very. latest on the numbers more than five hundred people have been killed nationwide in egypt in the bloodiest violence in the country have seen since the toppling of hosni mubarak and still with almost no sign of a solution to the crisis. wiki leaks claims that u.s. army bradley manning has been forced to apologize for of bidding war crimes perhaps in the hope of easing his sentence for espionage. and the reign of the dollar as a global reserve currency is being threatened amid mounting fears the u.s. central bank may not hold all the foreign gold it claims to have.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at our. top headlines live from the russian capital the death toll in egypt and the latest wave of violence rests now exceeded five hundred that's according to local health officials more bloody violence is feared now after police were authorized to use deadly force to protect themselves and state institutions from assaults mainly by islamist supporters of the ousted president. truth is in cairo for us. the latest reports we just had the supporters of ousted leader mohamed morsi have attacked a governor building here in the capital just in giza which is on the outskirts of cairo they are obviously extremely angry following yesterday's bloody on which to hundreds die and security forces who promised to do a peaceful disperse vote all of the supporters of movies and sit ins you know

basically opened fire for several hours causing a huge death toll there are also expected to be marches later this afternoon run by the missing brotherhood and the supporters of morsy who basically are rejecting the way that the security forces treated them and saying they will not be intimidated they want to continue protesting until mohamed morsy is reinstated and the constitution now i just came back from a mall which is where the protests are starting to start with families who are identifying the dead they are as i said extremely determined and very angry up to losing their sons and husbands and brothers to looking really at a very very tense atmosphere here in egypt as the security forces go head to head with the muslim brotherhood and supporters of mousavi we're seeing such bloody scenes really unprecedented in the recent history of egypt certainly the use of light on the mission in such an extent by the security forces in addition civilians are increasingly armed and so there have been reports of most he said quote is particularly in the giza camp firing back at the police and also civilians in terms

of residents attacking supporters in addition we've had this new choices he said of sectarian violence dozens of churches have been run raided and torched including christian buildings and homes leaving many to be that this escalate this could actually escalate into its own kind of battle itself to assing a massively divided country civilians increasingly arms as well as sick tarion issues on the horizon so you know at the moment people are wondering that this might actually descend into a full blown civil war. correspondent. in the meantime a turkey's president has said that the situation in egypt could worsen. and even become similar to what's happening in syria abdullah goal doesn't think the country will return to democracy any time soon let's have a look at how egypt now has been trying to achieve that elusive democratic change for now it's going on well more than two and a half years in fact president mubarak was forced to step down in the early twenty s levon ending his near thirty year stranglehold on power of the country voted in

the parliament a year later the results of that election were an old and declared constitutional or the muslim brotherhoods of mohamed morsi then achieved a slim electoral victory to become the next president he granted himself sweeping powers and try to push through an islamist type constitution last december but that caused huge public outrage which continued until morsi was finally ousted by the military earlier last month so the country's come full circle back to military control and the an award winning journalist says so she can see no way for egypt to escape from this dark path. i think actually the worst thing that's happening now is not actually to the deaths but it's how injections themselves have changed the amount of people i've heard just yesterday caulk about how square has been cleaned even the word in arabic it's such a strong word to use that it's been cleaned up the muslim brotherhood there is so much hatred i have never seen so much hatred from egypt as for their fellow

egyptians and it isn't just christian muslim which is already a problem we had in egypt but just in difference an ideological perspective say muslims talking about their other fellow muslim egyptians in the sense that they deserve to die that we're so sad they die but at least now we can be free of the terrorists in and that i think is one of the worst in the scariest developments and that's what's going to lead egypt down a dark path i think everyone is playing here everyone has their own agenda everyone has their own reasons and in a very sad way everyone has something to benefit from this but again like i said i think the biggest loser is just egypt as a country you know the footage we've been seeing aerial footage everything burning a condom is in freefall the banks of clothes the stock markets lost cairo airport emergency there are churches a trade burning tires police and it's just like oh my god am i watching we how is this how are we two and a half years on and things are only get worse and worse and

