the deadliest riots since the egyptian revolution flare up in cairo as religious tensions lead to dozens of deaths in clashes between the country's christians and security forces also. poland is counting the votes off the bottom entry election on sunday it is expected that the prime minister believe those party is in line for a second spell of power in a row join us for all the latest details. as growing poverty and e.u. countries spirals out of control due to cost and social spending russia says it could step into how the debt ridden of european economies. and the biggest challenge for a legendary creature in over half a century our correspondent joins the international expedition determined to

finally prove bigfoots existence. but from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching our team with me and he said now it's four pm here in the russian capital we begin in cairo where religious tensions in egypt intensified following the fall of mubarak now grown into a full scale riots over twenty people were killed and hundreds injured as clashes erupted between coptic christians and security forces but what began as a peaceful rally calling for justice over attacks on christian churches by muslim extremists quickly turned into the most violent episode since february so revolution military vehicles were seen charging through crowds as you can see here and plowing into people all army infantry fired rubber bullets and tear gas it's

still unclear who sparked the face. state owned media has placed blame with the christian protesters and to discuss these events unfolding in egypt now joined by. its author of on a middle east affairs called remarks mr charles thanks for being with us i've already seem to be putting the blame for what happened entirely on christian protestors do you agree with these versions of the events absolutely not and what's really shocking is we have a state media in a country of a mixed christian and muslim population calling the protesters their cloaks and saying the cops have been doing this and doing dark this is a very cynical attempt by the de facto rulers of the country the military to portray a. minority of the population and religious minority troublemakers when in fact all they're doing are trying to seek some justice over institutionalized discrimination that's the. residue from the time of what barak and his policies so

this is absolutely cynical kind of the way it's covered by the military council and it's media. and i think it doesn't bode very well for it then your future in egypt where there are only religious tensions behind these protests or is there some kind of broader issue at work here. let let's look at what the background of we're looking at is here in egypt because some people got carried away after mubarak stepped down and declared their evolution over in fact what we are facing is a popular uprising that was a poor aborted by a military coup leaving a pretty much a political and security vacuum in place and that's the context of what's happening in egypt. all the kind of sides involved from the emerging secular parties to the more established parties through the military to the civil administration president ministration don't seem to have enough authority to control the emerging

situation in egypt so that void with vacuum anything is possible at the moment because these simmering tensions that had been fueled activity by the mubarak regime for decades are there and unfortunately there is real discrimination because . the churches and sometimes their churches are being tarred so that situation can be exploited now let's not look at what happened yesterday just so as not to portray it as a purely religious divide or at all is that it just defies is that the most gracious started with many most of the swearing in their own taking part and there is this sense in egypt now there is a secular. secular group that was the driving force in the uprising could potentially take the leadership of this generation and they feel like they're in this defiance and find unity and sense of purpose among egyptians but mubarak is sort of well known for his talents if you might keeping things under control in

terms of religious tension that doesn't seem to be the case with the supreme council of the armed forces or scout how do you assess that situation and how radicalism could perhaps become course in the country won't be able to stay secular . yeah i mean obviously that's always a potential in a stew ation when you don't have political clarity but let's just distinguish mubarak was sort of comfortable in his position over thirty years in power he had orchestrated this sense where they governments made in collusion with some of the leadership of the court to kind of parents form the courts into a minority that language shouldn't have existed in the in the first place they are egyptians and they are part of the egyptian social fabric now if you haven't looked at it from the point of view of the military it's basically cynically i think playing the security security card and saying if we don't have total control of

security this is what's going to happen i'm also it's fueling the flames of tension because we heard reports yesterday and we saw footage that there were calls for. if you like through to attack on the christians and then there were cries that are associated with salafist extreme islamist elements marching to the aid of the army so was a very cynical time by the military council to kind of fuel that sort of tension and then probably what's going to come out of it is delaying the elections or stalling the process of transition to civilian rule but let's not deceive ourselves this is not kind of a story that's going to a development that's going to unfold by itself there is no easy transition to civilian democracy it needs a force within egyptian society to drive it forward and foremost to challenge the very means of the old regime that are still trying to block the president. right

karl shara middle east expert and blogger author of the blog our remarks talking to us live from london thanks for your time. largely documents the timeline of how egypt's revolutionary joy turned to disillusionment and suspicion that's in our website for you at our team dot com you'll find first hand reports on what became the main stumbling blocks in egypt and democracy and why people keep returning to talk real square to demand change. and clashes continue in syria where opposition supporters are following in the footsteps of egyptian revolutionaries and later in the program we'll look at how russia's few a way out of the conflict. for the first time in nearly two decades a polish prime minister looks set to clinch a second term in office with more than ninety percent of the votes counted. platform party has a strong lead in sunday's parliamentary election cited over four years of economic

growth and relations with russia our correspondent in eastern europe. 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 up to the polling stations were closed on sunday night suggested that prime minister don't oppose this party the civic platform will garner around forty percent of the votes with their main compact which is the party of the twin brother of the 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 if you 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 aspects 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 hundred to same party has been reelected and the same prime minister will state power for another four years this is not a surprise to many experts as they have been many surveys and 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 poland 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

