under siege security forces are scored dozens of people out of a mosque in cairo where manny testers remain holed up this follows days of deadly clashes in which hundreds have been killed. above the law since two thousand and eight leaked documents indicate that's how long the us national security agency has been flying by its own rules look into these latest revelations by whistleblower edward snowden. and russian punk band pussy riot received their prison salman's as a year ago today we talk to the one member who was freed and examined how they are controversial performance affect society.

has to be m. and a mosque here watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program. the standoff between protesters who were holed up in a mosque and security forces seems to be drawing to a man hundreds were barricaded in the building overnight fearing arrest of the left the building dozens are now being a scored away well we can see what appears to be a more sea support her being arrested by security forces the others who were seen leaving the building where mostly women people initially sought refuge in the mosque during friday's nationwide day of anger that led to nearly one hundred deaths over seven hundred thirty people have now been killed since the protests kicked up earlier in the week r.t.l. truth is in cairo for us. inside this mosque been a makeshift field hospital and also a morgue during the yesterday's clashes which were extremely bloody and thousands

of protestors basically sent out desperate messages through the night saying they didn't have water or food they were late on the scene there was gunfire coming from the security forces they had injured in women and children and they wanted to get towns yesterday it was an extremely bloody day there were many many fatalities across the country mr brotherhood for their part one of the spokespersons to head in her bed claims that the health ministry here has been forbidden from releasing the truth to sticks of the casualties by the government where we cannot verify that piece of information this all kicked off after twenty eight marches were launched across the capital all ending up in ramses square and the looks at the security forces essentially opened fire on the protest as well that they claim that they were sometimes it was pretty hectic day with just gunfire raining down. meanwhile this also exploded across the country with many pockets of violence in different governments and basically in many of the major cities in egypt so at the moment the

situation is extremely tense we're not sure you know how the day is going to come out we've got these daily protests happening that the anti coup alliance which of the people behind these. marches are saying they're going to have practiced every. single day so expected to be further violence today tomorrow and for the rest of the week. the cowbell terms twitter feed to for many more updates on what's going on in egypt. well the bloodshed began when the military raided to protest camp supporting ousted president morsi on wednesday and the deposed leader has plenty of people backing him and the wider region to well here's a pro morsi demonstration in the stamboul with participants numbering in thousands and they're demanding an answer to the bloodshed and turkey's leaders also condemn what's happening in egypt similar scenes in the yemeni capital tens of thousands of people turning up there but neighboring saudi arabia has taken opposing stance he

said egyptian government is fighting against terrorism and the kingdom fully supports that washington was among the western nations who can damned what's happening but haven't done anything else. we're talking about our larger strategic interests our national security interests in the region the role that egypt plays certainly there have been some significant bumps in the road but our focus is on getting back to a sustainable path to democracy i would argue that your policy has served so far has served national security u.s. national security interests and the interests of regional security well met are you to you're talking about our aid to egypt no i'm talking about your policy towards egypt in general not just the money the approach that you have taken since more more president morsi is ouster do you believe that that has promoted or advanced either u.s. national interests or the interests of regional security well obviously egypt is

going through a challenging time right now what our focus is on what deputy secretary burns his focus was on when he was in the region what the secretary's focus is on every call he's making is how to return to a sustainable path to democracy how to end the bloodshed so we have valuate our relationship every single day and what that means that you can't you're not answering my question do you believe that your policy has advanced u.s. national interests or the interests of regional security yes no and if the answer is yes what interests have been we don't know if it through that prism or looking at our longer term interests here. now the u.s. admits there are significant obstacles on the path to democracy for egyptian right now but it's constantly stopped short of saying the president's removal was a coup and their one point five billion dollars a year in military aid is still flowing into egypt we also talked to a pro-democracy activist for the messiah who says america's in action is making matters worse. it's actually quite shameful to see countries and the leaders of

