moran's the blood. sucking up to fifty. unrest spirally in egypt as one student is killed police crackdown on protesters. jail sentences slapped on a group of women for a peaceful demonstration. european leaders failed to rebuild the ruins of a trade deal with kiev during a key summit as the ukrainian president stands firm on his decision to freeze the talks. with the black friday shopping i thought about to kick off in america we look at the wild buying spree of the federal reserve and where is taking the u.s. economy.

international is coming to you live from moscow. and for everyone here welcome to the program in egypt a student demonstrators being killed his cairo university has become the latest battleground of anti-government protests against a brutal police crackdown. i can see the officers clashing with youths tear gas being fired trying to disperse the crowds of the challenging down with military rule the protesters fury you would offer a group of female activists some as young as fifteen were given heavy prison sentences as part of a new government more than ten people gathering without permission true reports from. students. house jail sentences given to twenty one young women in the exam today who were arrested in october for protesting and suppose it is the president

mohammed see tonight by the military food scene of women. happy given eleven years in jail for supposedly holding weapons and assaulting police officers seven of them are mine is that just fifteen years old sixteen years old their families say they were just protesting on the cornice of onyx on terror holding the marines handing out flyers not it's not just isn't this protest it's moving crackdown on we've also got elected activists who have been arrested. protesting by the government specifically days ago and if it's any great. mission to see the need for speed he's just saying look at last week one of the people who are you sure he's picked up this this evening his voice beaten he was being summoned by the general prosecutor for inciting protest he is of course a liberal and that's just. today saying that it's not just it's a sweeping talk it's the question is whether the government can continue this has

been massive opposition from a lot of the political factions including comments from one of the made you believe is he said he's going to be presidential hopeful he tweeted asking the interim president to pardon me being sentenced and there's been no pressure always about this he protests the last name for it to be looked at again so the question remains whether this military led government will be able to continue this crackdown and continue issuing these very difficult. restricting freedoms. still to come here on r t ensuring that the british and the u.k. . people are angry because it's a very small area very densely populated and people as you can see so terrace houses people living on top of each other as migrant communities flock into the u.k. some locals with strong views about their own wanted neighbors again which at night in attempt to force newcomers to adopt to their english ways the full story around the corner. from all the locals in northern

texas have been experiencing a shade. key thanksgiving day with the area being rocked by a series of earthquakes and seismologists trying to get the bottom of what's going on some skeptical though about it being purely down to natural causes no one was injured although locals were understandably concerned by the tremors more than a dozen quakes of rattled north texas this month alone now some scientists point the finger at nearby gas drilling wells for causing this seismic activity in the areas seen more earthquakes since fracking began there in two thousand and eight than during the previous full decades combined and one local resident told us about what he witnessed we had like three hundred one of the two point five minutes and in that very point. and so on marker aren't berman in the house again and we did have a damage minor just

a little crack in the rock my wife. and one lady and she's here to appear i'm being how. i have. been like we have. heard shake it off. and caving in they were really concerned about it. by now let's have a look at how the controversial process of fracking could have indeed caused the recent activities in the northern parts of texas well as drilled into more than a thousand meters underground a mix of water sand and so-called fracking fluids which can contain dangerous chemicals have been pumped into the well they create fissures that allow oil and gas to reach the surface but they can also cause potential tremors at the same time it's also possible that harmful chemicals accumulate in the soil and can contaminate groundwater and cause and pollution upon evaporation. well as a number of those are calling for this process to be abandoned is certainly

mounting but that's about all this with the energy giants looking to tap into a lucrative deposits a texas activist sharon wilson used to live near a fracking site until she made the tough decision to abandon her home. at one time i turned my tap on and nothing came out which was very frightening so the air was degraded horrible a lot of air attacks tryouts lie no i it was just it completely changed the character it's worth concern for me was that without water or that my son could end up being sick from the chemicals that he was. i loved eighty thousand dollars in property value and they expand this practice more and more people are harmed and more and more people join the opposition right now there's an entire neighborhood over five hundred homes in jenin where they are cracking very very close to two hundred fifty feet in some cases from people's backyards.

