there was no evidence of what they did or what they said. gyptian security forces clear hundreds of muslim brotherhood supporters out of a mosque in cairo after an overnight siege in fierce gun battles. russia's far east suffers its most severe flooding in decades and the worst could still be to come thousands of people being forced to abandon homes as emergency crews do their best to try to get them to safety. and the newly founded alternative for 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.

hello if you just joined us for a good evening from moscow it's kevin oh in the with you here this hour you're watching out international and first again tonight we start with egypt where the standoff between islamist protesters who've been holed up in a downtown mosque in cairo and security forces has ended an intention all of those protesters have now been forced out of the building our correspondent bell trues in cairo she brings you the latest. it's extremely tense and bloody standoff between morsi supporters and security forces and finally after twenty four hours watching happen today i was there by this central cairo mosque 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 big 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 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 rocketed info in other bouts of clashes it was absolutely chaotic there was tear gas 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 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 at the end just hadn't right now the latest we have the security forces have taken them out of the mosque and arrested them so we have to wait to

see how that story develops and the prime minister also released a statement said today saying that the muslim brotherhood should perhaps be dissolved and he also mentioned that they have been a number of churches burned by is this is a misquote is of mohamed morsi as well as police stations attacked meanwhile in the brotherhood side we've had the fatality of the supremes guy mohamad by the who is that kind of theological leader his son was killed so we're going to see a lot of anger from the muslim brotherhood side as well we've got a very divided egypt today with two science refusing to back down a lot of violence with the rising death toll this story isn't going to end anytime soon. well to our correspondent at the scene there earlier we spoke to our current hawaii from egypt's constitution party he told us even though the muslim brotherhoods bore the brunt of the casualties the movement's soley to blame for the bloodshed. we had protesters that were in a sit in and that was accused of criminal acts and accuse of harboring visions of whoring militants and using kids and children as human shields and there's no

political justification that can be put to put 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 what i thought he was sorry for interrupting you but those protests were they were not as well they were sitting in there and just protesting against what they saw i apologize apologize they were not they were not peaceful they were not peaceful i'll talk we also have the suits have a protester seemingly surrendering with with his hands up and what happens next minute is is being shot at. 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 you're not see people terrified you're 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 acts 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 are testing before we have you know when we are you should actually understand if you should you are not going down and burn down churches it's not you know it's a terrible people it's a little bit unfair i was just shy there are no two sides there only the egyptian nation egyptian people that has said the world there's no two conflict of sides there is the gyptian people and they're terrified by a terroristic act of a mass murdering machines that is loose in the streets and there are police force and the army trying to protect the civilians of egypt from this is. there was a political paradigm if there was a political protest they would not have been marching with machine guns they would not be assembling in the streets having a camp or having a sit down with the torture people that the suspect will be killed civilians on

site will be shoot at the neighborhood wives since just a discussion with dr he's a member of the egyptian forum in the united kingdom he strongly reject any claim that the muslim brotherhood protesters are stirring up the violence. a legitimate system that's ruling the country is just turning in nothing but lies all the time it's like a lying machine all the time. they control the media and they control everything in the country and they say whatever they like we've seen the they do use of the demonstrators of all the egyptians and the other lie they say these are rather their supporters that's not true brotherhood are there but there are so many other ordinary egyptians who are not related in any way or form to all the muslim brotherhood to your same logic are saying to die there is no way there are any muslim brotherhood members that could be picking up arms and shooting them here and how can you be sure of that being in egypt and i've been watching all these people

the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of peaceful people on the street we can see anyone with any weapon amongst these women children families from all parts of egypt. those who organize these demonstrations have declared clearly that we are peaceful and most of the egyptians. taken part in this them stations fully understand and realize that their their strength and their power and their success lies and the peaceful and peaceful approach to this because of the minute they carry weapons they knows the case at this time is there any chance for reconciliation to think it's gone far beyond that it's now after all these thousands of killings and massacres we have seen.