western governments who hail themselves because of democracy supporting the slaughter of democracy and its supporters in egypt what obama came out and said yesterday is simply not enough this is what the obama subsidies to the army buys the slaughter of innocent men women and children the army may have pulled the trigger yes but it was the west that loaded the gun and the west must take an active stance against this it's not too late to signed with democracy in egypt they must come out they must reject what is happening in egypt these cosmetic diplomatic maneuvers of free calling ambassadors and the tepid statements again they are not enough we are talking about people dying and revolution. going to r.t. dot com for our egypt timeline for much more on what's happening in the country we've got social media reaction there including firsthand accounts plus more videos

from the scene. fresh revelations claim america's national security agency has been violating privacy laws thousands of times per year since two thousand and eight and that's according to an attache audit and other documents leaked to the press by whistleblower edward snowden has granted to account has the details. a leaked n.s.a. internal audit for the year twenty twelve shows thousands of violations and those are the ones that the n.s.a. itself has documented and other paper provide some details on how the agency avoids scrutiny from its supposed to oversee years that the justice department n.s.a. analyst are instructed to give only a broad rationale for for targeting someone and the analysts are specifically warned that they must not provide the evidence on which they base their suspicion

the n.s.a. defend itself by saying the information is available if requested dears but generally from these documents we get the impression that not only has the public being in the dark about these programs but also those who are supposed to provide oversight one of the documents for instance shows that the foreign intelligence. surveillance court which has the authority over some n.s.a. operations did not learn about a new collection method and till it being in operation for many months the court ruled it unconstitutional so in twenty eleven the court ordered the n.s.a. to comply with standard privacy protections or stop the program but the obama administration has fought a freedom of information lawsuit so the administration's main shield for these programs is secrecy it can brush off any opinions on state secrets grounds basically at

a news conference earlier this month president obama found it off attacks on the surveillance programs conducted by the n.s.c. he insisted no breach of privacy ever occurs and such abuses only hypotheticals. but you're not reading about is the government actually abusing these programs and . listening in on people's phone calls or inappropriately reading people's e-mails what your hearing about is the prospect that these could be abused now part of the reason they're not abuse is because there are these checks are in place and those abuses would be against the law well that statement from president obama seems to be in doubt now he's administration though has once again and a fan of the n.s.a. that timothy's and agency representative says the are increasing efforts to eliminate mistakes in their work intelligence analysts glenmore tranter harvey believes the u.s. government itself is heavily involved in the organization on domestic spying this

is domestic surveillance and it is politically hugely embarrassing that's why i don't think heads will roll because as i say the administration itself is so totally involved there is something called the foreign intelligence surveillance court now this is a very old gus body that was set up with the whole row that it would approve individual cases of surveillance because under american law the. cia and n.s.a. are not allowed to surveil american citizens and yet what every sane with this latest revelation courtesy of it was snowden the massive thousands of surveillance instances a year this is incredible is it as i say. the worst thing that happens in any

government is political embarrassment and they have this in scads. it with are now still have for you this hour a storm over bottled water will bring you every florida on the industry that's struggling to keep its profits high and image pure. well over my language of what i will only react to situations i have read the reports i'm like put in the know i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point the money saved. to carryout a car is on the dock you know why. they do no more weasel words. when you made a direct question are you prepared for a change when you should be ready for

a battle for the ops page and little doubt the freedom to watch. if you. believe. welcome back this is already coming to life from moscow now three regions in russia's far east are preparing for the worst flooding in a century as waters are set to peak on saturday so far thirty two thousand have been affected by the floods with over seventeen thousand of them moved to safety

