the fear is gone battle is reported outside the mosque in cairo were scores of pro-war supertaster as well holed up overnight following days of deadly clashes which have claimed hundreds of lives. the call to overhaul the n.s.a. american lawmakers react after as the latest surveillance leak reveals the notorious agency overstepped its authority thousands of times for year. and russia's far east suffers its most severe flooding in decades and the worst is still to come thousands of people have been forced to abandon their homes and emergency crews are doing their best to get them to safety.

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital hi marina josh welcome to the program in cairo the standoff between islamist protesters who have been holed up in a downtown mosque and security forces has reportedly been followed by an intense gun battle hundreds barricaded themselves inside the building overnight fearing arrest if they merged was no head to cairo to get the latest from our correspondent troop well bill tell us what's going on with the siege. well it's absolutely chaotic i literally just came from this downtown central scrag where this mosque is housed and there were just there was just gunfire everywhere what's happened at the moment is the appears to be a shooting on the minarets of the mosque shooting down on to the army who are responding meanwhile inside there are still hundreds of protesters i spoke to one a go back to me who stuck inside they say they are two rooms in the mosque they're

in the back room barricaded in there's at least seven hundred of them that they want to go home she says they haven't had enough access to water and food there are still people who are injured in site in the other room the front room where the security forces are standing by police an army apparently they have been a shooting at a gas as well as my munition in this kind of chaotic back to between the two sides of the we can ascertain who the shooter is in the minarets there's also been reports of foreign journalists being targeted to were recently used temporarily detained their fees this could escalate and the foreign journalists might be attacked but at the moment the square is just looking absolutely chaotic with people running in all directions coming from above and from below so it's absolutely chaotic here. thanks very much for bringing us this update bell true reporting there from cairo. well earlier we spoke to our political analyst hisham kassem he sings the authorities didn't have many alternatives to restoring order by

force but this should be addressed to the muslim brotherhood because basically they are the ones who work with writing that text unfortunately maybe as to the brutal massacre that took place a few days ago but certainly this is not going to put things back on track when it comes to democracy there's talk about the gyptian authorities trying to years with this they have been shooting at their own countrymen yes. well ok they had to basically disband what was becoming an armed insurgency this was not a peaceful protest legalize rhone place in rabaul or and not the square there were people that i beg your pardon with live rounds is not the way to deal with it you think properly no no i have no doubt it was the ministry of interior forces that went and got it out the operation and out of the sponsible for the bulk of the casualties but the question is was this a peaceful sit in all or was it is egypt facing an armed insurgency the leaders in

rabat square were talking about how the operations in sinai which are basically better is to operations against the state will stop if morsy is reinstated they were talking about attacks on christians over fifty churches were burnt yesterday so again we're not exactly talking about the peaceful demonstration of that of that was. broken up by the police force there have been similar cases worldwide where the state needs to move and put its hand down now the bloodshed began when the military swept through to promote the sit ins on wednesday and there has been plenty of backing for the deposed leader across the muslim world demonstrations in his support have happened as far away as malaysia and here's a thousand strong rally in turkey's a stamboul the country's leaders have also haven't criticized the egyptian army's actions similar protests to the yemeni capital tens of thousands of people turning out there but the neighboring gulf monarchies are taking an opposing stance giving

their full backing to egypt's government which they see as fighting terrorism washington's can damned what's happening isn't taking any concrete measures as yet . we're talking about our larger strategic interest 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 in the interests of regional security well matt 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 or no and if the answer is yes what interests have been i we don't look at it through that prism or looking at our longer term interests here and. i'll go to r.t. dot com for our egypt timeline for much more on what's happening in the country we've got social media we action there including firsthand accounts plus more of the news from the scene. where u.s. lawmakers are calling for reform and more transparency of the n.s.a.

