and you're looking at live pictures coming out of cairo fears gun battles reported outside a mosque in the gyptian capital were scores of promoter c. protesters were 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 the latest surveillance leaks reveals the notorious agency overstepped its authority thousands of times per year. and launches far east suffers its most of your flooding in decades and the worst could be 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.

you want you are to coming to live from the russian capital a marina josh welcome to the program in cairo the stand off between is the most 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 emerged the latest now from our correspondent there bell true. it's absolutely chaotic i literally just came from this downtown central square where this mosque is housed there were just there was gunfire everywhere a very pretty street back to this central mosque in ramses square the site of the protests yesterday it was between security forces and morsy supporters who were still barricaded in the inside one of the rooms in the mosque what happened in the

afternoon was that the shooter suddenly opened fire on the army and they responded with but it's the two sides kept firing each other meanwhile inside there are still hundreds of protesters i spoke to one. who stuck inside they say they are two rooms in the mosque there in the back room barricaded in this 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 inside in the other room the front room where the security forces are standing by police an army apparently they have been shooting at gas as well as live ammunition in this kind of chaotic battle 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 there are fears this could escalate and the foreign journalists might be attacked well the situation is really becoming very much worse as the days go on here in the capital and across the country there was a brotherhood supporters of ousted leader mohamed morsy have vowed to do daily

protests for the next week and we've already seen hundreds dead in these old cations between security forces and the protesters meanwhile the government to showing no signs of backing down the prime minister announced this afternoon that he would consider dissolving the motion brotherhood which is going to do nothing but fuel the fire in addition the supremum guy is the kind of ideological leader mohamed but the his son who is reported to be killed in the clashes on wednesday as absolutely no form of negotiation or reconciliation on the horizon we're still going to have street battles here in the capital there are a number of clashes happening outside in the governorates so we're really keeping an eye on the situation we're expected to get worse as the days go by. well earlier we spoke to political analyst hisham kassem and i think the wording is didn't have many alternatives restoring order by force. bliss should be addressed to the muslim brotherhood because basically they are the ones perpetrating their text unfortunately maybe as a retaliation 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 let's talk about the me gyptian authorities are trying to years with this they have been shooting at their own countrymen e.-s. . well ok they had to basically disband what was becoming an armed insurgency this was not a peaceful protest legalise round place in rabaul and not the square there were people there who 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 carried out the operation and are responsible for the bulk of the casualties but the question is was this a peaceful sit in 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 that are is to operations against the state will stop if morsy is reinstated they

were talking about at tacks on christians over fifty churches were burnt yesterday so again we're not exactly talking about a peaceful demonstration out there 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. well the blotch ship began when the military swept through to pro morsy sit ins on wednesday and there has been plenty of backing for the deposed leader across the muslim brotherhood the muslim world rather demonstrations in his support have happened a spar way as malaysia and here's a sow's a strong rally interviews a stamp of the country's leaders have also how will they criticize egypt's army's actions similar protests to in the yemeni capital tens of thousands of people turning out there by the neighboring gulf marquees taking an opposing stance giving their full backing to egypt's government which they say is fighting terrorism

washington's can damned what's happening but 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 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 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 we don't look at it through that prism we're looking at our longer term interests here in. qatar to call for our egypt timeline for much more on what's happening in the country and we've got social media reaction there including first hand accounts plus more videos from the scene. u.s. lawmakers are calling for reform and more transparency at the n.s.a.

after the latest edward snowden leak revealed the agency overstep 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 but the revelations suggest the n.s.a. has been trying to hide its mistakes misguided can 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 for the latest exposé puts more pressure on washington to carry out a server and transparent investigation of the n.s.c. especially considering xanana earlier this month president obama stood up to insist surveillance regulations or not be 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 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 all the white house earlier came 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 alice graham or trainer harvey thinks 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 self 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 f.b.i. and certainly the cia and n.s.a. on not allowed to surveil american citizens and yet more to every sane with this latest revelation courtesy of it was. a 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. well there

were a thousand bottles of water drunk every minute in the u.s. we tap into some industry facts might seem hard to swallow this abnormal is just have for you here in our. zachary what happened that day i don't know but a woman got killed. piers later is when i got arrested for. her crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. innocent people to confess the 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 and they were 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. well the facts this is our tina rushes far east is preparing for the worst flooding in a century waters are expected to peak next week with three large regions already affected four hundred sawzall hectares of farmland have been swamped possibly causing around sixty million dollars worth of damage. well thirty two thousand people have been

stricken by the disaster and over half of them have been relocated by emergency crews but up to one hundred thousand more may still need to be evacuated from their homes moscow's dispatching army units to help tackle the tragedy the disaster caused by downpours and early july is not expected to start receding until early next month. reports from 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 the already known 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 imo river which you can see behind me could bust its banks one

