thousands of egyptians occupy central cairo demanding an end to the country's military rule despite fierce clashes with security forces that have claimed at least thirty three lives. but it's. tough it's. told against. greece of fighting against the tide this new government rushes to impose more austerity on the people in order to secure yet another rescue comes continues its own slide deeper into debt. russia lashes out on u.s.

sanctions against iran's financial and energy sectors calling them unacceptable and not in line with international. to welcome back after six months on the international space station crew of three safely returned to work the russian. worldwide news around the clock this is r.t. live from moscow with me wrong reception balances continuing to escalate in cairo which were thousands of egyptians occupying tiberias square have again clashed with security services who are continuing to fire tear gas at least thirty three people have been killed since saturday when security forces first resorted to rubber bullets all of this as the country repairs to elect a new parliament that's coming up next week our correspondent now at the latest

from cairo. in the street leading to to his grave there are violent clashes underway between protesters and security personnel the security has been firing rubber bullets they've been firing tear gas protesters have been responding with rocks but the army brain is trying to do is get these the taste is out of the streets flush them out and they make way it's a way to get to top his square people that i can see are dazed and confused a lot of the fainted and there's a lot of blood and i can also tell you that the security has been stepped up walking around the square today it's not as easy as it was yesterday there are security personnel and marshals checking possible checking i.d.'s they really is a very real concern at the situation is going to dissipate calles what the protesters want is for the supreme council of armed forces to step down they say that the military that has been governing this country for the last nine months has done pretty much precious little to change the lives of ordinary people here not a minute he is trying to despond it is holding emergency talks at the moment to try

and deal with late last night's basic nation of the cabinet the work we have at the moment from the military council is that they want to have a prime minister in place before they accept this resignation of the government and a name being bandied about is mohamed el baradei the former head of the international atomic energy agency and he has indicated that he would be prepared to take this position for the military council is also holding emergency talks with various political parties to try and deal with the situation that that is a far cry from what we see happening on the ground here in toughness where. there are there standing right about towards where i mean some british labor m.p. germy call leaves that changes unlikely in the country unless the west stops supporting the military. it's western double standards. par excellence that he invaded libya in order to change the government because of threats against the people see they put sanctions against some countries because of oppressions of

civil liberties the case of bahrain saudi arabia has inflated so far ranging rules protect the molecule in the case of saudi arabia a massive waste of human rights and no intervention i think the west basically quite happy to carry on the military structure. that is really to hold any new coming challenges the authority the military is going to have a huge it seems to me the brashness even before the elections taking place. it's odd to see now moscow has lashed out at new u.s. sanctions against iran saying they go against international law i will make future negotiations difficult washington are. against iran on when monday rather after the u.k. and kind of a similar actions are the measures are a result of the latest report from the un's nuclear watchdog claiming iran's working on building an atomic weapon the new sanctions target iran's main bank are

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 that the increasingly aggressive actions against the country will continue and urged other governments to put pressure on tehran as well but expert on political economics ivan either thinks the sanctions are only going to unite the people of iran with their own government. but when you bomb a country it unifies the population with the government even if they don't like the government but in this case we're not there yet but we're attacking them economically it has a similar effect it rally around the fly and any time you either take economic use economic warfare or actual warfare you're going to get a rally around the flag back so i and sanctions no good. persuading nations to do small things but overthrowing governments or getting them to stop nuclear weapons when they live in a dangerous neighborhood it's just not going to work i mean if you you can put them sell yourself in their shoes they see israel they see turkey they see the arab

countries that don't really like them and they israel has nuclear weapons and other countries are working secret to the police to get nuclear weapons presumably so iran. feels threatened and when they feel threatened all the sanctions in the world are not really going to help and in fact i think it will probably push the the population to support a regime that they wouldn't normally support. well the world could be standing on the precipice of a third world war and nuclear annihilation if any action is taken against iran it's a clear warning from former u.s. senator mike gravel you can watch as a full interview that of us our here's a preview. of this whole ginning up world for war with iran very dangerous because iran is not syria not lebanon and 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 until of

eve no i can tell you if they are attacked they will attack back in israel he was so vulnerable and so small that they will retaliate they'll use nukes you could start a third world nuclear war by irresponsibly attacking iran. and you can watch spending about twenty three minutes time here on r.t. often out of syria's ambassador to the united nations as accuse european powers of declaring a diplomatic war against his country his comments come after germany britain and france all sponsored a un resolution condemning human rights violations in the country on monday at least twenty people were reportedly killed in continuing antigovernment protests the e.u. meantime is increasing pressure on damascus calling for

a new sanctions to be adopted this week so he is now also claiming it 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 a global scale only lead to further violence author and journalist webster tarpley who is in damascus says that it is the west behind the crisis in the country. he'll 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 and 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 we're dealing here with terrorist commandos it's a joint production of c m i six. of the french f. to libya becoming