members of the military force unfortunately killing with with with the sort of gun that's only used in the battlefield against warriors not against children and women i'm sure many people have seen the images of those who have been. killed with these sorts of. weapons i think at that stage the military coup has failed and it's gone far beyond any sort of frequency of use. i was dr saad he was a member of the egyptian form of the u.k. speak to me earlier on the bloodshed began where the military swept through two pro morsy sit ins on wednesday there's been plenty of backing for the deposed leader across the muslim world the ministrations of his support of hamas far away in fact as malays here here you're seeing thousands strong in a rally in turkey sr all the country's leaders of also heavily criticized the egyptian armies actions similar protests to in the yemeni capital tens of thousands of people turning their neighboring gulf monarchies are taking the opposing stance

giving 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 this year. 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 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's

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 are really. every single day and like that means that you can't you know your target 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 us we don't look at it through that prism or looking at our longer term interests here in. your article calling for egypt timeline for much more of what's happening in the country because social media reaction there including firsthand accounts to war videos from the scene.

russia's far east is preparing for the worst flooding in a century waters are expected to pick next week with three large regions already affected 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 so far in this disaster over half of them have been relocated by emergency crews but now two hundred thousand more may still need to be evacuated from their homes moscow's dispatching army units to help tackle the unfolding tragedy this disaster was caused by downpours the early july it's not expected to start receding either until next month ati's pull scott 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. 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. people

a seriously concerned at least the hydroelectric power stations where water levels at the moment a critical level now is a real thing which you can see behind me could bust its banks one small you can power to even close in a tent to try and counter that's authorities are allowing walter to flow through the dams increased rates 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 hospitals and kitchens as well providing simple food such as bread to help those people who have been displaced doing it's great to limit the damage being caused by the real concern with. expected in the coming days with the flood levels could rise from the situation could be about to get worse keep truckin out story. water the news in fact after the break as well for other reasons with. every minute in the united states. which might seem to swallow just to tell you

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i would rather ask questions for people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find life though larry king now right here on r.t. question more. hello again could have a bout with us twenty three forty moscow time now germany's social democrats are taking over central berlin this weekend to celebrate the party's hundred fiftieth anniversary that the main challenges to the ruling christian democratic party at the upcoming general election but it's not a two horse race the newly formed alternative for germany also has in its sights getting into parliament and the prospects look promising in the chancellor merkel's ruling party insists on stronger ties between the states and their pro european

stance a shared as well in fact by the rival social democrats but alternative for germany sees things differently it's against the euro and it wants powers to be devolved away from brussels now on the economy the main rival parties are also largely in agreement both merkel of the social democrats think it's too early to end austerity but i'll turn to for germany thinks the cuts now have to stop fred road is co-founder of the european students for liberty movement he told us german voters have felt disappointed by the coalition for some time now. 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 the coalition when they started 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 public spending it's 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. rising house prices and falling salaries united kingdom that's what our economy wizards max kaiser and stacy herbert are talking about today in the cards report on their fifteen minutes from now let's take a quick look. u.k. wages fall among sharpest in e.u. figures show real wage value is falling five point five percent since two thousand and ten more than in euro zone crisis countries such as spain and cyprus wages used to provide the capital that feel the capitalist economy but the capital so-called that's fueling the speculation is borrowed money you don't need the wage earners anymore you don't need people working because you don't need their taxes it's a perfect was in this economy you don't need that money because you can borrow from the bank of england for zero percent you don't need workers like saudi arabia they

don't need the people because they just sell the oil so there's all of archy there's a royalty there's five thousand princes then everyone else lives in abject poverty same thing in the u.k. you've got the bank of england which is a gusher of free money we don't need anyone else we don't need their wages we don't need their taxes so they can all just die and that's the message from cameron wake up and die you sorry ass mo fo that's david cameron's matches to use the united kingdom good luck with that. from mexico the very soon tonight now the punk band pussy riot forum celebrities praised the russian church goes cold the nation and a year ago today they were jailed when the tories stoned to moscow's cross to save a cathedral most are still serving their sentences. the one member who was released to hear 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 i looked into and the deals 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 and i just. add protest was directed against the policies of the russian orthodox church and of our state leadership because they managed into an entity which we never stated 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 onto the general public. ten days after the eccentric displayed a 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 but don't red hot chili peppers franz ferdinand and a handful of other well known musicians joined hundreds globally in protesting against with the riots two year prison sentence for hooliganism and inciting religious hatred at home though many saw it differently. than you the post you my 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. an orthodox

