all. in india. the movie the joint the hotel rooms the movie that's a great way to go to the grand imperial truly the george weston. you can

a letter to. see don't need to go publicly and read this in the kernel was her job as a retreat. egypt's former president hosni mubarak arrives see for his trial in cairo six months after mass protests forced him from power looking at live pictures there on your screen now some people say the revolution that promised to bring a change to the country they feel has delivered a very little again these are live pictures from inside the courtroom in cairo. the u.s. swallow self-made and bitter pill to avert the devastating default but experts say there's a little hope for efficient economic recovery the long term. moscow wants against calls out the you want to target the syrian regime urging for action to push the warring sides towards dialogue to end the escalating violence in the country is cause us dozens more protesters were reportedly killed on the tuesday.

twelve noon here in the russian capital that you're watching r.t. now to our top story president hosni mubarak has arrived in a cairo to face trial while outside the court clashes have erupted between his supporters and opponents of that's helpful leader leaving one person dead and at least fifteen wounded now we are getting live pictures again from a cairo now these are shots of hosni mubarak these that inside the courtroom he's waiting for the trial to. begin now mubarak is charged with the killing of protesters during the february uprising and corruption of the trial will be broadcast live as we will be bringing you more of these pictures throughout the day and the leader will be a tried along with he's two sons and a senior aides another charge against him carries

a possible death sentence if he's found guilty of premeditated killings artie's acts on a boy has been following events for us. the trial of the former egyptian president hosni mubarak house already so sweet it's been plenty of tribulations for the transitional military council which took over the country ever since mobarak stepped down back in february the decision of whether to put him on trial was essentially a choice between good bad and the worse still unclear which one is which if the board is indeed forced to do that and his actions in the courtroom his testimony could potentially shed some light on some shady financial deals and compromise the political alliances and loan behold some of his former associates including people who are running the country nowadays meals to be implicated according to the latest your reports eighty three year old mubarak has been challenged in hospital reportedly being treated for her and condition so she is close to him also saying

that he's suffering from a major figure for depression refusing to. take solid foods but the prevailing view here in congress especially among the testers is that only three points of poor health nothing more for theatricals aimed at responding to trial and to driving on the promised reforms many would in the rejections especially people who are camping out on the tough periods where back in january and february say they're why disillusioned with the fruits of their revolution because life in egypt has become so much harder as my colleague various i'm not sure now reports this quaint cairo is now one of the most famous in the world many around the globe even those with little knowledge of arabic know its name means liberation well the revolution of january put this part of the globe on the map but apart from that

what else to bring the people of egypt. this man has been running his own peace news for thirty five years the jews. to bring him enough money to send his son to study to canada and take his large family abroad one c. but with the economic devastation caused by and rest and political uncertainty muhammad's enterprise has been badly affected now he can barely afford to feed his children he says the wind of change may have brought freedom to egypt but it's brought a survival strong in its wake. you know i love the revolution when it happened i welcomed it that looked at the time like a light at the end of the tunnel you see it's not getting better we have nothing to eat just don't tell me about democracy for hungry people it just doesn't matter. the plight of poverty fuel the revolution your growth has dropped from five to just one percent some thirteen million people live below the breadline unemployment has

hit twelve percent. egypt's revolution was regarded as the most successful arab spring chapter it took eighteen days to end one of the world's longest dictatorships former president mubarak will face justice within days charges of corruption and sanctioning killing which carries the death penalty but five months on there is little satisfaction and dictator free egypt is far from the best place to live and the people. are getting ready hoppers but people now walking about mubarak as well much better than that there is . a bit of loot and this in fact is a very sad that is our people are indeed tired even those who back the changes this young man is from the revolution youth caliche and he tries to remain optimistic

but all he says sounds a lot like south conviction that you know i say we've been living under mubarak for many many years too many i'd say but it's. what we did but we do need to be more patient and this is difficult we have a lot of problems but we do need to wait for a little longer. recent need demonstrations in the square issue that this toy has been pushed to the limit and its protests versus patience in the battle to save egypt from crumbling through the. cairo. well you're looking at the live pictures there from cairo inside the courtroom where the trial of hosni mubarak will take place and outside there have been clashes with at least one person dead and fifteen wounded there are also reports that a police and army troops backed by armored personnel carriers are keeping be a protesters at bay again the historic trial of was injured barak there we will be bringing you more live pictures throughout the day. and of course plenty more