small compound matters even clothes in a tent to try and counter that's authorities are allowed walter to flow through the downs 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 there are hospitals and kitchens as well providing simple food such as bread to help those people who have been displaced mosco was doing is quick to limit the damage being caused but the real concern is with full flood plain which is expected in the coming days with the flood levels could rise the situation could be about to get worse. well stand by for a shock over the resilience of america's nuclear electricity plants a report says over one hundred reactors could not withstand a plane crash such as a nine eleven style attack we've got the details online. plus as russia's pole vault star gets crucified by western media for apparently defending moscow's banned gay propaganda under eighteen's find out what's been overlooked

from the comments dot com. right from the scene. of the. first street. and i think picture. on our reporter's twitter. instagram. the in the polls. well germany's social democrats are taking over central berlin this weekend to celebrate the party's one hundred fiftieth anniversary the rally is already been branded a campaign move by the ruling christian democratic party the socialist main political opponents in the upcoming general election meanwhile said to stage its only rally in hamburg the newly formed alternative for germany party which has its sights set

on getting into parliament looks like it might succeed what chancellor merkel c.d.u. insists europe should grow not the receipt and the social democrats seem to agree saying transborder ties should be strengthened but the alternative for germany party doesn't think so it's against the euro and once european states individual sovereignty to be sacrosanct and the christian democrats are up for the employment of immigrant workers in the public sector while the ass p.d.s.a. as they should have the same educational opportunities as german citizens. supporters though believe uncontrolled migration should be stopped when it comes to tough economic decisions chancellor merkel's party supports what he calls balancing the budget while the social democrats want to move towards growth but that it's too early too and hysteria only the alternative for germany that thinks the cuts have to stop let's now get some analysis from fred and he's

a co-founder of the european students for liberty movement thank you so much mr ritter for joining us here on r.t. what seems like the turn of the for germany party are sort of going against the grain here so what are their chances in these elections i mean is it likely are they likely to win over voters from the heritage parties and why. so definitely the current parties in own parliament and especially those in government do not meet the voters' demand of solving the euro crisis by a more decentralized monetary policy in europe but voters in germany are also interested in a very cosmopolitan approach on immigration or borders and they want to stay have this be this have a state staying out of people's bedrooms and the alternative for germany comes with a very conservative sort of view on society and most germans are much more

progressive than that and what about the al going coalition have they achieved what they were setting out to achieve before the elections so the coalition when they. started that coalition about four years ago they were talking about reducing the size of government and cutting taxes more economic freedoms and if you look at the size of public spending as a share on the whole economy it's still around between forty five and fifty percent so not much has changed also the promised reform of the day towards more of privately funded systems inter-generational justice this has not been done at all let's not talk about the existing opposition which is the greens and the social democrats how much of a challenge have they posed to the ruling party. so as i said earlier germans are demanding more social liberties but also more

economic liberties reducing the size of government cutting taxes and the leftist opposition in parliament is actually threatening the voters with even more government more regulation the higher taxes and more adept and that's not what people want well. taking into account the n.s.a. the revelations by edward snowden the. n.s.a. leaks and about the coalition in germany sort of granting the u.s. access to german surveillance programs. how much has merkel's government suffered as a result of that. so definitely german citizens want to have the government protecting the privacy and not for voting private information to for instance the end its aid or other intelligence services. the i'll try has been loud nol because there is the prison scandal. it looks that

actually not only the current government but also pos governments ever since nine eleven have been heavily involved in granting access to the private germans and also the german intelligence. seems to be very diligent with collecting information of the eighty two million german citizens. so that's why i don't know if the current parties and power of those which have been in power can actually really clean up this privacy mess because they all have their risks involved actually things being unveiled about maybe illegal acts they have signed with other countries and finally briefly if you can mr ritter how would you assess anglo merkel's handling of the economic crisis and you were up and basically against the complicated political and economic backdrop she seems to

have done quite well. so i would not say that the economic or political situation was too complicated america was benefiting from two very strong positive effects one was that the labor reform itself. should our government in the early two thousand produced. the deregulation of the labor market started kicking in when merkel actually became chancellor the second thing is that very heavy really increased demand from bric countries for instance china and india boosted the exports of german companies so that's why the economic domestic economic figures look actually much better than they would have looked without these external effects well code's economic policy did not contribute much at least nothing positive to the current economic numbers in germany right fred roeder co-founder of the european students for liberty movement thank you so much for sharing your views with us here on r t. pleasure and as drink bottled

water takes some beating as being seen as a purest of the pure summoning images of mounting glaciers and fresh springs but there's more to the multi-billion dollar industry especially worthy environments concerned and to see if you're going to have the details. going a day without water is hard to imagine. but so was paying a lot more money for the same think that comes out of attack that. 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 wire is a huge scam 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 already flown 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 you think 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. 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 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 the private water industry is really aggressively questioning. put public water that every human 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 than 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. 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 brand coming in every day pure 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 who 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. flow and they said you're going to. new york. well as if living near a toxic dump wasn't bad enough the bangladeshis forced to rely on it for their livelihood that's next in our to. the u.s. government project aero 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.

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