after the latest edward snowden leaks revealed the agency overstepped surveillance rules thousands of times per year and a say officials tried to save face by claiming the number of errors was extremely low compared to the overall data processed by the agency by the revelations suggests the n.s.a. has been trying to hide its mistakes and reports. 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 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 by overseers 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 had been 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 all the latest exposing puts more pressure on washington to carry out a server andra inspirit investigation of the n.s.c. especially considering that earlier this month president obama stood up to insist

surveillance regulations are not being abused. but you're not reading about is the government actually abusing these programs and. you're 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 that part of the reason they're not abuse is because these checks are in place and those abuses would be against the wall or the white house earlier team under fire for suggesting intelligence chief james clapper will lead a probe into the n.s.a.'s conduct washington was forced to backtrack and say that clapper who had denied the n.s.a. spied on millions of americans will not play a key role in the investigation intelligence analyst l'amour trainer harvey things the u.s. government and the n.s.a. are too interdependent to fall out over the latest embarrassing revelations.

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 so through 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 role that it would approve individual cases of surveillance because under american law the f.b.i. and certainly the cia and n.s.a. are not allowed to surveil american citizens and yet more to 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 when a government is political embarrassment and they have this in scads also add for

you here in our post the riots protest that still got the first why a year on since the scallops punk band was jailed we talked to the one member who was free. plus. but over a thousand bottles of water drunk every minutes in the us would tap into something industry facts which might seem hard to swallow. most of these voices the couple of the law for violence or thought. we broke the window climbed in and tried to start it. we pushed it a little way and here we were drunk. you're an alcoholic nearly all of them are homeless or fans of the. or relative. where you go without me.

for a moment but there it felt like it was bad but there's street hooting and you're going to beat me up at any moment. you know that i turned my back i couldn't help wondering about my safety. isn't a warden he's there the father you could say that slava raises us he makes normal people out of ugly duckling. welcome back this is our house three regions in russia's far east are preparing for

the worst flooding in a century waters are expected to peak next week with three large regions already affected while four hundred thousand hectares of farmland have been swamped possibly causing around sixty million dollars worth of damage thirty two thousand people have been stricken by the disaster and over half of them have been relocated by emergency crews but up to a hundred thousand more may still need to be evacuated from their homes moscow's dispatching army units to help tackle the tragedy the disaster which began july is not expected to start receding until early next month largest ball scott reports for 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 now there was a real concern that the situation could get worse with more rain on two 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 one small and can power to even close up in a tent to try and counter that's authorities are allowing walter to flow through the towns such 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 good to limit the damage being caused but the real concern is with full force will be what is expected in the coming days with the flood levels could rise the situation could be about to get worse. stand by for a shock over the resilience of america's nuclear electricity plants every poor it sounds one hundred reactors could not withstand a plane crash such as

a nine eleven style attack we've got the details on why plus as russia's gold star gets course survived by western media for apparently defending moscow's ban on gay propaganda to children and find out what's been overlooked from you any comments better to dot com. right from the street. first street to you and i think pictures. on our reporter's twitter. instagram. the punk band pussy riot are in foreign celebrities praise but russian church go wisconsin nation and a year ago today they were jailed for their natori a stunt and moscow's crisis here to see real most are still serving their sentences

are. now the one band member who was released to hear how the anger they caused is still reverberating. you could tina some would say that she is the only member of controversial pussy riot the punk band that walked free the other two money and ideas that the are still serving their prison terms on february twenty first last year the masked band members stormed into moscow's christ the savior cathedral and performed their so-called paanch prayer the protest was widely 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 protest was directed against the policies of the russian orthodox church and of our state leadership because they managed into an entity we never student 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.

