a bloodbath in. its claim hundreds have been shot dead as police move into. those supporting the toppled islamist president now of course one of bill true finds himself court right in the middle of the crossfire and how to directly witness some of the killing. middle east peace talks are in the spotlight again though after a three year stalemate and this comes amid israeli airstrikes on gaza and an announcement of thousands of new settlements on palestinian. brother as eavesdropping trash cans in central london a new surveillance scandal we dispatched one of our correspondents to see what it's all about.

it's a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. today. live on the program with your top world headlines a vigorous police crackdown on the supporting egypt's ousted president mohamed morsi have turned cairo into a battlefield intense gunfire puddles of blood snipers on rooftops and lofty barricades have all been seen inside the egyptian capital today turmoil quickly spread outside cairo engulfing other cities as well health and security officials are so far only talking about one hundred fifty confirmed casualties although the muslim brotherhood claims it's many many times that figure. was inside one of the protest camps when it was being attacked she has details the egyptian president she has now announced a one month state of emergency across the country in. the growing violence the

interim president adly mansour to hold on the army to support the ministry of interior and its police force in this now i have been in the heart of the clashes the main sit in for ousted leader mohamed morsy in your city and the scenes have been extremely bloody we've had reports of at least two journalists killed including a sky news camera man who was shot dead it's been very very violent as the security forces moved in on these encampments in giza whereas the second city and the incoming was completely destroyed. pushed all the shelters and the tents off the firing volleys of tear gas and bullets on the protesters there however the clashes continue on their extremely. a mosque in nasr city security forces moved in on protesters at around six thirty this morning and started firing at them at seven am using bullets tear gas and also live ammunition which i have actually seen with my

own ice and they have surrounded it that continued to surround the entire city and firing both the protesters inside and also anyone attempting to get in the background to this is the supporters of ousted leader mohamed morsy said that they wanted to be reinstated on the constitution they started these two sit ins in the capital and across many different governorates over a month ago saying they will not leave until he is put back in place as i approached the city and security forces as i said have blocked off every entrance even the smallest sorry streets which resulted in was basically the side road where the police and the military would fire heavily on anyone approaching including journalists like myself residents and families of people trapped inside so i had to duck behind cars behind any concrete barricades that i could find as being fired at me both from above and from the front including tear gas the i was stinging it was almost impossible to breathe it was on i was unable to ascertain whether this was

in fact like i mean but i heard a lot of automatic weapon fire and also i heard what sounded like rifle rounds i then went i managed to make my way into the sit in after hours of being shot at and found protesters as i said trying to find shelter and like i said women and children in there as well the field hospital itself is in the heart of the clashes you have to run through a corridor of the night i mean to get some protesters were doing meanwhile others that were wearing the qur'an around their neck and chanting defiantly against the police post saying they will not be intimidated paramedics were carrying stretches to the front line with their uniforms covered in blood saying that number of people had died in the ambulances i then watched one particular protest the shots in the chest he was actually killed she died in. front of me the paramedics in the ambulance attempted to resuscitate him but it didn't work he died right there with a gunshot wound to his chest and another one to his leg so clearly it looks like the security forces are shooting to kill from my contacts inside the field hospital

they say that people have been shot to the head the face the neck and the chest. belcher right there and you can follow her on twitter for instant updates on exactly what's happening in cairo throughout the day she's been sharing your thoughts on what it's like to be caught in the very i of the storm as the police moved in on the protesters well a bit earlier here and i'll tell you we spoke to a motor who's a spokesperson for the muslim brotherhood in the u.k. to get her reaction to the unfolding chaos. the international community has. one of the worst is the worst massacre in the modern history of egypt hundreds if not thousands were killed in call of thousands of innocent peaceful egyptians who went there calling for the democracy back where shot in cold blood reports from the makeshift field hospital where over two thousand two hundred innocent peaceful civilians were killed you are talking about hundreds of those killed but can you

name your source p.s. my sources other doctors. the doctors at the make a makeshift field hospital they produced a report saying at least two thousand two hundred bodies are their only quit other than to five three hundred but because there are thousands of people injured the estimation of the people injured is around ten thousand people injured the protests have spread all over egypt what's happening now is much bigger than the muslim brotherhood is much bigger than the president morsi it's about egypt it's about three egypt it's about the democracy it's about the human rights in egypt we're seeing that return of a military state the turn of. emergency law which which has only been used to violate our human rights as free egyptians today from your camera i would like to urge the international community not just turned five and in front of those violations in front of the few mass killing that is happening in twenty thirty in the silence of the international community and i just by the claims of the military