are becoming to live from moscow ukraine will not be reviving its plans for signing a pact with the e.u. after the bloc failed to convince president you know coke which on the first day of talks with the eastern partnership summit currently in lithuania it's as much demonstrations continue to take place in kiev. well. that's all against the government's decision to shelf a trade pact with europe thousands of joint rallies in the heart of ukraine but the opposition issuing calls for a nationwide strike and even pledging what they call a euro revolution of the e.u. ukraine deal was due to be concluded at that summit in vilnius that's exactly where our whole scott is right now. ukraine's stalling of signing an e.u. association agreement here in vilnius threatens to turn this summit into somewhat

of a damp squid kiev cozying up to the eight was meant to be the highlight of the two days here. has been keen to stress that the deal can be signed any time and that the latest development is just a postponement and not a council ation a move seen by some as a winner for all concerned find them vital breathing space they're very uncomfortable with the idea of ukraine coming into the e.u. the e.u. right now is used by crook would lead the crisis in the pigs countries portugal italy and greece and so far they don't have money to do anything asked if you're crane the only thing they can do is try to take advantage of the weakness of ukraine so i don't i don't think the e.u. as a whole is usually written gotama from the financial implications of such an agreement may have even been misjudged by the e.u. with the president of the european parliament martin schulz saying the e.u. may have underestimated the drama of the domestic political situation in ukraine

that the country is economically and above all financially in the deepest crisis for decades and he goes on to say kiev needs money and a steady gas supply suggesting that's why they're leaning towards russia at this time publicly the e.u. continues to cool kiev the agreement will remain on the table into the eleventh hour allowing the opportunity for an improbable late u. turn but we kiev requesting more money and brushed. finances are already strained it could be a while yet before ukraine starts taking seriously. and e.u. leaders are now saying in agreement it could be possible when a new president comes to power in ukraine and even planned to hold meetings with ukraine's opposition on the sidelines of the summit in lithuania but lubitsch to down an aide to the leader of france's national front as the e.u. shouldn't be meddling in kiev's internal matters along with this image sure deal

which was made that they're making interventionism inside the national politics of the train i can totally understand the president of ukraine why you felt humiliated on this case they're mixing up with the international internet all this is difficult questions of don't you get to moshing go in there in a case. this is not good as well train is divided into you have a pro european opinion you have pro russian opinion in this country for months history and its geography is complicated let's not make things even worse and ukraine has cited economic difficulties as the main reason for rejecting the european deal according to some reports would cost up to one hundred billion dollars to implement the required e.u. regulations and standards so little bit down also believes it's not surprising ukraine is reluctant to go ahead with the. ukraine should be thinking twice about these offers i mean what does the european union have to offer when it is

politically decided when its depth is rising unemployment rate rising what exactly do we have to offer even in terms only of markets and economies i'm not sure it's a good deal at all anyway for a train today and a people of elements guests today debating ukraine's rejected e.u. bid and just how attractive the deal was for kiev in the first place of course that's in today's edition of crossed. the fact is the european union doesn't have money to hand out ukraine needs an awful lot of money and everyone knows that the european union and its member states are broke they have debt up to the poles and they can't afford to pay their own bills let alone other peoples a cynic would say is that the e.u. in considering its economic situation is interested in ukraine for like cheap labor to export goods to a large market in india it's a one way street for the average ukrainian i don't even think that that is what the

european union wants out of the ukraine the only reason the european union is interested in this deal with the ukrainians is not because of integrating ukraine it's not because of out of concern for the ukrainian people or any shared values which are vastly different between the two but it's about denying russia a geopolitical piece. on our website r.t. dot com we've got expert opinion on the e.u. ukrainian association deal because if you want to find out more of what's up behind kiev as you turn just click over to r.t. talk.

thanks for joining us today on r.t. international the day after the turkey feast to speak at the shopping season i should say knocking on the door in america shoppers in the u.s. head out to stores to pick up bargain deals look at the federal reserve's while the bond buying talk to one of those behind the controversial policies we've now thinks he owes an apology to taxpayers. this is the place that has been. consecrated to god for almost a thousand years people came here twenty years ago it's already established life on the silent. and people of the love of christ working. people say you can. come and something happens on this island that makes them return to it again and again they say the below saves them. join me james brown on

a journey for the soul. only. torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred twenty three days. through two hundred cities of russia. really fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand. in a record setting trip by land air sea others face. a limp a torch relay. on our team. it's a nine fifteen on friday morning here in moscow thanks for joining us here on r.t. international for the holiday shopping season is kicked off in the u.s.

