one of. egypt's violent spirals the deadliest week since the revolution sees more than eight hundred people die in clashes between prob was he supporters and security forces. while the u.s. government needs global condemnation of egypt crackdown it stopped short of suspending military aid worth over a billion dollars a year. also this week's headlines a saudi prince who has defected from the royal family slams the monarchy for widespread human rights abuses and violently suppressing the opposition in his exclusive interview he gave to us at r.t. . these wife waste units are causing a heap of trouble by scanning the smartphones of passes by without their permission

. nearly twenty thousand people flee their deluge homes in russia's far east after heavy rains bring the worst devastation in more than a century. if you just joined us this is the weekly with me kevin knowing that surrounded by the top stories of the last seven days and again tonight to start egypt seeing its deadliest violence since the twenty eleven revolution with more than eight hundred people killed across the country across this past week supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi and the authorities blame each other for provoking the carnage the situations escalated after security forces broke up anti-government sit ins an islamist rioters retaliated by setting fire to official buildings and attacking christian churches. trues been assessing the mayhem in cairo it 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 a week 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 would be turned into a field hospital on friday afternoon so this finished as saturday afternoon but with security forces essentially storming this building and the protest is that 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 a bit to about the ways in which is now no longer an encampment at that point i saw security forces opening fire began on the mission an automatic weapon a anyone who was approaching the encampment meanwhile out of 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 the field hospitals and then the next day of course they had their makeshift morgues in a mosque two hundred bodies just laid out with extremely bloody some in 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 missing 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. gets up 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. the muslim brotherhood believes that the christians in egypt have a hand in what is going on there started to beat me with stones one of them hit me with an axe in my head they put the church of fire and threw a lot of 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 beshrew him on the head with heavy sticks they were on opposite sides of the political divide but both families will forever carry the scars of this week's deadly violence i divined and

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 a wasted 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 that last call between. getting young 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 this 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 and run 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 in the police and 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 in the air an ounce in the state of emergency allows the police to have a chance of the has the. better chance at wash many asking as each hour winds are get more violence and uncertainty the country seemingly on the path to civil war policy r.t. . egypt. we've been getting opinions and insight from all those involved in the political standoff as many as we can get to anyone however is one of them from egypt constitution party he believes that even though the muslim brotherhoods borne

the brunt of the casualties the movement is solely to blame this is for you we had protesters that were in a sit in in rubble that was accused of criminal acts and accused of harboring a fugitive 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 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 anti morsy or 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 at the end this quote for three hours during the past month. the casting call for huge ships forcing its western allies to rethink their relations to now with the 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 that when the violence this comes after a similar strongly worded statements from the united states which is canceled joint military exercises with egypt but aside from those drills america's aid to the egyptian military looks set to continue as planned this is opens up by the way it's worth one point three billion dollars a year it includes fighter jets apache helicopters observers to air missiles as well as high tech surveillance hardware what a lot of figures as you can see now while condemning the ongoing violence in egypt the white house has refused to call the ousting of president morsi all the way along the line here a coup it's been skirting around it something that would require it to freeze military support so remains all about but some in the u.s. have been taking to the streets demanding their government suspend aid to the egyptian army in condemning the military coup did a rally was held in front of the egyptian mission to the united nations in new york on friday scholar and activist. joins us now live either sara nice to see you

tonight into thing your message is going to get through do you think any time soon the u.s. government is going to stop that aid or not. they are they are warning about. getting. the word. and basically. if you can i mean it's pretty orders were actually for. order. this means that if you. are. in our economy. there are many of us. sitting in the. it demanding u.s. action in the three weeks we do know. this move americans are quite ignorant not

only about what's going on in egypt far rowland so it's very unlikely that. they're just additional on each if. there are other things they can do the right now looking very weak and as you see the generals and politicians who are running power right now unelected government they need to talk about their meetings united states their new businesses we used for school language the united states tell us to tell them that basically this is what we're doing is. not we are in charge to show that this is not democratic government in power and that we're going to use force. to do some sort of. little so if you try to come out of kill the father barak obama said it is not going to be business as usual nonetheless what do you mean by that of what the. well i mean there are other things that the washington

can do pressuring some allies perhaps they think they have some leverage on saudi arabia. also states understand the european leverage so maybe he's going to try to persuade them to show a little bit more and i just don't see how as an obama especially with a congress that is not going to vote. republican for not for this the only people who are offering are the libertarians and if you not risk like john. egypt and then a few democrats but generally it's out of the obama hands really he has in the strategy in the middle east has really given him very little power. clarity we bring back the gaiters the back violence when it suits and then he goes against other. teams when it when it suits him as well so the white. now the opera scene is really. sure what we go to on

a lot less focus on what's happening in cyber egypt as press we cut only today egypt's military chief of general says he said that the army's got no intention of seizing power even call for islamist to be included may be in the country's future political system what of that message come from i wonder what's prompted it. on the ground you know obviously the army is a right now provisional government as we know saying. it's the street that the fighting battle and it's a bloody battle and if there's any collective action against the truth and actually actually actually one basic question because it is a very confusing picture yes we saw the shot the other day with a guy with his hands up at a time confront of it we don't know actually still where that shot came from probably the top but it may not have been but who has been carrying out the fighting here who is against who is it the army is it the police who is on one side there this is you could let you know in the original group we generate you that

letter and there are many media if you get. the bidding of our money so we don't know where the action we are in we don't know we need we don't know we don't know the brotherhood and it seems the brotherhood i don't want to go to where this is. because there are christians out there there are people who are against the muslim brotherhood but democracy really a struggle for democracy in egypt it's also a struggle over the end of egypt will egypt allow of the rule is the sign where it's not done well. this is really a struggle that you know it's going to. urgent and. even more important than what it used to search so much more i could ask you such a pretty we're out of time for another thank you bring on the program. a political activist on the line from new york thank you. well keep across the latest developments with us on egypt anytime on our web site of course if you're not by your t.v.

