thousands of egyptians occupy central cairo demanding an end to the country's military rule the spice fierce clashes with security forces that claimed at least thirty three lives. people of thronging toughness where once again there's more protests on the ground demonstrators are harming the result against deal for she's . ramping up the pressure of the united states targets iran's financial and energy sectors with a new set of sanctions warning that increasingly aggressive measures are to follow . greece fighting against the tide as its new government rushes to impose more syria on the people in order to secure another rescue alone like homs skilly

continues its slide deeper into debt. and welcome back after six months on the international space station approved three safely returned to earth aboard their russian spacecraft. it's ten am in the russian capital you watching r t was nearing the joshing welcome to the program thousands of egyptians are failing to where they are square in cairo for the fourth day running demanding in the hands to the military rule at least thirty three people have been killed since saturday as security forces fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters the unrest comes before the country gears up to elect a new parliament in a vote next week i'll have cross live telecast spano fall asleep who is in cairo for us hello to paul well the protesters have been camping out for four days now

despite the clampdown by the police so what keeps their determination going. well here in tahrir square thousands of protesters have remained overnight as you walk around now there are people still had old in blankets many of the protesters i've seen are walking around almost with a sense of pride showing the bandages that are a sign of the violent clashes we saw until late last night monday now according to the health ministry at least fifty three people have been killed and moving one thousand five hundred people have been injured on the square behind me not so many people at the moment although there are ambulances that has been passing their motorcycles ferrying in injured people so even at this early hour violence has broken out but we were the seeing on the side of the army is an attempt to cleanse the square of people and what they have been doing is almost working their way systematically from street to street that leads to the square and that is why many of the clashes are not here in the central part of the square but in the streets

leading to it there are not that many people here at the moment although those numbers will grow steadily as the day goes on what we saw last night is that when people finish work when i finish school they come here at the same time a court went out yesterday for eight million people to turn out on the streets of cairo today choose day so we are likely not only to see those those numbers but also is an expectation that they could be violence today late monday be the cabinet announced its wizard nation now the latest word we have on that is that the military is looking at it but hasn't yet responded we understand that there are emergency talks being held by the military council to discuss how they will react and that there is no consensus on that when that announcement was made here in toughest where there was a loud cheer the challenge was god is great people here certainly believe that the resignation of the cabinet is a step in the right direction it's a cabinet that was appointed by the army of people here want is the military to go

one step further and not only to have its cabinet resign but also for the military and the generals themselves to step down. well at this point anyway like to ask is that what are the ending to achieve in the long run. it will be the goal here really is to quote people i've been talking to to finish the revolution that started back in february and that was a revolution that's all the ouster of the former egyptian president hosni mubarak very much now the slogan being used is that this is the second revolution people saying that they're angry that they almost handed power to the military council on a silver platter and some people have put it to me they feel that they should have finished that revolution and really pulled about for real change in this country what people want is a civilian government that is he directed by the people and that represents the people some of the criticisms been leveled at this interim military council is that it hasn't done enough to hand over power it hasn't implemented before is at

a pace anywhere near what people here were hoping for i mean just some of the demands as people are saying that it's leading what they've called a counter revolution and by that they mean that the military council has proposed constitutional changes that they disagree with they say that these kind of constitutional changes will ensure that the military retains power even after it hands over to civilian government and that they've also to major presidential elections until late two thousand and twelve two thousand and thirteen so in essence what people want is for this revolution that was supposed to herald and new egypt in for that revolution churchy that schools all right thanks so much indeed for bringing us this update update from cairo a british labor m.p. a german horgan believes change is unlikely in the country unless the west stops supporting the military rulers there. it's western global standards work excellence a very good able to train to the government because of threats against. me

but i have put sanctions against some countries because of oppressions of civil liberties ok soprano rain sorry radio has he created so far reigning world for turk the molecule the case of saudi arabia a massive god waste of human rights and no intervention i think the west basically quite happy to carry on the military structure in egypt looking to do something that is really going to hold any new government coming in that challenges the authority of a tree is going to have a huge it seems to me to brush this even before the elections take place in the west and wake up to camels on the one hand to kill with kingdoms and dictatorships that repress human rights and at the same time pretend to be on the side of the demonstrators cannot proceed under human rights of all the people versus go to the side even in reality i've got to say it's time for the military in egypt to step aside despite all the weapons and everything they've been fed over the past few

decades by the worst. for more coverage of the protests that are once again shaking egypt visit our web site r.t. dot com egypt an army has reportedly been inspired by the so-called efficient police response to the occupy wall street movement in america and take some tips from for dealing with protesters from overseas so we can read more about barack he dot com and while you're online you can also check out the food from the cairo demonstrations on our you tube channel. four news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day.