artie's balls caught us one of the stricken isn't one of the stricken districts. the flood stretch from east to west the distance of two thousand kilometers and from north to south a distance of five hundred kilometers by there was a real concern that the situation could get worse with more grain on to supply did over the next twenty four forty eight hours or so the flood levels are expected to peak in the middle of next week and in particular there are two focal points where our people is seriously concerned that these are the hydroelectric power stations where water levels at the moment it's a critical level now there's a real fear that the abo river which you can see behind me could bust its banks once more and compound much is even close in attempt to try and counter that's authorities are allowing water it's a flow through that adams as an increased rate of twenty percent to try to relieve some of the pressure on the lower the flood waters there around three thousand military personnel in the region as well their own bible hospitals and what about kitchens as well providing simple food such as bread to help those people who have

been displaced mosco was doing it's great to limit the damage being caused but the real concern is with wolf. what is expected in the coming days the flood levels could rise the situation could be about to get worse now with a look at some other stories from around the world a prison riot has left forty injured in bahrain guards used stun guns tear gas and dried sticks on one hundred inmates who were protesting over conditions most of the prisoners are said to be political and human rights activists held on terrorism charges bahrain recently extended its anti terror laws seen by manning as an attempt to quash going anti-government unrest. the leader of lebanon's militant group has been promising vengeance for the victims of thursday's bombing of the party stronghold in beirut. accuses sunni muslims of coordinating the blast which left twenty one dad and three hundred injured he said

he would even double the man fighting in syria if the ads what it takes to stop the attacks. it's feared rising tensions over this year it's fear it will destabilize lebanon it's fragile peace. britain's prime minister wants the dispatch observers to gibraltar over the ongoing border with spain tougher border checks of what drivers queuing for hours to get into the wrong david cameron claims the controls are politically motivated and illegitimate relations between the countries turned sour after gibraltar built an artificial reef spain oppose it saying it would hurt its fishing industry. while in outer space russian cosmonauts have made one of the longest space walks ever they spent seven and a half hours outside the international space station rigging a power cable for a new science lab that said to arrive in

a few months time and it was one of six russian excursions outside the isis cattle for this year. russian punk band pussy riot received their two year prison sentences for controversial performance in moscow's christ the savior cathedral one year ago today their actions gain them plenty of support from international musicians but also sparked outrage in russia over what manny considered was a blessed for must act like hear sheff ski met one of the members who is free and look at how the group's actions affect its side. you could tina some would say that she is the only member of controversial pussy riot punk band that walked free the other two money and ideas that are still serving their prison terms on february twenty first last year the mosque the band members stormed into moscow's christ the savior cathedral and performed their so-called paanch prayer the protest was why do you seem to be directed against one individual russia's president but some would

say which claims the act was aimed at highlighting problems within the russian orthodox church just. as a protest was directed against the policies of the russian orthodox church and of our state leadership because they managed into an entity we never stude against religion or the church is a religious institution of course it has all the rights to exist but a secular state the church cannot force its views on to the general public but. ten days after the eccentric display the previously unknown band was catapulted into the global headlines. pussy riot punk prayer happened amidst the largest protest movement in russia since the early one nine hundred ninety s. it may have even gone barely noticed had they not been arrested that caused huge public resonance not only at home but abroad as well madonna red hot chili peppers franz ferdinand and a handful of other well known musicians joined hundreds globally in protesting against the riots two year prison sentence for hooliganism and inciting religious

hatred at home though many saw it differently. it's unacceptable it's an act of gross blasphemy a targeted attempt to undermine our values it's a horrible crime and a nation that allows such things to go unpunished has no future the most recent poll on the right sentence by the service center live other suggested that the majority respondents supported the verdict but almost forty percent believe that putting them in prison was a step too far that stance was shared even by some within the rushed. in orthodox church which you do it often considering they performed in not just any temple but also in a memorial to soldiers fallen in the eight hundred twelve war against napoleon i feel that having a trial was the right thing that is to draw attention to negativity but giving them prison terms was excessive we should have sent them on an education course to mend their perception instead. since the. a year ago russia has adopted

a law criminalizing those who. believe there's a step deemed necessary by the authorities in order to prevent such things from happening again someone says time behind bars will not stop the riots which has already turned into a thriving global brand from giving more performances where they will be as controversial will become clear once the two other members walk out of prison in march next year. mosco. not only on air but online as well at r.t. dot com we have all our headline stories plus much more so let's take a look at what's waiting for you there. so following the nine eleven terrorist attacks on the us washington said its nuclear facilities were more than capable of withstanding a similar assault but a new study now claims over one hundred american reactors are vulnerable to an airborne attack find more details on the report online. plus