coups now being backed by a massacre dr saeed a sidekick a political sociologist at the american university in cairo he thinks the action being taken by the security forces is justified. the strategy of the muslim brotherhood was to control and the stop the lies scare you will by controlling that traffic by controlling some districts and even try to expand them they also try to use flash mob to beseech some ministries like they did try to beseech seven ministries and close the. top billing trafficked of. the egyptian government after all the man beats and we did enough of this thought acting. in the media the. human rights organisation to see how things being done the egyptians didn't want to wait until you know the country is the story after four years of his rule and then the whole world would believe the egyptians why didn't you act and stop and put them into this president who is the

still in your country and you waited until four years democracy doesn't mean you will give a carte blanche to those who love to do whatever he pleases or let's go deeper into the story across live now to war correspondent eric margolis joining us live from toronto for more analysis on the crisis our thanks for coming on to r.t. today and a big hello to you from all of us here at the moscow civilians are being seen with a guns in egypt's capital and in the bigger cities as well authorities are counting the dead in hospitals across the country as we speak already the phrase in the term civil war being tossed about your thoughts. we are very close to the civil war in egypt not only in cairo but in alexandria and down the nile there as you head into upper egypt the people get more militant there and it's historically historically an area of large violence so it's very worrisome are now eric the interim president is responding to escalating violence by imposing

a month long state of emergency and curfews do you see that you see that helping to resolve the situation and if. no i don't so we're we're looking at a traditional military very hard headed military coup of the army and it's mubarak mubarak supporters because we have to understand that this is a counter revolution by the old guard by mubarak people to retake their positions resettle sure position in egypt the deep government of iraq and they've see this all the high points of egypt all the control levers which the muslim brotherhood never had and are reimposing their will very quickly so no we have a state of siege and the only question now is will actual fire fights break out with the opposition now eric some commentators from egypt are saying that

since the army forced morsi out of the lack of freedom of speech in the violations of human rights of now peak to new highs do you think the sacrifice was worth it worth it for those who did support the military coup. not at all because what they've done is they've overthrown one of the arab world's only democratically elected governments they reimposed the reactionary group of security officers leaves bureaucrats judges they've taken over the media completely and all this is being financed with money from saudi arabia and kuwait and it's being allowed to happen because the western powers of turning a blind eye to what's going on they're saying tut tut tut it's not good but in fact they really haven't done anything substantial to stop this putsch you talk about saudi arabia and kuwait funneling money into all this so what so what's the strategy here. well there are definitely riyadh they want to reaction

reactionary march to the rear they want mubarak and his forces he may be let out of jail soon that they crush the demands for real democracy and revolution and sharing the wealth this is the last thing. you want to hear so they're totally behind this coup and you know egypt cannot live without foreign financial support it cannot feed its own as fifty percent of its food so that. either has to have a patron states. soviet union as it is to have or with the gulf arabs in the gulf arabs are deathly afraid of a revolution where there are people so of course they're helping the counter revolution in egypt eric when you talk about the state of the economy in egypt and

how it's you know fifty percent of the food is imported because they don't have the food themselves they can afford it as well the u.s. peace but continues to send a fortune every year right to the egyptian military what does that tell you what does it say to the world about how washington stands in this ongoing crisis. well it says a washed into speaking with two voices but it also raises the question of who's really in charge of foreign policy in washington i've written over and over again that lately in recent years that u.s. foreign policy has become so militarized that the state department which i almost joined at one point has been pushed aside and here you see kerry do as secretary kerry deploring what's going on in egypt but the real power there is the pentagon and the pentagon in supplying and congress are supplying egypt with one point three billion truly billion dollars emanuel a lot of money that's not readily seen and the most important thing for congress is

to keep the gyptian is really peace agreement alive so that egypt never really arms to confront israel and for the pentagon the fact that really has great influence with the egyptian army wants to keep its fascinating how you bring in the regional complications also the global geo strategic complications as well a war correspondent eric margolis truly fascinating thank you very much indeed for joining us here on r.t. today my pleasure. well we're also helping you to keep track of the developments all bowl of this on our website all to you dot com we've got a live feed of the campbell raids and the pictures and reaction from the social media networks as well. live from moscow it's all at sea with me rule resewn israeli jets have carried out an air strike on the gaza strip just hours ahead of the much anticipated resumption