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. but for more on the outcome of the polish vote let's now talk to the from the center for european policy studies for the first time in a generation poland has reelected the ruling party and effectively the prime minister why do you think they have retained the support of the people this time. well actually this is the first time ever the government has been reappointed we've never had that in history ever the only times when governments were reelected they were there was there were other actions with free elections so this is the performance of the main reasons why this happened was a very strong performance by this government but also a weakness of their position. could you could you go a little more detail to our audience who might not know what the weaknesses of the

opposition per se are is how to secure reelection. well there are there were two parties no position to premise to in the last four years and the injustice headed by the has a glass ceiling that they are on they. get over thirty five or thirty three percent and they've lost now six elections and their own prime minister they have a long tradition of knowledge being able to when the last time they won was back in two thousand and five so long six years ago. the other party's the left wing party has the budget they had a disastrous result. there is are not going to make it to the problem and they scored only about eight percent after the very very poor electrode campaign and now there is

a new part of the and you could go on the blog elected first time through the parliament liberal. type you would see what comes out of it bethany on take up a new church already called the movement. i'm sorry to interrupt obviously polls certainly have a wide array of parties to choose from how has been successful given the financial turmoil in europe with his pro european course oh he's been very successful no tony poland has been the only country back into those of the nine north to have a contraction of its economy has been constantly growing for over twenty years now and unemployment has been rather going through all the inflation has been rather control the country has been very heavily investing in infrastructure and other areas of public life but surely there are people in poland are afraid that the e.u. financial goals may reflect their economy as well especially during this second

term in the future. well it remains to be seen those issues where parts of the there are mines here you know financial perspective if they go to the nations coming in that you and this government has been advocating that it's the best prepared governments to actually secure another wave of pavement payments. twenty twenty but it's not only about having those farms because you see across the region colin's not the only country to benefit and not everybody's but the benefiting from this these problems so you need to be very well prepared to actually make use of it and government for a large extent has been considered by the electorate as pretty well prepared to run their business they're also considered as being able to warm relations and have quite a bit of success in doing that over his last term do people support that direction suggests a decrease in anti russian sentiment in poland just briefly. very briefly the

people seem to support a pragmatic relations of all the partners and all the neighbors and anybody who's advocating for a more radical approach towards russia and so on their way koreans or for that matter is rather not welcomed by the good knowledge so there you go prime minister all first normalization with with with neighbors or very close partnership with germany and the largest opposition party. offered a different different solution it was clearly not welcomed by them. from the center for european policy studies thanks for your analysis thank you for having me. well we're watching closely the situation in warsaw as well as the fallout from the both parties there and europe correspondent a less serious have he is treating all the polls but the polls he's talk that they're happy with at the helm of their country adding that he himself feels some

polish times are getting warmer follow developments in poland on our twitter feed at our g underscore column. russia could soon come to the rescue of debt ridden e.u. economies well being hand was extended by a presidential aide however the details of the plan will be discussed only after europe comes up with a clear energy crisis strategy archies tom barton reports. well this news comes from the presidential economic aide who said there have been meetings recently 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 use the crisis he also said that of the brics countries brazil russia india china and south africa could try and help economically with the 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 and 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 unanimous first. still ahead here on r t. thanks for saying chances are very high to me yet still be there in the case of an extra shelter or at least discover some traces of these so let's go there we set out on a quest to find the legendary yeti in the mysterious mountainous far as i say you. first russia says it's video 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 visits moscow to discuss solutions to the country's ongoing violets. is following the tux. numbers of the syrian opposition are in moscow they've met with russians and more two african nations mikhail margelov and the main message being told to them at the moment is that even though moscow did block could be a u.n. draft resolution on syria it does not support president assad's regime pretty much it seems prudent to understand that russia's beating was 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 you can 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 be it's already taken the lives of nearly three thousand people just earlier we've

heard from president need beautiful said that syria is in desperate need of democratic reform and even that if the current of tories 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 do you find unfolded there are still unfolding in libya so russia block to the western backed 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 last week of the syrian 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 opposition's just yet. for our web site artsy dot com for more on our top stories and also online right now of the american auto inspired by the arab spring wall street campaigners striving to curb corporations and abuse of power refuse to leave their camp but the wave of discontent spreading across the

country. and ground to air in new york city mayor gives his police force a new weapon to fire at suspicious aircraft as part of fresh anti terror measures played out more on our website our team is our own. look at some other stories from around the world this hour ordeal has begun washing up on a beach on new zealand's east coast five days after the container ship struck a reef nearby the vessel has been foundering there since its ruptured pipes and at least one fuel tank having already leaked thirty tons of oil into the bay the cleanup operations are now hampered by bad weather conditions with fears the ship could break off causing further obliques. the e.u.

