it's five pm in moscow this is r t i'm nice to now with our top story this hour religious tensions in egypt that intensified following the fall of mubarak have now grown into full scale riots over twenty people were killed and hundreds injured as clashes erupted between coptic christians and security forces in cairo 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 seventh military vehicles were clearly seen charging through crowds and prowling into people while army infantry fired rubber bullets and tear gas it's still unclear who sparked the fatal feelings but state owned media has claimed has place blame for the christian protesters the editor in chief of the country's only christian newspaper says the new regime is reluctant to address their concerns in fear of a majority islamic backlash. militant islamists feel free to

churches and their property to loot the combs and every time they escape with what they do and nobody is that is the goal isn't to just i'm sorry to say those who want to be our soon see things that are delusional is set in the situation but on the same time it's growing in the sun doers because all islamist factions and one of them is the same treat the reaction and the behavior of the government to security at the rate this in front of militant islamists is extremely reluctant to enforce the rule of law and. danger to signal to these factions that when they go among to is is not to ready to really confront them and. continues to be used by these

islamists balloons if i may say to the strength of james. biddies blogger karl sorrow says blaming the coptic christians for the violence is hypocritical of the country's military rulers this is a very cynical attempt by the defacto rulers of the country the military to portray a. minority of the population and religious minority as troublemakers when in fact all they're doing are trying to seek some justice and overturn institutionalized discrimination that's the. residue from them time of what barak and his policies so this is absolutely cynical kind of the way it's covered by the military council and its media are let's look at what the background that we're looking at here in egypt because some people got carried away after mubarak stepped down and declare that

evolution over in fact what we are facing is a popular uprising that was a poor aborted by a military coup leaving pretty much a political and security vacuum in place and that's the context for what's happening in egypt and all the kind of sides involved from the emerging secular parties to the more established parties to the military to the civil administration president administration don't seem to have enough authority to control the emerging stew ation in egypt so that void within that vacuum anything is possible at the moment. but we are always keen to know what you think about our stories today we're asking about the violence that erupted in egypt just eight months after the uprising toppled the country's leaders let's take a look at how the votes are going so far just over half of you are sure that will suit the regime far worse than a false name mubarak all about a third point to

a sectarian rift is the main reason for the violence meanwhile the rest of you are split between two options whether egypt's enemies from overseas are instigating the clashes or the february revolution is simply not over yet. in other news 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 civic platform party has a strong lead in sunday's parliamentary election to sky's presided over four years of economic growth of warming 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 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 competitors 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 great victory for don't know if he will still have to form a coalition with other parties in order for his party to have the second spell its 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 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. minutes that will stay power for another four years this is not a surprise to many experts as they have been many surveys and many polls suggesting that polls 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 polls have been voting for the prime minister even despite the voter turnout has been rather low for. really 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. the relations with russia will stay on the same level . still ahead on the program a blame game blowing up on their very cusins pakistan and sheltering terrorists but fears that the u.s. may now lose a major ally in the so-called war on terror. thanks for saying chances are very

high to me to get over there in the cave in metro shelter police discover some traces of these creatures so let's go there. we set out on a quest to find the legendary yeti and the mysterious mountainous forests of siberia. but first russia could soon come to the rescue of debt ridden economies helping hand was extended by presidential aide however the details of the plan will be discussed only after europe comes up with a clear anti crisis strategy. reports. well this news comes from the presidential economic aide who said there have been meetings recently focusing primarily on spain and those meetings raise the possibility of russia being able to buy some of spain's debt and so provide extra help for the debt 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 as 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 stop buying up spanish debt we want to see unanimous first. for more on the ears financial woes i'm joined live by your hundred overthrow the author of the book the end of the euro greece of course teetering on the brink and yesterday there was another sarkozy miracle meeting with words of encouragement as a result there you have any credible plan at this stage as you see it. no unfortunately not don't think we can say at the moment that there is a credible plan to solve the different crisis is that or reinforcing each other at

