tonight on r t fierce gun battles at a mosque in cairo as security forces move in to force out hundreds of islamist protests this after an overnight see. russia's far east as its most severe flooding in decades of the worst could still be to thousands of people who falls for a band in the hopes of mergers and crews do their best to try to get them to safety . and rocking the votes the newly founded alternative of germany parties eyeing seats in parliament in next month's general election we take a look at whether they've got what it takes to take on the big guy.

live from moscow it's kevin i am with you this hour on r.t. and again main story tonight from us egypt in cairo the standoff between islam is protesters who've been holed up in a downtown mosque and security forces ended in a deadly shootout all of those people have now reportedly been forced out of the mosque hundreds barricaded themselves inside the building overnight fearing arrest if they emerged loyalists of the ousted president mohamed morsi initially hid in the mosque during a nationwide day of anger trying to saw intense clashes around the whole country which left up to one hundred people dead it means the number of deaths since wednesday now exceeds seven hundred thirty i can tell you we're hoping very soon to talk live to our correspondent bell trues trying to get through the barricades right now to our broadcast position to find the latest so we'll bring that to you soon but earlier we spoke to us from egypt's constitution party he told us the muslim brotherhood is soley to blame he says for the bloodshed. we had protesters

that were in a sit in and that was accused of criminal acts and accused of harboring visions of and whoring militants and using kids and children as human shields and there is no political justification that can be put to that there is a political demand that you put children as human shields and you use militants and you put children beside militants as human shields but there's just hash word why he was sorry for interrupting you but those protests were not as well they were sitting in there and just protesting against what they saw i apologize i apologize they were not they were not peaceful they were not peaceful at all this city than they were to continually. sprout marches through the neighborhoods and to the surrounding neighborhoods where a lot of militants were shooting at rampage at any crowd or any civilians in the streets that were and team will see what n.t. the muslim brotherhood i've been shut out for about i've been caught in a crossfire between the muslim brotherhood who is going to be held responsible for innocent why is an investigation an investigation should be an investigation should

be carried but you cannot there is no political cover there is no political reasoning to have a militant march in the streets of cairo whenever you see police or army marching through the streets of cairo you will not see if you are not see people terrified do not see people scared away but if you see a militant group like the muslim brotherhood marching through you know you'll find a lot of people screaming away and running away because we know that the these are our men these are militants they are shooting at anybody that this agree with the political rather active there is no political cover for such act there is no political cover to burn down churches when you have been attacked by the police if you are protesting in the police if you're interesting or we have you know when we are you should actually and then it's you should you are not go down and burn down churches it's not you know it's a territorial people it's a little bit unfair i'll just shy ok let me just ask you a question here there's no rosa learns how to decide i'm sorry i mean this is this intervention of this is hosting care i don't have sides may i ask you for each and

there are no two sides there or do we solicit our civilians their education people there is a nation sorry i am telling you there is no two sides. well the bloodshed began when the military swept through two pro morsy sit ins on wednesday and there's been plenty of backing for the deposed leader across the muslim world demonstrations in his support of top of his far away as malayasia. thousand strong rally in turkey's istanbul the country's leaders have also heavily criticized the egyptian army as actions similar protests to in the yemeni capital tens of thousands of people have turned up the neighboring gulf one accuser taking an opposing stance given their full backing to egypt's government which they say is fighting terrorism washington's condemned what's happening but isn't taking any concrete measures 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 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 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 or the. looking at our longer term interests here. go r.t. dot com for our egypt timeline for much more on what's happening in the country we've got a special media reaction there including first hand accounts plus more videos from the sea. big news story developing here in russia russia's far east preparing for the worst flooding in a century waters are expected to peak next week with three large regions already effect as you can see on the news all their four hundred thousand hectors of farmland have been swamped possibly causing around sixty million dollars worth of damage already or thirty two thousand people have been stricken by the disaster

