protesters demanding egypt's military leadership step down immediately are greeted by tear gas and rubber bullets and carlos square. just stopped. the teachers on the brink of the second hours but it's just too much. sometimes the details in just a few minutes. go rounds on the west accusing it of hurting prospects of peace talks in syria their balance between protesters and government forces carries on unabated. and london breaks off all financial ties with iran in the wake of a un atomic watchdog report costing dulls on the motives behind its nuclear aims which tehran insists are peaceful.

international news and current life in moscow twenty four hours a day this is r.t. gas rubber bullets and angry slogans have been flying in egypt's tahrir square as police and protesters clashed for a third day the country's officials claim at least twenty four people been killed in the largest demonstration since february uprising that ousted dictator hosni mubarak. is in current. it must easily be tens of thousands of people are gathering here in town his way or the phone themselves into small groups they're chanting various servants among the slogans a point on the military regime that has been in power since before which of president hosni mubarak was ousted in february they calling on a chain to step down they're also saying that they meet planes chaffee aspire and

for weeks youngsters have been trying to come back to the square but they've been prevented from doing so by the police and anisa certain now that they back here as you can see behind me they have no intention of leaving the demand really is quite simple they don't believe that the military is any different to division in our force you know barrick they are against the tossed constitution that this regime supports saying that the military when he wants to stay in power even after it hands over to and he went to civilian government and talking to youngsters hip hop's and he does this expressed by one person i spoke to he said with regards to the parliamentary elections next monday it will be the first elections to be held in this post mubarak era cares about elections to hell with elections we need to come back to turkey square and finish our revolution people here we don't believe that this week's elections will be sweet and safe and we'll achieve anything quickly we can so much the same as they were under the time of the barak but what is interesting is that whereas in february when that wave aleutian took place the

army was much on the side of the people very much is done a one hundred eighty degree turn in terms of how people feel that they feel betrayed by the army and we have witnessed exists a fine and some of the worst violence over the last few days in which more than twenty people have been killed the army has been firing rubber bullets it's been firing tear gas was protests insults also been throwing stones it will seem very hard to tell so lots of anger being expressed by both sides again speaking to protesters earlier they said they're not going anywhere until the military steps down so what we're likely to see is some kind of showdown and certainly the mood here is incredibly tense it's incredibly wanted told just anything put on hold. there is constantly keeping an eye on what's happening in tahrir square there are live updates of the unrest twenty four seventh's on her twitter page as you can see there on the screen there she tweets that one protester has told her that no one

cares about next week's parliamentary elections she explains how it's getting dark but the crowds are keeping keep on growing and most people now are milling about talking to each other in the square and follow on twitter for the latest information from. egyptian protesters to modern military rulers transfer power to a civilian government however independent journalist james corbett believes that outcome would put some western powers. what ultimately happened was throwing out a figurehead instead of the actual power structure itself which has been for many years and continues to be the military dictatorship that egypt really is it made so and so i think the illusion of democracy is just that until the the underlying power structure that's going on there can be ousted i don't think anything really has changed and i think ultimately that falls into the type of power politics to get played in situations like this bit of people who are watching this from behind

the scenes and wondering how they're going to fit into the new geopolitical paradigm rather than what's in the interest of the people themselves that point so they have talk receive it in there all along i don't think the west was really you know you notice that it was a favor and yes the white house and all of that right up until the time of the of this type of operation in egypt and so i think really what's happening here is that the west saw an opportune time to weave off of the bandwagon and hoping that the power structure would continue in egypt it would mean tame the status quo region but since that destabilization looks like it's going to go even further i think that people in the powers in western intervention is countries are now wondering well how far this will go or whether it can go perhaps too far for their conference . well western powers a focus at the moment on syria moscow has accused the west of stirring up tensions in the arab world by calling for the overthrow of the syrian regime russia says calls from certain states for the syrian opposition to avoid dialogue with the

government but only provoking further violence artie's peter oliver has the latest . what we heard from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov today was him reiterating russia's position on the ongoing conflict in syria that position is that they want to see negotiations regime change become the final outcome in not conflict sergei lavrov called what he called the western calls for assad to step aside and also for the opposition in syria not to negotiate with assad he called out a provocation saying that that would not bring about peace that would only spur on the opposition to continue the fight which we've seen so far over the last eight months as resulted in three and a half thousand people being killed in that country is the lover of saying that this international provocation should not have happened so it's of course you in syria we're now seeing a situation where the arab league is calling for a whole chavan islands and the beginning of dialogue and western countries around

