when we leap before we look sounds fair enough but this as continuing on rest and mass protests lead gyptian president morsi as we heard earlier this hour to declare a state of emergency and nightly curfew so their violence reigns where president obama who promoted change in the country used to enjoy high approval ratings amongst gyptian and really the muslim world let's take a look at a recent poll which shows that the u.s. leader has witnessed a sharp drop in popularity in the region especially if we look at international polities the drop in muslim countries from thirty four to fifteen in twenty twelve well obama's first term in office was the handling of course of the revolt in libya and again the president said there that washington's foreign policy made a difference that's despite criticism of the administration hasn't been proactive enough in the region but let's take a look at the september attack on the u.s. embassy in benghazi that the four top american officials dead including the ambassador and it raised questions about america. handling of the situation post gadhafi questions th

exactly gyptian started a revolution that would bring down hosni mubarak they're in the streets again protesting just as fiercely against the regime that replaced the toppled president . a decorated cia veteran and the man who first confirmed america's torture of detainees. and explains why it's him and not the torture is to take the full. career to the brink of war with pyongyang vowing to attack what it called the traitorous if it joins in with fresh international restrictions. plus a rowdy russian flights where it wasn't just the plane that was flying fists were to win a business from the start of the scrap in the skies even threaten to kill the pilots and force an emergency landing. around the world online on screen live from the new center here in moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day over sixty civilians and thirty police have reportedly been injured across egypt now as hundreds of thousands rally on the second anniversary of the start of the country's revolution people are out to celebrate their venting anger against the new government which came to power following t

gyptian zx. chechens respects those from western china and even some from europe so al-qaeda is a different entity entirely it is strictly an interested in international jihad but the taliban have become because of their ties to al qaeda and because of the twenty four seven news cycle they have become far more international but deep down in their hearts they are interested in one thing and that is an islamic government and a pashtoon islamic government now i don't want to make this too complicated for viewers but for them the pashtoon are afghanistan and they were at war before we came with what we call the northern alliance the tajiks these are different ethnic groups in the north so this is also an element here there's an ethnic war at play here as much as anything else but deep down more than anything else they want a unified pashtoon land they want an afghanistan that is deeply muslim their interest ultimately is certainly not to attack the united states but because of their exposure to the i

home empty handed blogger and journalist wallace can dar says if morsi had received european backing gyptian public outrage would have only increased. i think the public the public will be very upset if foreign countries start lending a hand to president mohamed morsi while he is executing these very oppressive measures against his people his crackdown on a lot of freedoms sidelined. arrested people. and i think that. the sentiment in egypt is basically a rejection of mohamed morsi and the monopoly on power that he that he has and it's not so much as mohamed morsi he's he's viewed here as a puppet to the guidance bureau so unless he starts taking control and actually doing the steps taking the country forward towards a democratic transition i think people will not be pleased otherwise. well let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world in the u.s. alabama police have surrounded a term where a man has been holding a six year old boy captive for more than a day the youngster was kidnapped from a school bus on tuesday after the driver was shot dead the government's been iden

home empty handed blogger and journalist wallace kadar says if morsi had received european backing gyptian public's outrage would have only increased. i think the public the public will be very upset if foreign countries start lending a hand to president mohamed morsi while he is executing these very oppressive measures against his people his crackdown on a lot of freedoms sidelined. arrested people. and i think that. the sentiment in egypt is basically a rejection of mohamed morsi and the monopoly on power that he that he has and it's not so much as mohamed morsi he's he's viewed here as a puppet to the guidance bureau so unless he starts taking control and actually doing the steps taking the country or towards a democratic transition i think people will not be pleased otherwise. well let's not take a look at some other stories from around the world in the u.s. alabama have surrounded a bunker where a man has been holding a six year old boy captive for more than a day the youngster was kidnapped from a school bus on tuesday after the driver was shot dead the government's been identified a

