fury in egypt security forces and program or supporters locked horns in the worst violence since the revolution two years ago that has left hundreds dead. a saudi prince speaks out against the wrong doings of the ruling monarchy in his own country condemning the injustice abuse and killings are t. talks to him exclusively. rubbish at spying wary londoners question the use of high tech litter bins that scam people smartphones a report on that shortly. and the storm of protest against the sochi winter olympics while some want to boycott the games over russia's law against gay propaganda to minors others call to use the event as

a political protest. oh. it's eight am here in moscow you're watching the weekly here on r t with me and use to now way we begin with egypt which is convulsing in bloody civil unrest more than seven hundred people killed this week alone across the country friday saw two hundred deaths and clashes in cairo between supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi and his opponents backed by the military pro brotherhood activists then barricaded themselves in a mosque the cvs later ended in a shoot out as artie's bell true reports extremely tense and bloody standoff between morsy supporters and security forces and he did so finally on to twenty four hours actually happened today i was there by this central cairo a mosque 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 these people were stuck in that they haven't had access to water or food 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 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 tear gas there was gunfire some foreign journalists themselves mounted 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 at the end just hadn't right now the latest be 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 and the prime minister also released a statement saying that the muslim brotherhood should perhaps be dissolved and he also mentioned that there have been a number of churches burned by is this is a misquote is of mohamed morsi as well as police stations attacked i mean one of the brotherhood side we've had the fatality of those two premier 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 mr brotherhood side as well we've got a very divided egypt today with two science refusing to back down a lot of violence with a rising death toll this story isn't going to end anytime soon. and we've been gauging opinion and insight into the bloody developments in egypt my colleague josh he spoke to our web hawaii from egypt's constitution party who believes that even though the muslim brotherhood has borne the brunt of the casualties the movement is solely to blame for this we have. testers that were in the sit in and that was

accused of criminal acts and accuse of harboring view should haves and 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 a real chance what i thought he was sorry for interrupting you but those protests were not small 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 continually. spread out marches through the neighborhoods and to the surrounding neighborhoods where a lot of militants were shooting at rampage at any crowd or any civilians industries that were anti morsi would n.t. the muslim brotherhood i've been shot at for about i've been caught in a crossfire between the muslim brotherhood they were shooting at civilians at the he described for three hours during the past month. and on the other side of the

fence dr saad amr a member of the egyptian forum in the u.k. says that's what's happening in egypt is nothing short of a severe crackdown against pro islamists supporters. it's it's an attack of the system against innocent peaceful demonstrations this is not a violence in the street these are not clashes these are people committing massacres against innocent people and then they say it as they want because they have the media and they have been just telling lies all the time firstly of being in egypt and been watching all these people the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of peaceful people on the street we can't see anyone with any with amongst these women children families from all parts of egypt. those who organize these demonstrations have declared clearly that we are peaceful well field

hospitals have been set up in mosques that are close to the fighting in cairo themselves becoming focal points for confrontation arches policy or visited one that is now being used as a makeshift morgue. after every battle days of reckoning this is where the tally for this week's deadly clashes is taking place here i mean that human must where the bodies of the date and current are being force and it was here finally with the fia helmi mohammed found her son she learnt on facebook the twenty three year old had been killed she tried in vain to get through sniper fire to reach the a dummy a mosque where he'd been camping for weeks as well as died from two bullets one was in his heart their army claims the protesters had weapons but it was a peaceful sit in the police killed him they were standing on top of the roofs they burned some of the bodies and burned some people alive it was egypt's most bloody day of violence since the revolution two and

a half years ago this old man managed to save his koran but not his wife she was among the hundreds killed many of them burnt beyond recognition tears of anguish against the backdrop of angry demonstrations i think that's why you march a city obey the. people when they go to the district in the jones here it is i think you said that i listen and i'm obeying the will of the egyptian be able went to the streets how about this we were watched day in the street for forty seven days then they would rise and their gift is to kill them dr mohamed mahmoud was on duty when the first casualty started coming in within hours he treated several dozen patients they wounds were worse than anything he'd seen before marking a turning point he says from which there is no return the egyptian army usually defend people but what we know are they gyptian army even our religion we have

some prophecies said these are the best army and over the world but not to kill his own people his the egyptians all are as we are our history with the egyptian army to defend us not to kill us this that's why i'm saying this is a very bad and black chap. the accusations and counter-accusations are heating up each side blames the other for unprovoked excessive violence the army stands accused of firing at an armed protesters while the brotherhood is feared for spreading violence anything is possible now unfortunately and every single step that we've been witnessing from since january twenty five. we don't think the next step is going to happen it's so far away and then it happens so anything is possible the interior ministry has given police a green light to use live ammunition against anyone who attacks government buildings while the muslim brotherhood is vowing nothing will stop its glorious revolution in a country many fear is now teaching on the brink of civil war policy

