breaking news this hour live rounds are reportedly fired at supporters of the else did president morsi in cairo explains many people are wounded as mass protests continue nationwide across egypt. press revelations from edward snowden the planes the u.s. national security agency worked closely with germany contradicting chancellor merkel's recent anger at america's new war tactics. let's buy spats and accusations the side talks are still set to open over ambitious trade deal between the e.u. and the united states.

could even go to early morning to you it's eight am here in the russian capital i'm lucy catherine of it of course you're tuned in to our team but we begin with egypt where there are unconfirmed reports that police have been using live bullets and tear gas against supporters of the ousted president morsy there are also unconfirmed reports that sixteen people have been killed in the those details have come from tweets posted by the muslim brotherhood's media spokesman among others the footage that we're about to show you there it is right there has been distributed by the muslim brotherhood apparently showing some of the victims although we can't verify this video independently just yet now it is thought that the increased level of force has been used in two places so far near the cairo university as well as the presidential guard building police are reportedly chasing protesters who are trying to escape the tear gas are also reports of many people wounded with witnesses saying that ambulances are rushing back and forth trying to

help out some of the tweets say there are also many armored vehicles at one of the sites other. say that this isn't being shown on t.v. claiming there's a media blackout now we will have our own reporter live next hour to update us on the situation as soon as we get more details keeping in mind of course president mohamed morsi was toppled by the powerful military on wednesday since then his supporters and opponents have been clashing with dozens of people killed on both sides over the past week bring you more on this as we get it. meanwhile our correspondent in cairo went out to find out exactly what it is that's motivating morsi supporters to stand up to the powerful military. i'm here at cairo university in the capital where thousands of people are protesting in support of the free cedar mohamed morsy off he was ousted by the military a few days ago people here say he's a legitimate leader he was democratically elected and only be released from a place with about a pulse at the end of his term the military for their part said they were acting on

the will of the people at the nationwide protests calling for the ouster of mohamed morsi those protesting against morsi saying that he is in africa and on able to prove they blame all the problems in egypt over the course of the last year on morsi think he's responsible for the failing economy the war said you are an electricity shortages they say he's made a lot of controversial decisions and therefore he should not be president however the people here maintain the that he isn't just my president and the only way to get rid of him is through elections i'm standing here with cameron who is a protest to be protesting over the last few days in support of morsi who a lot of people are saying that it was a popular whale the first time and mostly out of office what is your reaction to that actually. first of all i want to say that i am one of the people who went out in the streets in general when people who overthrew mubarak and we believe that what is happening right now is to get mubarak again and. i hope and split it in

five elections among the last thirty months and we want to proceed with the democratic way of ruling this state. and now we are being isolated by the military the military is trying to relieve a big portion of the egyptian population they don't want to hear our voice they are closing t.v. t.v. stations and they are arresting people without anything we don't have a constitution that most of the people has approved only six months ago well as tensions are rising across the capital clashes have broken out at the other frame o.c.c. famous. members of the security forces supporting it did thirty people being abused by its may however the protesters standing here behind me say they will most women leave until the president is reinstated. egypt's economy was already in dire straits when mohamed morsi took office

a year ago but has since tumbled under his leadership his critics say that's because he was more preoccupied with regaining political control rather than fixing the country's myriad problems as artie's palace leader reports. for those who can have long since left trading cairo for quite a sure it's lived this real estate broker panicked job is finding homes for those with cash to pay up front but now she's thinking of closing up shop because business has never been this bad this sort of when you want to launch a new project in real estate everything is put on the whole it stops foreign buyers don't want to come and invest in egypt lack of security lack of parliament lack of in stable government so. we do nothing but just help the way economists say it's no surprise president morsi was overthrown he spent his first year in office tightening his grip on power rather than trying to rescue the country's floundering economy food prices have rocketed the country cannot pay off its debts to major oil

companies and forty percent of egyptians live below the poverty line on less than three dollars a day on top of that major international investors have pulled out and sold their assets the safest decision in a repartee deteriorating environment for the foreseeable future it looks like egypt will have a government that again is unable to as to policy and as a result unable to provide investors with the confidence that they would need to begin to sing it but here in tokyo square protesters are not sorry the western giants are leaving just how much i want go to war at home if this car leasing businessmen tells us he's fed up. before morsi was ousted we were begging for the i.m.f. loan of about four point seven billion dollars a year now we don't want it when all is businessman collectively decided to support the egyptian economy and one day we collected over fifteen billion dollars in