moscow has lashed out at new u.s. sanctions against iran saying they are not aligned with international law washington announced the measures against iran on monday targeting the country's energy and financial industries that fall the u.k. also declaring that it was cutting all ties with iran banks including the central bank a measure also undertaken by canada the matches are a result of the latest report from the un's nuclear watchdog claiming iran's working on building at atomic weapon the new sanctions targeting rons main bank and also designed to make it more difficult for the country to develop and maintain its oil and gas sectors the us secretary of state hillary clinton warned the increasingly aggressive actions against the country will continue and urged other governments to put pressure on to iran that is author and journalist david lindorff believes aggression towards iran could bring dire consequences. all the signs are looking exactly like they looked in the period of two thousand and one to two guys and three here in the us with this you know drumbeat of hysteria.

weapons of mass destruction every leader of the united states keep saying all. on the table that seeing that an invitation is on the table and in israel of course kind of silly threatening to attack i mean if you really want to get a country to get a nuclear weapon and just keep threatening it with attack the sanctions will probably have a negative effect on the u.s. goals of trying to drive a wedge between people in their government because people get so angry at the same actions and see them as a threat so i think what you'll see in iran is probably something similar with a rallying people to their to their government and to the you know nationalistic feelings when they're under attack from countries like the united states and israel. world could be staring out a precipice of a third world war and nuclear annihilation if any action is taken against iran

a clear warning from former u.s. senator of micro valve you can watch his full interview later this hour i fear is a preview. this whole ginning up oprah war with iran very dangerous because iran is not syria not lebanon iran is a proud nation and they have missile capabilities they won't have nuclear capabilities but they have missile capabilities that they can rain down on kelo v no i could kill you if they are attacked they will attack back and israel is so vulnerable and so small that they will retaliate billions nukes you could start a third world nuclear war but you responsibly attacking iran.

what are they going to walk from moscow later this hour tackling a deadly danger russia calls for simple solutions solve the production and trafficking of drugs from ghana city and the largest producer of heroin in the world. series a bastard to the united nations has accused european powers of declaring a diplomatic war against his country his comments come after the sponsored a un resolution condemning human rights violations in a country meanwhile the british foreign secretary has met with representatives of the opposition and urged them to form a united front against president asif government on monday at least twenty people were ordered were killed in continuance of government protests the e.u. is increasing pressure on damascus calling for a new sanctions to be adopted this week turkey is now also claiming it's no longer trusts its former ally but russia says calls from certain states for the syrian opposition to avoid dialogue with the government are provocation on an international scale and will only lead to further violence author and journalist

what's the tarpley who isn't a mascot says the west is behind the crisis in the country. the u.s. policy i think right now is to smash the middle east according to ethnic lines people complained that there are terrorist snipers who are shooting at civilians men women and children blind terrorism random killing simply for the purpose of destabilizing the country i would not call this a civil war by any stretch of the imagination what you're dealing with here are death squads dealing here with terrorist commandos it's a joint production of. six most. of the french after libya becoming a bloodbath with one hundred fifty thousand dead and now with egypt showing what it was all along it was no revolution there it was a complete failure and now people are beginning to understand it notice that nevertheless mrs clinton and miss rice at the united nations are continuing to push

this rancor up the spread of this model of the cultural revolution you see people power cool back by terrorist groups people from al qaida people from the muslim brotherhood because i've heard this from some very important religious authorities here there's a growing movement inside the islamic community here which says we want reconciliation we want law and order we want legality we don't want that fanatics to run the show the fanatics are being brought in by the western powers. and your leaders are dad great in greece and italy are hard at work as they attempt to rescue their countries out of their debts their laminates and athens look us how to demonise hastert prove or florence to secure it the next international bailout tranche before his country runs out of money while uneasily the new prime minister mario monti is holding a key talks with the leaders to map out a strategy for combating the country's debt crisis is under pressure to boost

italy's growth and bring down instead in order to prevent a disintegration of the euro our correspondent sara firth ponderous what lies ahead for europe. the changing face of european democracy as the euro crisis continues to claim political heads and elected leaders have taken the reins in both greece and italy his government is informed. explicit. the explicit task to do what europe's requires the new leaders have been holding close talks with their european counterparts have a daemon screw the past before and hercules and others would call it impossible in trying to balance democracy with debt reduction it seems for now the latter is one out of the problem is that there is no political priorities sure many academics or other groups the. concrete suggestions are there another suggestion for the crisis

