live from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's two pm here in the russian capital we begin this hour in egypt where the military rulers have imposed an overnight curfew on cairo's tahrir square and other parts of the capital it follows a violent eruption between coptic christians and security forces that have left at least twenty four people debt what began as a peaceful rally calling for justice over attacks on churches and radicalism quickly turned into the most violent episode since february is revolution military vehicles are clearly seen charging through crowds and plowing into people as you can see here while army infantry fired rubber bullets and tear gas witnesses claim the escalation was sparked by unconnected troublemakers but state owned media blames christian protesters for instigating the violence let's get reaction now from inside egypt dr use of home the editor in chief of the country's only

christian newspaper about what tiny weekly joins us now from cairo thanks for being with us there's much confusion over what happened last night some say the christians clashed with muslims others say it was the military against christians what are you hearing about what happened. but it was a confrontation between an angry. and the military troops stationed over in front of those t.v. headquarters building. on the night nation. against. it but that. from militant islamists in the churches. the last of which took place a week ago. their village in the southern government is going to swallow.

where they told the truth. and that christian is adjacent to the. headquarters. of the cabinet the government who would arrest criminals i am presenting them to justice and the prime minister to fulfill his. months of commitment to release a. unified places of worship to establish longer related equality between christians and muslims in that regard. lisa longer wait. for. an anti discrimination between egyptians to. meet his commitment to establish a special committee to study papers of

a long list of. churches. and to be open why is the prime minister still reluctant to watch step in and bring those responsible for church attacks or attacks against complex what is going on is here fraid of someone why is he not taking any action here. apparently this is correct because the reaction and the behavior of the government with security. in front of militant islamists is extremely. reluctant to enforce the rule of law and it is very dangerous signal to these factions that the government is not ready to confront them to establish the rule of law and the culprits as they continue. to be used by these

islamists. a. string of. favorites to prove. the fans of the state and. pay the price for that. let's talk about more about who could be behind these possible attacks i was in cairo recently and we spoke to people who said that sometimes if you attack a coptic church or aggressor and you become some sort of a local hero is that really the situation there. yes. to. root. and to destroy. the. scape with what they do and. will resent it just you know there's much to be said about mubarak

and his ways of course but nevertheless he acted as a wall against islamic radicalism of any kind of religious tensions crushing both at every turn really who's going to perform that function now. if you speak of. the group and the militants and this then the factions the. effect of this is. there was a comeback a very strong comeback and even you know you. said if it's. a keeper. sended threats to the cult in egypt and that they can.

churches property. i'm sorry to say that what we have seen since that evolution is said to be in the situation of their security and it is the same scenario. above all feeding them of the gene to protect their goats but on the same time it's good or even worse and worse because all islamist factions and one of them is that it's three. and of course you have those elections coming up on november the twenty eighth dr joseph called the editor in chief of egypt's only christian newspaper what time you weekly thank you for your time. thank you well still to come in the program europeans find that being protected from poverty is becoming in empty pledge financially hard pressed nations target basic social programs to balance their books putting

a dampener on the blocks both wiping out homelessness by twenty fifty also. members of the syrian opposition are in moscow for talks trying to find a weak knowledge of the crisis which according to the un has already taken the lives of nearly three thousand people. poland's prime minister is on course to become the first in a generation to be reelected exit polls from sunday's elections say donald center right party is almost ten percent clear of his main rival well he's already served a full term which included efforts to warm relations with russia our correspondent in eastern europe alexei or so ski is following the count. from what we've seen so far there will be no surprises as to who is going to win the election in poland the exit poll results which were published straight after the polling stations were closed on sunday night suggested that prime minister party the civic platform will garner around forty percent of the votes with their main compact it is the party of

the twin brother of the fall of the late polish president lech kaczynski it also will garner around thirty percent with all the votes counted so far these results seem to be proving rather accurate this will not be the straight victory for don't know he will still have to form a coalition with other parties in order for his party to have the second spell of power in a row but few experts have any doubts that the prime minister would be able to form a coalition with several other parties and take a second spell at power in poland this in fact is could be proved to be a very historic move because since nine hundred eighty nine polls have been changing their government and the ruling party every single poll has with every election this it'll be the first time since one thousand nine. hours being reelected and the same prime minister will stay power for another four years this is not a surprise to many experts as there have been many surveys in many polls suggesting