r t cairo. catch up with what's going on in egypt at our g dot com where we have more firsthand accounts of the dramatic events sports radio the images right from the heart of the on the right. already at the center of a global surveillance mount stromlo are new privacy scandal is a rupture in the u.k. this one though over rubbish britain's high tech trash cans in london can now identify passer by as passers by i should say by scanning their smartphones apparently in the name of advertising is probably explained. just a ben think again these nifty looking lesser bins are connected so why five and that means that they can track the movements of each and every person walking down this street as long as they've got

a smartphone that's connected to wise by now the digital stalking is all in the name of advertising simply by knowing who you are and where you're going they can alter the images on the screen here to tailor the investments to whoever is walking down the street in the city of london corporation have said that they also. his son by despite technology that they've asked the company responsible for the bins to switch them off the local authority here say that schemes like this require the backing of an informed public but just how aware are all the british public of the erosion of the so-called digital privacy in the wake of the n.s.a. scandal it's been revealed that it's not just come on show companies but entire governments that are spying on their citizens and just last week we found out that just telecom on the boat a phone have been secretly processing on details of their customers conversations over to intelligence agency g c h q like coming to my privacy on those issues without my knowledge it would be a cause of concern is a breach of lorries

a breach of confidentiality i just wouldn't have nothing to hide so i don't really care but still i don't think that. that's fair from them not telling us that when we present information to governments who are true in your twenty's citizens private information should stay private i've got nothing to hide so it doesn't matter let's have identity to go along all that stuff is very much to the other side is there anything in the final things i shouldn't do and so on to be honest with you must surveillance is now a reality of our everyday lives c.c.h. cuchulainn say so hoover and according to experts they screw up as much information as possible online and through telephone traffic in order to school through it so there is that they made these things say much more information than many of its uses even from back when a boy i see on a former m i six agent harry ferguson says in all likelihood your data isn't staying put in that bin. this is always the danger that your personal data.

that it will be passed on further and we already know that a lot of the major companies google and so forth that get shared far more widely than one would expect and i think it's just another reminder to everybody to draw and guard your data privacy as best you can and revealed that there are many programs of prying on people's digital security and the lesson is that all those who expose the role of the n.s.a. . in britain they should also be aware that other countries are also spying on their privacy i went to a conference just recently which concerned invasions were abroad and in particular circuit boards in this case some would come from china and when they were examined closely it was found that they had extra circuits on that nobody could explain and when the chinese firm was asked why these circuits on this particular board would go into these computers the chinese simply said we can't tell you it's commercial

confidence please send them straight back so i think we've got to be careful of everybody our own governments and foreign governments as well. darling faith in the dollar and a currency meltdown prompts germany to recall its gold stocks across the u.s. . washington though it has attained its refusing to let so much of the gold in its entirety i report on that found out if coming up. for the kurds trapped in a world full of war we report on the plight of ethnic minorities there which is found itself in the way i don't think groups were aiming to set up and it's one mixtape. except the situation or go to jail that's the message saudi authorities are sending to the opposition jails are packed by those who dared to speak out of the country's dire human rights record has ignited resistance within the monarchy itself r.t. arabic spoke exclusively to saudi prince khaled bin for an hour saudi whose protest

forced him to become a dissident himself. the government is obviously scared of the arab revolutions and they've responded as they usually do by resorting to oppression violence arbitrary law and arrests but the easiest thing they can do is deprive you of your salary or fire you altogether so the ruling regime is not guarded by justice and this is especially true of the ministry of interior there is no independent judiciary that has both police and the prosecutor's office are countable to the interior ministry and the ministries officials investigate crimes they call them crimes related to freedom of speech so they fabricate evidence but don't allow people to have attorneys things like that happen all over the place they even put people under arrest for an indefinite amount of time even if a court rules to release such a criminal the ministry of interior keeps him in prison even though there is

a court order to release him and there have even been killings shillings and as for the external opposition saudi intelligence forces buying these people abroad there is no safety inside or outside the country could you describe these people who oppose the royal family and what are their goals opposition used to demand water people's representation in governing bodies that were more rights and freedom but the authorities reacted with violence and persecution instead of a dialogue and now the opposition wants this regime gone but we both know that despite numerous human rights violations also directly b.s.c. your country selden face the street decision from the west and from the united states in particular but when senior u.s. officials meet with their saudi counterparts they think they can be any critical comments from washington obviously riyadh what how can white house certainly does maintain a longstanding alliance with the leaders of saudi arabia that cemented by common