and many retailers have even broken tradition by pushing their opening hours into thanksgiving night instead of waiting for the official start of black friday now exactly five years ago the federal reserve announced its own unprecedented shopping spree but it's hardly been helping the u.s. economy. one of those behind the experiment if things it was one big mistake. block friday the day after thanksgiving is america's busiest shopping day of the year millions standing in lines for hours or even days before stampeding into stores to snag door buster deals oddly enough the federal reserve bank has also used this pseudo holiday to halogen its own unprecedented spending spree otherwise known as quantitative easing two thousand the financial crisis the fed began buying up massive bonds to drive down the cost of credit and experiment pitched at helping main street as the program marks its five year anniversary the former fed

official who helped spearhead the quantitative easing is publicly apologizing to all americans for the role he played his name is andrew use are and he joins me now andrew what is so bad about quantitative easing that you felt you had to publicly apologize to the entire country i believe we have a very big wake up call with the financial crisis five years ago we had a we realize we have this economy that was over we were lying on wall street where the banks have become too big and too too concentrated for the larger economy and what i feel quality quantitative easing all to me has done is to reinforce. that structure in the u.s. economy and a lot of the benefits of q.e. have ultimately gone to the banks rather to to to main street america so if we see that over the course of five years those that have benefited from q e have been the richest people in the united states of the richest companies the richest banks in

the majority of americans are not benefiting from this and why is still continuing the problem is. the fed at this point is the only one doing something and so it feels like it keeps on having to do something to help mild to the argument is what it's doing is it not only helping. they may actually be hurting for former dramatically the u.s. economy thank you very much for your time mr and i'm sorry thank you very much for having me i think you are for a moment let's look back at two thousand and eight when the fed on the failed its largest stimulus package in u.s. history it created eight hundred billion dollars not minding the risk of inflation but years later many more billions are spent on wild bond buying in the fed continues to print money are cutting a long story short its balance sheet has skyrocketed to almost four trillion dollars the fed moves to lower interest rates on loans to encourage people to spend

meanwhile the american bar was a missing credit payments which means the interest rates are about to go through the roof the trends journal jerald so lent a manager he warns of a grave consequences. the only reason there's any recovery going on in the united states or for that matter the europeans is that interest rates are at record lows so as i mentioned you could buy an automobile with zero percent and what they go it what's going to happen when interest rates go up the housing market again collapses the auto market collapses and worse than that the bond market collapses and so you're going to start seeing a decline again in people paying mortgages more foreclosures happening and that's when interest rates go up because when interest rates go up this phony recovery we have in the housing market is going to stop and

a lot of the new people that got into the market on going to have trouble paying off their mortgages are no web scene was lined up plenty of stories for you on the web site this hour including the black hole in of russia has to sleet check it out in fact it's a brand new submarine it's been dubbed with this name being virtually unthink if. dot com had to details and pictures of a very impressive machine. plus the u.s. war against intellectual property theft doesn't look so effective now it's been revealed washington also has its own face in the trunk full story click away right there. right see. first street. and i think you're. on a reporter's twitter. instagram. to

be in. our larry king politicking here very soon on the program. for now though the u.k. now provides a roof to two hundred thousand roma migrants who move there in search of a better life but some brits are angry that few of the newcomers are ready to change their cultural traditions and respect the rules of their new home in response locals have taken matters into their own hands setting up so-called street patrols as artsy sarah for three points. well ping up against the calls this team is setting off on one of their regular nightly migrant patrols organized by the pakistan community association their beat is this small neighborhood in sheffield in the north of england known as paige all the trying to save the community tensions here i don't know there are tensions in the area and people are

angry because it's a very small area very densely populated and people as you can see so terrace houses people living on top of each other it doesn't take us long to see what some members of the local community a say concerned about even on a monday night in winter large groups of roma men congregated on this small high street i do see so in our. city so look around this mass you sense noise at night most of the roma here from stood back here and they're eager to tell us that they don't want to cause any trouble for my friend you know my swap you know people speaking just so it's you know after one horrible you know looking for a drop you know problem here for two thousand and nine pm curfew has been put in place here under sixteen can see the police thanks coming back here so they have what sort of significant presence in the area similar support the presence here from eight o'clock in the flame right the way through until then it's

