i. a day of bloody riots seize a month long state of emergency declared in egypt three hundred forty three people were killed nationwide after security forces deployed to gas snipers and armored 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. on 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.

international news and comment you're watching r.t. now egypt is locked in a state of emergency after nationwide street battles which saw take ask gunfire three hundred forty three deaths security forces swept through two protest camps full of supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsy we have to warn you that the images you're back to see are disturbing. these are just some of the two hundred three hundred just over three hundred 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 admitted authorities are now forcing 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 peltry is in cairo. this morning egyptians seem to be getting on with their daily lives despite the fact that so yesterday so probably one of the most bloodiest days in egyptian modern history however we are expecting more protests as the day goes on and in particular funerals for the two over two hundred people who were killed yesterday across the nation in these very bloody clashes between supporters of ousted leader mohamed morsy and security forces now the muslim brotherhood here largely spearheading these these protests are saying we are not going to back down the bloodshed is really just adding to their defiance is they will push for morsi to be reinstated and the constitution many people are actually saying this is going to intensify the protests in the coming days as the protesters have now lost several friends and family members in these extremely bloody clashes now i was there yesterday on the scene in the way another city sit in the main encampment for more see and it really was continuous gunfire from

security forces who were firing on protesters both in starting to come up with the news or anyone attempting to access them could live ammunition and gunshots automatic weapons as well as tear gas it's also sectarian violence across the country which exploded yesterday as it is impossible to mohamed morsi attack the christians accusing them of basically being responsible for the ouster so you've got a lot of bubbling tensions here in the capital with a very fractured government we expect a lot of violence on the horizon. to be followed along for years keeping track of everything that is happening in cairo. these images apparently show the authorities confiscating guns and ammunition from one of the pro morsi sitting cameras but mona. as who is a spokes person for the muslim brotherhood in the u.k. told us that security forces are to blame for all of violence signaling a return to the military state. the violence is only unilateral it's coming from

the paramilitary forces 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 all cooked to one of the worst massacre in the modern history of egypt hundreds were killed in call of innocent peaceful egyptians who went there calling for the democracy back where shock your 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 we're seeing that are turned over military state the turn of. emergency law which which has only been used to violate our human rights as free egyptians now has been plenty of shocking footage after the military use full force when swooping on prime morsy protesting camps and his some of what has been

caught on camera it is disturbing you can see people moving in one direction and then one appears to shoot another man in the lower part of your screen the muslim brotherhood as we've just heard says the government is responsible for all of the violence but there have been accusations of morsy supporters firing at police too and it's not clear who was shooting at who in this video either and also we do not know whether the victim died or not war correspondent eric margolis who's written extensively about the middle east says western powers aren't doing anything to help the situation which means the violence could get even worse. we are very close to the civil war in egypt not only in cairo but in xandra and down the nile as you head into upper egypt the people get more militant there and it's historically areas of larger violence 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 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 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 that of a patron in 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 and there is much more in what's happening on our website

a detailed timeline of events and firsthand accounts from people there with that we've got it all covered for you. while you're browsing our web site make sure you check out egypt fights a gallery today we've lined up the most striking pictures 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 this war has more. bradley manning took the stand he remained silent brought 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 suffers 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 leading 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 bradley 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 published by wiki leaks so his apology in court came as

a surprise to many just several months ago the whistle blows attitude seemed to be very different he said and this is the 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 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 spearheading a petition for bradley manning to be awarded the nobel peace prize more than one hundred thousand people have signed it already. 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 that 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. still ahead for you this hour we tell you how china may make its currency a major world player by putting the financial playing back into gold plus black white stop and search police in britain are accused of racial bias and abusive over the targeting of black people for random checks despite no evidence of wrongdoing the stories coming up in a few months. make

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welcome back now the world is losing trust in the dollar as a safe haven a major blow came after germany's bundy's bank demanded the repatriation of a big chunk of its gold being held in the us because as artie's gan each again reports some are concerned the assets of foreign nations in the federal reserve are not secure or even their. behind these walls is one of the most secretive organizations in the world the us federal reserve whether it's nice to audit them it's a wall this place is impenetrable for hobby we years the u.s. federal reserve has been the place where many countries of the word a big chunk of their nations 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 even being there has been speculation for

a long time that the fed doesn't actually have much gold that has either sold it all lent it out or used it as collateral for borrowings 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 these gold but the federal reserve said that it's not possible that it would need until two thousand and twenty to be able to accomplish such a transfer germany then asked to visit the fed vaults to make sure that the gold is actually there but the fed first refused to permit germany to exempt examine its own gold then the germans apparently assisted in the fed did open only one of nine rules but they were not permitted to either enter or touch the gold the german government has stored about half of its school 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 that they were backed by real gold in their vaults but the story leaked out as if they in fact held no gold at all and were doing the 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 in asia latin 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 u.s. for safekeeping many countries have done that receiving said gold certificates in exchange but when they later tried to cash in those specific days and reclaim their gold they were told the certificates were fake that they contain spelling another mistake so on and so forth and the fed still has all that gold the power of the u.s. federal reserve has grown dramatically especially since the one nine hundred seventy when the u.s. cut the link between the dollar and and gold that allowed u.s.

