all. protesters in egypt hold their positions on cairo's a revolutionary tahrir square which catches its breath after another night of heavy clashes. meanwhile arab foreign ministers are meeting in cairo egypt and not on the agenda more in just a few moments. serbs in breakaway cause of both face clouds of tear gas as they refuse demands by nato soldiers to dismantle barricades on the region's northern borders. and moscow stresses it's not about to start the reset of ties with the u.s. but will hold nuclear disarmament and deploy rockets to its borders if washington

establishes its missile defense shield in your. life from moscow city center this is the with me rule recent shake egypt's military has apologized for the deaths of nearly forty protestors over several days of violent clashes with police so really a square was quiet this morning for the first time since the fresh surge of unrest began on saturday after both sides declared a break in fighting meanwhile the arab league is meeting in cairo but their focus is on syria and the imposition of sanctions is fall asleep standing by for us live and egyptian capital. good to see you so the league is meeting now right at the center of the second wave of egypt's revolution there are some that might call that

rather ironic because they're there to talk about syria and not egypt is there any chance they'll talk about this recent days of unrest do you think. but at this stage we have no indication that discussing what is happening in egypt is on the agenda for the arab league the foreign ministers are currently holding discussions over whether or not to impose sanctions on damascus we understand also that the french will be giving a presentation they'll be appealing to the foreign ministers to accept what they're calling a fermented syrian total frons is openly calling for international intervention now this has provoked a lot of anger not only from people here in egypt in the region but also from many an international community many saying that it is highly ironic that the meeting is being held in egypt the situation of what is happening here is not only of gender at the same time the arab league is being accused of double standards and off he ocracy so much is making of the situation in syria while the death toll here in europe in egypt stands at some forty people who have been killed and more than two

thousand injured and yet no mention is made of those by the leave. so a pool of there is or there is a tense truce are ongoing at the moment it seems to be holding the clashes from breaking out again we can see behind you there still there are plenty of people in the square but it seems to be fairly peaceful what sense do you get of how far this is going to last. fall the situation as you say is relatively calm despite the fact that there are thousands of people here into the square in the last hour or so now again you hear behind me and ambulance so the sirens of ambulances do suggest that there are clashes ongoing and people are being injured but we know that the security personnel had directed edge area of wire around the interior ministry building this was the focal point of so much of the violence over the past straight six days and this is an attempt to keep protesters back now the supreme council of the armed forces has issued an apology over the lives lost and the youngsters

killed in the past week it says it deeply regrets this and it has offered condolences at the same time. it says that come saturday it will release all of it detainees it has taken in the last week but most importantly the army says it is ready and insisting that these images that are being planned for monday will go ahead now these parliamentary elections have caused a lot of concern by people here many saying that they should go ahead many saying that they shouldn't and talking to protesters here in turkey is great this city is a mixed reaction some support the elections on monday some don't but it certainly has not taken away the just content of the anger that people here have towards the military they still insisting that the military to step down and step down immediately regardless of whether or not these elections are held and the goddess of whether or not they are free and fair you need to remember that while there were tens of thousands of people here in tahrir here there are tens of millions in the rest of egypt and they are inland by the fact that the country is suffering

economically there are launched by the fact that there are huge investments over the past eight nine months and they're also alarmed by the fact that the international community is watching very carefully how egypt manages itself during this very difficult time so they want to see some kind of movement towards democracy that rhythm or not this will be achieved by the elections on monday remains to be seen right he's a policy of live from the heart of cairo thank you. with arsinoe violence has once again a flare up in northern cause of nato soldiers using tear gas against local serbs tried to stop their barricades being dismantled troops and riot gear attempted to remove a concrete barrier island barbed wire late on wednesday used only european correspondent aleksey herself scheme that has details. the k. four troops try to dismantle one of the barricades near the uranium block post needed a rainy border post the serbs resisted and then the native contingent had to use

tear gas grenades and possibly even rather bullets as some sources say there have been no reports so far of any victims or injured but clearly this is another incident which is heating up this region or this has been going on since july this year when the course of albany and decide to impose a trade embargo on the serbs living in northern corso when they set up security checkpoints at the border crossings this serves reacted with indignation they blocked these border crossings putting their own main made barricades made of sand as best as and of course themselves serves protecting this park not letting anybody to come inside the northern possible including the nato contingent have been several cases of clashes already several times people were injured and brought into hospitals the tension is clearly very high in this region while i've been there recently and i've talked to the serbs there have been telling me that they will not

