egypt's violence spiraled with more than eight hundred people killed in clashes between pro and security forces it's been the country's deadliest week since the revolution. and while the us government leaves global condemnation of the violence it stopped short of suspending military aid to egypt worth over a billion dollars a year. also in this week's headlines a saudi prince who has defected from there well family slams a monarchy for widespread human rights abuses and violently cracking down on the opposition and his exclusive interview with r.t. . plus london spying trash cans these wife i waste units are causing a heap of trouble by scaring the smartphones of passers by without their permission . and nearly twenty thousand people flee their delusion

homes in russia's far east after heavy rains bring the worst devastation in more than a century. in moscow watching r t with me marina joshing. now it's seeing its deadliest violence since the two thousand and eleven revolution with more than eight hundred people killed across the country over the past week supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi and the authorities blame each other for provoking the carnage the situation escalated after security forces broke up until government sit ins and anti-government sit ins i should say an islamist rioters retail jeda by setting fire to official buildings and attacking christian churches are just bell true has been witnessing the mayhem in cairo with firsthand. well the tensions are palpable

here in the capital cairo as today marks the start of what the morsy supporters have called departure the coup week which is that we could long series of protests and rallies in the capital and across the country particularly yesterday we had this twenty four hour standoff between morsy supporters and security forces which resulted in a very bloody gun battle yesterday afternoon as hundreds of protesters had basically been trapped in a central cairo mosque. with the injured which had been turned into a field hospital on friday afternoon so this finished saturday afternoon but with security forces essentially storming this building and the protesters there most of them being arrested now since wednesday when security forces violently cleared that two encampments in cairo they have used a lot of force against any protest all rally including on friday we saw live ammunition being fired at protesters who attempted to set up another sit in on

wednesday morning i got a panicked phone call from a protester rushed to the to the about the way it's in which is now no longer an encampment at that point i saw the security forces opening fire with live ammunition an automatic weapon and anyone who was approaching the encampment meanwhile after four hours of gunfire i managed to get inside where i saw protesters women and children huddled in the corner behind sandbanks there were the injured you've been shot in the head the chest the stomach being taken to field hospitals and then the next day of course they had their makeshift morgues in a mosque two hundred bodies just laid out there with extremely bloody some of people missing their heads some people too beyond recognition of the security forces say that their officers have been killed meanwhile we've had some major deaths from the mizzen brotherhood's leadership the supreme guide to the eyes which could lead to lost his son my colleague paula has also been on the ground here in cairo she brings you this report the tears are the same as is the heartache and.

tragedy to families for is a changed by the violence engulfing egypt. to some said he died from two bullets one was in his heart the police killed him they were standing on top of the roofs they burned some of the bodies and they burned some people alive while the muslim brotherhood believes that the christians in egypt have a hand in what is going on this talk to to beat me with stones one of them hit me with an axe in my head they put the church in fire and threw molotov cocktails at it sophia sun up till belong to the muslim brotherhood he was just twenty three when he was killed by police on wednesday iman is a christian he was protecting them on a street when he says muslim brotherhood leaders stormed it bashing him on the head with heavy sticks they're on opposite sides of the political divide but both families will forever carry the scars of this week's deadly violence. the violence

started on wednesday when police moved in to break up protest camps set up by supporters of ousted president mohamed morsy hundreds were killed. dozens more died two days later when security forces laid siege to a mosque where protesters had taken refuge by sunday morning they'd cleared it out but the confusion remains the government has announced plans to outlaw the brotherhood it's arrested and detained hundreds of its leaders and supporters among them romney's brother has some whom he hasn't heard from for days talking worry i called them yesterday was the last call between. between me and him and he was in the house the national security hospital and he told me that he's alone and he's worried that the policy which they can. plan to do to do this plan to kill this these people. but the same charge is leveled at the brotherhood critics say that they as much as the police planned to kill this is one of the churches that was