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why are people paying so much more than they have to cook the bottled water industry simply be tricking us part of the wire is a huge get you know when you buy bottled water you're paying hundreds if not thousands of times the cost that you would be paying to simply access that already flows almost half of bottled water is in fact just tap water. tap water that's just filtered by corporations instead of the consumer to home ads with the alluring glaciers on bottles and gorgeous celebrities make bottled water seem so much better people are like children you know you show and also the they probably design it so people like to hold it they sure like their beautiful people or rivers coming down long term so you it's all about health so yeah it is a weird total fools but if you can experts say it's

a common misconception that bottled water is more pure in cif than tap pure marketing companies are making billions of dollars in selling this product that's more expensive than gasoline at this point to people and so they definitely benefit from people thinking that tap water is not as safe as a why or. why because they simply can get away with it. the think outside the bottle campaign as one of an increasing number of groups challenging the corporations for the past three decades the bottled water industry namely coke pepsi and nestle have attempted to convince us that the only place to get clean and safe water is out of a bottle which we all know is not true the profit water industry is new we aggressively push it. put public water in that he made right into private hands work in countries where pollution is high people have no choice but

for americans there certainly is experts the consumers just need to be more informed tap water is actually more regulated by the environmental protection agency then bottled water is by the free drug administration well recycling is supposed to make consumers feel better in reality plastic accumulation is at a peak seventy five percent of bottles and up in our landfills oceans rivers lakes you now see them littering the landscape and they get only twenty five percent of them and every cycle and i think most people think that that rate is much higher in times when energy and water resources are growing scarce the pacific institute found that the equivalent of thirty two and fifty four million million barrels of oil are used in a year by the bottled water industry and this is the equivalent it would fuel between one and two million cars a year this will keep up unless perceptions change and we have a population growing so we're going to buy more and more bottle of water and more and more brand coming in every day pure pure of the water with it it's not just

bottled water now it's like water with water with energy activists it's time to break the myth and for consumers to change habits before water is a human right is lost who is it that we want to be providing our water. that are seeking water for profit or is it in fact that we want our own democratically governed. to be the ones that are providing us water if we take into account the huge price markups for a product that's available in most polls as well as the health environmental and regulation concerns it might be a good time to stop and think does one really need this considering life on earth existed without plastic bottles just a few decades ago or is the trend just too resistible. to stop the flow and they said you're going to. new york. and coming up we explore the plight of a half a million people living in the shadow of a toxic dump and bangladesh stay with us. the

u.s. government project arrow marty has been in place for twenty years this project was designed to break the media monopoly of cuban television by putting u.s. government propaganda up to t.v. screens this injection of american t.v. works with a blimp and a c one thirty military plane working in tandem you know this would actually be a major achievement in the history of technology if it actually worked this program which over the years has built up a billion taxpayer dollars simply does not work but continues to exist despite the cuban government completely blocking the transmission the official logic of continuing the program is that it would send a bad message to the cuban government if they stopped brilliance and action but the

big question is who gives the u.s. government the right to propagandize cubans just because they have a different lifestyle doesn't mean it is wrong and the u.s. government does has the right to destroy it and even if cubans on mass actually do hate their system then it is their job to change cuba not the military industrial complex and its cronies in washington but that's just my opinion. speak to language. programs in documentaries in arabic in school here on. reporting from the world talks about six of p.r.p. interviews intriguing story for you. visit. sometimes you see

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