family roles and i think that's the concern by women's advocates is yes we don't have we all many gyptian women are mothers and they get married it's a very traditional family structure in that regard but they also work and some of the maybe don't want to get married and so maybe some of them don't want to have children and so these provisions may make it unconstitutional to pass statutes or legislation that grant women certain rights and so so so a conservative judge or a conservative legislator who's trying to appeal something or oppose a draft bill could say this is unconstitutional because it violates the provision the constitutional provision that says the state will protect the traditional family the will protect traditional egyptian norms that will protect the woman's role as housekeeper and worker so a lot of different interpretations can be had on the existing constitution it just seems like i'm opposition to the muslim brotherhood is really growing it's becoming more cohesive stronger will what will this mean for the next shift in egypt we have about a minute left so the true te

they gyptian government is struggling to find a peaceful resolution to the ongoing crisis after its offer for talks was shunned by the major opposition parties dr sites a direct political sociologist at the american university in cairo says there is little immediate prospect of the situation stabilizing. experience of their logging was a president what what was called the national dialogue has been a failure and so they don't want to give the person the. photo opportunity of the sitting and nothing happens there were many experiences in which opposition would suppose the government and the president agree on something and then after a while you'll find that there was no agreement and that is why he decided not to join also they feel that the president and the government the current government is in top end and so they don't want to give it a new lease of life or maybe it's a board so that the government becomes stronger again so the future this is a time to persia talk as far as we can tell that we are egypt is going to be in for some time before all is the allies of the cost of keeping t

of them i want to see dot com fifteen years in jail just for a name change the sentence one eight gyptian family they wish to use christian names after illegally changing them in official documents. and a suspected criminal mastermind nicknamed the king of the russian mafia has been found killed in moscow to r.t. dot com more on that for him. for now more than one hundred fifty people remain in hospital in syria after a deadly blast rocked a university campus in the city of aleppo which killed almost ninety the explosion came on the first day of exams majority of those injured all students on the place also how some thirty thousand refugees state run media is blaming terrorists for the blast while rebels have pointed the finger at the regime saying warplanes carried out the strike middle east analyst option writer who says any negotiations with terrorists are just the next. we are talking about negotiating with terrorists and it cannot be any negotiation with this is this is the problem you cannot negotiate with the people who are killing civilians to press you to negotiations this is thi

the better now some other news making headlines around the world violence broken out near of course gyptian city of alexandria the testers were demanding justice in the trial of former security officers used to killings twenty seven uprising clashes erupted when the presiding judge with proper resigned carrying out his duties. afghan intelligence has been torturing and nearly a third of all detainees transferred to their governments controlled by the us into a recent united nations report fullfillment claims and security says he's operating sites to avoid international scrutiny of claims that could complicate the already thorny issue of the nato withdrawal in the twenty fourteen. i. syria's foreign minister has invited the opposition to lay down arms to start a national dialogue but added that present assets removal is out of the question further violence this week so bloodbath following two massive blasts in the northern city of aleppo on tuesday of an eighty people mostly students were killed and one hundred injured after explosions devastated the city's university trampas more in the cou

eight story building has collapsed killing twenty five people and injuring at least ten and me gyptian coastal city of alexandria rescue teams are on the scene searching for survivors the cause of the incident is still unknown but egypt has a record of lax enforcement of planning regulations. a suicide bomb blast in afghanistan spy agencies killed two civilians and injured dozens more a car laden with explosives was detonated by an attacker in front of the gates of the building five men wearing vests of explosives were then shot by security guards as they try to get inside the taliban has claimed responsibility. a school bus drivers in new york have gone on strike leaving more than one hundred and fifty thousand students stranded and calling for greater job security something the mess says he's not legally allowed to give them subway passes will be given out and taxi fares will be reimbursed for students trying to get to school in the first time in thirty four years school drivers have taken industrial action. finally in our world update the israeli police arrested more than a dozen pa