a bloodbath with one hundred fifty thousand dead and now with egypt showing what it was all along there was no revolution it was a complete failure and now people are beginning to understand it and notice that nevertheless mrs clinton and this rice at the united nations are continuing to push this bankrupt discredited model and to call the revolution the cia people power call backed up by terrorist groups people from al qaeda people from the muslim brotherhood but i've heard this now 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. ten minutes past the hour here in moscow you're watching artsy it's good to have your company today coming up just a little bit later this hour tackling a deadly danger russia calls for simple solutions to solve the production on

trafficking of drugs from afghanistan the largest producer of a worldwide terror. the new leaders of debt between greece and italy are hard at work as they attempt to rescue their countries out of the debt levels in athens lucas papademos has to approve reforms to secure the next international bailout tranche before his country runs out of money while in italy the new prime minister mario monti is holding key talks with the e.u. leaders to wrap up its part of strategy for combating the country's debt crisis under pressure to boost italy's growth and bring down its debt in order to prevent a disintegration of the euro our correspondent sarah ferguson ponders what lies ahead for europe the changing face of european democracy and the euro crisis continues to claim critical heads and elected leaders have taken the reins and greece and italy this government is formed we

explicit. the explicit task to do what europe's cars the new leaders have been holding close to their european counterparts have a dame the past the foreign hercules and others would call it impossible in trying to balance democracy with debt reduction it seems for now the last is one out of the problem is that there is no all parties sure maybe academics flora other groups that have concrete suggestions there another suggestion from the grossest in italy i speak with economists my chalet de sac a about why when it comes to finding a solution to the crisis the people seem to be being left out of the equation what we're seeing happening to us here a crisis has seemed to a lot of people very very confusing do you think this sense of economic and political games is maybe going to find itself take it back and give the decision to

the people who this is affecting go through the years of around the. year make so give us. pause of the year. there was a. could tap into a suggestion of a referendum followed by his sharp exit eventually people are going to have to be asked what they want despite strong here is a reference to those alternative to being inside the euro it's become increasingly clear that there is and always has been a choice about a plan that people were allowed to make one people are afraid in the block me every day they're saying to them look if you don't accept the words of the europeans saying if you don't accept their demands are imposed by the government and by the i.m.f. . if we leaving the euro is again still remains an extremely unpopular prospects

say to you is simply continuing along brussels past which until now has meant more stary to the painful job cuts will bail outs no you solution all of which has led to growing social unrest threatens to undermine the whole concept of european unity . on sea. meantime the greek lawyer george believes the rescue cash will not be enough for the unelected technocrats to leave the country. very probably well going to take this cost but of course this is not going to save us because as little guys these austerity commercials 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 democratic legitimacy not only we have a prime minister that never has pushed across never been elected but they try to

impose us policies that are completely out of touch with a majority of the population that is the key not all the case so for lack of the mccarthy to be much but those of nationalists over ninety as well the old political out party system is completely corrupt completely discredited and unfortunately we can look to get covered by our political identity this political advantages cannot be a pickle crowd pick one without any kind of democratic and political it's a theme i see so this kind of period of about dealing with a problem with the is not going to last both because all this is meant ineffective and exactly because big love any kind of approval of the electorate it's now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital where that seems to have been a safe. trio office space when i arrived back on us after their hard year mission the international space station.

that has become normal and move to the creation of the food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world it's created to maximize the profits. you're not trading the actual cash physical grain you're trading promises for grain to be delivered a monster six months or twelve months or eighteen months in the future. like silver or gold they can be negotiated in order to some degree. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future.

and back you with r.t. live from moscow now russia has criticized the u.s. and nato for not doing enough to stop illegal drug trafficking from a gun a start the country accounts for more than ninety percent of the world's opium

production moscow says the simplest solutions are the key to tackling the issue and eradicating poppy fields across the country will simply help to solve a problem the explanation from aussies. these harmless looking afghan puppies have caused millions of deaths worldwide. russian the u.s. have teamed up to crack down and grow 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 russia and the us see the solution to the problem. 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 another inconsistency.

with 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 around a 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 their car ticks have nearly as much air in the total world trade as oil and gas the head of russia's drug enforcement suggest that u.s. and european banks cast of glee welcome and encourage the inflow of drug money and that is progress 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 dear can see is problems of narcotics we can make arrests of traffickers but

we really need to choke off the phones that supply this there was also a sense of get out 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. hating afghan poppy fields altogether besides you know a national banks don't seem to mind the huge inflow of dirty money experts say that the status quo would lead to millions more dying in the future a gap which could be prevented from getting shut down boarding from r.t. r t so right now it's time for the world cup but there are two some other world news for you in brief this hour first to libya where the interim prime minister is set to announce the country's new government today. he will name a cabinet of experts to steer the country to its first fully democratic elections and your government is due to remain in place until the middle of next year when elections for a new assembly are held the country's former leader moammar gadhafi of course was captured and killed just one month ago after being in power forty two years.

