i mean they really. i. a day of bloody riots seize a month long state of emergency declared in egypt at least two hundred seventy eight people were killed nationwide after security forces deployed to gas snipers and diggers to clear protest camps. unexpected apology military whistleblower bradley manning says he's sorry for the biggest leak in u.s. history sparking speculation he's being pressured to soften his stance. i'm sitting on a gold mine no more the u.s. federal reserve loses trust amid mounting concerns that it no longer holds the amount of precious metals that he claims.

and i welcome you watching this morning with me and. now egypt is locked in a state of emergency after a nationwide street battles which saw to gas gun fire and nearly three hundred deaths security forces swept through two protest camps full of supporters of the asad president mohammed morsy we have to warn you that the images you're about to see are very graphic from this scene there are just these are just some of the two hundred eighty one victims of the deadly clashes between protesters and security forces but the muslim brotherhood claims the real number of casualties is nearly ten times higher than officially meted authorities are now enforcing a curfew in cairo and several other provinces across the country the interim prime minister defended the military operation insisting his government is committed to democracy but vice president mohamed el baradei resigned saying there should have

been a peaceful solution artie's bell true describe what she witnessed in cairo. the security forces moved in on protesters at around six thirty and started firing at them at seven am using birdshot bullets tear gas and also live ammunition we're talking about you see with my own ice and they have surrounded it continued to surround the entire city and firing both the protesters inside and also anyone attempting to get in 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 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 live i mean ition 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 sites 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 live ammunition 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 chair. the background to this is that the supporters of ousted leader mohamed morsi said that they wanted him to be reinstated and the constitution they started these two sitting in the capital and across many different governorates over a month ago saying they will not leave until he is put back in place there has been movement from within the interim government particularly from the liberal leader mohamed el baradei who is the vice president to not have this kind of violent crackdown instead preparing a kind of democratic reconciliation through talks to this idea of some kind of peaceful dispersal clearly never happened while these images apparently show the authorities confiscating guns and ammunition from one of the prime morsy sitting cameras but mamma has who is a spokesperson for the muslim brotherhood in the u.k. told us that security forces are to blame signaling a return to

a military state the violence is on the union that it's coming from the part of military force is the violence and the killing has only been from one side trying or not trying to frame some of the peaceful protesters will not help because the number of casualties is actually striking the international community is. one of the worst massacre in the modern history of egypt hundreds were killed in call of innocent peaceful egyptians who went out there calling for the democracy back we'll show you protest has spread all over egypt what's happening now is much bigger than the muslim brotherhood it's 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 where saying better turn of a military state or turn of. emergency law which which has only been used to violate our human rights as the egyptians. u.s. secretary of state john kerry has strongly condemned the bloodshed which happened

in egypt saying it's dealt a major blow to democratic transition but war correspondent eric margolis who's written extensively about the middle east says western powers aren't doing enough to help egypt which means the violence could get even worse. we are very close to the civil war in egypt not only in cairo but in alexandria and down the nile that's headed to upper egypt the people get more militant there and it's historically areas larger violent so it's very worrisome 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 police 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 are 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 egypt cannot live without foreign financial support it cannot feed its own people it has to put fifty percent of its food so that. it is either as the patron and the united states or with the gulf arabs of the gulf arabs are deathly afraid of a revolution by their people so of course they're helping the counter revolution in egypt. well our correspondent at the scene as you've just heard follow her on twitter because she is keeping track of everything that's happening in cairo. and there's much more on what's happening in egypt on our web site to a detailed timeline of events on firsthand accounts from people who is there we covered for you at r.t. dot com and while you're browsing there make sure you check photo gallery to see

we've lined up the most striking pictures for you from the country's capital and it's all just a click away. u.s. private bradley manning has apologized at a court hearing the whistleblower responsible for the biggest leak of classified data in american history said he never meant to cause harm to his country manning faces ninety years in jail and is awaiting his sentence artie's this war has more. bradley manning talk of the stand he remained silent throughout the trial but he did give a very brief statement and i think what he said during that statement shocked a lot of people he started off by apologizing he said quote sorry that i hurt the united states he said he has suffered from issues and there's no excuse for that he