of peace talks with the palestinians negotiations have been in a deadlock since twenty ten with israel recently announcing plans for more than two thousand new settlement homes in the west by going to east jerusalem the already fragile looking talks are now under even greater pressure details here. both sides are skeptical and no one is expecting a breakthrough the problem is that these talks are resuming against the backdrop of an announcement by israel that it is expanding its system and now the european union has warned that this is illegal palestinians are also warning that this will cause the negotiations to collapse before they even begin they accuse the israeli government of trying to sabotage these talks and they also complain that current israeli settlement growth is at precedented levels israel has rejected this criticism it says that every peace initiative so far has proposed that the settlements affected become part of the israeli territory the israeli prime

minister benjamin netanyahu has officially said that he wants these talks to succeed but the problem is that both his government and the israeli public split over them earlier twenty six hundred and four palestinian prisoners that israel is releasing as a confidence measure to bolster these talks we'll see if we now they will all convicted by israel of carrying out attacks against israelis before he also called nine hundred. ninety three the israeli government said that this was a difficult but necessary step but there have been demonstrations in this row by both white and protestors and also friends and family of is ratings who were killed in attacks carried out by at least some of these prisoners you should know that the majority of it did in. eighty four point nine percent are against the deal many people here and he's out here to the point you and treat you know prime minister and government we feel betrayed because we are we trusted them as for the

palestinians in cells hamas which is the leadership in gaza is not part of these negotiations and refuses to be now the palestinian president mahmoud abbas as he comes to these talks is definitely not talking with the united palestinian voice as is neither the israeli prime minister want to see our team. and i just a bit earlier in the program here on our to discuss all the issues are threatening the upcoming talks with a former spokes person of the israeli prime minister's office. currently the sea of the world form of russian speaking jury. we already priest building certains you know in two thousand and ten i remind you what we got we got the unilateral steps of the palestinian authority going to the united nations i'll remind you something else in two thousand and five we gave another gesture a very big just shy of a good will and we left gaza you know everybody said we should leave gaza we did

what we got we got thousands of thousands of rockets in our schools you crazy have more on your alex and you know yet you say. thousands and thousands and thousands of rockets alex let's not exaggerate how are you supposed to move forward when israel says netanyahu recently said that quote no one can stop us a building what we want where we want how is that going to move the peace process forward nobody will stop building in jerusalem and around jerusalem it's always story clement these decision is not born yesterday it is a reaction of the really government to the unilateral steps of the palestinian authority going breaking the accord so i'll remind you to do you in we want security and we will build and we want to negotiate on all the issues with i'm very glad i'm very glad you want to negotiate on with the conditions i'm very glad you

do but in the past forty eight hours the u.s. secretary of state john kerry said while visiting colombia that the u.s. views are all of the settlements as illegitimate but i suppose alex that the israelis need somewhere to live as a c.e.o. of the world for him a russian speaking jew or presenting millions of russian speaking dues all over the world living in the united states in russia in israel in europe we call upon the u.s. and russia stop the pressure on israel and combine the effort against the pressure but what i sure as we're watching all of that are going to israel what they're sure is watching it and putting on israel with a huge jewish lobby the billions in new. york and washington d.c. if we give gestures and we don't get back security and negotiations we gave the palestinian prisoners we gave them gas we gave everything believe me that we can give without without damaging our security because our security is the highest priority for the jewish people for the stand for the state of israel and for the

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critique three. three. three. three. three. three. video for your media project free media r t v dot com. before we get to people of ellen crosstalk finale let's get to the rubbish in london because a new privacy scandal has erupted in the u.k. it's been revealed now that high tech rubbish bins are spying on pedestrians in the capital and the bins placed in the city's financial district by an advertising firm are able to identify and track mobile phones through a wireless connection authorities of order the surveillance to stop and that the country's data protection watchdog try and start an investigation reports.