yemeni tribesmen opposed to president saleh claim they've 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 during the raid it's the latest in a series of battles between tribesmen and forces backing saleh was clinging to power despite 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 then which left at least thirty five people dead twenty members of the security forces were charged over alleged abuses during the uprising shia muslims rallied against discrimination they claim to suffer at the hands of the governing sunni majority the government responded with a brutal crackdown on demonstrators sealing off hospitals and beating medics who tended for the wounded the report comes just days before an independent inquiry

will release its findings. well a store user spacecraft has brought a cosmonaut from russia and two astronauts from the u.s. and japan it safely back to earth where the miners for the past six months are high above us in orbit working on the international space station about all that will have to slowly adapt to have their feet back on the ground. and witness their return after a descent from the international space station the soyuz module has safely touched down in a step in kazakstan rescue teams have landed and are taking out the three crew that have come down in the module so i tried to put a coworker volkov and mike fossum have been up on the international space station for six months conducting maintenance and experiments they also had a tense time up there in august of progress supply module crashed on the way up to the i assessed bringing supplies and not raised many questions over the reliability

of the soyuz vehicle all launches were 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 hundreds of process that's going ok new crew is now installed up there and mike fossum soto she thought of uncertainty valcke of her now back safely on earth after this day in space. actually start off reporting right by you could i find out more about the astronauts return it all to dot com also will improve that right now another story from space a russian robot head on a mission to the to a martian made out of cobalts in fact i may soon return to earth with an old bump. the works of an inspired by the recent pepper spraying of occupy protesters by u.s. police that's also an artsy dog.

all right r.t. is coming to you live from moscow more headlines to come directly after the tunnel with the business. it's twenty three minutes past two pm here in moscow welcome to business are the russian markets to making gains on tuesday after the previous session brought the biggest drop since early october despite the bounce the mood remains decidedly negative as business artie's not in the classroom. i mean busters are still concerned over the sovereign debt crisis we're adding to the euro zone's of the biggest economies and that was quite evident yesterday we saw and see all the red across the board there are a number of factors play into the there are now concerns over francis' aaa credit

rating and that's after movies warned over the country's rice impulsive that as well as a week i can only follow and it also mentioned rising risks for germany because all of its banks exposure to troubled european economies but everyone is expecting to hear what will happen on wednesday when the european commission is expected to present a study which will have a real options for joining that issue instead and this is largely seen as a step closer to the euro zone discussing europe or ones where they had so will be back collectively by all members rather than individually and there is a similar story taking place right now in the u.s. very little investor confidence there is actually mostly expect the special congressional committee to fail in its quest to find a solution to the country so huge a deficit and another blow was as some people ratings agency announced that in my downgrade some of the biggest banks in the u.s. so definitely nor a lot of positive data coming out from europe or the u.s.

up the moments. and let's now take a look at phil latest numbers or oil is on the draw is as renewed concerns about a possible military strike against iran that's offset by worries about the health of the world's biggest economies. is that more than ninety seven dollars a barrel brant is trading at one hundred seven dollars a barrel. european equities are higher in afternoon trading but the gains are narrowing the focus and the dax are putting on around a third of a percent each banks and resource stocks are benefiting the votes. here in russia investors see monday's slide. as a buying opportunity this hour both the r.t.s. and the my successor adding around one third of a percent. moved to new chips are trading in the black including financials t.v. is up almost one percent part lies are out is among the talking in as it's written

almost pulled increase in net profit in the first five months of the year. is adding more than one percent to the mining companies looking to buy a strangely iron producer cleansers markets. while equity markets are extremely volatile investing in oil related stocks could prove a good strategy says water you can't. there isn't really a sea of have in one market so you can find a relative shelter in russia and from that point i would recommend the oil and gas sector the oil has been particularly resilient over the last several months and reflecting of the world strong fundamentals strong solid demand and reasonably tate to supply out there in the market the oil and gas stories could be reasonably defensive and otherwise potentially be driven stories that focus on different stories as well companies which have track record of strong dividend yield in the

oil and gas sector. the russian bell routes are wrapping up their long lasting gas dispute the event of mr newspaper cites source close to talks saying moscow will finally cut the price and half for starting next year that means bell bruce will pay around one hundred fifty dollars for one thousand cubic meters the cash strapped country has long been struggling to get discounts especially because it's creating a common economic zone with russia in exchange for the price cut agreed to sell moscow its transportation network the countries are to sign an agreement at the end of this week. russia's only remaining a large tobacco producer is up for sale congress not is favor says the box will most likely be acquired by imperial tobacco the u.k. based imperial is seeking to challenge its main competitors in russia namely philip morris and british american tobacco the company hopes the deal would allow it to

increase its market share from seven to twelve percent now the profit of the total thirty million dollars last year. and that's all the latest from the business team this hour i'll be back in about fifteen minutes see of.

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