destroyed. this week more than fifty churches were burned and looted around the country what was valuable was taken what remains fear and uncertainty for egypt's future bashir may have shows me around what remains of his church he's placing his faith firmly in the police or just an invisible i feel that the rest in pursuing brotherhood leaders and starting an investigation and prosecution is a good sign the muslim brotherhood is starting to have major losses announcing the state of emergency laws the police do have a chance. but a chance at wash many are asking as each hour brings with it more violence and uncertainty to a country seemingly on the part to civil war policy r.t. five city egypt and there were been getting opinions and insight from those involved in the political standoff matthau worry from egypt's constitution party believes that even though the muslim brotherhood has borne the brunt of the

casualties the movement is so blame we had protesters that were in a sit in in rubble that was accused of criminal acts and accused of harboring view shooters and whoring militants and using kids and children as human shields and there is 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 this city then rubble 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 in the streets that were anti morsy what anti 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 in this square for three hours during the past month. the chaos in gulf in egypt is forcing its western allies serious things their relations with a country the e.u.

which is a major source of aid to egypt has said the killings over the last few days cannot be justified and it's the government's responsibility to and the violence this comes after similar strongly worded statements from the u.s. which is canceled joint military exercises with egypt but that aside from those drills america's aid to the egyptian military looks set to continue as planned that aids worth one point three billion dollars a year and includes fighter jets apache helicopters and surface to air missiles as well as high tech surveillance hardware all while can damming the ongoing violence in egypt the white house has refused to call the ousting of president morsi something that would require it to free use of military support a spokeswoman from the british egyptians for democracy group says washington's position runs counter to its pro-democracy rhetoric. well it's actually quite shameful to see countries and leaders of western governments who hail themselves because of democracy supporting the slaughter of democracy and its supporters in

into it what obama came out and said simply not enough this is what the obama's one point five million of subsidies to the army buys the slaughter of innocent men women and children the army may have pulled the trigger yes but it was the west that loaded the gun and the west must take an active stance against this it's not too late to side with democracy in egypt they must come out they must reject what is happening in egypt these cosmetic diplomatic maneuvers of free calling ambassadors and the tepid statements again they are not enough we are talking about people dying and revolution this is a revolution and they must side the west the world must come together and side with those who have been oppressed in egypt keep across the later developments are egypt any time in our common there we have firsthand accounts of the dramatic events as well as video and images right from the heart of the rest well today on our website

we're asking for your view on what the violent crackdown on protesters and state of emergency in egypt signal is now take a look at the votes that we've got well here. here's a picture of the majority fear it's a precursor to egypt sliding further into conflict almost equal numbers believe it's an essential measure amid signs of return to the mubarak era and the smallest number so far of those who voted to think that the crackdown is rooted in the army's inability to deal with protesters so i do want to know what you think of this by logging on to regular com and casting your vote there. well people in saudi arabia who oppose the regime are barely getting a chance to make their voices heard and some are jailed simply for posting a message on twitter while the total number of political prisoners in the gulf

kingdom is believed to be more than thirty thousand the intensifying crackdown on dissent has even caused a royal family member to defect parties are a big challenge spoke exclusively to the saudi prince who accuses the monarchy of silencing ovoid of discord. the government is obviously scared of the arab revolutions and they responded as they usually do by resorting to oppression violence arbitrary law and arrest 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 the ministries officials investigate crimes they call them crimes related to freedom of speech so they fabricate evidence 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 or the ministry of interior keeps him in prison even though there is a court order to release him there have even been killings killings and as for the external opposition saudi intelligence forces by means 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 wider peoples representation in governing bodies 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 and saudi arabia your country seldom faced a straight decision from the west and from the united states in particular when senior u.s. officials meet with their saudi counterparts basically can be any critical comments

from washington d.c. i mean riyadh well the white house certainly does maintain a longstanding alliance with the leaders of saudi arabia cemented by common interests in the middle east to that end there are classified contacts between area the. the u.s. administration in recent time they've been employed to step up the government administered reforms but those reforms are not driven by the elites desire to empower the people of the kingdom of the instead they are merely urged by reforms that the regime might fall unless it reforms itself oppression 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 every civil servant is very skillful in using bribes in their operations but now britain's once again at the center of a new surveillance scale this time joe overstreet side rubbish receptacles high tech trash cans have been sold in long and capable of an identifying passers by