a war correspondent eric maga means he says that what we're seeing is now many factors coming into play there adding up to one explosive situation. we are very close to the civil war in egypt not only in cairo but in that alexandria and down the nile as you head into upper egypt the people get more militant there and it's historical areas along the line itself it's very worrisome what they've done is they've overthrown a one of the arab world's only democratically elected governments they reimposed a 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 he either as the patron states or with the gulf arabs in 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's so much more happening on our website regarding egypt you can find a detailed timeline of the events on firsthand accounts from people caught right in the thick of it go to coverage for you right now this hour on the website. it's good to have you with us here on out to you today u.s. army whistleblower bradley manning has startled his supporters by saying sorry

focused writing the largest leak of military data in history but according to wiki leaks manning who faces up to ninety years in prison for espionage made the apology under duress in the hope of appeasing the judge at his court martial. reports 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 i 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. now bradley manning is perhaps most famous for exposing this video here which shows u.s. military personnel gunning down every the civilians in cold blood he also leaked hundreds of thousands of documents including u.s. diplomatic cables and war logs which were published then by wiki leaks even u.s. officials have admitted that manning's actions did not directly home anyone there was a blow had previously defended the leak saying quote i felt i had accomplished something that allowed me to have a clear conscious bates' some what i had seen and what i'd read about what was happening on a daily basis in iraq and afghanistan well earlier we spoke to norman solomon who is spearheading a petition for bradley manning to be awarded this year's nobel peace prize so far more than one hundred thousand people have 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 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 in this program. british police for failing to address complaints of racial bias. just ahead for you with the rest of the world.

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they all see themselves as dying swans in their dreams. but only one in the cells and will ever make it to the top. they're ready to give their lives for the chance to die on stage if only once. not even broken wings could deter them. for generations at the marine ski theatre ballet sweat and tears. artie's coming to you live from moscow with me rory sushi there are fears that the u.s. dollar is losing its former glory and the world its trust in the currency is

a safe haven a major blow him off to germany central bank demanded that the federal reserve return three hundred tons of gold berlin says it needs back guy natures you can explain the assets of foreign nations in the fed may not be secure or perhaps not even there at all. behind these walls is one of the most secretive organizations in the world u.s. federal reserve whether it's nice to audit them it's the wall this place is impenetrable for three 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 weathered different waves of economic crises 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 the reason being there has been speculation for a long time that the fed doesn't actually have much good that he has either sold it all lent 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 these gold but the federal reserve says 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 dormancy 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 schools 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 balls but the story leaked out that they'd fact

held no gold at all and were doing so called fractional reserve gold banking on the basis that few people would want to claim their gold at any one time 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. there was a back in one thousand nine hundred four that the economy's exhausted by world war two when seeking security agreed to use the us dollar as a global reserve currency it was fixed to gold now thirty five u.s. dollars per ounce and the federal reserve started gathering other countries gold for safe keeping or giving them a certificates in exchange but in the one hundred seventy s. though the link between the dollar and the gold was. gold standard to a paper money system since then the dollars being printed right out of thin air for

the banking system expanding of the debts soaring as well and there is a growing feeling the dollars days are numbered meanwhile china is pushing its you want to become the new international reserve currency beijing has been gobbling up the gold on mass there's speculation it could be holding up to ten thousand tons in its reserves venture capital show host or kitty pilgrim has more savvy chinese buyers have been snapping it up because it is cheaper prize means they currently consider a bargain also a feeling demand is a desire for a physical access instead of bombs or betting on foreign exchanges so here we go then these other countries are the world's largest gold reserves 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 are all the year for gold china's recent interest demonstrates the precious metals lost none of its sign now if indeed the dollar does come to an end or the world could change back to the gold standard and if that happens china is most likely to come out on top and that's according to james corbett editor of the colbert report news website he told that to my colleague andrew phone. if we start to see that u.s. dollar being chipped away as the global reserve the question is what will be around to replace it and one of the answers one of the possible answers could be a system like we saw in the wake of world war two we saw the bretton woods system of fixed exchange rates so it was a system that in some way you could say was backed up in some form by gold mostly gold that was held by the u.s. at the time and i think we could see a similar type of system take take the place of the current u.s. dollar fee reserve system ok so let's ashamed that does happen what impact on the

