four points. i would print certain discipline in touch with the who tell me touch your original google how would international floods achieve every green. defiant egyptians remain in terrorist square for the sixth day now following violent clashes with security forces that have claimed the lives of at least thirty six people. which has discovered by many t.v. listed speed up the pace. not amounting on the step down from tough in just a few minutes. the un general assembly as a human rights committee condemned syria for its violent crackdown on anti-government protests but damascus calls it a u.s. led to top political. and five years after the death of the former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko from polonium poisoning in london but the case remains

unsolved and a thorn in the side of russian british really. a very warm welcome to you on this wednesday you're watching r.t. life from moscow with me rory some shite hundreds of egyptians remain in cairo's tahrir square demanding an immediate and so you are going rule it's all despite a pledge by the country's army chief to bring forward presidential elections to june of next year it follows days of fierce fighting between protesters and security forces claiming the lives of now or at least thirty six people across. the reports from cairo. things have certainly he said that here we are witnessing the same scenes we saw yesterday with ambulances rushing in and out there is a makeshift clinic there are one and two doctors tending to injured people human

rights groups are reporting that the police the security officers used a new kind of tear gas that was not in line with ordinary crowd control procedures i can certainly tell you that been fortunate to get most of yesterday it is the strongest tear gas i've experienced and it's completely blinds people people who are running for cover people who are having under blankets and against buildings and likely eyes trying to get rid of it and some of them to stand such as a folk not in the same place where they were yesterday that is in the muhammad street not far from here at least touched his square with the interior ministry building at this stage it does seem we're going to see a repeat of that a lot of the violence we witnessed yesterday now people are rioting we are witnessing people coming in their hundreds i would say easily at this moment to several hundred people here they seem to not have taken any kind of heat or any kind of encourage meant some of the words last night from mohammed khatami the head of the supreme council of the armed forces in

a ten minute ally of television address he spoke to the nation he urged protesters here to be calm and he said that they would be real change would come about now mohamed el baradei the former head of the international atomic energy agency has indicated that he is prepared to fullness to government to act as prime minister but he has put forward the transition that it must be without any kind of outside interference to all of this is not enough for people here on the square as they want to see the army itself sit down anything that's been done on the level of the interim government is simply insufficient for them. he says the western powers would rather have a familiar ally. despite public charge. the united states and britain but principally the united states is looking at a number of options there their primary option was to keep mubarak in power forever or then his sons and that can't be that can't happen right now so they thought then

that they would have a military rule that would create those political leaders who were acceptable to the west that's come undone because the military has not let go of the tight grip on power and so now they're looking for plan c. mohamed el baradei he is a familiar face to the west is recognized by the west he was the chairman of the i.a.e.a. he was somewhat independent of the united states but not really a severe challenge for the united states in the run up to the iraq war so of course i think clancy might be considered by the american government the best of the available options but you gyptian people want genuine democracy they don't want an interim government appointed by those who are really still be institutions of power from the mubarak. era dottie we are closely following the protests in cairo website of seeds of all because you can watch the footage from tahrir square and see the makers of eloquence they can also visit our you tube channel many videos.

as egyptians or lose their lives in the fight changing their country western powers have been slow to condemn the violence the u.s. says only that is concerned about the excessive force that's being used on protesters as our correspondent there reports that the focus of the western allies for now remains else where. egypt descends into chaos once more the first signs of cracks appearing in the arab spring it's been the focus of the world's media spotlight but western leaders are turning a blind eye instead setting their sights on pastures new abuses and loss of life taking place in syria the future of syria now depends upon the ability of all of us to keep pressure on them because of all up we've called in prison bashar al assad to make reforms for all around thirty people have died already in cairo's

clashes and it's been all over the international media when this sort of crackdown happened in february received international condemnation what's the difference this time well those in charge in egypt western double standards at work. in very good libya in order to change the government because of threats against the people being garci they have put sanctions against some countries because of oppression of civil liberties i think the west basically quite happy to carry on with a military structure in egypt for your sort of since president mubarak was forced out nine months ago egypt's been under the rule of this supreme military council thousands of activists unhappy with the lack of reforms have returned to relive their tyrion triumph only to be met by tear gas and bullets protesters now accused of western nations that were previously supportive of having a hand in the crackdown but i'm not expecting