that's been set on fire gyptian city of alexandria following day long clashes between riot police and protesters demonstrators were demanding justice in the trial of former security officers accused of killing three me twenty eleven uprising balance first erupted when the presiding judge abruptly resigned without carrying out his duties. afghan forces have been torturing nearly a third of all detainees transferred to their control by u.s. forces that's according to the u.n. report claims kabul is operating secret sites for the abuse of prisoners to avoid international scrutiny of the drawer allegations could hinder plans for the full hundred of security responsibilities to afghan forces by twenty four. meaning low temperatures in the heavy snow is continue to blanket europe with weather related deaths now confirmed in spain france and portugal snow and ice caused fatalities on roads from homes was worst hit with six dead thousands of been left stranded after flights were canceled across the continent forecasters say more harsh conditions are on the way. catching a train that took a bi

and we'll have plenty more for you online at no two larry diplomatic gyptian ambassador to sign gets to the soul slap happy with security at the airport details of the dustup at all to dot com. and prison guards in brazil have busted not it was trying to smuggle in special kids which could have helped inmates engineer a breakout and it came within a whisker of getting away with it find out how the website if it's feline guilty. it's been a week of new year's celebrations around the globe with fireworks and cheering crowds greasing twenty third scene they were mixed emotions regarding the year that's passed what some son had to see it and many more hopeful of better times. takes a look at the world that could have been. twenty twelve was certainly full of disappointing headlines hope fueled by the arab spring turned into the turmoil of the arab autumn the war in syria claimed countless lives and the fiscal crisis all the european union torn apart at its very seams and the problems facing our world today certainly don't offer themselves up to an easy fix what if things had turned out d

during and after the revolution in the country two years ago the muslim brotherhood which backs the gyptian president mohamed morsi has not yet commented on the accusations. and venezuela's hugo chavez has severe respiratory complications following a long infection caught during his cancer treatment in cuba although vice president nicolas maduro insisted chavez is not. a daughter has been named a preferred successor should anything happen to chavez under the constitution of the socialist president is due to be sworn in for a third term just next week. and in the chilean capital santiago there have been violent clashes between protesters and police up to twelve arrests were made by demonstrators threw molotov cocktails and started fires following a march commemorating the two thousand and eight killing by police of a young indian dinginess and habitants of central and southern chile have clashed with the government for years demanding better rights an end to a victualling what they claim is their land. and let's bring up some live pictures right now of what's happening in gaza at this moment

i have plenty more for you on line no diplomatic gyptian ambassador to cyprus gets a little slap happy with security had the airport the details of the dust up at all to dot com. and prison guards in brazil have busted the cops trying to smuggle in special kids which would have helped inmates engineer a breakout which came within a whisker of getting away with it fine dollars at the website if it's feeling guilty. a new russian citizen. is on a trip to his adopted homeland where his received a passport from present person personally the french movie icon has been granted citizenship after a turned his back on his native france in a row over being taxed to the marks but in a question or has the details. french activists have deployed here has mass where the russian president vladimir putin and has received his brand new russian passport so now it's official is that separate you has become a russian citizen now they're meeting to place in so much you where she is on a personal trip before that he reminds his french to doesn't ship him move to belgium where we pointedly he has some real e

verdict delivered to twenty one defendants accused of taking part in a stadium massacre last year gyptian schuman rights activist helmi says people won't be. why the government's questionable attempt at serving justice. to people of course. many of them think that. the people who were convicted were actually scapegoats for the actual criminals. who are supposed to be. like you know christians in the ministry of interior or in the military who are in power when the courts i think are happened and so many people think that that was that was an i just decision to. use twenty first people and and you've been made scapegoats for the other big person indeed to many faiths who should be in jail and should be convicted on the other side where the the ultrix and larry in their supporters here in cairo i think after you know after more than ten months protists thing and calling for a just sit and wait for the martyrs like the verdict was the beginning of the process of serving justice for their markets from all to larry and this is part of the the polarization that egypt is going through can squad