mediator in kosovo serb dialogue is set to meet coast of our representatives after holding talks with officials in belgrade robert cooper is facilitating the dialogue between the sides and the ground to a halt following a violent incident at the kosovo serbian border last month at least eleven people were wounded after serbs clashed with nato peacekeepers to try to disperse protesters against kosovo's attempt to take over two border crossings controlled by serbia. unfound unfounded arousing fear and curiosity equal measure evidence of the existence of bigfoot remains elusive however the hunt for the yeti shows no sign of ending as artie's river national took part in a siberian expedition to track down a legend. the yeti also known as big food snowman whole 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 expansion of its kind since the nineteenth fifties to sort out what's never been done before to finally catch a creature. but first we go to get blessing from baselines indigenous inhabitants and the list their spiritual support. maybe it's really. this. shaman attached doesn't have any doubts i'm not sure i can tell you that actually yes he does exist encouraged we continue our journey the path goes through impossible tiger fake it in the hunt for

the evidence every minor detail becomes important ranch is twisted like thing is believed to be a key clue to the us existence the scientists say it could not have been done by animals as they don't have heads of fingers to do and humans cannot do this way either as they're just not strong enough to do you can we go into the forest the mall so cold marco's we come across two cards in the middle of a virgin tiger forests are also high interest the participants of the expedition are saying it's not just a windfall the trees the branches they say could have been put in this way deliberately by someone. and now the stroke of luck we need a local who says he saw a tall man like harry creature nearby thanks for saying chances are very high to me yet over there in the cave in the astral shelter or please discover some traces of this critter so let's go there and sure enough the clues emerge there is what

seems to be. told they feel like you can see just for the thrill certainly not a bad the scientists agree while remaining cautious of jumping to conclusions this is beautiful surface review which we're tracking and there's only one interesting one you and certainly you were right there. in the right. bigfoot playing hopscotch sure like to see your left foot. the left one has never been discovered and celebrations don't hold these are the real thing or they're convenient crops to make a very good story but i wouldn't be quick to determine which of those two alternatives is the truth without further. his study that will take a while could provide cost i run proof of the yet is existence but there are plenty here who want to be held in their breath. even if you bring them home and get her

alive x. will say that's a pathology or a mutation i think this could be explained by an important including financial importance of the academic science. then bush is expected to have those involved going in circles and so it seems that until concrete evidence is found the discovery of big food remains a bleak feat and ration ocean after reporting from siberia but next year in our business news with kareena stay with us. welcome to business here and i would say thanks for joining us this hour as we've been reporting moscow could contribute to the european debt bailout package this would involve buying up bonds of troubled nations it was largely symbolic explains why it's in russia's interest to help out. for russia it's an opportunity to have

a. contribution in the stabilization of world finance the world economy and especially such a strategic partner as the european union i think maybe also comes in first so this is a relatively high yield some of these bonds it's also one of the ways for russia for their diversified its reserves because even though the share of the euro within the reserves has gone up in the past several years there is scope for the to continue to unfold given the importance of the euro zone for for russia overall. let's have a look at the markets now all this high as investors that the fuel demand main crease pledged by european leaders to contain the region's sovereign debt crisis quite sweet is trading at eighty four dollars per barrel while brant is one hundred seven dollars per barrel this hour european stocks post modest gains on monday

after germany and france are presenting a comprehensive plan to deal with the debt crisis and recapitalize. banks and. r.t.s. that will play on a positive note how about this all the indices next is gaining a percent. collapse making its trading. let's have a look at some individual or some of my sex roles has rebounded from earlier losses caning nearly one percent bucking the trend is across telecom company close to buying internet provider cordie forty seven million dollars maker come off it also helped supported by strong first half results of profit goes to two point seven million dollars against twelve million net loss last year. so there's before cards to catch up to seventy nine million dollars may disappear from plastic in russia by

the end of the year the general. in the first half of this year russian banks have lost seventy percent more money from illegal credit and debit card operations than 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 or so separately stolen over a billion rubles for a private bank account and the focus is just to one point four billion more before the end of the year experts say most people here fall victim of skimming a method used by criminals to kept to data from imaginary stripe on the back of a plastic cart brushing legislation lax measures too fat to be thought to stop a crime the maximum punishment for scammers here is two years in prison although from then managed 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 eighty and change more expensive the banks very soon might have to reconsider their safety policy as with every sauce

a six hundred ninety dollars per cash machine for a year but the damage to suffer from skimming might soon exceed the cost of additional safety measures. that's all i have for this hour journey in less than one hour. as my starting.

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