a quick reaction from the west but we can see that all the ammunition used against those these are american or israeli or actually tell you was that it's the tear gas canisters or the bullet. but they have received it is themselves an eleven it's forced presumably revolution and they are used for precinct populations or they are used to kill this revolution for the likes of britain france and america though egypt is no longer a pro. it's next stop syria the u.k. foreign secretary william hague met syrian opposition groups in london this week and prime minister david cameron's been picked to spearhead an international diplomatic task force with one aim to remove president or sad from office the move near a similar tense in egypt and libya president some say clearly should be followed yes to libya becoming a bloodbath and now with egypt showing what it was all along it was not revolutionary it was a complete failure and now people are beginning to to understand it notice that

nevertheless mrs clinton and this rise into force is bankrupt discredited model of the color revolution the cia people power coup backed up by terrorist troops people from al qaeda people from the muslim brotherhood the military council in egypt has said it will speed up presidential elections for protesters that's clearly not enough they haven't forgotten what their revolution was about even if it seems the international community hands are the bennetts artsy london. now twenty eight people have reportedly been killed during government raids in syria in the space of just one day and come to the un's human rights committee condemned damascus for its eight month crackdown on protesters are in a vote backed by western nations i don't number of arab states russia did abstain from voting and has been calling for a guy along between the syrian opposition and president assad's regime is more

important now has the latest from new york. what this decision illustrates is an increasing amount of symbolic pressure against syria now having said that although this resolution was adopted and supported by one hundred twenty two states it holds no legal weight the resolution does not call for any sanctions what it does is it calls on syria to and all human rights violations and abuses and of course on an international level puts the nation against syria. according to the u.n. roughly thirty five hundred people or at least have been killed since the uprisings began eight months ago this resolution however was introduced by germany and it is being seen as the first step the west is taking in an effort to really introduce the issue of syria into the united nations security council now just last month

when european powers introduced a draft resolution against syrian security council russia and china vetoed that resolution arguing that the mistakes that western powers made in libya should not be repeated in syria or russia believes that the syrian authorities and opposition groups need to come to a point of negotiation and peaceful dialogue to come up with an ultimate solution that would be best for this internal conflict and according to russia russia and other countries i should mention the security council believe that any outside military intervention into syria should not happen and is considered unacceptable. so because. the program claims of double standards while europeans wonder whether they have a financial future at all the euro crowds in brussels moan about having to tighten

their own. now it is ten minutes past the hour here in moscow a poisoning of by polonium and a political outcry it's now exactly five years since the russian former security agent alexander litvinenko died on british soil a spy saga that gripped global attention it led to a diplomatic spat between moscow and london and it's r.t. that laura smith reports they are continue to cause a rift between the two countries five years on and still an immovable thaw in the side of receive british relations mosco we extradite britain's chief suspect in the two thousand and six murder of alexander litvinenko because andrey lugovoy is the russian citizen and britain refuses to hand over the evidence so russia can conduct its own investigation britain insists extradition is the only path to justice russia won't go against its constitution and past both governments are now in the position where it's very difficult to imagine either side giving anything along

fourteen of the so many questions you know which have been gone through over the last five years. with more. agreement. than either side really. anywhere near that little difficult to see how it's going to move forward in london because we do it by arena has successfully lobbied for a new wiser ranging inquest into her husband's death have voiced says he welcomes the news and has offered to give evidence via video link he also welcomes marina because admission that her husband was working as a consultant for the purchase secret service says look up boys says he himself was branded a liar for saying the same thing but it's not just the truth that's most of basing her young were young about it else but she didn't like opposition of the british government who were against widening the investigation as he was in egypt he wasn't operating alone he was acting in accordance with some kind of orders and some kind

of command structure so the british secret services resign or knew by a cool story is death so in her mind they should take responsibility and that means paying the lawyers who are expanse of the british me this was really good any of them wearing it when young because legal costs could run to one and a half million dollars and international relations have paid a heavy price to. bear looks in the background of every diplomatic visit and business deal between russia and britain and the new hearings in which accusations from both sides will be heard in open court unlikely to mend fences this is unfortunately a key area can improve relations between moscow. and the interests of both governments. would be very welcome if this problem before this creates can be solved because you can't do anything with lugovoy. beyond prosecution

if you can move the case forward. he doesn't have immunity. the case against him it looks like that person will be to meet she called to. spect he was with binion and lugovoy here at the ability of hotel on the day it's believed litvinenko was poisoned he was investigated by german police in connection with traces of polonium that were found in his hamburg apartment but the case was dropped for lack of evidence despite that report suggests cold tune is moving back into the british police did break following the closure of the criminal case in two thousand and nine got hold of the police evidence against him he doubts they'll be able to pin anything on him this time around either called to and will give evidence at the new hearings by video link to so far as an interested party five years on since.