there we've got firsthand accounts of the dramatic events as well as video images right from the heart of the rest. people of saudi arabia who oppose the regime of barely getting a chance to have their voices heard some of jailed simply for posting a message on twitter while the total number of political prisoners now in the gulf kingdom is believed to be more than thirty thousand intensifying crackdown on dissent seaven caused a royal family member to defect arabic channels spoke exclusively to the saudi prince who accuses the monarchy of silencing all voices of discord. the government is obviously scared of the arab revolutions and they responded as they usually do then by resorting to oppression and 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 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 or 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 like opposition used to demand

wider people's representation in governing bodies to win 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 can't be any critical comments from washington d.c. i mean. what the 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. . in recent time they have 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 at that instead they are merely urged by reforms that the regime might call 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 to every civil servant is very skillful in using bribes in their operations. coming up this hour on our table and wants washington to put the money where its mouth is the u.s. is sitting on piles of german gold but it's being a little more than that obstructive in letting access to its bullied we've got more on that than just a few. good . science technology innovation called the least developed around russia we. covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought. i'm tom harkin welcome to the big show. of holy week you know if you. choose to use the consensus here to. choose to get. to. choose the stories that impact your life. choose the access to. i guess britain is once again at the center of a new surveillance scandal this time the over street side of rubbish receptacles

these high tech trash cans are been stored in london capable of identifying passers by through their cell phones as tens of meter target advertisement is probably given take a look at these devious desperate. 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 why is fine now the digital stalking is all in the name of advertising simply by knowing who you are and where you'll go and 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 use the sun why 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 the british public of the erosion of best so-called digital privacy in the wake of the n.s.a.

scandal it's been revealed that it's not just commercial companies but entire governments that are spying on messages and just last week we found out that just telecom on the boat a phone had been secretly processing on details of their customers conversations over to intelligence agency g c h q coming into our privacy. my knowledge it would be a cause of concern is a breach of law is a breach of confidentiality i just would 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 we present for mission 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. if you go along all that stuff very much the other side is there anything in the final things they shouldn't do. to be honest with you must surveillance is now a reality of our everyday lives t.c.h.

to call it a day to 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's that they married these things say much more. information and many of us knew this even back alley boy i think. the next big story developing in russia catastrophic flooding in russia's far east has put one hundred thousand people at the risk of losing their homes in the worst such disaster more next century helping this whole area here nearly twenty thousand people have already been evacuated to safety but that number is expected to rise with heavy rains likely until at least september those floods hit more than one hundred twenty villages with locals big move to shelters for food and medical care much of the surrounding countryside submerged with the damage currently estimated around sixty million dollars artist paul scott reports from the scene of the deluge with the water levels in some parts of the region having risen seventy two centimeters on

saturday alone the evacuations are continuing the worst case estimates suggest that one hundred thousand people may be forced to leave their homes however it is hoped that the 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 in the places like this operative the isolated but how is that harmed on saturday provided fifty tons of humanitarian aid including food but it's a life jackets and eleven thousand military personnel are also aiding local services now the biggest industry in this region is the farming industry people great things like tomatoes and potatoes and sell them locally but also produce oil which is sold in may 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. you know a real mess there were

a lot still and one of the worst hit areas will continue bringing of course the very latest as it develops. germany said to spend nearly a decade collecting hundreds of tons of gold which is kept in u.s. bolts the bullion withdrawal comes at a time of growing pressure from seized up years in economies and an additional push from those who believe america's already scattered berlin's wealth artie is going to teach you can reports. behind these walls is one of the most secretive organizations in the world u.s. federal reserve ever 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 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 but the federal reserve said 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 rules 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. spaulding washington more news in around thirty minutes time you're not international book next it's worlds apart with a sauna boycott after the break.

if you leave the. economic up and downs in the final months day the deal sank i and the rest because i think the case you will be if we. put it on your home are going to like the. face you know the. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i roll researcher.

along the welcome to worlds apart as a science of global power is set to change not only the way we trade but also the way we view politics china's trust on harmony and common sounds as predicted western individual. military bulling but will china continue to practice self-restraint once its muscle of the fully grown want to discuss that i'm now joined by being founding dean of the chant hong badgett school of business thank you very much for your time sir now i think the difference between american and chinese approach is best expressed in terms of game theory americans really believe

in being either a loser or a winner but i think china's mentality is a bit different i think the one central element of chinese where think about global governance confucius notion of diversity is maybe the precondition for harmony so one china was the center of global economy global civilization your time and the time dynasty china truly have never imposed anything any other country because confucius thinks you live the way you live i leave it to id. diversity is a precondition for civilization to advance we all can make mistakes together then you can think right maybe five hundred years later could be totally wrong so you need to pee poor lift the weight differently to preserve the diversity and you can argue that this is a form of checks and balances that americans like so much you have different ideas different mentalities and love them. compete with each other lead them discuss

their differences openly rather than imposing one particular right way but coming back to the game theory this reference to you know one zero sum game or what the chinese call win win was also stressed last month when the chinese president xi jinping visited the united states and i guess such references are good for diplomacy but i wonder whether there is anything more to it because. what essentially. the chinese are asking americans is to abandon america's all sometimes very arrogant ways and why would an american ever do that even for china. well i mean it's not going to be easy i think conflict is possible but i think i'm positive because today so can mobilize you know somehow someway china us have to find a way of living together peacefully.