stories ahead for you this hour in our. soon we had to georgia to check what's behind tbilisi's thirst for glitz and glamour and how president saakashvili plans to win a public support by turning up the music. of the u.s. narrowly misses a potential default signing into law an emergency budget deal that leaves both sides of the months long political debate disappointed with a country that once advised russia during its worst economic crisis fail to prepare for its own a financial humiliation r.t.c. cut that he has been investigating why washington refuses to help itself. congress has now approved a compromise to reduce the deficit and avert a default there would have devastated our economy the u.s. just had to swallow this bitter appeal but many students it will how the patients

recovery but will instead prove to be a poisoned chalice our economy is not growing at all in fact unemployment remains very high foreclosures remain very high no recovery is taking place and are we on a suicide mission we may be gesturing you know to kind of deal with debt at the same time make it impossible for the government to play any role to save the economy any economy is going down rapidly at some point shortly after the collapse of the soviet union russia became an american laborde tree for nearly economic theories but can americans take their own advice now to deal with their own economic crisis. live within your means the same advice they gave us without knowing our economic and social realities as we. speak to the russian guy how did russia's central bank in the immediate post soviet period the year he took up the

job in one thousand nine hundred ninety two so the worst for figure inflation in russia's history the us the sarra came to nando's the communist economy was in collapse but there was nothing to replace it with. supports the situation was disastrous for it it was over one hundred billion dollars in gold in foreign currency reserves well listen fifty million which effectively means new. people to reformists of the damn government remember how in america's advice so-called shock therapy was applied the markets might have got the therapy but the people got the shock empty shelves and must pull their teeth growth or as one politician said to move from a market to a communist economy is easy it's like trying to turn your aquarium into fish soup but to do the opposite is much harder it's like trying to revive the dead fish it took more than russia a decade to revive its a quarry him and return to economic growth transforming the country's fortunes

after the disaster of the nine hundred ninety s. but with the us now the patient in dire need of it could all make surgery will soon see the maps and they thought it was good enough for both saw the russia will be fit for america exceeded our queue of art more scale. general selected from the a trans resource institute told r.t. that despite the last minute debt deal the us is due for another great depression. the american economy as well as much of the global economy is heading into the greatest depression anything everything that they're doing is not going to salvage it you know what's a reputation a reputation is by what you delivered in ited states can't deliver the united states can't deliver on its wars it loses wars where the iraq afghanistan the war on drugs the new war with libya they're losers the government did everything that

they touch look at all the trillions of dollars the tens of trillions that have been pumped into the system since the panic of zero eight struck by the federal reserve by d.c. with the stimulus bailouts too big to fail everything they do they turn to failure the business of america when i used to be a young man it used to be business now the business of america is war and you can see by the new ones that obama's started and the old ones that he keeps going the crackdown on protesters in syria is picking up pace with reports the government forces have regime destroying the opposition stronghold of hama around one hundred forty people are said to have been killed over the past few days and the country and the u.n. is locked in heated debate over what action to take on the crisis r.t. somebody in a fortnight now reports. the united nations security council wrapped up their second day of consultations surrounding the violence in syria with what many believe is at least a draft text that each member of the security council will now bring back to their

respective capitals there is a divide among security council members on where the condemnation lives the u.s. and its western allies believe there should be a direct condemnation against the syrian government and the syrian president for the crackdown against anti-government protesters that have been taking place since mid march yet other countries like russia china india brazil and others believe that there should be a much more balanced approach that whatever words are used in any text that is put forth by the security council should not exacerbate an already sensitive circumstance in syria now russia has said in the past that it opposes on balanced measures such as saying sions that could create an even bigger problem and the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin has said that resolution

dealing with libya he believes was dealt with very frivolously and the security council can't help but keep that in mind when contemplating what the security council can and cannot do when it comes to the situation in syria we're concerned about the one and some of these coalition of the conflict and we think that these circumstances the security council could and should see the bills that have signaled in favor of going to go in the addition and ending the violence the security council will convene again wednesday morning to continue taking on this issue of syria and all the violence that has been going on for more than four months there. the u.n. mandate to protect civilians in libya has come under fire for the way it's being implemented while some countries feel the nato led coalition is using it to try and topple colonel gadhafi a political analyst michel chossudovsky thinks the going down the same path in syria could involve the entire region in war people who are actually