there is still a lot of interested parties ready to put their case on but there's little sign of anyone being held accountable. he. is now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital for the mission is a life european stations how to manage to contact the interplanetary probe called grunts which is believed to be lost in space vanished from international radars two weeks ago just a few hours after the launch we connection with the probe came a day after the russian space agency said that hopes for avoiding the station were rapidly diminishing. on its interplanetary mission on november the ninth to explore the surface of one of the red planet's moons and suffered a technical. well it seems to be a busy week for space exploration as you can find out on our website our teeth or where we are always have much much more from your crew over three spacemen return

safely to earth aboard a russian soyuz capsule after six months in orbit on the international. also online . to find out why angry opposition members are used tear gas powered in south korea's parliament during a stormy session in the debating chamber i watched the video at r.t. talk. shows that so much a lot of people at ariel little tell me what's next for the occupy movement across the u.s. after police use strong arm tactics to disperse protesters should the movement seek a way to join the. world through the. or in more mouths to feed where will the food come from can science provide the answers to the future of under the microscope. we've done the future.

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you with us here live from moscow with the business news in about eight minutes time and although the e.u. is going through its toughest test yet with europeans losing their jobs and wages and pensions being slashed by all of the government's imposed continued tough austerity measures it's all in the name of staving off bankruptcy and saving the common currency but when it comes to cutting costs it seems you are krauts in brussels on too keen on making sacrifices themselves. investigates. this has become a familiar sight in the streets of europe symptomatic of the euro crisis and now it seems that the tide of discontent is rising within the plush walls of the vast european commission bureaucracy the. staff unions are threatening to go on strike after rejecting a proposal by the commission or the e.u. civil service to save a one billion euros over seven years by reducing pensions increasing working hours

from thirty seven point five to forty a week raising the retirement age limiting pay rises and cutting five percent of jobs but you know they get a one point eight three rise. and if it's a union representing lower paid staff says the media tends to lump them with the fat cats who get most from the e.u. create the train he wants the highest salaries of those at the top to be slashed instead the commissioners have privileges breached the normal stuff don't turn they do not contribute to paint their pensions we pay eleven point six percent and they do not contribute anything but some politicians are astonished at the notion of a strike by officials they claim are featherbed it while ordinary workers are losing their jobs and face hardship they get excellent health care free education for their children to private schools here wonderful pension deal and you wonder people listening to this at home looking or. perhaps earning working ten hours

a day these guys are grumbling because they're being asked to work eight hours a day while they're perfectly within their rights to contest the proposed changes to their working conditions or raises eyebrows is the fact that they're complaining at a time when millions of new citizens are bearing the brunt of harsh but steady measures imposed by the very same institutions they work for not to mention the twenty three million who don't even have jobs to speak of to remove water through perks to suggest that perhaps they take a slightly lower percentage increase. it's hardly going to break the world to an end still union members are adamant they're getting the short end of the stick. you know putting everything on the shoulders of the secretaries we think that the salary cap is much too high and we would like to close that. and many of us would be ready to pay for it but whether european taxpayer share the same willingness to sustain the benefits of their civil servants in brussels at

a time when very themselves are forced to accept a sturdy measures is another question to answer cilia r.t. brussels. financial crisis in europe is europe's most pressing issue excuse me but it's not the only one according to the leader of the freedom party of austria he's told us here at r.t. that multiculturalism and immigration policies are failing and that europe must stop expanding eastwards we can watch the full interview at about ten minutes time for an hour a preview. of stay with us. i do not see europe expanding brain clearly not only repeat countries which will turn europe into europe in asia and africa information it would mean the end of europe was in the end it would mean an end to the european idea of peace and sanctions deals. before you get to the business with the world of her own are to some other headlines for you in brief this hour turning our attention first to pakistan where the country's ambassador to the u.s.