in italy i speak with economists my chalet to second a about why when it comes to finding a solution to the crisis that people seem to be peeing left out of the equation what was seen happening here a crisis has seemed to a lot of people very very confusing she think this sense of economic and political games has gone to far it's now time to take it back and give the decision to the people here this is affecting go. over and over. so give us. the roads are. moving closer with only. the war so yes. papen dres suggestion of a referendum was followed by his sharp accent eventually people are going to have to be asked what they want despite strong as a reference that there's an alternative to being inside the year it's become

increasingly clear that there is and always has been a choice it's about time that people were allowed to make one people are afraid in the black maids every day they're saying to them that look if you don't the word for europeans are saying if you don't accept this their demands are imposed by the government and by the i.m.f. . it will be here he was leading the euro zone steward names an extremely unpopular prospects say to you is simply continuing along brussels party which until now has meant more stereotype painful job cuts will bear louts new solution all of which has led to growing social unrest that threatens to undermine the whole concept of european unity sir artie. a great laura george. believes the rescue cash will not be enough for the elected

technocrats to lead their countries. very probably well good to take this cost but of course this is not going to save us because us little guys these austerity measures are going to be implemented there is no way out for greece neither for the other countries of the eurozone it is a complete lack of democrat because you can message not only with prime minister that never has been elected but they try to impose us policies that are completely out of thoughts with a majority view of the population that is the key are not all the case of democrats things would be much but those of not so much over the m.p.'s who have the old police because the party system is completely bankrupt completely discredited and unfortunately we cannot get a viable political i've been at this political act and it is not be article crappy one without any kind of democratic and political entity myself so this kind of

period of about being was at the podium with you he's not going to last both because he sees the equipment ineffective and exactly because they love any kind of approval of unit rate. still haven't program here in r.t.e. safe return home trio spacemen arrive back on earth after the year half year mission on the international space station. but she has criticized the u.s. and nato for not doing enough to stop illegal drug trafficking from afghanistan a country accounts for more than ninety percent of the world's opium production moscow says the simple solutions are the key to tackling the issue and eradicating the fields across the country will help solve the problem are she's going to she can reports. these harmless looking afghan poppies have caused millions of deaths worldwide. just one annual output of afghan heroin is enough to kill ten million drug addicts. question the us have teamed up to crack down on drug

producers in afghanistan as a result of joint operations a number of major labs were destroyed there but there is a stark difference in how russian the u.s. see the solution to the problem because that was metaphorically speaking instead of destroying the machine gun nest they suggest catching bullets flying from the machine gun we suggest eradicating narcotic plants altogether as long as there are opium poppy fields there will be trafficking as simple as that but the u.s. and other nato countries have no intention to eradicate afghan poppy fields once and for all they say afghans need opium poppies to survive. and lease point out the inconsistency of such an approach by arguing that because afghan peasants don't want to grow potatoes instead of poppies and healing is of people worldwide have to die another inconsistency the issue of. the us together with the colombian government eradicates two hundred thousand hectares of coca pushes a year in afghanistan only two thousand hectares of poppy fields are being rather

kid one hundred times less apart from the refusal to get rid of the poppies there is the alleged interest of international banks in dirty money there kardex have nearly as much air in the total world trade as oil and gas they had a ferocious drug enforcement suggested u.s. and european banks cast of glee welcome and encourage the inflow of drug money and that is because the reports show that a persistent lack of liquidity and an aspiration to survive during a crisis promote not only tolerance toward criminal money but also encouraging attitude of availability of such money there was silent consent in the us audience to the russian proposal to stop the banks from laundering drug money we can hear their character and see. of narcotics we can make the rest of traffickers but we really need to choke off the farm supply this there was also a sense of down where the western authorities can actually take on those very powerful financial institutions the u.s.