well to call me will that have well it would certainly put. a central bank like china which presumably has been adding furiously to its stockpile in recent years although we don't know the exact numbers on that but it would put a country like that in a relatively stronger position than other countries which have either not been adding quite as much or even been undermining some of their their their gold supplies so it would create a very different economic landscape the chinese owned state owned companies have been buying up so much of the mining infrastructure around the world for gold mining i think they are definitely at an upper hand in nancy in that game if it ever did come to that. on screen twenty four seven in his was recovering right now with. a boosting public diplomacy the israeli government said to recruit students is undercover agents find more of a new force in the making why you're there also check out this story right now at

the u.n. chief. craft to be used for surveillance as weapons the full story this hour right now is that. right. and i think. ok before we get to worlds apart let's jump into it now with the world update to lebanon we go where at least three people now have been killed one hundred twenty wounded following a blast in a hezbollah stronghold in lebanon's capital beirut and the explosion occurred on a main road army officials said it was caused by a car bomb last month

a similar attack left fifty people dead in a neighboring suburb and sectarian tensions have been high and left it on to the hezbollah is active involvement in the ongoing civil war in syria. chemical weapons experts say they're ready to head to syria to probe claims of chemical weapons use the announcement comes after damascus gave the u.n. a green light to conduct the inquiry and the inspectors are planning to stay for at least two weeks and visit three sites where toxic substances may have been used however diplomats and experts been casting doubt on whether the u.n. team will find anything since the alleged attacks took place several months ago. and more than thirty people have been killed in the. dozens wounded after a wave of car bombings in baghdad one of them targeted the so-called green zone the heavily fortified area housing mostly western diplomatic missions today's blasts are the latest and more almost daily sectarian attacks now claimed nearly four thousand lives since the start of the year. it's now a u.k.

watchdog says british police need a cultural change in a bid to tackle the ever snowballing claims of racism figures show that black people are seven times more likely to be searched by police on the street than white people and assess our city or found out most of the time it's without any evidence. one morning while driving to work nathan was stopped by the police and asked to step out of his car. and. you know. a priest lady was walking. you know to do anything and i was there 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 and what he told me is when he told me. fifteen to forty 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 tech and the intelligence around stopping an individual not just because they just happen to be hanging on the street corner and have 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 of 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 hated 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 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 and 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 in when you get pulled over about nine times in one year you know it gets a bit. frustrating are you so angry where when i when i think back on it i do i do get angry but i try to keep i just try to get on with it really from you know treated unfairly again i can make sure i do take it and to put in a complaint. telstar cilia r.t.e. london. what a just a moment here on attempts to pull the plug on sochi twenty fourteen of it issues of gay rights in russia that's the focus now of world's upon.

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 isn't going to be any murdering of hookers or 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 but he prefers the soviet army as a pack of slave driving before with every soviet officer wanting nothing more than to shoot his own 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 are soviet soldiers went in unarmed and made it look as if sitting rifle is 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 lives 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 party communities around the world that you mean russia's recent ban on propaganda of homosexuality to minors so much so that many are now calling for a boycott of the sochi t. thousand and fourteen winter olympics but if they indeed succeed in pulling the plug on the games will and gays and lesbians in russia be treated with great to talk over and to discuss that i'm now joined by boris dittrich advocacy director of human rights watch algae b t programme 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 a 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 people being given russia your road to in 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 it says when you speak up in public in favor of homosexuality when maher nerves are present or are involved that would violate. the law that would lead to a fine if you are 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 the

olympic 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 refer to that as legalized homophobia and let us be clear that being gay in russia is not illegal the legislation that we are now discussing is a propaganda homosexual activity and hmong minus and i would like to ask you as.