the moment here in europe we have a banking crisis we have a sovereign debt crisis there indirectly in a very vicious way you know the answer is unfortunately no there is no coherent european plan to tackle all of these problems that are so severe at the moment and greece has already proved to be an unreliable borrower and it's still not able to reduce its deficit as agreed with creditors previously countries that cannot meet belle out condition to qualify for support. well there's a kind of catch twenty two situation is if you if you don't bail out these countries things will get very bad on a very short notice so at least in the short run there is no other possibility than to help these countries out with more loans and more support now of course there are the days coming close very fast when these countries need to see the problems that they have to face in terms of their budget and all things related

to that they have to see these problems clearly. if not if greece is not soft in a proper way we will have a wave of huge financial problems poor to go is said to be about missing its next fiscal targets too and we are not so close from major problems with a country like italy and germany of course remains committed to the e.u. family and is pumping more and more cash into the debt hole but could soon undermine its own credit worthiness well that's the big fear is call it that way that at the end of the day and that they might not be far away even a country like france and certainly also germany can become a country in financial troubles or to put it in the language of the rating agencies both countries might lose their aaa rating and as a matter of fact for france for example i think the moment of loss of the aaa

rating is not that far away but if things continue along the way that they have been going in the last months it might also become a big problem for that strong economy of the euro european union and the eurozone germany to finally lose its aaa rating what's your remedy for the elling cure i mean your book is called the end of the euro is it that simple. well there are two possibilities either we take the big leap forward like some of coal did and we go for a real political union where a lot of the decision respect to economic social and budgetary issues is transferred to the you will feel level that would certainly increase the credibility of the whole european process in the markets or second possibility we don't do that and then i think we're coming close to a situation where the euro might collapse as a unified going to see for you or no and where we have a very messy process of trying to get back to national currencies editor in chief

of trans magazine over thank you very much for your analysis live with us on the line from brussels. well had for our web site r t dot com for more on our top stories also online for you right now on american auto inspired by the arab spring wall street campaigners striving to curb corporations abusive power to leave their towns but the wave of discontent spreading across the country. and ground to air the new york city mayor gives his police force a new weapon to fire at suspicious aircraft as part of the pressure and the terror measures find out more at r.t. dot com. pakistan have arrested

a dozen al qaeda links suspects that follows increasing pressure from the us which accused the country of seltzer and terrorists and well officially the to see eye to eye on many issues some in washington are ready to support action against islam about as you can now report. the drums of war beating loud and clear washington calls pakistan a safe haven for terrorists we can. coming across the border attacking our forces attacking afghanistan and 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 links i'm quite sure you know it has been said 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 attacks is not against our sovereignty it's also counterproductive and it's the people of the two want to been friends in the 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 hand 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 going to check out reporting from

washington our team. and later today our t's crossed talk to beit focuses on what interest the u.s. is pursuing in pakistan. there's no imperial ambitions there are we trying to get out we try to punish the people who attacked the united states we've done some most of the there's a lot of arguing for getting out very quickly certainly obama much of the right. of the republicans want to get out about going to very quickly how many terrorists do you have to kill before you finally say enough's enough i mean the government there been no constraints on the number of people that have been able to be killed ten years of this no constraints drone attacks assassinations of bombing and killing of wedding parties at some point isn't it time to say another enough. look now at some world news in brief for you this hour oriel has begun washing up on a beach a new zealand's east coast five days after the container struck a reef nearby the vessel has been foundering there since with ruptured pipes and at

least one fuel tank having already leaked thirty tons of oil into the bay the clean up operations are now hampered by bad weather conditions but fears the ship could break up causing further of the. the mediator in kosovo serb dialogue is said to meet coast of our representatives after holding talks with officials in belgrade robert cooper is facilitating the dialogue between the science that had 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 who tried to disperse protesters against kosovo's attempt to take over two border crossings controlled by serbia. but serbia demanded an international investigation into the events in northern kosovo serbia first deputy prime minister told us he believes nato troops are biased in settling the dispute between belgrade and pristina you can watch the

interview with. next hour here on r t but first here's a quick preview. the latest events in the north of serbia show two facts first that the prishtina is about to set up customs around what they think is the independent state of course of on the other hand they show that there are international unions and a whole number of states that approve his intentions we're facing a situation here with international forces deployed in cost of in fact. needs rather than maintaining a neutral position we need to find a way out of the situation where on the one hand there are countries that acknowledge the one sided proclamation of independence and on the other hand there is serbia which does not recognize the initiative. unsound and unfounded arousing fear and curiosity in equal measure evidence of the existence of bigfoot remains of this of however the hunt for the yeti show no sign

of ending as artie's written arsenal took part in a siberian expedition to track down a legend. the yeti also known as big food. court has been exciting scientists and enthusiasts from all the world for more than a century but explorers have never had enough evidence to determine that this separately gigantic creature is more than just a big legend these beautiful mountainous forests in russia siberia or monday few places on earth thought to be roamed by yet is 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 baselines indigenous inhabitants and the least their spiritual support.