the capitals of some countries of the region and making calls to the country expressly recommending the opposition hold no talks with the acid regime it looks like a political provocation on an international scale yes violence has to be stopped but this demand has to be addressed to the authorities and the only groups in the syrian opposition now this isn't the first time they said gill of law has accused the west of meddling in the syrian situation no he also suggested that there was a shadowy hand of western governments behind the arab league's decision to suspend syria from their group last week now. of course the last country to be suspended from the arab league before syria was libya and not the situation the in libya the what we saw in libya is something that russia really does not want to see happen in syria also the syrian opposition who are here in moscow last week their leaders also saying they did not want to see

a civil outcome is what happened in libya where international intervention took place. he said that straight intervention straying will be on the parameters of u.n. resolutions that will lay down this type of something that both russia and the syrians want to avoid happening in that country. peter all of the reporting there and still ahead at this hour largely for you a conservative solution the new center right leaders take the helm in madrid we hear the spanish voices doubting whether the new faces will do anything to beat them through mounting debt and sky rocketing unemployment. money going down the drain billions of u.s. dollars intended to rebuild war zones a stolen but those who profited millions are left to spend ill gotten gains. stories to recover first afghanistan is divided over the idea of a long term partnership with the u.s. a plan that would see american troops stay after the twenty fourth. was approved by

political and community leaders but sparked a thousand strong protest rally in the country let's discuss this with mitt he's president of pack nationalist form he joins me now live from is rather bad so there have been protests against plans for a long term partnership with the u.s. why are some afghan people so opposed to american troops staying on. well for one be american record over the house to take it in and out of town is not really very encouraging the united states has failed to bring social harmony to obama's town to bring ridiculous stability to the country and just stabilize the region so the record is not really a good the afghans don't have any really reasons or positive signs to welcome a permanent american presence not to just to grievances as much as the way the us military has no particular stance so the record of the americans is not encouraging if the past was not good the future does not look really very positive therefore why does some of the afghan political leaders and indeed community beat is why do

they want the us troops to stay because they felt afghan forces ability to maintain peace now it's very simple the the current ruling elite is completely dependent on us military the moment americans are out these people don't have a chance and help really to stay in power many of them are proxy is. the various. american organizations n.g.o.s military intelligence and other departments of the us government they have different links and they're all dependent on the americans the moment they're gone people are down this is simple is that what about the concerns of the un saying the number of afghan civilians killed in the first half of the year rose by fifteen percent claiming more than one thousand victims who's to blame for this well is this happening. it's quite clear that the american presence in afghanistan has now begun and i think the

removal of the taliban regime the us military presence has become a sort of an illegal war within afghanistan and in the region and i think that these plans that we are hearing the of kind of. quietly discussing with the americans to have permanent bases i think washington and kabul have a lot to answer to not only the up on people but also grandstands neighbors we are deeply concerned about a permanent state of instability in this region as i said the americans have been a failure both. has to find a bronstein within and also pacifying johnstone's region and let me just give you one very quick example for example the americans have imported the park's downy indian rivalry into of trying to stop i mean we're talking region wide instability in tensions so this is just one example of the record is not good you want to just talk about this issue of afghanistan's neighbors hillary clinton has

said recently that where you are in pakistan if it is love about fails to crack down on the county network which is carried out a number of attacks on nato forces there in afghanistan then washington will be forced to act now do you see in any way that pakistan will cooperate over this. i think it's been decided here in buxton and has been conveyed very very clearly to washington that part will work with the united states with other countries in the region very important countries in the region collectively to counter terrorism but buckstone will not compromise on its national basic a strategic and security interest in the region that's not going to happen and the americans continue to live in denial on a very important things for example they continue to blame all of the insurgency pockets in the parks and the tribal belt which is ridiculous they continue to refuse to believe that there are important elements of your surgeon see are

actually domestic instead of once done are based in advance don and that most of the attacks that the forces are facing in a bun is done actually are coming from areas of afghanistan that are far away from the pakistani border ok so just to fix takes all of that on parts or a couple of other countries and is not the american living in denial and i think the parts and use of convey that very clearly or just briefly let's go back to this author of the long term partnership and. some international reaction from this including the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov he criticized the plan saying there is a contradiction here isn't it when we see a problem that pledging to pull out troops by the end of twenty fourteen. got a good point that hasn't. i think he just spoke but i don't something very important that the international media is not discussing and certainly the american media is not. on plans also the cia the central intelligence it is very important

to remember that obama's not today is the largest base of operations for the cia anywhere in the world. they are no longer operating like this in africa or in latin america the way it used to back in the one nine hundred eighty s. and before understand is an important base of operations they are testing new weapons of where they are and let's remember that the drones were tested here and perfected here over the past age and of course they're sitting in the backyard of the major powers in the region russia china iran pakistan other countries it's very important for them to be here so it's not just and the russian foreign minister i think and he in my interpretation is that he was alluding really to the power struggle also in inside washington d.c. there are people who don't want to get out of. no matter what they would not let go of the strategic piece of writing. thank you very much indeed political analyst live from pakistan as i'm about thank you. spain is