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 try to help tackle this unfolding tragedy the disaster that was caused by downpours in early july and it's not expected to start receding until next month marti's paul scott the report's next from one of the stricken districts the flood stretches from east to west a 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 separated 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. points where people are seriously concerned that these are the hydroelectric power stations where water levels out the markets are at a critical level knobs a real fear that the apple river which you can see behind me could bust its banks

once more and could power matters even further in a tent to try and counter that authorities are allowing water to flow through that arms at 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 by about hospitals and by about kitchens as well providing simple food such as bread to help those people who have been displaced moscow is doing its bit to limit the damage being caused but the real concern is with all four. water is expected in the coming days the flood levels could rise the situation could be about to get worse. we'll keep you posted on the developing story of the coming hours and days now germany social democrats are taking over central berlin this weekend to celebrate the party's hundred fiftieth anniversary the rallies are already being branded a campaign move by the ruling christian democratic party the socialist main political opponents in the upcoming general election meantime set to stages o'reilly in hamburg the newly formed alternative for germany party which has its

sights set on getting into parliament it looks like it might succeed to chancellor merkel's c.d.u. and says europe should grow big in the social democrats seem to agree with that saying trans border tie should be strengthened but the alternative for germany party sees things very differently it's against the euro and it wants european states individual sovereignty to be sacrosanct on the thorny issue of immigration the christian democrats would like to see migrants employed in the public sector and the s.t.p. . best p.d. rather want to give them equal education opportunities to germans as well and have the supporters though believe uncontrolled immigration must be stopped now in today's tough economy chancellor merkel's party wants to balance the budget. well the social democrats want growth but too early to endorse geraghty alternative for germany though the think the cuts have to stop now fred reuters the co-founder of the european students for the liberty movement he says german voters to be

disappointed by the coalition for some time now the current parties in 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 the coalition when they started out a 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 it still around between forty five and fifty percent so not much has changed 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. with over a thousand bottles of water drunk every minute in the united states we toughed into some industry facts which might seem hard to swallow just a taste of what's to come right after this quick break.

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the government actually abusing these programs and. listening in on people's phone calls or inappropriately reading people's e-mails what you're 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 white came under fire for suggesting intelligence chief james clapper will lead a probe into the n.s.a.'s conduct washington was forced to but track 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 analysts more trina harvey told me he thinks the u.s. government and the n.s.a. the two interdependent though the fallout over these latest embarrassing revelations this is domestic surveillance and it is politically hugely embarrassing that's why i don't think it's for role 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 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 not have received 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 for any government is political embarrassment and they have this in scads. online stand by for a shock over the resilience of america's nuclear plants

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multi-billion dollar industry of course especially where the environment is concerned and this is it churkin it investigates. going a day 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 could 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 have already 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 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 you think 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 they definitely benefit from people thinking that tap water is not as safe as a wired. 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 that's really have attempted to convince us that the only

place to get clean and safe water is out of a bottle we all know it's not true that a profit water industry is merely aggressively pushing. put public water that he made right into private and work in countries where pollution is high people have no choice but for americans there certainly is expert see 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 upper 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 bottled water low it's like water with water with activists it's time to break the myth for consumers to change habits before water is a human right is lost is it that we want to be providing our water is. that our. 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. flow and they said you're going to. new york. my complete change of titan about her top story the standoff between islamist protesters who've been holed up in a mosque in cairo and security forces ended in and shoot out a bit earlier one of those protesters reportedly being forced out of the building let's get an update live go to our correspondent in karachi is that tahrir square bill true is there hi bell very quiet behind you now at the moment i guess it's what about forty minutes to go to the curfew but tahrir square closed off anyway by the security forces all the horrendous action today how to couple of kilometers from you didn't it bring us up to speed. absolutely this extremely tense and bloody standoff between morsy supporters and security forces and he did so finally after twenty four hours actually happened today i was there by this