donations were a large economy we can rely on ourselves but the facts tell a different story for each day these demonstrations continue the egyptian economy is forced to cough up another one billion dollars. the ripple effect is more insecurity in an already unstable region if there's anyone benefiting from these revolutions it's people right here in tahrir square you can pick up whatever souvenirs of gimmicks you want from flags to posters to key rings and even a coin code. maggy muhammad used to work as a sales agent but his company was forced to shut down after mubarak was all stood for two years this has been his office the same spot on his square business isn't brilliant but at least he can put food on the table. i couldn't find a job after the revolution again here so i can make a living i have children and i just want to move. the egyptian flag is waved to both the pro and us it's about the only thing common between the two camps

threatening to take egypt apart but if things don't improve soon the financial lifeblood of the country will be completely drained and whichever flagwaving group eventually prevails may find very little to celebrate policy r.t. kyra. a former head of the arab league and now one of interrupts top opposition figures has spoken to r.t. about the country's ailing economy had told us that morsi is government's inability to tackle bread and butter issues are why people wanted him out. many western countries were involved in telling mr morsi and others that the going to me is going down the drain and we are ready to help we need discipline we need a plan. there was nothing of that kind so there was a failure billie's in why all this happened was the failure by the energy of

the community to show good governance and effective government all of us were asking ourselves can we afford another year of the same way of governing and with the same people with the same directives with the same inefficiency with the same slowness in everything with the same. lack of planning. with the same services as everybody is seeing and suffering from we couldn't afford another at all this year was a total failure. ok folks i want to bring you up to date on the main news that we're getting from egypt right now i want to stress that these are unconfirmed reports we're largely seeing on twitter right now from people on the ground saying that police have been using live bullets and tear gas against supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsy reportedly killing sixteen people we're still trying to verify that some of those details have come from tweets posted by the muslim

brotherhood's media spokesman as well as others now the footage that you're seeing right now is unverified and has been published by the muslim brotherhood apparently showing some of the victims of those clashes now the increased forces thought to be used in two different places one of the locations is near the cairo university the other is the presidential guard building now some of the tweets that we're seeing from the area say that emergency crews are trying to reach the wounded while others say that there's been a media blackout again we're trying to independently verify this information and of course we'll keep you posted on the developments as we get them here at r.t. . well on the way a crucial test for a post conflict country in turmoil deeply divided mali prepares for a presidential election amid concerns the fragile peace there could face fresh challenges plus. might seem a top. when in tough economic times and. ten thousand.

it's enough to make british taxpayers head span and their politicians are in line for a hefty pay raise the details on that just ahead. fugitive whistleblower edward snowden has struck again this time claiming that the n.s.a. is in bed with germany as well as with a number of other western countries when it comes to global surveillance now the former cia employees says the partnership is set up in such a way that it can protect top level politicians from any backlash if the details of their collaboration become public the revelations undermine berlin's recent furious comments about the extent of america's global spying operation with chancellor merkel having accused the us of cold war tactics snowden's previous revelations involved extensive spying programs run by france and britain journalist manuel writer says the german politicians are furious but about being exposed not by being

spied on. they are angry that it came to public that not all all the facts are that the citizens can see what is going on because i wouldn't believe and you heard right now all the government politician by the way also not often oppositional politician the driven parliament and when we listen very well to the hurts of the mainstream politicians in germany we are right now a lot of patience all this yeah let us say cooperation how they call it they say it's for our security they say that this is a partnership that this is a friendship but of course it's not it's pure over spying and we have to watch a little bit back in the past we had in the one thousand nike's that. it was also it was summer you can survive in europe especially in germany and this spying production was especially for economy and spew a non-issue german companies the german economy was. hors. prior to the

u.s. secret service so what we see here is that germany has behaved the moralists like well let me say like a state fully on the profile of the us without any independence in the scandal it's not just the u. s. arguing that the real scandal is that the german politics are not doing something against it and with indignation over marking surveyor loans and those claims of collusion that all counts the power over the talks to create the world's largest free trade zone between the united states and you which are set to open in washington or do you want your farmer now looks at the ambitious plans are there possible consequences. so on the face of it this trade deal sounds like a win win situation for the u.s. and the e.u. it would simplify trade regulations between the two and doing business across the atlantic would become easier and some experts predict their economies would each enjoy a one hundred billion dollars boost every year as a result so it sounds like