shifting right to attempt to balance the books the country's conservatives have won a landslide victory in the general election and i have to tackle record unemployment over twenty percent and find a way out from underneath a growing part of it but it has been hearing the spanish don't hold much hope that the new crew will bring any change this is what the spaniards want from the elections but it's very unlikely they'll get it the popular party may have won sunday's polls but it's highly unlikely period for an easy target the reality of the economic crisis in spain means five million people out of work one and a half million households without a wage earner and the youth unemployment rate which has shot up to nearly fifty percent this is state of affairs there will have to deal with but will they really be able to make a difference. probably not believes gail allard an economics professor at madrid's i even a school we're going to have to cut benefits sharply we may have to differentiate

among recipients of benefits we may have to limit programs through this could really be. we may be seeing the death knell of the welfare state but most spaniards have had enough with budget cuts and empty promises protests by the fifteen m. movement the so-called the dignity marches happen spreading throughout spain since march maybe people have chosen not to go to the polls on sunday believing politicians will not help the country i think people have been disappointed with the choices they have come in all through throughout this campaign really for the last couple of months at least because i think they feel that there isn't a great deal of difference between the two candidates in terms of what they want to and it seems there is no easy way out of the current economic downturn in fact some of the minorities in the parliament believe spain is in a vicious circle now because it's all policies are being dictated in brussels the elections will help in creating more jobs it will be the opposite the public expense will go down the purchasing power will go down but will need fewer

investments and that translates into unemployment. and though there may be new faces in the spanish government they will have to deal with the old problems in much the same way meaning nothing is likely to change for spain years already tired of the economic catastrophe in the country it involves quite a madrid. more money matters are being chewed over on our website at the moment r.t. dot com. you can find out about economists predicting the fall of the u.s. dollar within a decade china becoming the world's strongest economy and its b. one b. reserve currency also on the website of the moment is wiki leaks founder julian assange faces extradition to sweden over sexual assault charges an unlikely supporter comes to his defense as and world renowned feminist calls for an end to the witch hunt against him the law that led to r.t. the. u.k. is declared it severing all ties with iranian banks the u.s. has also announced it's joining britain and canada in targeting to hit iran's

economy with new sanctions over its controversial nuclear program or for the latest on this i'm not joined by artie's i have a bennett he's in london now to tell us more about these latest developments. well just in the last few moments actually this afternoon the u.k. has imposed fresh sanctions on iran severing all financial ties it has with the country this is come from within us and was made by the u.k. chancellor george osborne altering all the all of the u.k.'s financial institutions to stop doing business as of now basically with the iranian counterparts including the central bank of iran and saying that it is for reasons of national security for the u.k. and also the security of the world what prompted this move this latest these latest sanctions on iran is the latest report on iran's nuclear program out from the international atomic energy dog or the i.a.e.a. who kind of well brought up fresh concerns that iran is actually using its program

to develop nuclear weapons now this is something that iran. denies it insists its nuclear program is purely for civilian and scientific use however the i.a.e.a. the atomic energy watch though has said that they have evidence that otherwise saying that iran does possess this technology to make these nuclear weapons and it is already trying to do that and so george osborne has said all financial ties the u.k. has with iran and this was really significant about this is that it's the first time the u.k. has actually used these powers created under the two thousand and eight counterterrorism act to act in this way and cut off country's whole banking sector well as you said this isn't the first time iran is facing sanctions just how successful have they been in the past. no certainly not several countries the u.s. canada south korea australia britain france all impose sanctions on iran in the last few years in fact as regards its nuclear program and really they haven't had

much effect actually is one of the story's been rumbling on for a number of years actually and every now and again that i publish the report renewing these concerns that iran is actually building a nuclear weapon every time these allegations are a pita by iran and one country russia certainly is constantly saying that. opposing the use of sanctions and this time this latest one is actually a writer actually came out and said that should sanctions be imposed will be seen in the actual international community as an instrument for regime change in iran that's come from russia's deputy foreign minister and so they strongly oppose any sanctions they say that this report from the i.a.e.a. shows nothing new and therefore why impose fresh sanctions however because the sanctions has been strongly backed up by israel and the u.s. and now certainly the u.k. is in those calls either thanks very much indeed for that live update from london i bet it. war is a tragedy for many even a chance to make