and other nato countries are obviously not in for the idea of a rabbit creating afghan poppy fields all together besides irrational banks that seem to mind b.q. gene flow or purity money but experts say that the status quo would lead to millions more dying in the future which could be prevented i'm going to shut down reporting from washington argue both article look at some other stories from around the world and first to levy a word the interim prime minister is set to announce the country's new government today. will name a cabinet of experts to steer the country to its first fully democratic elections the new government is do remain in place until the middle of next year when elections for a new a sample your help the country's former leader moammar gadhafi was captured and killed just one month ago after being in power for forty two years. yemeni tribesmen opposed to president saleh claimed they stormed a military base near the capital and made off with weapons a number of people were said to have been killed on both sides in the raid it's the

latest in a series of battles between tribesmen and forces backing sali who's clinging to power by months of protests demanding the downfall of his regime meanwhile in the south the army killed twenty islamist militants after coming under artillery attack . bahrain has admitted using excessive force during pro-democracy protests since february which of left at least thirty five people twenty twenty members of the security forces were charged over alleged abuses during the uprising shia muslims rallied against discrimination between to suffer at the hands of a governing sunni majority the government responded with the brutal crackdown on demonstrators sealing off hospitals and beating medics who attended for the wounded the report comes days before. an independent inquiry will reduce its findings. so the spacecraft has brought a cosmonaut from russia and two astronauts from the united states and japan safely back to earth the man have spent six months in orbit working on the international

space station and will now have to slowly adapt to having their feedback on the ground r.t. some bart now witnessed their return after descent from the international space station the soyuz module has safely touched down in the step in kazakhstan rescue teams have landed and taken out the three crew them come down in a module such as she put a color volkova might for some of the pre-nup on the international space station for six months conducting maintenance and experiments they also had a tense time up there in the old just with the progress supply module crashed on the way up to the i assessed with supplies and raised many questions over the reliability of the soyuz vehicle all that is was suspended for a while so the crew that was supposed to come up to join them had to be delayed they had to send down videos explaining the hundred the process that was going ok you clearly know installed up there mike fossum so she thought of. a vocal

finale back safely on earth after their stay in space. tom barton reporting there we'll find out more about the astronauts return and also waiting there for you and the other story from space a russian protests from mars may return to earth with a bomb after being unable to carry out its mission. and of course a barge inspired by the recent pepper spraying occupy protesters by u.s. police. well time now to take a look what's happening in the world of business natasha is here with us and after that i'll be back with the top stories.

it's twenty four minutes past ten am here in moscow welcome to business archie the russian markets have reopened after in the previous session they experienced the biggest drop since early october business archie's medical service joins me live now to tell us more about how the employees are now forming what are you what are we seeing on the opening. bell as you mention the markets open that we're actually seeing these days this morning the r.t.s. is up around half a percent for the most six days for the seven percent and that's really supported by games in the oil price but analysts say that these kids will be short lived then eventually we will see the markets use it once again later in the day. i want to the main driving factors of all and choose they for the equities they say that it. will and busses are still concerned although the sovereign debt crisis i don't see the euro zone's biggest economies and that was quite evident yes they were there

was a sea of red cross the board here in russia the my six also were four percent which was the biggest slide since october the fourth and there are a number of factors flame into that bird concerns over france's aaa credit rating which after monitoring this ratings agency said that warned that there are rising costs over debt and its weak economic outlook and then of course it also mentioned rise immersed in germany because of its banks exposure it's a problem to the inequalities and so what happened was where there's a little confidence up the special congressional committee will actually find a solution to the country's huge deficit which now stands at the fifteen a trillion dollars and the only one state of the group in commission is expected to present a study which will have real options for sure into the dead. so it's a this isn't largely seen as a step closer result of us and europe dogs and what that means is that that so each

member will be selected levite by all rather than individually. thanks for the update our teams met in the coaster of reporting live from the center of moscow. and let's now have a look out the actual numbers while price as a recovering following a major slide on monday on fears about the state of the global economy that would lead to a weaker demand for the truth of the w t i is a more than ninety seven dollars a barrel brant is topping one hundred seven dollars a barrel. and asian shares are trading in the negative territory the nikkei is down one tenth of the for sound the hang seng is losing around a third of the percent in tokyo export is a bucking the trend held by weaker again honda motors is up more than one percent nissan is eating around two percent. and here are the latest

numbers from but the russian market investors see monday's slide as a buying opportunity apart like both indices are quite upbeat in the first hour of trade the r.t.s. is up close to three quarters of a percent of the my sex is gaining more than one percent. in europe and the united states may be drowning in debt but here in russia the economy is in surplus also oil prices and the main factor of such fiscal strains acting finance minister antonis so want him says the surplus is a must considering the turmoil in the financial markets is a limiting the government's ability to borrow. we will be in this year with a budget surplus of up to four percent of g.d.p. we use these profits to decrease domestic borrowing next year we cannot borrow a lot of the mystic market we are already testing its limits of the. same time we're not going to increase taxes so the only way to restrain the budget deficit next year is to be prudent about what we spend. and that's us from the business

team for now i'll be back and watch out. world. science technology innovation all the mist of elements from around russia we've got.