just a ben think again these nifty looking lesser bins are connected so why five and that means that they can track the movements of each and every person walking down this street as long as they've got a smartphone that's connected to wise by now the digital stalking is all in the name of advertising simply by knowing who you are and where you're going they can alter the images on the screen here to tailor the advertisement to whoever is walking down the street in the city of london corporation he said that they also use the sun by despite technology that they've asked the company responsible for the bins to switch them off the local authority here say that schemes like this require the backing of an informed public but just how aware are the british public of the erosion of best so-called digital privacy in the wake of the n.s.a. scandal it's been revealed that it's not just come our show companies but entire governments that are spying on their citizens and just last week we found out that

just telecom and vodafone have been secretly processing on details of their customer's conversations over to intelligence agency g c h q coming into my privacy . my knowledge it would be a cause of concern is a breach of. breach of confidentiality i just wouldn't have nothing to hide so i don't really care but still i don't think that. that's fair from them not telling us that we present information to governments who are true in your twenty's citizens private information should stay private i've got nothing to hide so it doesn't matter. all that stuff is very much the other side is there anything in the final things i shouldn't do. to be honest with you must surveillance is now a reality of our everyday lives c.c.h. to call it day to hoover and according to experts they screw up as much information as possible online and through telephone traffic in order to school through it so

there's that there'd be paying them much more info. even. more evidence that privacy is becoming a relic of the past presented to you online right now. but legal advice from google has now surfaced warning that mail users they should never expect their communications to be kept secret those details this hour. on our you tube channel you'll find a massive sinkhole which knows no mercy swallowing an entire building and leaving it buried under the mud pictures that are right. for the meantime on the program that you use to two sticks agency says the block is now formally out of recession hopes are high that this will herald a long awaited return to regular economic growth and the end of the financial crisis yet the numbers are reassurance for the likes of greece and spain we discussed this with a host of new business show venture capital and katie. germany of france we've

actually got growth in terms of their economy and is positive about no point seven percent the german one five percent for front it's just building the momentum finally i'm not here with bad news on here so good news for germany and france but what about the rest of europe and all the rest of the zone we are is no point three percent so again we've got guys i know that doesn't sound particularly sizing certainly not posses an atoll but when you consider they've endured six quarters of contraction is a positive boss the concern is with the other peripheral southern countries that a father entrenched in debt is going to take longer for those countries to crew themselves out of recession which the phone mean at the moment i'm thinking about space greece in particular is the unemployment rate that is the real problem still stubbornly over twenty percent in europe as a whole twenty six million people still looking for work so at the moment the data is positive a long way to go on day. i mean while the greek government is trying to save some

money when it comes to caring for the country's children and more than one hundred state funded elementary schools and kindergartens are due to close this summer brings the total number of educational facilities shut down twenty eleven to more than one thousand. person off screen looking at the austerity measures at work. another employed single mother agrees all has been dealing with what any loving parent would class as a nightmare for five days of the week her child has to live elsewhere because she can't afford to look after her i didn't have anything. to feed my child. only god knows how. she says she's going for a job for three years but now aged forty knows the chances of her succeeding are slim she tries to shield her four year old daughter as much as she can from the

grim reality until she's old enough to understand and in the meanwhile the girl lives in the skinny garden along with other children from needy and problem families how do you explain to your child you're not able to take care of them full time because of problems with the economy and perhaps to completely understand what these people go through every day you have to be in their shoes but what's clear for many gardens like this one are the only chance for their children to have more or less decent lives but since they're financed by the greek state they're now under threat of being shut down. a shooting that open since one nine hundred twenty this garden has helped thousands of families throughout the years but because of a lack of financing for the past twelve months its staff have been working for free and it won't be long before what little funds they have dry up completely. in a political agreement we're facing severe and multiple problems and are now and then you've been closed down where using every means possible to continue working

and are open to any help when i'm sure home we could last due to various austerity measures by greece's creditors the government has been cutting jobs and reducing financing in the public sector teachers and schools including the situation is terrible is getting was. nothing gives this. any hope of the. saints in the next. two three four years this seems that this economy our economy and grace in general is going. to tell. us why grim forecasts from economists and a downgrade of the greek economy from develops to emerging markets officials are promising an economic miracle promises which few were greeks are finding the strength to believe in with each passing day he is going off athens. and all of his coming here live from moscow with me roll over sushi step aside not the people of el it comes across to.

the interview. i feel good. 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 realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter logo modern day exit is christian communities in the greater middle east a bit on the decline for the past century particularly over the last decade what accounts for this arab nationalism the advent of the arab spring or the logical outcome of western meddling and outside interventions.