said i can't go back and change things i want to go forward i want to be a better person and it got to the point where it seemed like he was just reading to the judge pleading for his life he said to the judge i hope you can give me an opportunity to be a productive person and i say that these statements come as a shock because it was a very different bradley manning than the one we heard during the pretrial hearings where he said that he did what he did because he was trying to do the right thing and that he was a whistleblower or probably manning is perhaps most famous for exposing this video shows civilians being killed by u.s. troops in iraq and he's also passed diplomatic cables and war logs which were all published by wiki leaks so his apology in court came a surprise to many just several months ago the whistle blows attitude was different he said in this quote i felt i had accomplished something that allowed me to have a clear conscience based upon what i had seen and what i had read about and knew

was happening in both iraq and afghanistan every day we're looking wiki leaks says that manning's apology was extracted by extreme force and that he simply run out of options earlier we spoke to norman solomon who is spearheading a petition for bradley manning to be awarded the nobel peace prize more than one hundred thousand people having already signed it. well the prize has been tarnished in recent years for instance to give the nobel peace prize to president barack obama obama when he was in the midst of escalating the war in afghanistan the nobel peace prize needs bradley manning at this point much more than bradley manning needs the nobel peace prize and by that i mean no one can doubt the advocacy and the risk for peace that bradley manning has undertaken but there is serious doubt about the commitment by the norwegian nobel committee to peace on an independent

basis in the form of awarding the nobel peace prize now still ahead this hour we tell you have china may make its currency and major will play by putting the financial footing back into gold. black and white stop and police in britain are accused of racial bias and abuse of power over the targeting of black people around them checks despite no evidence of wrongdoing. and the u.n. ready. for an inquiry into allegations of chemical weapons use in syria finally gets the go ahead pull this off for short. little. technology innovations all the developments

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but now the world is losing trust in the dollar as a safe haven a major blow came off the gym these bundles bank demanded the repatriation of a big chunk of its gold being held in the us because as you can report. the assets of foreign nations in the federal reserve and not secure or even the. behind these walls is one of the most secretive organizations in the world u.s. federal research whether tries to audit them hit the wall this place is the kind of move for three years the federal reserve has been the place where many countries have stored a big chunk of their nations as well as the countries whether it's different waves of economic crises economic instability the federal reserve seems to them like a more or less secure place to keep their funds but are the funds really secure or are they being there has been speculation for a long time that the fed doesn't actually have much gold that it has either sold it

off lent it out or used it as collateral for borrowing either way there are many claims that the gold that is being stored on behalf of many nations doesn't actually exist germany has recently decided to bring home all its gold but the federal reserve said that it's not possible that he would need until two thousand and twenty to be able to accomplish such a transfer germany then asked to visit the fed's vaults to make sure that the gold is actually there but the feds first refused to permit germany to exult examine its own gold then the germans apparently assisted in the fed did open only one of nine rooms but they were not permitted to either enter or touch the gold the german government has stored about half of its pool supply with the us federal reserve so they are understandably nervous this makes not only germans nervous of course u.s. financial institutions have a history of selling things that don't exist one example last year goldman sachs were proven to have been selling gold certificates to the public saying they were

backed by real gold in their vaults but the story leaked out that they'd fact held no gold at all and we're doing so-called fractional reserve gold banking on the basis that few people would want to claim their gold at any one time and looking further back in history during world war two when the fed came to many countries even a job like america and africa. and told them their gold holdings might not be safe because of the war and that they should permit the fed to take all of it to the us for safe keeping many countries have done that receiving fed gold for the pickets in exchange but when they later tried to cash in those who could pick it up and reclaim their gold they were told the certificates were paid that they contain spelling and other mistakes so on and so forth and the fact still has all that gold the power of the us federal reserve has grown dramatically especially since the nineteen seventies when the us cut the link between the dollar and gold that

allowed the us dollar to be bought and sold freely on the market and with the us dollar being the main reserve currency the us has basically been able to tax the whole world it can just devalue other countries holdings by printing more money now we see many countries trying to maneuver away from the us dollar is the main reserve currency and we see many central banks increasing their own gold reserves and he seems after all these years the world decided they put too much power in this one building. because the germans were infuriated when the us federal reserve didn't even let them examine the assets properly paid to the founder and chairman of the gym and precious metal association says that's a bad sign. we have pressured spunk a lot we have sent a lot of questions there and other people parties have as well we have to know why they are not doing a proper audit and are pressuring their partner central banks especially the fed to