and gyptian border with rachel there and those used to be all houses if you can imagine . it's truly amazing and also just the the method of terrorizing people who live there shooting into the homes where they can just trying to get them to evacuate themselves before of course going to demolish them how can we you know you said that the only way an end to this occupation will come of the u.s. really stops funding it and of course taxpayers ultimately are funny in this i mean how quick provoked an end to this occupation and avoid the stigma of just being labeled anti israel while doing it but i think that our friends in israel who are working to change their government's policies to tell craig and me during the the many months that we've been there for the trial that they can't do it alone and that it requires on the outside to really work for changes in policy and to really hold the israeli government accountable for the us that is to i think address the funding we're providing three billion dollars a year thirty billion dollars over a ten year period here up to two thousa

new information with this new empowerment are going to struggle the occupy movement you know the gyptian revolution these are all signs that now with information in their hands people are in a fighting mood why should we trust the government of the word of their own by the bankers and the corporations that commit wars and lie all the time why should we trust them to have a monopoly on information why shouldn't information be available to the people so that people could really rule isn't that the democratic ideal but it is not compatible with capitalism it's not compatible with a system where you have a few people you know having been properly on banks factories industries and so as a result it's not compatible you know they want to napoli on information just like they have a monopoly on the economy and that's what the struggle the struggle is to to oppose that and that's why there was a great hero in exposing that his work and bring it fighting and so you know i mean he he will be remembered for generations to conver his heroic activism and his is ability to you know bring the people for

people saying dominate is drafted by an islamist dominated constituent assembly and does not represent gyptian these rainy a key point is that people saying is the reason why they're here protesting against the president's i calling to change geo political analyst william and bell says the government in egypt is more concerned with keeping its grip on power than having a stable economy. well the problem is this is a minority the muslim brotherhood is the best organized force in the country after the toppling. but the and it's backed by by washington by the obama administration which gives them additional clout the problem is they just ram through a constitution that in effect what's happening is the muslim brotherhood is establishing an islamic dictatorship i think they're so preoccupied with this sure real agenda this islamization of creating this this state which de facto is emerging to be an islamic fascist regime a totalitarian regime that will regulate every corner of life and they're less concerned evidently with the real functioning know what comedy so that. you probably need to right n

after gyptian started a revolution that would bring down a. decorated cia veteran. america's torture of detainees. over leaks explains why it's. taking the four. terror weapon or a deadly threat to civilians a key u.n. investigators look into whether the. korean peninsula to the brink of war. if indeed it joins in with international. good to have you with us here on r.t. today. with news from around the world. hundreds of thousands of egyptians are expected to gather in cairo's iconic to rear square on the second anniversary of the beginning of the egyptian revolution but they are not there to celebrate instead they're holding rallies against the new government which the uprising helped to bring to power the eve of the anniversary was marked with clashes between activists and police which left dozens injured to. gas and rubber bullets were used to disperse the protesters who tore down part of a wall preventing them from reaching parliament a cairo based reporter bel true explains what exactly is driving the people who fought for change now or two years ago but they

president obama who promoted change in the country did used to enjoy high approval ratings a month gyptian especially as let's take a look at some numbers in a recent poll show it shows that the u.s. leader has in fact witnessed a sharp drop in popularity in the region especially in egypt like i said look at these numbers in terms of foreign policy thirty four percent back in two thousand and nine now at just fifteen percent in twenty twelve so a people's opinions on the ground there certainly changing another legacy of obama's first term in office his handling of the revolution in libya again the president saying in this interview washington's foreign policy made a difference well it certainly did make a difference despite criticisms that the administration hasn't been proactive enough in the region obama's response moammar gadhafi himself probably doesn't agree with that assessment let's remember those horrific pictures that came out of gadhafi being murdered. the nato led intervention went on for some eight months this is a temper attack on the embassy in benghazi that left four top ame