through their cell phones stamps a way to target advertisements artist boy boy who takes a look at the devious dustbins. just a ben think again these nifty looking letter 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 why fine 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 advertisement to whoever is walking down the street in the city of london corporation have said that they also do sun by despite technology that they've asked the company responsible for the bends 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 the british public to be a version of best so called digital privacy in the wake of the n.s.a. scandal it's been revealed that the commercial companies that entire government

that is spying on their citizens and just last week we found out that just telecom on the verge of have been secretly passing on details of their customer's conversations over to intelligence agency g c h q coming into my privacy here. do quadric on those issues without my knowledge it would be a cause of concern is a breach of lauri's a breach of confidentiality had this little bit of nothing to hide so i don't really care but still i don't think that it's that's fair from them not telling us that to me because information to governments who are true in your concerns citizens private information should stay private i've got nothing to hide so it doesn't matter let's have identity get along all that stuff and very much to the other saudis there sneaking into finding out things i shouldn't do and so on and it to be honest with my son valences now a reality of our everyday lives c.c.h. cuchulainn say so hoover and according to experts they screwed 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 to much more information than many of its news has even for. any boy i see none at all so i have for this hour berlin once washington to put the money where its mouth is the u.s. is sitting on piles of german gold but is being more than a little struck tip in letting the owner have x. so the students bully him. also just ahead we hear how athletes and the moscow world championships gone it's caught up in the gay propaganda law which is also driving coals to turn the sochi winter olympics into a political protest. speak

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welcome back this is our team now catastrophic flooding in russia's far east has put more than one hundred thousand people at the risk of losing their homes and the worst such disaster in more than a century nearly twenty thousand people have already been evacuated to safety but that number is expected to rise with heavy rains likely to last until september the floods hit more than one hundred twenty villages with locals being moved to shelters for food a medical care much of the surrounding countryside is submerged with the damage occurring we estimate at around sixty million dollars artie's both caught reports from the scene of the jewish. with the water levels in some parts of the region having risen seventy two centimeters on saturday a line the evacuations are continuing the worst case estimates suggest that one hundred thousand people may be forced to leave their home however it is hoped that that final number will be substantially lower now the worst hit areas of the remote

rural villages such as this one damage to infrastructure such as communication and transport networks mean that places like this are particularly isolated but help is it happened on saturday provided fifty tons of humanitarian aid including food butts and life jackets and eleven thousand military personnel are also aiding local services now the biggest industry in this region is the farming industry people grow things like tomatoes and potatoes and sell them locally they also produce oil which is sold and made by china but with four hundred thousand hectares currently under water it's clear to see that it's not just people's homes that are being damaged but also potentially their livelihoods. well our team is still in the one of the worst hit areas and we'll continue to bring you the very latest as it develops. now let's take a look at some of today's world news heavy seas in the philippines are still holding back rescuers from returning to the sunken ferry were one hundred seventy

people are still missing after its worst span of late on saturday after most of the eight hundred people on board where rescued thirty one people were known to have died when their vessel collided with a cargo ship on friday the philippines has a poor maritime safety record accidents claimed hundreds of lives every year. thousands of syrian kurds are fleeing to iraq according to the un refugee agency kurdish areas in war torn syria are caught in going raids by al-qaeda linked militants with reports suggesting thousands have lost their lives jihad azour thought to be trying to stablish an islamic state in the north which is known for vast natural resources. and members and supporters of germany's far right national democratic party have rallied outside a mosque in life to chanting maria notch area protesters urge the government to stop what they call the foreign infiltration of german society