a no brainer but it would also create loses within the e.u. economists warn trade between e.u. countries would shrink as american products gain a foothold in the u.k. and germany would benefit overall according to the ifo institute a think tank based in munich france wouldn't gain much luxemburg would actually lose out more winners and losers would also emerge on the global stage chile and mexico rely heavily on the u.s. market but could be edged out by european competition other countries which might suffer a similar fate of canada australia and japan while west african nations supplying europe could find themselves unable to compete with american products creating the world's biggest trade bloc will reap economic benefits overall for the u.s. and e.u. but it will also redraw the economic map on an international level and that won't help everyone however there is still a long way to go before it becomes

a reality hammering out a deal will not be straight forward with many differences on hundreds of issues to be settled on either side of the atlantic agriculture is one such hurdle the u.s. and e.u. have had epic trade battles over all my own treaty the fifty genetically modified organisms and reaching an agreement on what can and can't be sold will be difficult is the same case for the car industry america and europe have different safety regulations and the question is can they find enough common ground so there are complicated issues to resolve although it is hoped some form of agreement can be reached by the end of twenty forty. economic expert patrick believes that in the current climate the u.s. and europe simply can't afford to stall the free trade talks any longer the u.k. in particular and put a great deal of store into the idea of creating a free trade agreement across the atlantic the united states of america under the

obama presidency you have been seen to be pretty much anti business and anti free trade also one could say that the obama presidency on a broader basis is ultimately headed towards failure so you've got two prime ministers presidents heads of state who reach him buckled and they want to create a win win situation it is an incredible opportunity for the frankly currently all full european union predicament canonically to manage to fight back the emerging nations of the world they're the benchmarks and hard to do exports right now if they're going to continue to grow whether this free trade agreement happens or not but ultimately the president of the united states of america and the european union can alter ford in the current economic circumstance where their lunch is being eaten by the emerging east not to come up with the do meanwhile mali is gearing up for a presidential election later this month that's the country's first ballots in civil war broke out nearly two years ago the state of emergency which has been in place since january has been lifted ahead of the whole u.n.

peacekeepers aided by the outgoing french intervention forces will help to provide security during the election but some local officials say lawyer will still be hard pressed to hold a credible vote hundreds of thousands of people remain displaced while the country's north where radical islamists were recently driven out is said to be seeing a very fragile peace marches where for notional reports from the volatile volatile country. these people from a small village to the west of mali's capital may be muslim. but they also have their very own traditional beliefs stretching back generation is using nuts to help predict the future and influence the weather when i look at the table. they even tell me i should sacrifice a goat to make my time in mali more profitable identical. it's people like these who helped form africa's unique and diverse cultures but it's exactly these

types who would have been a trieste of an isolation had the militants who took control of mali's north in the name of radical islam also swept aside the authorities here. have about a one hundred bar they say they're not muslims i don't like these people and other spiritual groups they think the same way if they find us they'll kill us. french troops intervened in northern mali in january as the insurgency made a push towards the capital two months later paris proclaimed the north liberated but for some followers of traditional islam that was already too late. twenty three year old silly man from the gal region claims al qaeda linked fighters chopped off his right hand and left food after he a father of three and a muslim who prays several times a day refused to join their ranks and you know if they brought the kid to a squirrel in the center of the gower they tied me up they gave me an injection and

put a bandage here brought a knife like this and cut it. however some people from solomon's village claim has a speech in which the radicals punish him for wonder surreal all the imposed more dual so we are against their opinion that they don't consider the muslim they have their own interests and of the world what that traveling to was the north we make no one who sympathizes with the insurgents and their rigid religious themes and that even goes for the next generation you want to fight against then why are they bad bad all of a lot of yes they're bad bad for our country. but when those ringers of shari'a law to call to the north. number of molly ends on the joint them help them. some suggest find they while the militants have capitalized on widespread poverty while others have been drawn in by these slogans. now

many people who join the radicals on the stoop they were mistaken and they've joined the song to somalia to fight against those people are you guys are afraid that these people will come back. they will not come back. ok oh why they will never come back to me. because mommy and fries now you know. that's fronts is drawing much of its bigotry and the very people carries claims to have driven and steal and p. to be very much around the same group said to his nose claimed responsibility for a terror attack on a french strong uranium facility in neighboring new share while the very factors that allowed to their rise in the north proved to be a feeling of injustice and general frustration just to very much evident. right to. carry and that it. is not