a very difficult thing to police the situation has gained national attention with some voicing concerns of a repeat of the race riots that blighted the north of the country to stave a decade ago it didn't concern me that it was going to happen what concerned me was how that would make very much population and the longstanding population feel that they're living in an area where tensions of perhaps not so hard either that might happen like all east citizens have the right to move freely throughout the european union but so what is the most persecuted ethnic minority groups in europe the migrant patrol at. trying to aid integration here but with restrictions being removed next year allowing them remain to enter the u.k. sparking white public concern it won't just be the patrol keeping a careful watch what plays out on the streets this will. serve

the reporting from sheffield in the little sitting. round open up. where a five point six magnitude earthquake has hit the south killing at least eight dozens were also injured twelve of them seriously the disaster taking place in the bush era province where the country's only nuclear power plant is situated although no damage there has been reported. beijing has ordered warplanes to routinely patrol its newly declared air defense zone over disputed islands in the east china sea this comes in the wake of america japan and south korea all sending military flights over the archipelago the dispute threatens to overshadow u.s. vice president joe biden's trip to the region next week and further fuel tensions between china and its regional neighbors. the afghan president hamid karzai has accused the u.s. of launching a drone strike which killed a child saying it's another sign of washington's disregard for civilian life if

similar attacks continue he is vowing not to sign a long term security agreement that would allow several thousand u.s. troops to stay in afghanistan after twenty fourteen afghan leaders already shown his reluctance to sign the deal saying first wants assurances they'll be no meddling in upcoming elections and no more restaurants. to iraq where twenty nine of being killed after three car bombs struck two outdoor markets near baghdad the blasts went off in a five minute period dozens being injured twenty thirteen has been the deadliest year for the country since two thousand and eight and here at r.t. we have a special online project about the human tragedy called a year of carnage you can find that right now at our to talk.

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a tip angle is keep these stories. here. in the spanish find out more visit. tito's comb. secrets from the campaign trail the inside scoop from behind the scenes of the two thousand and twelve presidential race and its impact on the shape of the u.s. political landscape joining me in the co-authors of an instant bestseller double down journalist mark halperin and john. all next politicking with.

the politicking i'm happy to have the authors of double down in the studio with me mark halperin is editor at large and senior political analyst for time magazine and senior political analyst for m.s.n. d.c. and john holliman is the national editor of new york magazine and a political analyst for m.s.n. b.c. they are both co-authors of a terrific book double down a great follow up to game change with another great book before we get into current policies like how did the book come up that you did you know you were going to do a follow up are you now the new fall do you cover the races well i mean the first one we enjoyed doing a lot and between the book and the h.b.o. movie we had a certain amount of momentum to think about doing another one it wouldn't take too long for us to say you know there's a certain formula to what we did and we wanted to try to do it again for a different race some characters carrying over like the clintons and obviously

president obama but but a new group of people right about i once interviewed john theodore white who wrote the making of the president one nine hundred sixty and sixty four and sixty eight and seventy two he invented it on sept is jim bishop in bed with the concept of the day kennedy died of a christ died. do you thinking in terms of feet over. well you know we are both big readers of political literature so you know be think about people who have done stuff like this in the past tell you what obviously established became a franchise but you know hundred thompson did for a living on the campaign trail in seventy two a book we both admire richard ben cramer wrote one of the great political campaign books ever what it takes about the ninety eight campaign but no one had done anything like this in a while and the campaign book had sort of died so we were fighting against the trend which was a lot of publishers thought well there's so much coverage of these races now how do you possibly write about something that comes out a year later or more forgotten about it but the two thousand a race in this race both really interesting and we wanted to get behind the scenes we thought we could use of them so little through the turn of sure if they know

we're going to get into it in a couple of minutes but first some current things really as we tape this the president is in l.a. today where where does this stand right now is the rollout of the what's going on think of presidencies in the balance this how did the ump like this i think that you can see the seeds of some of the problems in a few things that we write about in the book and that have been said about the president some of which are he passed health care with all democratic votes did docking republicans bought into it at all and didn't run to get a mandate on health care when he ran for re-election governor romney didn't bring it up because he had his own problems on health care and i think when you don't make an issue front and center even if something that's passed a lot harder time winning over the trust of the american people and between the computer the website problem and the lack of president's clarity say that somewhat euphemistically about whether everyone would be able to keep their policy he's created a deficit in terms of trusting him hard to implement something partisan and controversial .