that poles have been very happy with their government with the way poland handled the global recession and this is probably one of the main factors why the poles have been voting for the prime minister spot even despite that the voter turnout has been rather low for traditionally politically active polls and the era of power for the last four years have signified much improving relations between poland and russia in particular after the tragic smolensk crash which killed most of the country's political elite along with the country's president we are expecting that should he be confirmed as the country's prime minister for the second spell that we expect that he would not change his foreign policy and the relations with russia will stay on the same level. we europe social welfare programs which have been the evas pride and joy for decades face the acts as the economic crunch bites deeper among them are poverty safety nets which provide food and care for those living on

the streets or struggling to make ends meet as artie's daniel bushell reports from france there's always a catch to cutting back. the new motion in the european parliament claims that homelessness can be ended in the e.u. by twenty fifteen but those on the front line helping people living on the streets say this is fantasy with the numbers without a roof over their heads soaring with the e.u. itself about to stop a scheme providing free meals things are expected to get even worse. the european union's ending its food aid program which feeds millions every year yet more people than ever a coming through our doors. protesters are angry that spending cuts target the poor but they're also furious saying they're being lied to with elections next april the sarkozy administration claims poverty on his watch has dropped below fourteen percent charities on the ground say the

real figure is higher and roy's inforced claiming that one in seven french people now live below the poverty line with states all steerage the moves being blamed for this soup kitchen else like paris social workers say the short by how many now call this their only meal the most common reason given is government cuts to social spending the income below which people are defined officially as living in poverty in france is just under a thousand euros a month the state safety nets well below that meaning many are desperate five hundred euros a month is what i now get from the government that put a roof over my head not enough to eat cash strapped e.u. governments elsewhere across the e.u. are under pressure to get more people off benefits if they don't search for a job or not enough so we can close it and make an end on the unemployment period with job seekers being squeezed out of social security the face of europe's

homeless is getting even younger. we've got many young able bodied people coming to us for the first time with the end of e.u. funding we just can't feed them anymore. economists skimping on the pause not even good economics the price of treating health and crime problems linked with low for the streets for a will to save by cuts the benefits system i mean should certainly support people who are or who are very poor and cannot avoid poverty trap fronts is for me charities are warning of a humanitarian crisis as homeless numbers spiral out of control in their parallel world mean world e.u. chiefs congratulate themselves the homelessness is coming to an end don't you bush or. the struggling in the wind is in line i should say to get a helping hand from the world's fastest emerging economies a top russian official says moscow and other brics nations are willing to help the

e.u. get above water in its crippling debt crisis but there is a condition as artie's correspondent tom bard now explains. this news comes from the presidential economic aide our candy devolve of which you said there have been meetings recently between the foreign minister sergei lavrov the ex finance minister of russia alexey could ruin and spain's finance minister so folks focusing primarily on spain in those meetings a raise the possibility of russia being able to buy some of spain's debt and so provide extra help for the e.u. debt crisis he also said that of the brics countries brazil russia india china and south africa could try and help economically with the use economic woes but there is a big but it relies on the e.u. coming up with a clear plan to try and contain the debt crisis that is currently sweeping across the eurozone we all know about the problems in greece italy and spain credit

ratings have recently been downgraded again raising fears of major debt problems there so russia says it's true it's too early at the moment to talk about any concrete plans to start buying up spanish debt we want to see a unanimous plan first. russia says its veto of the latest u.n. resolution against syria was not designed to indulge president assad's regime the statement comes as a delegation from the syrian opposition is in moscow to discuss the way out of the current situation in the inflamed country let's get more on that from our correspondent here but it's going off and joins us live you gore what is everyone involved want to get out of this meeting. well i knew some members of the syrian opposition or in moscow they've met with russia's two african nations because of and the main message being told to them at the moment is that even though moscow did block the u.n. draft resolution on syria it does not support president assad's regime.