shaman in a death doesn't have any doubts i'm not shocking to tell you that but 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 this is believed to be a key clue to the his existence the scientists say it could not have been done by animals as they don't have hens or fingers to do and humans cannot do it this way either as they are just not strong enough the deeper we go into the forest the most so cold markers would come across to the gods in the middle of a virgin tiger forest are also high interest the participants of these expedition are saying it's not just wind falling trees the branches they say could have been putain this way deliberately by someone and now the stroke of luck will meet

a local who says he saw a tall man like harry creature nearby thanks for saying chances are very high to me to get over there in the cave in shelter or at least discover some traces of this creature so let's go there and sure enough the clues emerge there is what seems to be. the feeling like security people are pretty certainly not a bad the scientists agree while remaining cautious of jumping to conclusions but this is a surface for which we're tracking and there's only one interesting line here i'm certain that you were right there. on the right. foot playing hopscotch should like to see a left foot. 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 a mutation i think this could be explained by an impotent including financial in between severe economic signs. them bishes 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 feat narration ocean r.t. reporting from siberia business is next here on r.t. with kareena stay with us.

business updates as we've been reporting moscow could contribute to european debt paid out package this would involve buying up the bonds of trouble they sense and your explains why it's in russia's interest to help out. for russia it's an opportunity to have a say and have a contribution in the stabilization of world finances world economy and especially such a strategic partner as the european union i think there may be also. relatively high yields some of these bonds it's also one of the ways for russia to for their diversify 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 that to continue to unfold given the importance of the eurozone for for russia overall.

and let's have a look at the markets all this higher as investors bet that fuel demand may increase after a pledge by european leaders to contain himself and rice is light sweet is trading at eighty four dollars a barrel while brant is that one hundred seventy dollars of our european stocks are posting modest gains off of germany and france about to present a comprehensive plan to deal with the debt crisis recapitalize. banks sector here in moscow the lies extend the autism makes the test is nearly two percent in the in the red in the black sorry album isaac is over a quarter of a percent now let's have a look at some individual shambles on the market. rebound from early losses getting over half a percent this hour bucking the trend is telecom the company is close to buying moscow internet provider corteen for thirty seven million dollars and truck maker come oz's all swap supported by strong tough results it's that profit goes to two

point seven million dollars to twelve million net loss last year. and russia has seen parcell rise forty five percent in the first eight months of the year two million vehicles sold the russian made lager was the best seller although sale. growth was slower than its competent than its competitors several and who die models were second and third most popular respectively. one of those prefer a card to catch up to seventy nine million dollars may disappear from people's plastic in russia by the end of the year the general grover 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 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 the seven percent first post every day 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 skimming a method used by criminals to capture data from my magnetic stripe on the back of a plastic card russian legislation lax measures to effectively fight this type of 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 banks attempts to save up on transaction safety special keyboard protectors can cost up to fifty dollars per a.t.m. this and dave could make operating a.t.m. change more expensive the banks very soon might have to reconsider their safety policy as with every sausage hundred ninety dollars per cash machine for a year the damage they suffer from skimming might soon exceed the cost of additional safety measures. the services of this hour german forty five this is the law here of the start.

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can. see it live from moscow where it's five thirty pm the headline the deadliest lie of cynthia simpson revolution flare up in cairo as religious tensions lead to dozens of deaths in clashes between the country's christians and security forces violence erupted at a peaceful rally against the attacks on christian churches by muslim extremists and poland's prime minister donald to skill set to get a second term in office with his. r.t. leading in sunday's parliamentary election to spurs term was characterized by warming relations with russia. and russia says along with other brics countries that it's ready to help build that bridge in the e.u. find a way out of financial turmoil there is growing poverty in european countries spirals out of control here to congress and social spending.