a legal matter it makes for a bank wish to. research it and. no one can restart. this sounding of it is the missing link to fate richard otieno odyssey from ali. moore of the world news for you this hour and we begin in the u.s. where officials say the boeing seven seventy seven flight which crashed at san francisco airport was flying too slowly they also said the crew tried to abort the landing just seconds before it's land into the runway killing two of the passengers asiana airlines claims the pilot had little experience of flying the jets were markedly more than three hundred people on board the plane survived. meeting officials now say five people were killed by the freight train explosion in quebec dozens more are still missing after the blast which had caused death instead

a station in the town of lock me probably mispronouncing that but the runaway train loaded with fuel derailed and blew up although the cause of the disaster remains unclear. jordan has charged radical muslim cleric abu qatada with terrorism he's pleaded not guilty to top it was handed over to prosecutors immediately upon landing in amman on sunday after he was extradited from the u.k. now britain has fought a costly ten year legal battle to get him out of the country he's known as a key figure in an al qaeda linked apartment an al qaeda linked activities and was long viewed by the u.k. as a national security threat. well ask anyone in britain who they think deserves a pay raise right now and if you are likely to say that it's members of parliament well just about everyone else is being asked to freeze or even reduce their salaries lawmakers are in for a bump or salary rise from london here's our tease this hour for. my theme

a topsy turvy world when in tough economic times and peace can be in line for ten thousand pound pay rise in the body the first salaries will be things that who are you sure but as with so many things like this inflation here in this most of the story. it's never that simple of course nothing simple it's easy for the general public the general public has a pay freeze its employees are paid more already they will have a field day they will terrorism if we accept a huge increase when they get in nothing but worse politicians from the prime minister down make bluster and prick claimed the overseas any pay rise it's not actually a choice the decision is down to independent body he decide how pay should be set and it says chairman has criticised the party leaders for voicing their opposition

prior to an n.p.c. set their own pay and well we all know how that ended up as members of parliament but. you know if you sat around with them different independent body. as well that m.p.'s salaries are already now far more than double the average so what the british public have to say about it will their responses when quite what you might think anyone should be you know should be paid for. if it stops are kind of things where they can you know. anything will. work in the job. i mean to go to the money comes to expenses there's a lot of expenses. you know extracurricular activities were some. other things in the current climate. that yeah.

quite understandably the mention of the pay rise the politicians has provoked anger and confusion amongst many in the public but in the wake of members' expenses scandals this pay rise could also to an end outside. which many say will be a chance for real reform and as this debate even in the coming days. going to be something to reflect on. for those of you who are just tuning in i do want to bring you up to date on some of the main news that we're getting out of egypt right now and i want to stress these are the kind firmed reports but we are hearing the police are using live bullets and tear gas against supporters of the ousted president morsy apparently killing at least sixty people now those details have come from tweets posted by the muslim brotherhoods media spokesmen as well as others the footage that we're about

to show you there it is right there unverified it's been published by the muslim brotherhood and apparently shows some of the victims and the increased forces thought to be used in two places first near cairo university also near the presidential guard building some of the tweets say the areas. people on the ground say emergency crews are trying to reach the wounded while others say a media blackout has been imposed we do know that the area surrounding the republican guard it seems is closed right now we should keep you updated and we'll have our reporter paulus leader live in about a half hour's time. up next that's our team sophie shevardnadze and she goes to head to head to head with another news maker stay with us.

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hello welcome to this edition of sophie and co the once economy is suffering the worst turbulence since to time of the great depression an attempt to stay afloat the western states come up with some of the most radical solutions but the question is is it working. at a time of mass protest and disenchantment can the global economy save itself from

its sales clouds gather overall for shortwave gold showing its wallpapers value. emerging giants challenge the world to the old. that is holding off protecting itself from the new kids on the street. how can they keep their faith in the game and save their current seat belt from a long time is running. a lane has by far been the most unexpected twist in the latest run of events around the global economy and it directly involved russia since billions of russian money were targeted in the process and to talk about that we're joined by our guest i do the work which was russia's a deputy prime minister on economic issues i mean it's fair to say although o'neill economist ok so so we're going to talk economy now. i want you to take a look at this graph there were several media reports saying that there were about from five to thirty below.