step down they will continue holding their barricades no matter what they are not expecting any help from belgrade who is now trying to negotiate the accession to the e.u. at the same time when to stand out on diplomatic level belgrade has suspended all negotiations with pristina following this conflict in northern kosovo and the situation is rather unexpected. actually i was asking reporting meantime a political analyst. says that maintaining the region's volatile situation is in the interests of the western allies. it seems like some of his search we planted the seeds of future instability and disorder in this part of the world in two thousand and eight other priests not unilaterally declared independence and the nato countries recognize their independence so the root of the problem is that we have western powers who are recognizing an illegally declared state and they're trying to make the serbs down there that may make them live inside this legally

declared state local service have made clear that they're absolutely not going to allow nato to help the albanians establish their own state and to turn to of serbia and this is this is classical stalemate nato is going to keep doing what they're trying to do and the serbs are going to be doing good to trying to do nato the force the serbs have no they're not part and so nato has the initiative they have the power and obviously they're willing to use it against unarmed civilians and watching r.t. live from moscow or coming up a little bit later in the program here one for all all all for one but the question of collective borrowing for the eurozone continues to be by the region's leaders as portugal finally succumb to the crisis its debt now classified as junk by one of the world's top ratings agencies. and from out of this world we report on how it

feels to have your feet firmly on the ground after a lengthy stay in the. moscow says it's not planning to hold the reset of ties with washington but is ready to pull out of a nuclear arms reduction treaty if the u.s. it goes ahead with its defense shield plans in europe russia says it will not review its program despite russia warning that it could move its own offensive missile systems to its borders in response now only a tiny rafi's and it's an outrage she has this report. press's reaction to the active development of plans for this missile defense shield in eastern europe came in the form of an announcement from president made stages where he highlighted five steps that the russian federation would take if the u.s. and nato don't reconsider their plans first of all activated immediately will be early radar warning stations in kaliningrad which is russia's most western enclave the country's nuclear strategic forces will be strengthened significantly you

pointed out that this needs to happen urgently are the countries strategic missiles will be fitted with advanced kind of tracing systems and latest generation warheads and you also notify the armed forces that a system needs to be developed that could destroy data exchange in the control systems of this planned missile defense shield if these steps are not enough the president pointed out that this would be russia's last resort. just each other measures are insufficient or the russia will deploy a contemporary strike systems in the west and south east in order to prevent further damage from the us missile systems including europe the system the deployment of these kind of missile system in accounting that region will be one such step if the situation develops in an unfavorable way russia will reserve the right to seize further steps and here we are disarmament and arms control. munich's to give a link between strategic offensive and defensive weapons yet reasons could emerge from russia's strategic arms reduction treaty because this is a vision within the content of the treaty the president pointed out once again

emphasizing that he believes dialogue is the way to go and that cooperation is still possible it's not too late but promises are just not going to be enough russia needs legally binding agreements from nato and the u.s. that these systems are not meant as a deterrent against them from the was a lot of the same rhetoric that russia has been listening to for years again that this system is meant aimed against so-called rogue states like iran and north korea that it's not anyway thanks again. russia that they do believe that russia and the west have separate systems from the representatives from the national security council we've heard that cooperation again they praise president has made a statement about further cooperation but also pointed out this is very important that they will continue to cooperate with that pursuit of cooperation will in no way be limited or changed or changed the plans for missile defense shield and then from secretary general rasmussen of nato we heard again praise for the statement on

dialogue and cooperation but he say he's disappointed by president medvedev statement that it's not in the spirit of russia nato cooperation but again if you look at a map you will see very clearly that nato is rapidly expanding eastwards on russia's what's eastwards on russia's western border you have the united states and their bases all throughout the middle east and then up russia's eastern seaboard you have bases in japan and south korea so basically russia is being surrounded and it's pretty easy to understand why this is such a major concern for their national security. and our reporting right now just outside the kremlin the head of russia's state duma foreign affairs committee that have a constant and cause such offsets that moscow has concerns of a u.s. missile defense plans in its backyard and not baseless. it is not russia who goes ahead because the united states of america globally nato goes ahead and the russian

reaction is just a reaction it is not about an action this is about a counter action we have to take certain measures in order to balance the eventual damage to the nuclear armaments balance and stability which has existed until now measures to each are announced by mr president are to be taken within the russian national borders we do not act beyond the national borders and this is the huge difference between these and the way in american staff to be on their national borders in order to protect their national security and the way we are being refused to receive commitments confirms their our concerns are really serious and that the actions of the united states in terms of developing the global anti missile defense system are aimed not just against iran or north korea but finally against countries like russia in case they will receive is ignoring russian