that pretty much it's important to understand that russia's veto is not designed to give a free hand or carte blanche to president assad's regime if the syrian government has missed the message it's high time to understand it they should go ahead with genuine not formal reforms and to gauge in dialogue with all sides of the conflict not only those who are comfortable partners. moscow has been furiously criticizing the violence in syria throughout the entire conflict and according to the u.n. it's already taken the lives of nearly three thousand people just earlier we heard from president bush said that syria is in desperate need of democratic reform and even that if the current of goldies will not be able to put these reforms through they would have to go but peacefully and not a result of any foreign military forces getting involved similar to how the events unfolded in are still unfolding in libya so russia block to the western backed the

u.n. resolution which did not exclude the chances are for military intervention currently russia and china are proposing their own resolution which condemns both sides for the violence of last week i thought here in moscow met with representatives of the syrian authorities but they are still here they say they are not ready to hold any negotiations with the oppositions just yet. in our t.v. corporate scandal thank you very much for that update. but argy dot com right now discover how the arab spring is echoing across the atlantic with what's being american all know as the anti greed wall street campaigners refuse to quit their towns gaining traction cross the country. home online british intelligence brings the alarm over an increased terror threat next summer's london olympics saying little can be done to prevent well planned attacks. in pakistan a dozen al qaeda linked suspects have been arrested after afghanistan demanded the

u.s. put more pressure on islamabad to fight terrorism but it's not enough to eliminate thoughts in america that pakistan's government is sheltering terrorists some in washington are even ready to support action against islam and bob as reports. the drums of war beating loud and clear washington calls pakistan a safe haven for terrorists we cannot hear the news coming across the border attacking our forces attacking afghanistan afghanistan and then disappearing back into a safe. economy network for one acts as a veritable arm of pakistan's internal services intelligence agency pakistan is furious over the accusations calling them unsubstantiated and saying that washington came very close to losing a major ally in its war on terror if you talk about things i'm quite sure you know it says things of many terrorist organizations around the world which by which we

mean intelligence things over the last ten years pakistan has repeatedly compromised its own sovereignty to help the americans in their operations the us while chasing down suspected terrorists has been bombing pakistan with drones on a regular basis the strikes have killed thousands of civilians use of going to is not against our sovereignty it's also counterproductive it's the people of the two want to been friends in this fight against terrorism after the latest threats from washington fearing an even tougher assault thousands of pakistanis angrily rallied to say enough is enough for these people the us is a hostile power it's china that they see as a friend in the americans in this one instance have hen and it over a major hearts and minds victory to the chinese in pakistan in spring china officially notified washington that any attack on pakistan will be seen as an act

of aggression against beijing the pakistani prime minister praised his country's relations with china calling them quote higher than mountains deeper than oceans stronger than steel and sweeter than honey washington on the other hand seems to have mastered the art of alienating friends with pakistan. taking america's accusations that they support terrorists as a way to shift the blame for the failure of u.s. policies on pakistan but the blame game may blow up into full scale aggression the experts believe that we need to elevate our response they will have a lot of bipartisan support on capitol hill u.s. lawmakers have already signaled that if there is the will for tough action against pakistan they'll support it and when washington says the words safe haven for terrorists that's what you expect tough action and if it does happen pakistan could be the new afghanistan but with china as a friend and nuclear bombs at hand sounds like a deadly combination for the united states i'm kind of check out reporting from

washington our team. well big foot has gone by many names and been the subject of countless stories but actually laying hands on one has proved more than elusive never once given up though when a team of specialists think they've zoned in on the creature's whereabouts in russia as. reports from siberia. the yeti also known as big food snowman hole sus quote has been exciting scientists and enthusiastic from all the world for more than a century but explorers have never had enough evidence to determine that this apparently gigantic creature is more than just a big legend these beautiful mountainous forests in russia siberia are among the few places on earth thought to be roamed by yetis and this is where the scientists from around the globe have come for the largest expedition of its kind since the nineteenth fifties to set out what's never been done before to finally catch the creature. but first we go to get blessing from this lions indigenous

inhabitants and the least their spiritual support. shaman and dashed doesn't have any doubts i'm not sure i can tell you that but yes he does exist encouraged we continue our journey the path goes through impassable tiger think it never has a human food here before perhaps and all together larger and harry a creature has in the hunt for the evidence every minor detail becomes important ranch is twisted like this is believed to be a key clue to the his existence the scientists say it could not have been done by enemies as they don't have hands of fingers to do and humans cannot do it this way either as they are just not strong enough to do for we go into the forest the more