to pursue its quest for power a paper trail of under the table transactions has led a group of gyptian lawyers to file charges against the government and. who lodged the complaint believes the alleged us payments were all about preserving interests . which part of this money been beneficial for both the american side for the muslim brotherhood while they in turn promised to secure american interests in egypt namely a u.s. air force base in the province of. dealing with. thirties permissible for funding it before it had even come to power is not we also believe that the brotherhood runs tasked with provoking public unrest and violence and protests for my active member who quit the brotherhood of such groups who carried out operations for the muslim brotherhood benefit. right into the we go or some other headlines for you in brief this hour we'll start with bahrain where the highest appeals court has upheld long jail sentences for thirteen activists they were put behind bars for taking part in massive demonstrations in favor of greater rights for the ruling monarchy put down the protests

gyptian train there's a. road one there and one but he told me that they were trying to ride and it took hours and hours and hours long and expected but the bigger part of that is that they went to the station at the appointed hour and trade in the arrive several hours passed his dad got impatient started grabbing. my father is honest and very patient individual we don't need to defame him today dr that i will let it go and eventually the train arrived but so i just. drew the metaphor that. when opportunities come especially preparing for adversity it's a little bit like that you know something's coming sort of but when you go to actually prepare for it. to be there waiting a long time and a lot of times the thing you expect doesn't arrive when you think it will and so many people just sort of give up on it and that's true of both a positive for to me and also an opportunity to to avoid you know a crisis and we're talking about missing that train if it's gone it's gone you missed that train you know you could

riots last year that left seventy four dead some are saying it's a very very tough verdict from the gyptian court what do you say on the. absolutely has been perceived as extremely harsh sentence the death sentence for twenty one people this is the met with violent scenes in port side at the moment we've seen of course the death at least one police officer to read critical condition we have reports that one hundred fifty people have been injured in the last two weeks on the ground are saying we're seeing civilians with automatic weapon weapons running around the streets attacking security forces here in cairo the scenes are actually relatively jubilant as the old who's the hardcore people found see this is very much a victory this of course quite a politicized verdict at the time of the disaster and people said that the security officials themselves had quite a lot to do with the massacre as the that the rival protest groups or the rival fanclub groups meet in the center of the pitch and. blocked access. to people is saying that really the security officials themselves should be the ones th

thousands of egyptians are in cairo's iconic square on the second anniversary of the start of the gyptian revolution but they are not celebrating here the live pictures from syria where people are holding rallies against the new government it was brought to power by the uprising that toppled the longstanding rule of hosni mubarak but two years on egyptians are seeing much change as journalist true reports. we have seen violent scenes already across the country to my right here just by some key government buildings or becoming a building i catches continues between security forces and then said things that interested him a lot and i had reports of street bathrooms happening in egypt because if you had examined here between security forces and demonstrators two years ago people came to the streets of a back up with the injustice of the muslim backed regime here we are simply i am people are back on the street saying they'd see no change since b.c.b. uprising if you guys not having a main subject i mean for people that have been going to me at least population i'm not living under the povert

exactly two years after gyptian started a revolution that would bring down hosni mubarak they're in the streets again protesting just as fiercely against the islamist regime that replaced the toppled president. and sanctions the korean peninsula to the brink of war with pyongyang vowing to attack what it called the south if he joins in with fresh international restrictions. and a rowdy russian flights where it wasn't just the plane that was flying fists were to win a boozed up business from the start of the scrap in the sky and even threatening to kill the pilots and force an emergency landing. around the world online on screen life from the new center here in moscow this is o.t. with you twenty four hours a day a cia veteran who oversaw the capture of al qaida the third in command has been sentenced to thirty months in jail for leaking classified intelligence john kerry who was the first to blow the whistle on washington's torture program revealing the name of an alleged torture at guantanamo bay and its get more details on his predicament now with artie's going to. gather this man was