concerns unfortunately we will face another armory arms race to reach russia definitely wants to avoid. i know we want to ask you or how you think that russia has warnings over america's missile shield plans will play out or just head over to our web site party dot com you can cast your vote right now let's see how the numbers are stacking up see how you're feeling about almost half of you believe it could trigger a new arms race the second most popular series that it will see the pentagon only speeding up get fourteen percent of you believe russia's objections will lead to europe to saying no to the u.s. and the rest think washington will compromise and agree to moscow to the games you cast your vote at r.t. dot com. now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital collective boring for the eurozone continues to drive a wedge between the region's main players the issue is under scrutiny once again in strasbourg where the leaders of germany and france of meeting the newly appointed

italian premier but the idea of euro bonds is championed by the e.u. technocrat sand powers but strongly opposed by the region's cash cow. it would help to raise much need capital for the debt ridden nations but largely a germany's expense whose boring costs would rise but it's feared even berlin is no longer a view into the crisis having suffered its worst bond auction on wednesday the president advisor patrick young says the eurozone needs someone to make executive decisions. the problem is first of all to go back to what we always keep hammering on we really need leadership mr barroso is trying to push forward this idea of euro bonds amongst others ultimately also germany either has to decide that it wants to basically take away the bow and through a lot of other members out of the euro zone club because they view them as not being worthy of being membership or they're going to have to essentially buy paired tongue and they're going to have to come forward and do something with the marketplace and in some way find

a solution the problem we have is you know euro bonds we were talking about those a year ago fifteen months ago but the difficulty has been all along the lack of political leadership and right now if there is definitely are pople smell of fear in brussels over what's going on when you're in the euro parliament in the coffee shops the huddled corners are discussions about whether the euro is going to survive any shift for reform and hopefully that's going to be a catalyst to see and i critique of leadership and i predict of government and we will find a solution whether it's a collective euro bond or some other form of transfer that at least gets the market working again on the last countries to borrow this crisis is like a pandemic a financial panic nobody really thing you see if in the euro zone and that's why germany must lead a euro bond is basically a case of putting lipstick on the pigs quite literally in every possible sense and of course the other countries who are currently shut out of the borrowing market or

have to borrow at very expensive writs want to be part of a club where hopefully they will be able to borrow money and they'll be able to borrow it much much more cheaply than they can get it in their own right. and the one of those crisis hit pigs countries are the portugal has just received a vote of no confidence from ratings giant fitch lisbon's credit score was proclaimed as junk cited high debt levels and low growth despite a seventy eight billion euro bailout earlier this year but this comes as workers angered by the cuts walked out in a twenty four hour strike because of his are going to lose her reports more and more desperate portuguese and are seeking a better life abroad. now expired readers ready to go leave your home and has probably never being easier to get what you got why steen portugal when we know that architects with five years' experience are paid just eight hundred euro's a month is a question a lot of young specialists have been asking themselves legally and surprising

answer may be to leave for portugal's former colonies like brazil since two thousand through a as being rather stable they had their national truth and then a massive record in the reconstruction process began so there are a lot of opportunities for civil construction companies especially and a lot of what he's sort of trucking companies there and they're currently they're very happy and i'm going to maybe you know something many portuguese are starting to do it at least as a present day. the african country rich in diamonds an oil resources presents an advertising opportunity for a lot of people who have lost hope of finding a decent job at home from and one of you could ever i tell i'm moving abroad invariably says brew and then you get my job two friends even ask me to take their c.v. . according to some reports around ninety thousand portuguese are currently living in cooler compared with just ten thousand in two thousand to some go looking for better income but most are simply looking for something something better than the

ever worsening situation at home and recently i think salaries unfortunately are not the main reason and the main reason is the lack of opportunities in the portuguese markets due to the well to the rises the mass exodus of portugal's young smart educated neighbor turned the end of an era for the country a lot of specialized people were hired a creation scientists brain drain as if you would call it that they go in or leave abroad and study abroad and there's just stay there and of course we will most likely never recover those human assets like rita they hardly think twice before moving abroad and his agent work for a decent salary far outweighing any possible fear of flying if you go score eighty has been. i think it was a head over to r.t. dot com for more on the debt crisis just marching across the eurozone public cross the atlantic the u.s.