committing crimes against humanity is the nato u.s. military alliance we see it didn't in libya there was absolutely no justification for the intervention in libya. suresh and which which took place in the east and the sooner you know and there's even less of a justification for an intervention in syria it's a very important country and if there's military intervention in syria then we are in for an extended war which goes from the mediterranean right to the chinese border because then you have integration of the of the war theaters in afghanistan and iraq of course palestine lebanon along and so we're in for a much larger war let's understand that any kind of military intervention in syria at this stage using the pretext of a protest movement all responsibility to protect we have devastating consequences

and lead to a military escalation of a vast area. and still ahead in the program alarm bells go off in the balkans native wops its presence along the north of the border between a possible and serbia to keep a close watch on the rising tension. over grand m.t.v. concert has rocked the republic of georgia and then event some locals are branded a waste of taxpayer money well with the economy struggling and unemployment running rampant georgians have questioned how their president coughed up the cash for such a spectacle. firth reports mail saakashvili is hoping his approach will strike a positive note with voters that were two of us only targeting the m.t.v. generation the state funded pop concert in between me has certainly attracted some big names. i like so much and you make a good dear george asked but what. rights are paid. this

president back if any popularity continues to fall freshly among the older generation and he's now trying to hail a much younger crowd it's not the first time the president's case eat up to stars what many see as a bid to win popularity. with the stock market for specialist over more than a period i'm sure you know how to thoroughly shop across the system inside the country but if this entire. brister and diplomats are always pro-government the p.r. conscious president has often used music as a political weapon this pop song commissioned ahead of the teeth thousand and eight presidential election uses his nickname in the humble title me sure is cool. you know or any other normal country where singers or singers are pretty good ball

the president all these high profile publicity stunts they come at a cost. i dunno where they got the money to bring such stars to juju to pay for the equipment because government funds come from the money of taxpayers like me and according to you can take money from six months. that was the concert adverts will certainly have gained the country attention in the west beyond beautiful but to me it is still a country where human rights violations are not uncommon international groups such as human rights watch say that the government was responsible for widespread abuses last year police brutality bans on free assembly and abnormally high conviction rates in calls cited as some of the serious concerns in fact police tactics were evident when a protest in the center tbilisi recently the. violently dispersed. the incident spokes international calls for an independent investigation. being forthcoming safe

the government has found time to plough money and energy into tasting this pop concert and as this does take to the stage police brutality and lack of government accountability issues it seems that can be brushed under the red carpet it's been clute the biggest party to it is that that the critics of the events are being quick to point out the likely thing contact early in the very seriously she's really good friends in the country. will still be in the park these days and the music. there be to believe. modern music isn't the only new initiative associated with ga go to our website r.t. dot com for more details and news updates and videos of georgia makes tourism a high priority as the country considers legalizing catechist in a bid to boost the number of foreign holiday makers. and other news the mayor of

the lithuanian capital gives his citizens a tough lesson of proper parking by driving a bomber that military vehicle over a luxury car. but also live u.f.o. fans are jumping for joy after swedish explorers find an extraterrestrial object in the bottom of the baltic sea drawing comparisons with that infamous space ship from the legendary star wars film series. nato has sent additional troops north border with serbia after an escalation of. and belgrade calls for a peaceful resolution well the reinforcement will bolster alliance forces already

patrolling the area one officer was killed in clashes between cos of a special forces and ethnic serbs when the police took control of two disputed a border crossings special forces were sent to the border by the cost of and government to enforce a trade ban on serbian imports it was in response to belgrade existing embargo on cost of and goods which was in place since cost of those unilateral declaration of independence in two thousand eight. hundred eighty and film director says that serbia is under pressure from the e.u. to recognise kossovo. situation in kosovo is very unstable this is due to the illegal acts of the so-called government of course of all it is not helping saddest talks of course in the negotiations that are due to continue the september and the whole escalation of violence is simply not going towards a peaceful solution that everybody is hoping for considering that the international

community has an interest in solving the so-called north kosovo issue it would not be unreasonable to suggest that they are trying to sort of fix this issue as fast as possible and i strongly believe that if force is necessary to do what they have planned they will use it and we must also remind ourselves that the e.u. . of belgrade as an unwritten prerequisite to recognise closer as independence and this would mean the belgrade should accept kosovo's sovereignty and territorial territorial integrity which which is very complicated to explain to the people of serbia this escalation of violence of course is not helping belgrade because. the people of serbia. really see this as a provocation and it is making their sentiment against reaching a compromise. not not very favorable for the tried your side serbia has already made many concessions to the so-called republican polls so they recognize their documents their i.d.'s their license plates so i think calling for the albanians to