a counter demonstration saw more than one hundred fifteen leftist activists stage an anti nazi pro this police have cordoned off both sides to avoid clashes. now germany said to span nearly a decade collecting hundreds of tons of its gold which is kept in u.s. vaults the boy in a withdrawal comes at a time of growing pressure from seized up eurozone economies and an additional push from those who believe america has already scattered berlin's wealth are going to check out has the details. behind these walls is one of the most secretive organizations in the world u.s. federal reserve whether to try to audit them it's a wall this place is impenetrable for we years the u.s. federal reserve has been the place where many countries of the word a big chunk of their nations well as the countries 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 off lent 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 but 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 then asked to visit the fed vaults to make sure that the gold is actually there but the fed first refused to permit germany to exempt examine its own gold then the germans apparently assisted in the fed did open only one of nine rooms but they were not permitted to either enter or touch the gold the german government has stored about half of its schools supply with the us federal reserve so they are understandably nervous this makes not only germans nervous of course

u.s. financial institutions have a history of selling things that don't exist one example last year goldman sachs were proven to have been selling gold certificates to the public saying that they were backed by real gold in their vaults but the story leaked out that they in fact held no gold at all and were doing the so-called fractional reserve gold banking on the basis that few people would want to claim their gold at any one time now we see many countries trying to maneuver away from the u.s. dollar is the main reserve currency and we see many central banks increasing their own gold reserves and he seems after all these years the world decided they put too much power in this one building. and over on our website our data called life insurance for a wiki leaks the world's leading whistleblowing has released over four hundred gigabytes of highly sensitive data in an encrypted form promising to release the key if and i think happens to the website's key figures. also there any wrong moves

in the fukushima nuclear clean up could and in disaster on an epochal it takes gale according to one researcher for an in-depth look at that head to our website r t v dot com. russia became a target of worldwide criticism this week over a recent law against the promotion of homosexuality to young people sam l g b t activist even cold for the boycott of the sort you winter olympics well one of russia's most famous athletes spoke out in support of the law saying it's background is rooted in the country's history and culture olympic champion awareness and by also said trying to boycott the games would be unfair to the competitors. it's on the respect told to our con through some respect to our seats isn't because we are russians maybe we are different than european people then other people from different lands we have our low rates everyone have to respect and if some police and if some person who are not just try to make us such

a problem as they does. begins because of these because of our law so i think it's unfair front of the glitz and some bias common drew widespread media furor with gay rights activists branding her a homophobe however ban arius quickly from britain's bow group think tank agrees that the olympics should not be turned into an arena for political games. billy her english was was slightly broken she clarified what she was trying to say in that when nations travel to international sporting events they should respect the culture of the rules of the host nation i think that's a subset of the right if you're going to take part in international sporting events as any country i think you have to go there and read recognition of the fact that the country may well be different from you were in support of international engagement with russia because there's a there's

a major international tournament 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 were in beijing in two thousand and eight hopefully we're going to be in qatar in twenty fourteen as well 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. relentless western media efforts to turn this into a political scandal have now infuriated even russia's leading gay activists he says he won't be talking to western journalists anymore because he's words are being twisted and used to paint a country in a bad light there's anger was sparked by an article in britain's guardian newspaper and that suggested the russian government plans to take children away from homosexual couples. why after a short break we explore the plight of a half million people living in the shadow of a toxic dump in bangladesh. the

video game company of heroes two is facing a lot of heat from gamers inside the former soviet union in fact fourteen thousand people thus far have taken the time to sign a changed org petition to get the game removed from. former communists 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 honkers or virtual rampaging through cities with rocket launchers so why did they start a petition for you to blogger called the bad comedian made a detailed twenty five minute video depicting all the gross historical inaccuracies and exaggerations throughout the game the game perturbs the soviet army as a pack of slave driving before with every soviet officer wanting nothing more than

to shoot his own soldiers in the back or send them to the gulag forthwith according to polygon dot com the game exploits where moments in the wars history like some very limited battles were soviet soldiers went in unarmed and made it look as if sitting rifle is 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 lies 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.

today the european consumer has no way of knowing the origin. the leather he bites . feel. the number of e.u. member states have deed localized production and see no reason for shoes and leather bags to be labeled made in bangladesh.