central cairo mosque as you said a few kilometers away away from where i'm standing and there were about seven hundred to a thousand protesters holed up in a room barricaded in against the security forces that encircled this mosque following protests on friday that turned into clashes when morsy supporters and members of their police force basically had a massive clash so what happened today was that these people were stuck in that they haven't had access to water or food for twenty four hours they were injured people in there they needed medical attention the security forces were firing tear gas and i mean into the building and about two pm three pm this afternoon a shooting from one of the minaret started firing on the security forces which then erupted in another bout of clashes it was absolutely chaotic there was take us there were gunfire some foreign journalists themselves. very muddled up in the whole fray it was a complete mess basically meanwhile these protesters were stuck in this back room

calling their relatives and also media attention they said they needed help especially as the ones who were injured there had been a makeshift morgue at this particular mosque during the day on friday the bodies had been removed but the in just hadn't right now the latest the how the security forces have taken them out of the mosque and arrested them so we have to wait to see how that story develops what's the bigger picture aside from what's going on at the mosque throughout the rest of the country throughout the rest of karo what's happening. well we had quite an important press conference by the president see just recently who basically said that the foreign media had been covering the events particularly the ones that happened on friday and on wednesday in a very inaccurate manner they said that the most in brotherhood and supporters of mohamed morsy had actually been attacking police stations and churches and they condemned the international media reaction as well they basically supported the security forces behaved here and said that it was necessary violence against the violence

put forward by the morsy supporters and essentially said that egypt was continue to be unified even though we are seeing this massive amount of violence and the prime minister also released a statement said today saying that the muslim brotherhood should perhaps be dissolved and he also mentioned that there's been a number of churches burned by is this is a misquote is of mohamed morsi as well as police stations attacked me one of the brotherhood side we've had a fatality of those supreme guide mohamad maybe he was the kind of theological leader his son was killed so we're going to see a lot of anger from the mr brotherhood side as well we've got a very divided egypt to science refusing to back down a lot of violence with a rising death toll this story isn't going to end any time soon truth for that live update from tahrir square they will become but. of course the thank you. will take you some world news now in brief but coming up to twenty five minutes past eight moscow time the hydrofoil and a barge collided in siberia leaving six dead and forty seven injured the. river

just observe the city. the captain of the hydro for lose reportedly drunk at the time apparently strayed off course a round into the side of a barge plans are in place to raise the sunken vessel from the riverbed. another maritime tragedy to bring it to this time in the philippines where heavy rains and rough sea conditions of forced divers to suspend their search for one hundred seventy missing people who are on board is some confederate vessels carrying more than eight hundred when it collided with a cargo ship on friday most have been rescued many passengers escaped by jumping overboard but the rest were trapped inside at least thirty two people are confirmed dead so far hundreds die in ferry accidents in the philippines every year because of overcrowding and the poor condition of the ships. a string of brutal attacks in afghanistan again polisi say taliban militants armed with assault rifles attacked a road construction crew this time in the country's west killing ten in another

incident five members of a family were killed in southern afghanistan when their minivan hit a roadside bomb and in the western province three died when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a private clinic violence is increasing across afghanistan these days with insurgents scrambling to regain territory before the nato pull out at the end of twenty fourteen. of the heads russian cosmonauts have undertaken one of the longest ever walks in space they spend seven and a half hours outside the international space station setting up power cables for a new science lab that's set to arrive in a few months time it was the third of six russian excursions outside the judge ruled for this year of very best of the. destinies up so far are going to join me again for the latest in thirty five minutes time here in r.t. international between now and then much and stacy look at what's really driving up food prices and also to the british treasury chief sleight of hand with well first savings all revealed in the kaiser report.

the u.s. government project aero marti 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 in action but the

big question is who gives the u.s. government the right to propagandize cuba is 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. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on r.t. question more.

welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser the creepy cult of carney says inflation is tame at a mere two point eight percent in northern england this week however a pair of armed thieves were involved in a five hour standoff with police after barricading themselves into a cafe in order to steal quiche yes this stuff kiddush but it is still a cast the company is trast they know that's worth next to nothing in this economy they just wanted the kids. the mere existence of kids thieves in the u.k. is a result.