so cold markers we come across two records in the middle of a virgin tiger forest are also high interest the participants of the expedition are saying it's not just wind falling trees the branches they say could have been put in this way deliberately. by someone and other stroke of luck we'll meet a local who says he saw a tall man like harry creature nearby he points the way here in to make the journey with us this will be the york it's a snowman the master of tiger many saw him with signs of its presence is if it wants us to know it exists but it doesn't want to be discovered. but takes petition moscow on the explorer saying chances are very high to me to get it over there in the cave unless our shelter or at least discover some traces of this crater so let's go there if the snow men are at least new signs of its existence i

discovered how many knowledge this tide of these creatures could deliver a blow to the many skeptics and sure enough the clues emerge there is what seems to be. a toe in the field like the suggestive of a pretty certainly not a bad the scientists agree while remaining cautious of jumping to conclusions but this is a beautiful surface for which we're tracking and there's only that one interesting line here i'm certain that you are right there. in the right. bigfoot playing hopscotch she would like to see a left foot. best the left one has never been discovered and celebrations are put on hold these are the real thing or they're convenient props to make a very good story but i wouldn't be quick to determine which of those two

alternatives is the truth without further. the study that'll take a while could provide cost iran proof of the yet is existence but there are plenty here who want to be held in their breath that. even if you bring them snowmen dead or alive the skeptics will say that's a pathology or mutation it was a case in the usa it is covered a strange body all covered with fur the military helicopter flew took it and we never heard about it since then i think this could be explained by an impotent including financial impotence of the academic science them bush's expedition seems to have those involved going in circles and so it seems that until concrete evidence is found the discovery of big food remains a big feet. reported from siberia up next is the latest business news with you.

thanks and i send a very warm welcome to the business update swindlers prefer cards to catch up to seventy nine million dollars may disappear from people's plastic and russia by the end of the here or when over has this account. in the first half of this year russian banks have lost seventy percent more money from illegal credit and debit card operations then in the same period last year and this number is actually very alarming considering that the overall number of operations has increased by just thirty seven percent. were due stolen over a billion rubles for a private bank account and the forecast is just to one point four billion more before the end of the year experts say most people here fall victim of scamming a method used by criminals to kep to data from a magnetic stripe on the back of a plastic card russian legislation lax measures to effectively fight they stop a crime the maximum punishment for scammers here is two years in prison although often they manage to get away industry experts point out another reason and that is

the bank's attempts to save up on transaction safety special keyboard protectors can cost up to fifty dollars per a.t.m. this indeed could make operating a.t.m. change more expensive the banks very soon might have to reconsider their safety policy as with every faucet hundred ninety dollars per cash machine for a year or the damage to suffer from skimming might soon exceed the cost of additional safety measures. time to have a look at the markets oil prices are heading to missing that demand by the world's largest consumer we're told off to economic data from the u.s. a late fee us over a new recession why it's we just trading at eighty four dollars per barrel wild brand is that one hundred six dollars per barrel. european stock so high on monday financials are gaining on hopes the progress of europe's troubled banking sector the fusees point six percent while the tax is off point four percent. and finally here in moscow the minds of some of the r.t.s. have opened on a host of note this solve the market some makes the r.t.s.

is gaining but one percent while the mice it's flat to negative let's have a look at some of the individual share moves in the my six most energy may just in the red have to stone health percent bucking the trend of the companies closed by moscow internet provider court. for such a seven million dollars truck make a come on is also up supported by strong results it's not profits rose to two point seven million dollars against at twelve million net loss last chance. that's all we have time for now small stories check all websites r t dot com slash business.

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here with are to you live from moscow are three thirty pm our top stories dozens da and hundreds injured in egypt as a peaceful kristen larssen. islamic radicalism descends into the biggest classes since the revolution which ousted president mubarak. really years debt crisis slipping out of control problem from an unexpected direction russia and the other big developing economies in the brics group are suggesting support but only if the e.u. comes up with a credible rescue plan. poland's prime minister is in line for any historic reelection exit polls put the late president's twin brother in second place donald to sgt first term was in part characterized by warming relations with russia and. pakistan arrested doesn't.