do the proper audit if that's not possible for whatever reason whether or not repatriating their gold so there's a lot of reasons and questions unanswered the u.s. or the fed is nowadays monetizing between sixty and eighty percent of newly admitted federal debt federal treasury treasury bonds there's basically no. foreign free market buying for the u.s. dollar treasury debt and that is bad news it says something around the quality of the u.s. dollar as a reserve currency of china and india will probably consume two thousand three hundred tons together of gold this year which is almost one hundred percent of world mining production. meanwhile china has been buying gold on mass fueling for cars is preparing a revolution in the world's financial system the wildest speculation suggest beijing could be holding up to ten thousand tons of yellow metal preparing a return to the gold standard and that is lighting up the whole market is artie's

venture capital show host katie poole being explains. the chinese buyers have been snapping it up because it is cheaper price means they currently consider a ball good also feeling demand is a desire for a physical assets instead of betting on foreign exchanges so here we go then these other countries are the world's largest gold reserve. although it's actually suspected that china has far more than these official figures suggest it may even have more than that of the us china is also the world's largest producer of gold and could soon become the biggest consumer pushing india off the top spot in that department. so despite all the years ago china is recent surge of interest demonstrates the precious metals lost none of its sign. now as always we've got plenty more stories on our website and here's a quick taste of what's there today inoculating crime

a us hospital technician has killed dozens of people by infecting them with hepatitis c. with needles the details of that at r.t. dot com and keep surfing to go underwater with our online team on r.t. dot com you can watch this rescue operation of a whale who accidentally got caught in shark nets and joy the life saving forty each of this gentle giant on our emotion page. news today violence is once again. these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada. showing up for asians rule the day. is coming up to twenty past nine here in the russian capital and time now to have

a quick look at other news making headlines this hour the u.n. says its chemical weapons experts are ready for an imminent departure to syria this comes after assad's government gave its formal approval for the team to conduct an inquiry into the possible use of toxic weapons led by the swedish scientists akki sellstrom they will conduct investigations at three sites one of them is a sound aleppo where the rebels are accused of using chemicals in march. in the german city of selling there were wide anti angela merkel protests on wednesday demonstrators came out in their droves as the chancellor launched her new election campaign merkel's reputation has been seriously damaged by recent revelations that her government has been spying on citizens foreign agencies like the n.s.a. . militant protests. discovered in pakistan's east the horror amid rising tensions in cash in the kashmir province supporters of the militant group demanded their new

prime minister open a dialogue with india to prevent further violence that the attack struck along the volatile border just as peace talks over the disputed land were set to reopen. and this is the worst flooding china has seen in three decades heavy downpours of rain chaos across the country's northern regions the surging men jang river inundated oil fields interrupting production and cutting off clean water supplies. racial injustice is still an issue in britain figures show that black people are seven times more likely to be searched by police on the street than white people are most of the time without any evidence artie's terrorists investigates accusations of intrusive stop and discrimination. one morning while driving to work nathan was stopped by the police and asked to step out of his car aggressively. so i.

kind of miss a priest really was walking. you know. anything i was going is going to nathan says they grabbed his wrists at which point he started getting angry is anyone going to the police station he told me when he told me. fifteen a for speeding yeah so. you know nathan's experience is just one of numerous other stories of black and minority ethnic youths who feel they've been unfairly targeted or treated by police a sentiment that's fueled riots in the past. home secretary theresa may order the police watchdog to conduct its first ever study into the use of stop and searches and deemed wanted for were unlawful warning that black and minority ethnic groups

were stopped more than white people janet hill's a detective at the metropolitan police service says she's been stopped herself and more times than she's personally use the power on other people i've been stopped and searched in my time and again the way i view it is that whenever i've used that power it's always been about the intelligence around stopping an individual not just because they just happen to be hanging on the street corner and of more than one million stop and searches recorded each year only about nine percent result in an arrest which the home secretary described as quote far too low for comfort many of the people we've spoken to don't have a problem in theory with the stop and search powers of the police but the problem arises in individual cases where people walk away feeling like they've been on the receiving end of injustice and the repercussions these experiences may have. it can have a very negative impact of it's done in the wrong way and it can make people feel really wanted it can make them feel to me and they can leave very serious mental

