it you should i respect my kink i respect my government for the government for the very wise men and. that is a lot and a lot of men and women and my family and the government that you know and exercise what i say what i'm calling for is a reform of the existence

a system so there is no actually in my heart whatsoever of saying the truth and calling for the truth and if you go back to assad did it be a government. there is a lot of misjudgment about i would country there is a lot of misjudgment about the people who come out in the media because that is so many to what's going on in our societies now everything is being unveiled. i can go on twitter and see what people talk about and i'm what i'm a tree to so it would really get to the core of the problem i'm not afraid of that because my family. the monster is people trying to troll and i'm a cruel for that i've been driving in my country for seven years and the same subject that i'm talking about right now and the king was all for it and he encouraged me to save my own mind he was never actually against me and mean that it

was and he's not he's not right now there was a way i would have been stopped a long time ago i'm caught in florida form and the executional. level not on the upper level and everybody knows that what you're on the mind of unfortunately is where you're going over time but it was really really wonderful to speak to you thank you thank you that was her well hunted saudi princess of banks not been solid and so i will see you next time.

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dozens of detainees being force fed and such claims of sexual abuse by gaza gone time of day where a mosque hunger strike is entering its sixth nonis. believe us president gathers latin american leaders to come down what he calls if you ask intimidation tactics so watching to close america's embassy after his job was refused access to european aspects. and supporters of ousted president called for more projects after the on this clown down on the muslim brotherhood leading to fears the military and islam as well cloche.