church which he tore it off considering they performed in not just any temple but also in a memorial to soldiers fallen in the eight hundred twelve war against napoleon and i feel that having a trial was the right thing that is to draw attention to mega tippity but giving them prison terms was excessive we should have sent them on an education course to mend their perception instead just since that was the right verdict a year ago russia has adopted a law criminalizing those who insult the religious beliefs of others a step to death necessary by the authorities in order to prevent such things from happening again some would say he says time behind bars in the north stop with 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 the prison in march next year next year shufti r.t. moscow. cover stories in brief tonight no hydrophone to collide inside bear it's

left six dead and forty seven that accident happened only have to just outside the city of all the captain of the hydrofoil it was reportedly drunk at the time apparently strayed off course and rammed into the side of the plans are in place to raise the sunken vessel from the river bed. another maritime tragedy decide to report on as well this time in the philippines where heavy rains and rough seas caused conditions to be called off where divers were trying to find a hundred seventy missing people on board a sunken ferry the vessels carry more than eight hundred of the time when it collided with a cargo ship on friday most were rescued many passengers jumped overboard but the rest were trapped inside they think around thirty two people confirmed dead maybe more as the eye was go on hundreds die in ferry accidents in the philippines every year because of overcrowding and the poor condition of ships. a string of brutal attacks in afghanistan where police say taliban militants armed with assault rifles attacked a road construction crew in the country's west that left ten of them dead in

another incident five members of a family were killed in southern afghanistan when the minivan was hit by a roadside bomb and in the western province three died when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a private clinic violence generally increasing across afghanistan with insurgents scrambling to regain territory before the nato will have at the end of twenty fourteen. as drinks go bottled water takes a beating is being seen as the purest of the pure something images then of mountain glasses and fresh springs but there's more of course to the multibillion dollar industry especially where the environment is concerned parties are nice to see a church in the reports. 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 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 water 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 all the 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 it they sure like their beautiful people or rivers coming down long term it's all about health so yeah it is a weird total fools but if you can experts 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 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 nestle have attempted to convince us that the only place to get clean and safe water is out of a bottle we all know is not true because it water industry is not really aggressively pushing. so you put public water in that every human right into private hands or 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 you know 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 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. that our you can 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 to be resistant to stop the flow and. mais think a mixed promise might cause her to stay here but in the u.k. government's dangerous game is with the economy here but two minutes from.

the video game company of heroes two is facing a lot of heat from gamers inside the former soviet union in fact fourteen thousand people thus far have taken the time to sign a change to org petition to get the game removed from former communist shelves across the land why are people so mad this looks like some sort of world war two game i mean and this type of game there isn't going to be a murdering of hookers or virtual rampaging through cities with rocket launchers so why did they start a petition for you to blogger called the bad comedian made a detailed twenty five minute video depicting all the gross historical inaccuracies and exaggerations throughout the game but he prefers the soviet army as a pack of slave driving before with every soviet officer wanting nothing more than

to shoot his old soldiers in the back or send them to the gulag forthwith according to polygon dot com the game exploits where moments in the wars history like some very limited battles were soviet soldiers went in unarmed and made it look as if sitting right fellas infantry directly into machine gun fire was part of the soviet army manual maybe it is a bit oversensitive to flip out over a dumb video game but lives repeated often enough will become true in the minds of millions of people who play the game and that's why you can't back down when it comes to historical falsification but that's just my opinion. plus defines a country's six. yes. faceless figures of economic growth. for a factual standard of living.

welcome because the report imax kaiser the great big called of carney says inflation is team at a mere two point eight percent.