interests in the middle east to that end there are classified contacts between riyadh in. the u.s. administration and in recent time they've been employed to step up the government administered reforms but those reforms are not driven by the least desire to empower the people of the kingdom is at them instead they are merely urged by reforms that the regime might call unless it reforms itself in question is widespread in saudi arabia there is no free speech no freedom of expression corruption is rampant in all areas from the level bureaucrats to high ranking officials of every civil servant is very skillful in using bribes in their operations. and it's derma newitz recently came under an avalanche of criticism over a multi-billion dollar arms deals sealed with saudi arabia and other gulf nations who also have questionable human rights record exports to the gulf monarchies have almost tripled in just two years from five hundred seventy million euros in twenty eleven to almost a billion and

a half in twenty twelve and angela merkel's government has approved weapons exports of more than eight hundred million euros in the first half of this year suggesting the level will continue to grow now the six countries in the region that berlin sells weapons to are saudi arabia bahrain kuwait oman qatar and the you a several of which have seen government crackdowns on the regime protesters since the arab spring saudi arabia is the biggest buyer with arms imports last year worth one point two four billion euros activists claimed german made small arms ammunition and military vehicles were commonly used by middle eastern and north african regimes to suppress peaceful demonstrations well adam kugel from human rights watch says that germany should give up its business ambitions in the gulf. western countries in general should look at the widespread crackdown that's going on against human rights political and pro reform activists going on in the country

when they make these deals they should these governments that have good relationships with the saudis should make it clear that what they're doing. is really goes against the pro reform agenda that king abdullah has been trumpeting since he came to power in two thousand and five what we've seen in the last at least i could say in two thousand and thirteen is an increasing crackdown we've seen many high profile convictions over the last few months women's rights activists are uni and was he on the way there got ten months in prison for merely trying to assist a woman who was in distress who claimed that she was she was not being provided enough food to live and then they went to her house to try to help her in the police arrested her so we're seeing a widespread campaign against anyone who speaks out against the policies of the. current government and any activist who calls for human rights reforms and political reforms and i think that these western countries that have military

relationships or other relationships with saudi arabia should make clear that this is unacceptable behavior. is he said iraq is down to its last option and how to curb the violence plaguing the country after months of an wrath and killings baghdad says it will welcome u.s. droughns targeting al qaeda on its territory a method widely condemned for civilian deaths in other countries that are mine for you today. and the so-called zombie pigeon epidemic in moscow has some muscovites sounding the alarm as they believe the disease could spread to humans read more at r.t. dot com. this week saw a storm of worldwide protest directed at russia with l.g. bt activists calling to move the twenty fourteen winter olympics from sochi or boycott the games altogether they were opposing what they branded an anti-gay law adoption in russia the recent legislation against the promotion of homosexuality to minors together with my colleagues say we interviewed

a panel of guests on the issue. we are an international community bonded by the homophobia that affects all of us and what we have to do is take a stand against the fact that the government is actually preventing education rather than propaganda that is desperately needed feel people who are growing up lesbian and gay growing up with prejudice this causes death it causes distress anti gay bullying is terrific but it also is deep in issues because of course it is starting to silence the liberals the good people in russia who would normally be allies of lesbian and gay people because of course they don't speak out so it's not just the bigots that homophobes that it's giving more power to siling think they're good allies so i think we need to take an international stand want to talk about a political commentator alexander de-classified there london as well as the recent levada poll recently saying that more than half of russian support the law and

conservative traditions alexander your thoughts are not well i've heard that there was two thirds who were supporting the law but that may tell you something about the liberal laws be here and the gay lobby as well we've heard. none none existing debate about gay marriage same sex marriage the debate was suppressed by the liberal elite nobody was allowed to say anything the moment you questioned you know whether it's a wise thing to do you were immediately accused of being homophobic i think it's time for the gay community to realize you cannot prevent other people from having their own views and in london you know of one also one complete and total implodes total intolerance by the good by the liberal elites that not all of this political correctness has turned into censorship in your proxy from l.g. bt sport is it right to boycott the olympics no it's not trying to completely control such a lame piece because lympics plates. don't deserve such

a treatment in the modern history of the movement we had to boycotts. and in the early one nine hundred eighty four so if lives couldn't compete in a competitive atmosphere for twelve years it's not the fault of the we haven't to get legislation in russia my opinion is the limbic must be there's no place for boycotts for liam big some very cool. friendly countries and national teams to raise their rainbow flags and to march to the opening ceremony parade holding hand by hand man to be the man and we wouldn't you know the show there so we do we do within the community all of the countries and i think this gets forgotten have signed in the limbic charter which states that there is no kind of demonstration or political religious or racial propaganda allowed any olympic sites venues or other