the reality on the ground was anything but gyptian president mohamed morsi is foul like power grab unleashed fury and frenzied street battles and a fast track to constitutional overhaul referendum left a bitter opposition eager for change for them two thousand and twelve saw the arab spring transform into an egyptian nightmare had the revolution to get rid of a tyrant the dictator. in the order to that we made elections and that evolution and elections to choose someone to the present us and turned out that this guy is also a tyrant himself and these headlines may have been the stuff of imagination but that sea of twenty thirteen can bring any of them to life with the coffin of r.t. moscow. well coming up we meet an orthodox priest who built a whole village for his adopted children all seven years that's after a break right here. in this remote siberians in which people still sing the songs which russians sang in the middle ages and they cherish the nation to choose practiced by the will set up church before the seventeenth century the old believers here is sign here are a conservative commu

the reality on the ground was anything but gyptian president mohamed morsi is fouled like power grab unleashed fury and frenzied street battles and a fast track to constitutional overhaul referendum left a bitter opposition eager for change for them two thousand and twelve saw the arab spring transform into an egyptian nightmare had the revolution to get rid of a title. in order to do that we made elections that evolution and elections to choose someone to the present us turned out that this guy is also a tyrant himself and these headlines may have been the stuff of imagination but that's the of twenty thirteen and all of them to life with the coffin of our team moscow. following celebrations many may be nursing a sore head right now but max and stacey are as sharp as ever and they're here on our team with the kaiser report after this break. it sounds like a dragon crashing through the forest but it is in fact technology this is trees and would you believe it this machine can fall and strip hundreds of them each day get a word for it when building this facility we wanted to use advan

presidency online for at the moment fifteen years in jail for a name change sentence want to gyptian for their wish to use christian names after illegally changing them in a fishbowl documents. germany said to bring hundreds of tons worth of gold back from vaults in the u.s. and france you can find out why online at r.t. dot com and more on that business update very shortly. a jailed pussy riot members bit to have a sentence suspended so she can care for her young son is thrown out of court you can find out why she wasn't successful online at r.t. dot com. one of the russian mafia is most infamous figures grandpa has been killed in moscow he was shot in broad daylight in the city center on his election night a shift he takes up the story now. often referred to in russia as grandpa her son has often been compared to al capone but his demise today is more reminiscent of the death of another american gangster john dillon the one of the biggest crime laws in russia was shot outside his favorite restaurant in central moscow and the law enforcement agencies have already reported that they

murdering people well let me just say that those that you suppose if you're say what he said really gyptian do you support any aggression going on why if you said i was not to sound and to support reading communities in the west bank on a daily basis do you support institutionalized torture you support institutionalized i realize. that supporting israel in the long term stages you have no memory. of middle eastern politics yeah yeah yeah yeah america bad america but i mean look let's be serious this is that this is a down market like hong kong and they say these are our policies are not very. gentleman david. look if you want us to i think i think if we're going to do iran as i say they're going they're going to. michael michael let david go let david go. i mean. you the united states the west is going to promote its interests if a people elect a government and that government is not a stabilizing effect in the region but as lobbing missiles at its neighbor then they're going to not be supported by the west they're going to be called to account for that and the united nations and any sugges

but really what the last twenty four hours has shown is the split in a gyptian society you have the president. his party the muslim brotherhood and islamists on one side and you have the opposition. quite crudely. you know the liberals on the other side and it was the liberals that took to the streets. the other side the islamists they were at home saying well we elected our guy. so let him get on with the job and we can have elections. sometime in the future. but really there is no clear vision as to how to bring the sides of egypt together. so there's still a great deal of instability. and you know. people are saying that instability continuing for some time to come. now is only make bold talking to me earlier. britain's providing twenty one million pines a new humanitarian assistance for those caught up in the crisis in syria. the aid was announced as the international development secretary justing greening visited jordan. refugees from syria and iraq thing in unprecedented numbers. michael great support. the united nations says the flow of syrian refugees into here goes the tare refugee c