ten days after the eccentric display the previously unknown band was catapulted into the global headlines. pussy riot punk prayer happened the midst of 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. than your post you 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 ball 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. an orthodox church which they 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 verdict a year ago russia has adopted a law criminalizing those who. believe so others stepped 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 whether they will be as controversial will become clear once the two other members walk out of prison in

march next year next year michelle ski mosco. some other stories from around the world in a central philippines divers have been searching for over two hundred people missing after a ferry sank off the port of several the vessel with eight hundred seventy people on board collided with a cargo ship on friday and hundreds of passengers escaped by jumping into the ocean leaving the rest trapped inside reports say mary on board were asleep during the accident and struggled to find escape routes in the dark at least six hundred thirty people have been rescued so far and divers are now pulling bodies out of the water hundreds die in ferry accidents in the philippines every year due to overcrowding and the poor condition of boats. a string of brutal attacks in afghanistan police say taliban militants armed with assault rifles attacked a road construction crew in the country's west killing ten people in another

incident five members of a family were killed in southern afghanistan when they are made a van hit a roadside bomb and in the western far province three died when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a private clinic violence is increasing across afghanistan with insurgent scrambling to regain territory had to pull out of foreign troops and the end of two thousand and fourteen. sorties in bahrain crushed a prison riot leaving at least forty people injured activists say guards used stun guns tear gas and riot sticks on around one hundred inmates who were protesting over conditions most of the prisoners are said to be political or human rights activists held on terrorism charges the gulf monarchies violent crackdown on dissent has lasted for over two years and a regime riots occurring almost daily. while out in space russian cosmonauts have made one of the longest space walks ever spent seven and

a half hours outside the international space station setting up power cables for a new science lab that set to arrive in a few months time it was the third of six russian excursions outside the isis for this year. well as drawings go bottled water takes some beating is being seen as the purest of the pure summoning images of mountain glaciers and fresh springs but there's more to the multi-billion dollar industry especially worthy environments concerned as each we're going to have the details. going to do without water is hard to imagine. but so was paying a lot more money for the same thing that comes out of a tacit. americans are the number one consumers of bottled water in the world but why are people paying so much more than they have to cook the bottled water industry simply be tricking us part of the our is a huge gap 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 have all

ready float is 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 the they sure like they're 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 and safe 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 safe it's

a wonder. why because they simply can get away with it. the think outside the bottle campaign is one of an increasing number of groups challenging the corporations for the past three decades the bottled water industry namely coke pepsi and isolate 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 because it water industry is really aggressively pushing rather. put water that is the human right into private hands for profit 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 three 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 you know littering the landscape and they get only twenty five percent of them and up recycled and i think most people think that that rate is much higher in times when energy and water resources are growing scarce the pacific and 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 bread coming in every day pure the pure of the water with it it's not just bottled water low 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 is it that we want to be providing our water is a corporation nestle. that are seeking water for profit or is it

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 to be resistant to stop the. hello and say since you're going to. new york and coming up after the break it's prime interest here 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 changed 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 in 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 the game 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 rare moments in the wars history like some very limited battles or 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's 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. do we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. the music programs and documentaries of spanish what matters to you. but let me turn to bangalore story. here. the spanish foreign visit.

good afternoon and a welcome to prime interests i'm terry and boring in on both the bush and let's get to today's headlines. wellheads problems are coming to a four one k. near you in the so-called alternative investment space has been more and this something that unsophisticated investors can purchase mutual funds once the domain of the retail investor are increasingly being used to make head along with their higher fees and guess what if the as you see every gets around to implement the jobs legislation which was passed over a year ago hedge funds themselves will be able to advertise their investment whereas for the public all we can say is called yes. and the we want to point out unintended consequences here there's a glaring example and the planned economy of china except that they didn't plan for

a shadow banking that were to destabilize their financial markets when in reality staring them in the face the chinese authorities clamped down and ended up freezing short term lending market turns out this led to a tremendous sell off and they're going for a trillion dollar bond market sounds like a two thousand and eight redux to certainly does finally it was a great day for high frequency traders at least the ones who bought privileged access to key economic data released earlier this morning the university of michigan's consumer sentiment. survey fell by five point one points meaning consumers you and me don't have as much confidence in the economy but fortunately for two firms they made a killing in the fifty milliseconds or so that they were able to front run the markets full of confidence. up next is a full day because we interviewed tracy mayer and andrea spencer now poised on the future of the cryptocurrency and then we had to beheld that virginia's gold belt to see what takes a long.