areas is the l z b t community going to allow this a live picture to become about gay rights and not about the olympics and also what about other minorities that feel like they need to have their say at the olympics how many protests are we going to see or we're going to have a gay pride protest and then a protest about western countries that what russia to intervene in syria and then another protest from the environmentalists they don't think the olympics should be held there at all everyone's going to want to have their say so for you constantine you're about the sport you represent the l g b t community in russia where is this going to go according to the article. sports is a human right so and the limbic spirit of peace and friendship going to stand together with any form of discrimination including discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation let's be honest be very clear brother this is being used as a cliche across the world calling this an anti gay lore in russia it is actually an

amendment prohibiting gay propaganda to my. the way the law is being portrayed in the west i just want to go through some of the things and also the delayed reaction to the law it went into effect june thirtieth the first big headlines we started to hear was on july twenty first in the new york times putin declares war on homosexuals is that the case know the independent homophobic laws lead to attacks on gay young men russes war on gays and the list goes on it's not being represented for the law as it is whether or not the law is good or bad we can debate out gay man living in russia have to. understand the differences between living in london and living in moscow first of all i think the law is wrong the law is bad and it should be cherry and so i think the timing for the russian government with such coming up is terrible however there's a little thing called section twenty eight which margaret thatcher brought in in one thousand nine hundred eight which was a similar law for the protection of children which went all the way into two thousand and three so first of all even though that was in place in the u.k.

the gay community went along with the lifestyle to the gay marriage that we have today which is a great thing so that if therefore does not prove that even though it was a law that was put in the wrong place actually culture actually nurtured itself as as basically a scouse journalist here i know the reality of life and i just wanted to put to stop the styria you know it doesn't snow all year around there's a simmering active thriving gay community in russia and indeed in sochi when i was filming the last week there was one that. the founder of russia's gay pride movement has refused to give any more comment to western media saying his words have been misinterpreted lately to discredit russia and its government he stressed he wasn't going to help anyone turn the issue into a political one this followed a twitter over an article published in the guardian which suggested children would be taken away from homosexual couples in russia. but one of russia's most famous athletes olympic pole vault champion eventless and buy of us

spoke out in support of the law saying it's background lines in the country's history she also said trying to boycott the games would be unfair to competitors. it's the respect all to our country and some respect old to our citizen because we are russians maybe we are different than european people there are other people from different lands we have our law with everyone have to respect we. can see there are ourself like. normal standard. people we just lived with the voices woman's movements was boys and oh everything must be fine here it comes from the history and if some police and if some person who are not and try to make such a problem as they does. i called the gears because of this because of our law so i think it's unfair front of the. isn't by adverse comments quickly drew

fire from l g b t supporters who branded her a homophobe however ben harris quiney from the think tank the bow group believes she had a point when she called on athletes not to use the olympics as a platform for views billie. was slightly broken she clarified what she was trying to say in that nation's travel to international sporting events they should respect the culture and the laws of the host nation and i think that's a subsidy right if you're going to take part in international sporting events as any country i think you have to go there in recognition of the fact that the country may well be different from your own it's a point of international engagement with russia because there's a there's a major international tournament that's that's going to take place next year i don't think it's appropriate to political views in that forum clearly there are many athletes that feel the same way it's far from just russia we really beijing in two thousand and eight hopefully we're going to be in qatar in twenty fourteen as

world and it's about going to those countries and focusing on the sport not focusing on the differences between the between the culture and laws in those countries. even billions can't buy happiness coming up as foreign lenders consider another cash injection to save the drab greek economy may there have lost all hope of a happy future as the crisis takes away what they love. in the worst flooding in a century forces thousands to flee their homes and russia's far east as authorities plan to evacuate even more people from the stricken region. whether preempting or eurozone meltdown or losing faith in the dollar the german government is pulling much of gold back home and if the u.s. that sounds to be worst hit during the cold war much of berlin was moved to vaults across america places so safe that the germans are having trouble actually getting their gold back are just going to camp reports. behind these walls is one of the

most secretive organizations in the world the us federal reserve whether twice to audit them it's a wall this place is impenetrable for clean years the u.s. federal reserve has been the place where many countries of the word a big chunk of their nation's wealth as the country's weathered different waves of economic crises economic instability the federal reserve seems to them like a more or less secure place to keep their funds but are the funds really secure or are they even there there has been speculation for a long time that the fed doesn't actually have much gold that he has either sold it all lent it out or used it as collateral for borrowings either way there are many claims that the gold that is being stored on behalf of many nations doesn't actually exist germany has recently decided to bring home all these gold with the federal reserve says that it's not possible that it would need until two thousand and twenty to be able to accomplish such a transfer germany.