has apparently found an unconventional way to save its currency some say the threats of a strike against iran's nuclear sites could be leading to more of that story online also then have a look at this we explore some of the possible reasons behind the failure of russia's interplanetary probes the foot was brought in among the suggestions is one of america's preserved stations in alaska possibly talking about. what you would not see live from moscow or parts of four or five minutes is the business now that the world update here for you some of the headlines from around the world this hour bloodshed continues in yemen a day after president saleh announced his resignation five people are reported killed after crowds demanding salei to be put on trial were fired on by supporters of the regime sell a agree to transfer power to his deputy in exchange for immunity from prosecution months of protests and a brutal crackdown by government forces in yemen have left almost nine hundred people dead. germans are out in force to protest against the arrival of

a train packed with nuclear waste to be reprocessed country but the shipment originated in france where police clashed with hundreds of anti nuclear protesters as the shipment began its journey security forces used a baton rounds and tear gas to disperse the crowds and at least five were arrested spooked by japan's fukushima disaster germany decided earlier this year to phase out using nuclear power. in south korea water cannons have been used on protesters demonstrating against the free trade agreement with the united states broke out as thousands gathered for a third day of rallies in seoul protesters insist the president lee myung bak should resign they claim the deal favors the u.s. over south korean workers and the treaties of course quite a stir during ratification proceedings one opposition member threw tear gas powder at the deputy speaker in the parliament chamber. and recovering from

a long stint of weightlessness proves a tricky business certainly back here on the ground that's what three intrepid travelers are dealing with right now after their return from the international space station just just a couple of days ago now peter all over went to meet one of them. looking noticeably thinner than when he left for space six months ago mission commander. was speaking about his time on board the international space station now they had a less than standard time on board the i.s.a.'s this was due in a large margin to the the last of the progress module the progress resupply module that crashed after launch at the end of august now that more fuel was intended to bring them vital supplies of food and other equipment they were essential for the mission they had to make do without these they did have emergency rations on board well the crash of that progress module resulted in

a to lay in getting the next team up to the international space station a patsy test the so used rockets make sure that it was safe that it wasn't a problem with that rocket now what that meant for volkoff and the rest of his crew was that they were left doing the work of six men with just three of them no volkov says that the atmosphere that created was one of great teamwork this international crew of a japanese astronauts eight american and a russian all coming together apparently spending their sunday afternoons watching the lord of the rings movies as a team bonding exercise now as far as the recovery process of coming back down to earth and we're being told by the talk is that if you want to reacclimate ties back to life on earth it takes as long as you spent in space back on earth to make sure that your adjusted right to life but in gravity and just to emphasize how much of a difference that makes just after he landed in the soyuz module he was given an

apple that he said he couldn't eat then placed on his lap and he talked about just how heavy something as small as an apple felt after spending that amount of time in orbit peter oliver r.t. star city moscow. all right and i was going over to the business desk a career sit with the latest for you. know it's twenty four minutes past the pm here in moscow welcome to business russia has suffered a setback in the race to supply more gas to china asia's biggest country has signed a deal with too many stand to buy significantly more of its natural gas oil will rise by almost two thirds to sixty five billion cubic metres a year now that's the equivalent of ten months of china's gas imports as part of the deal china has agreed to give too many stand alone more than gas courtlandt russia has also been negotiating a deal to supply gas to china but the two sides have been unable to agree on price

aims russia is reluctant to sell gas for less than it gets from europe are trying to refuse to offer more than it pays for central asian. looking at the markets now oil is going higher but up which guy is it just under ninety seven dollars a barrel of oil brant is that under one hundred and eight dollars a barrel this reflects really new fears of supply shortages from iran given the current political tensions with the west. and the european markets are still quite upbeat but they are giving up some of their early against the footsies are powerful percent the dax is over one and a half percent higher and here in moscow the indices are lower and repatriating we are here for sharing and you have the sound from isaacs is under a quarter of a percent in the red on the main movers otherwise x. energy holdings and are stable the caucus is leading the gains up five and a half percent this hour the company will more than double as a chart of capital to two billion dollars and if you majors have raised earlier gains a lot of them are flat this our banking stocks have also lost their mountain precious

second largest b.c.b.s. down over half a percent. looking ahead to the rest of the week's trades it's no surprise that all eyes are on europe steps problems especially since the united states is preparing for a long thanksgiving weekend. gets his few beers is closed for the thanksgiving holiday so the market you should be quite quiet in the u.s. you know again people will be of focused on europe when for example germany's position is on the economy no your bond is you know merkel has been resisting the ideal italy and also people should continue to be watching the french and spanish bond yields to see if there are a continued you know attacks against you know these other countries. satellite navigation system gone us is boosting its share of russia's smartphone market could not as russia's answer to america's g.p.s.

platforms the world's biggest mobile manufacturers are being obliged to use their phones sold in russia as the government plans to impose import duties for products without the system. no it is that the year next year we hope to see among new users is it te hua way and h d c we think that up to thirty percent of russia's smartphone market will be based on our glu gnostics knowledge and this year we expect revenues to jump one hundred fold then our growth rates will be more conservative. that's our business not that for now but remember you can always log on to our web site our good outcomes first business of them.

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