emotional trauma if it's if they feel they've been abused which then creates resentment and then the trust and confidence that you know the police will destroy the community should have in the police is lost in response to a report by the independent police complaints commission which found that scotland yard is failing in the way it handles complaints of racism and discrimination the metropolitan police sent us this statement we determined to be less defensive in except when we're not performing as well as we should be it's powerful sharing the way we deal with complaints involving racism he's letting down the public we need to understand more about what we're doing wrong as well as taking the best out of where we get it right i do realize that the police have a job to do but in when you get pulled over about nine times in one year you know it gets a bit does get frustrating are you so angry. where when i when i think back on it i do i do i do get angry but i try to keep that to try to get on with it really from

you know treated unfairly again i can make sure i do take it well and to put my complaint. tester cilia r.t.e. london. when used for mean about it's a half an hour's time coming up next though it's well it's a weight loss on a point in. the video game company of heroes two is facing a lot of heat from gamers inside the former soviet union in fact fourteen thousand people thus far have taken the time to sign a change dot org petition to get the game removed from former communist shelves across the land why are people so mad this looks like some sort of world war two game i mean and this type of game there's going to be a murdering of virtual rampaging through cities with rocket launchers so why did they start a petition for you to blogger called the bad comedian made

a detailed twenty five minute video depicting all the gross historical inaccuracies and exaggerations throughout the game the game prefers the soviet army as a pack of slave driving before with every soviet officer wanting nothing more than to shoot his old soldiers in the back or send them to the gulag forthwith according to polygon dot com the game exploits where moments in the wars history like some very limited battles were soviet soldiers went in unarmed and made it look as if sitting right fullest infantry directly into machine gun fire was part of the soviet army manual maybe it is a bit oversensitive to flip out over a dumb video game but lies repeated often enough will become true in the minds of millions of people who play the game and that's why you can't back down when it comes to historical falsification but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome to all the part communities around the world that you mean all the russias free from the ban on propaganda of homosexuality to minors so much so that many are now calling for a boycott of the sochi two thousand pulteney winter olympics but if they succeed in pulling the plug on the games will gays and lesbians in russia be treated with greater tolerance to discuss that i'm now joined by boris dittrich advocacy director of human rights watch algy bt program mr dietrich i really appreciate your being here now you were among those who appealed to the international olympics

committee to speak out against what you see as russia's discriminatory treatment of gays and lesbians and let's face it gays and lesbians and transgender people are being discriminated all around a walled on a social basis but when it comes to legal framework discrimination in bad within laws how exactly are the rights of algy between people being given russia your road to many countries in the world people so let's say homosexuals are being discriminated but usually not by their governments in russia recently a propaganda law has been adopted by the duma and has been put into force and basically. speak up in public in favor of homosexuality when martin are present or are involved that would violate the law would lead to

a fine if you're a foreigner you could be arrested and deported from russia ok and how do you know that lympics come into. all of that well as the minister of sport in russia a few days ago announced this is a russian law it is applies to everybody who is in russia so during the search he or limpid winter games which will start in a little bit over six months time already it means that all the athletes all their supporters everybody who is dealing with the olympic winter games will be affected by the law if they want to use their freedom of speech and what we see now that russia has legalized this homophobic legislation we see an increase on the internet for instance of groups that try to lure young homosexual people into dates and then they expose them on the internet put

a film on there have me take you up on that again if you are referring to that as legalized homophobia and let us be clear that being gay in russia is not illegal and the legislation that we are now discussing is a propaganda homosexual activity and hmong rhinitis and i would like to ask you specifically why do you consider it is to be and in the alley in the bill right of any athlete if he started preaching homosexuality to minus one that parents for example are against it and as you probably know this law has and all the while ming supported around eighty percent of the russian public strongly supportive to a many a many answers to your question one is that when an athlete comes from a certain country or course it's his or her human right to use to freedom of speech to freedom of expression so if for instance an athlete who is bisexual would give an interview in rome.