has stepped down after allegedly asking for help in his fight against the military hussain haqqani is accused of asking washington to assist his attempts to combat the threat of a pakistani army takeover the memo to the us was allegedly written in may although how carney denies the allegations he offered to step down after meeting with army and intelligence chiefs in islamabad on tuesday the country has witnessed ongoing tension with the u.s. since navy seals killed osama bin laden six months ago. libya's interim prime minister has announced a new transitional government to steer the country towards its first democratic elections in june and the freshly appointed cabinet will also be responsible for drafting the country's new cost of interim prime minister. says that the lineup is designed to represent all of libya and put an end to regional rivalries the country is aiming to forge a more democratic path after former leader more michael duffy was captured and

killed just one month ago. an independent commission disputer publishes fight on the violent repression of pro-democracy protests earlier this year human rights violators are expected to be named in a report which has taken almost five months to prepare but many opposition members and rights groups fear it won't go far enough in naming those responsible for alleged torture and other abuses on tuesday police tear gas and clashed with protesters following a funeral procession for a teenager who was run over by a police vehicle on saturday. kind of some dramatic pictures right here which was seen by live actually by horrified internet viewers in new zealand pictures of a hot helicopter getting tangled up in cables and snapping in half by the pilot was thrown about the cabin but actually managed to survive the crash the chopper was installing a giant christmas tree on oakland's waterfront on its main road appears to have hit a wire

a local media report so the pilot escaped without any major injuries and said he was doing fine. regular escape right there i will update you on the headlines after the business news next with you. thanks ori everyone welcome to the business program foreign direct investment in russia is up forty three percent in the year through september at twelve billion dollars however the most still come from cyprus where many big domestic firms are registered emerging markets private equity association says russia remains one of the least attractive investment destinations among the developing economies but they had over russia's newly created direct investment fund is optimistic this will soon change speaking exclusively to our trip highlights the steps just to watch the mortgage is definitely going to be interesting with options with major interest in

the infrastructure and the industrial sector is a better fit for the growth of the russian middle class there is massive growth in the middle class which fuels growth in agriculture in medical care from a sort of gold if a little services in all sorts of sectors. let's have a quick check on the markets all is lower as a versus speculate the fries in gasoline stockpiles in the u.s. and slowing economic growth in europe will reduce demand for fuel the dollar retail is trading at over ninety seven dollars per barrel after branches that one hundred eight dollars a barrel. european stocks mixed there's some of the market is focusing on a disappointing manufacturing survey from china the weakness here is also driven by continued concerns that each new leaders are running out of options to solve the debt crisis both views that the u.s. federal reserve and international monetary fund may do more to bolster the economy is holding back from the so far. on the russian markets are mixed

this hour with their tears higher and the my six plus two negative though investors still worrying over how europe and the u.s. will solve their debt problems let's not have a chuckle some of the individual show moves in the market six most of the blue chips are crazy higher this is. recovering from their earlier losses verifying is high point three percent is gaining more than one of the half percent and gold is on the rise as investors buy into precious metals and with the current volatility. well looking now at some margin trends and roger all in that for a very low capital so blue chip companies here are doing their best to support their share price in a depressed market the first time really ever in the russian market we really see the company is beginning to actually share holders to hold the shares there's a there's a big move towards paying dividends we're seeing this in turn some hope about it coming out of trends you actually read the companies the. dividends and so that's

positive and at the same time you're seeing a lot of share buybacks coming from companies like ross telecom who are all curly so they're all looking at actually going back shares at these depressed prices and that's actually that's actually a very good sign russia has one of the higher dividend payouts in the oil sector for instance globally. about before so that's quite positive. and in other news russia's economy has expanded over four percent in the thoughts ten months we get a seasonal rise in agricultural production help speed up growth in. ministry is considering raising its cross domestic product forecast for the whole here but the statistics service says more local enter bringers expect the situation to get worse in the next six months. and lenders in russia have seen a significant decline in the share of but loans and their retail follow the country's central bank says a drop to around six percent over nine percent last year clients mostly face

trouble with ripping small and mortgage loans. and russian movies might be good dog but as a business they still have a long way to go to market share of domestically made films and russia has halted in the last two years and is now below ten percent russian movies aren't just eight to seven million dollars in the past ten months this year and that's in a market that's growing at eight percent and worth almost a billion dollars producers blamed the crisis and a lot of financing for the absence of big box russian felt. that's it for now for more stories log onto a web site r g dot com slash business old jordan in less than fifteen minutes. to the.

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