a fast buck for an unscrupulous few the amount of money missing in iraq and afghanistan is reached i water levels but no one is being held to account as artie's going to climb explains. not everyone leaves the words though empty handed the number of people indicted and convicted by the u.s. for bribery fraud and theft in iraq and afghanistan has never been so high among those a marine in iraq who sent home forty three thousand dollars in stolen cash by hiding it in a food locker among american flags a soldier who shipped thousands more concealed in a toy stuffed animal they can go after people to steal for three thousand dollars all they want necessary ok they should go after him but what about on a larger scale in two thousand and six michael o'brien was tasked with helping build the iraqi military he says those who have pocketed mili is enjoyed complete impunity they rebuilt an iraqi army base and i'm telling you the condition of this

space and this is just one example so deplorable it was so pathetic and when i asked the american construction project manager one of this cost how much money would end of this i really thought he was going to say three million or five million one hundred sixteen million dollars my jaw dropped the commission on wartime contracting estimated that between thirty one to sixty billion dollars has been lost to waste and fraud in iraq and afghanistan the figures seem even more staggering considering the overall amount the u.s. has committed to rebuilding iraq roughly sixty two billion dollars we get around viewer and was the head of an iraqi reconstruction team working for the u.s. state department the squandering of resources occurred at her small levels of thousand dollars a couple of thousand dollars here and there and all the way up into hundreds of millions of dollars that were spent on hospitals have never opened or prisons that

never took any prisoners in the commission on wartime contracting is out of business now after congress had its funding. the details of their program see. until two thousand and thirty one they don't want certain people in high places. to come under scrutiny if the us congress wants to put the debacle of our rock invasion behind it the scope of the waste and fraud is enormous the u.s. justice system goes after individuals who have stolen a few thousand dollars here and there but not after the big players the big contractors that have really made a killing on the wars i'm going to check on reporting from washington r.t. . if you minutes will be discussing whether america's war on terror is making the world a safer place before it's the business news with kareena. thanks

bill hello and welcome to business here thanks for joining me but the markets are having a bad day that's as i could easily around the world tumble on concerns the sovereign debt crisis could spread to the euro zone's biggest economies movies agency warns that the rising cost of french debt and its weak economic outlook threatening its aaa credit rating also it sees rising risks for germany. banks' exposure to troubled european economies now let's have a look at the numbers now or it is trading near its lowest in seven days regulation that fueled the may fold for light sweet is at the moment trading at over ninety our dollars a barrel of brant is that just under one hundred six dollars a barrel u.s. stocks are plunging after congress's latest bid to resolve the federal budget gridlock appeared to fail traders also fear that europe's debt crisis might spill over disrupting the fragile u.s. recovery still talks among the top the climbers as metals prices decline shares of

united states steel corporation lost six and a half percent while shares of a casteel holding dropped six point three percent. and stocks in europe trade in the red as well banking stocks are the pressure in frankfurt shares of commerzbank tumbled five percent and four and a half while in power shares of societe generale. shed over having over five or five percent each. and russian equity markets closed deep in the red on monday the negative trend was mostly due to the drop in the oil price to my eyes it's lost over four percent biggest slight sense of cobra for now let's have a check on some of the individual shot most of the night is a decline in the rise it was led by russia's biggest coking coal producer metro that was down seven point eight percent noisemaker was also among the top loses following around five percent and energy shares which we did on. could profit. four percent while you can provide creature wraps up today's trade. we have clearly seen

a risk training session across different geographies and it hasn't been a single reason behind it other than an accumulation of reasons from the past the realization that no progress in terms of the european debt resolution the sky high yields and cost of funding for the european sovereign debt market is continuing concern for investors globally and here at home in russia as well and there's no visibility in terms of the the way it all can end really in any forseeable future and if anything the markets are starting to price in a potential scenario which was considered unthinkable back a few months ago that the european monetary union can be dissolved and the mechanism increased by some personal countries could exit another roadblock has been put in the path of russia's privatization program this time by the government

that wants to ensure you get a fair price for state assets ice-cream your search of the shares in state property should be no lower than their initial list price the proposal has already been approved by the prime minister was reported last year the government announced a large scale privatization of top officials blame turbulance own financial markets for messing up their homes and their capital outflow from the first year has surged to sixty four billion dollars the new figure is almost twice the earlier central bank estimates of thirty six billion dollars would leave the country that would leave the country this year the capital flight is equivalent to nearly five percent of russia's g.d.p. or so we've heard from believe it's not the mystic stories but global what cost. a significant factor in this year's capital flight is actually being destroyed or

the revenue is a way of the central bank or the way the government accounts for those revenues if oil companies are either slow to repatriate that money or keep it off shore because you know they can't invest it back home for some time that actually counts as capital flight so another words money earned and not brought back as distinct from when you put in a suitcase and brought them to zurich i think it's partly to do with just the global situation rather than in anything in russia per se people are nervous all over the world that the eurozone debt crisis could result in the global recession. so perhaps that's all i have for you this hour but don't forget you can always find most though if you log on to a website ok dot com crash. world

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