negotiations is another call for serbs to accept more things that are just leading to serbia recognizing kosovo let's take a look at some other top news from around the world at least thirty four people have been killed and dozens injured in two days of clashes in the ongoing violence in a pakistani city of karachi reports say bodies were found scattered across different parts of the country's largest city somewhere with bullets and showing signs of torture police believe about two hundred people were killed in karachi in july alone well the city has a long history of ethnic religious and sectarian violence among the city's main political parties. iraq's political leaders have given the government the go ahead to start talks with the u.s. that would keep their troops in the country on a training mission beyond this year's withdrawal of the issue is politically charged with a senior minister stressing that american forces might still go by the end of this

year under a two thousand and eight agreement the move comes a days after the u.s. special inspector for iraq reconstruction have warned that the region was less safe than a year ago and that security was deteriorating last month attacks left over two hundred fifty people dead. colombian authorities have captured two suspected leaders of a cocaine operation involving the transfer of twenty tons of drugs per year to the us via submarines police say the arrest was the conclusion of a six year investigation into the drugs ring the men who were apprehended after the u.s. coast guard announced the capture of a submarine off the hood during the coast carrying a seven and a half tons of cocaine by the hall had an estimated street value of one hundred eighty million dollars. and back to our top story out of sort of president hosni mubarak is in a cairo court as you can see live pictures here of inside the court now he was

brought in on a hospital stretcher and he is there now for his trial six months after the a protest that had toppled him outside the courtroom there there have been clashes of between supporters and opponents of the top leader and so far it has left one other person dead and at least a fifteen a wounded he will also be tried along with his two sons and his senior aides again live pictures there coming from inside the courtroom where the historic trial against former president hosni mubarak will be held he's accused of killing over eight hundred of protesters and wounding six thousand during the february uprising now if he is found guilty of premeditated killing he could possibly face the death sentence again live pictures here and we will be bringing you continuous coverage of the events unfolding in cairo right here on r.t. . well it's time now for all the latest in business with kareena.

hello and welcome to our business update here on r t thanks for joining me pay pal is weighing plans to open an office in moscow the sultan according to the better mr newspaper the world's largest online payment portal is planning to invest twenty five million dollars in russia pay pal is coming hand in hand with its own our online auction site e bay in order to operate in russia even a means to sort out online transactions and delivery while it's in talks with d.h.l. about postal services will be transferring money out of the say pay pal's move looks reasonable given russia's online payment market. prices for jet fuel in russia are renewing their rally the country's key suppliers hike fuel charges by up to ten percent on tuesday all companies say that high global coop prices and domestic shortages are spurring being crazy in addition to lack of fuel is being

driven by high traffic volumes from russian airlines jet fuel prices have risen twenty five percent this year with the previous hike in early june. that's a look at the markets all is declining for a fourth day in its longest losing streak since may the best is to bet that signs of a slowing u.s. economy may falter fuel demand in the world's biggest consumer of oil gold is edging higher this hour earlier in the yellow metal lost as much as point six percent a nation trading silver is adding half a percent this hour in asia shares are heavily down across the board that make you sad over two percent shares of steel companies were especially hard hit and it worries about global demand to pounce j.p. holdings was down three percent resource sector shares were under selling pressure mining giant b.h.p. . beach p. billiton lost over two percent after a broken. right now we see european stock markets sliding heavily in early trading

as well following those trends in the u.s. in asia among the big burly movers shares in french bank societe generale that slump seven percent after it warned that profit targets for next year may be hard to gauge. and here in moscow markets are diving into negative territory tracking losses in asia demise it says losing almost one point two percent the r.t.s. to shedding over eight percent now let's have a look at some individual movers on the my six energy majors among the main loses weight by a lower crude price gazprom is losing one point four percent bt b. is down also one point four percent ross nafta is dropping the wrong one percent. bucking the trend is probably metal adding one point two percent on higher gold price. fell with global markets reeling from continued uncertainty over debt issues alexander copy of call at one nation's capital believes investors will continue to

talk of gold there is no secret in this with all these risks aluminum per u.s. slowdown the weakness of the dollar. the peripheral beth problems people are going to gold that's why in the russian space i see free. stocks which are doing with their gold these are fully metal borne assault was gold we sure are we all bring attention from the side or from the rest of us. so we have for you this hour but other back with more updates in about forty minutes from our statements. in the little.