dollars to be bought and sold freely on the market today and with the u.s. dollar being the main reserve currency the u.s. has basically been able to text the whole world in just the value of the country holdings by printing more money now we see many countries trying to maneuver away from the u.s. 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. remote china's goal consumption has skyrocketed by more than half the share it's been buying gold all mushed fueling for cost it is preparing a raft preparing for a revolution in the world's financial system the water speculation suggests beijing could be holding up to ten thousand tons of yellow metal preparing a return to the gold standard and that slicing up the whole market is a tease venture capital show host katie pillbug explains. sadly chinese buyers have

been snapping it up because it is cheaper price means they currently consider a ball good also a feeling demand is a desire for a physical assets instead of bonds all betting on foreign exchanges so here we go then these other countries with 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 your all the year for gold china's recent interest demonstrates the precious metals lost one of its sign. china's growing interesting gold is part of its attempt to float as an alternative to the world's leading currencies at least that is the view of george coup and analyst on china

u.s. relations. i think china is moving towards becoming. another. currency for a foreign exchange reserve and they've lost a lot of confidence in the future of the dollar and i think that's something that they were shaken by the financial crisis of two thousand and nine so it's fair to say they're now looking to. ameliorate their risk by having some other alternatives to in a in addition to holding dollars and one of the alternative is to move towards having the. chinese currency as an alternative as a reserve currency alternative to to the dollar euro and the japanese yen and the speculation a lot of talk in fact about china's rimini because we have fully convertible

currency by two thousand and fifty. well let's have a quick look at some of the stories that are on our web site at r.t. dot com at the moment they include inoculating crime a us hospital technician has killed dozens of people by infecting them with hepatitis c. needles the details of that story on our web site also day if you can to go underwater with our online team you can watch this rescue operation of a whale who accidentally got caught in a shark net so you can enjoy the life saving footage of this gentle giant on are in motion. the news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada.

some international news in brief five bombs have gone off across the rocks capital killing up to two dozen people and reportedly injuring many more in an attack near the green zone a highly fortified area housing the u.s. diplomatic mission for or thought to have lost their lives while a bomb near a bus station claimed six others. 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 they will conduct investigations at three sites one of them is can sound aleppo where the rebels are accused of using chemicals in march. and in the german city of killing stand there were white. protests on wednesday demonstrators came out

in their dry. he says the chancellor launched a new election campaign called reputation has been seriously damaged by recent revelations that her government has been spying on citizens of foreign agencies like the n.s.a. . a militant protesters gathered in pakistan's east and the whole mid rising tensions in the kashmir province supporters of the militant group demanded a 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. 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 and most of the time without any evidence. a senator investigates accusations of intrusive. discrimination. one morning while driving to

work nathan was stopped by the police and asked to step out of his car aggressively . and useful of. you know sort of. a police lady was walking past me. you know to do anything and i was that was going to nathan says they grabbed his wrists at which point he started getting angry is only when i got to the police station what he told me is when he told me. that in fifteen or forty speeding yeah so what do. 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 a little bit about the tech and the intelligence around stopping an individual not just because they just happen to be hanging on the street corner at 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 it has done in the wrong way and it can make people feel. 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 hide in the place 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 is 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 then when it poured over about nine times in one year you know.

are you so angry. well you know when i when i think back on it i do i do get angry but i just try to get on with it really from you know cheated on feeling again a commercial i do take it and you put in a complaint and see where it gets to us or still you r.t. london now i'll have more news in about half an hour's time for now though it saw special report on russia's high ted my team. why do you consider it is to be and now in the bill right up to any athlete if you start preaching homosexuality to minors one that parents for example are against it and as you probably know these laws passed and all the while being supported around eighty percent and all discussion public strong disappointed when i see it comes from a certain country of course is his or her human rights to use to freedom of speech

to freedom of expression. exactly what happened that day i don't know but a woman killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results you get innocent people to confess that police officers don't beat people anymore i mean it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like meant no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions than physical abuse they were off taking they could do what they wanted they can say what they wanted and there was no evidence of what they did or what they said.

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