please. please please. please . new clashes erupt in the egyptian capital as crowds of protesters drown to stick to their demands for change its market leadership is reluctance to make concessions. to nato helicopters strike kills up to twenty five pakistani soldiers an army checkpoint with is them about shutting off the allied some private for granted start a new storms. the two sides of the crisis as americans lined up on your back brought a bargain hunt queues are also at record levels elsewhere at homeless shelters and food stations. tale of riches to rags are american

wants to put governor went looking for love in crazy but ended up homeless. well news analysis twenty four hours a day this is our teamwork. at least one person has reportedly been killed and injured cairo's tahrir square as clashes between stone throwing demonstrators and security forces continue into the second week tear gas has been used to disperse crowds to march to the convent and to protest the appointment of. as minister the latest flare up is the first outbreak of violence in the capital since a truce with the pope to visit. forty people have been killed since last saturday rations for ground in syria meanwhile has appealed to the nation to give him

a chance to home a cabinet that will be accepted by everyone from the us there has more from car. of the country so he doesn't feel safe least here in downtown cairo the next flashpoint could be monday's pop. i mean three elections and while the majority of people here interfere say they will not be voting we need to remember that there are still people outside cairo who say they will be voting at this stage again it's very difficult to gauge what kind of support the military has the voting is going to be over two days and this is to enable as many people as possible to come forward and cast their ballot at the same time it is expected that the muslim brotherhood will win the majority of the vote and this is despite the fact that the muslim brotherhood has lost popularity of the past few days need to remember that the brotherhood was one of the main organizations that instigated the protests back in january but it has largely kept away from these demonstrations

a question that the security will have to answer in the coming weeks is is allegations of the type of tear gas that they used we understand from human rights groups and from the testers themselves who have experienced the worst of it that it is a toxic substance suspiciously thought to be banded international circles let's have a listen but there was so much chaos and there was a different type of gas that was creating what they call the chemical the moda that was very very difficult to treat and of black people have died from it and the police are telling families of very poor families whose kids have been killed you can pick up the bodies but we're not going to give you a certificate of just to try to to hide what really is going on the death toll at the moment stands at forty one although we are hearing from some doctors that they've been under pressure to drop those figures that the numbers are much higher that they haven't come forward and actually admitted that this game causes many here to ask the question whether or not the revolution back in january achieved

anything and not only the revolution the so-called revolution here in egypt but in fact where the revolutions that have happened elsewhere in the arab world have in fact in the long term the full the promises that they gave to the people. almost a year after mubarak's. sorry your square is again stained with blood this is not you it's about the dignity of the egyptian people we don't want any more humiliation. here is another revolution seen libya the ousted leader moammar gadhafi was killed last month the people of libya are now left with a country in ruins and the government they didn't truths i think there is a reign of terror going on against those who disagree with the libyan government it's not presented that way in the western media but it is a reign of terror if you speak up right now against the the new authorities in libya you're likely to go to jail or be executed or disappear in the meantime

interim government brought to power by nato is strengthening its grip on the country nato and some arab states now openly call for regime change in syria the louder the call the more violent the opposition becomes oh yes. western countries in the capitals of some countries in the region are openly recommending opposition to not hold talks with the assad regime it looks like political probation on an international scale civil war is brewing in syria the whole region seems to be plunging deeper into crisis. well people suffer in the continuing wave of violence in the middle east and north africa some analysts say certain powers might be interested in keeping the trouble boiling there are certain powerful interests outside of the middle east who wants to bring chaos is a rolling scenario discontent and chaos in order that it long term will be militarized directly by nato and that the oil resources of these oil rich countries

by large can be directly put under private hands it looks like this so-called transition to democracy in the wake of the arab spring is not going to well more blood is being shed we're looking at an arab winter and maybe a new where spring around the corner. as tensions rise and as certain global powers are pushing for regime change in more countries of the region the wave of revolutions turning into a notion of chaos i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . ultimatum to syria foreign observers will face sanctions has come and gone with the rebels and government troops continue to fight nation right. measures including a suspension of flights to syria as well as crippling restrictions on its central bank attentions to force rebel leaders and its government because she table neither side is showing any willingness to make concessions on

a series of protests and the insurgency as a syrian inferno rages some saying the pressure to side the country is any situation worse. the arab league called an emergency meeting karo to discuss syria meanwhile real reformers genuine egyptian citizens are getting their heads cracked open by the military police in egypt which is u.s. backed so the arab spring is a joke for the people of egypt and if you want any indication as to what syria might look like after the west with their proxy wars using their proxy rebels and maybe a bombing campaign look at libya they're flying the al qaeda flag over the government building so if the if if the western powers think that they're going to get away with a no fly zone in syria this is a very different prospect than libya the strategy now is to weaken syria internally by using mercenary forces al qaeda forces which were used in libya and also in

afghanistan to bring them into place in turkey come over the border for incursions these humanitarian zones that the french are talking about are not humanitarian corridors these are paramilitary corduroys they will be used to move on much like the egyptian military government facilitated the movement of arms over the egyptian border into libya which was a direct contravention of the u.n. resolution one thousand nine hundred seventy three so the u.n. is losing all credibility here as well. you know with r t and still ahead on the program. i think in america which are active whether we have the money or not. the millions of people in the u.s. and worldwide feeling the bite of that local financial downturn some are still calling it hard to adjust to life without easy credit. he once ran for high office in a race to be a state governor in the u.s.

and american man who went to ukraine looking for love found anything and not homeless women money on means of contacting family back home. state takes up the story of a foreign adventure gone badly wrong. social services in western ukraine were very surprised at encountering this homeless man. he looked exactly like a typical local bomb and asked him what he was doing and he replied in english but no regular down and now it was he a homeless man turned out to be a us citizen kerry go lego scientist and politician last year he even ran for the governor's post in arizona but failed he came to ukraine on a scientific exchange mission which quickly merged into a wife and the lego got in touch with the ukrainian woman yulia we invited him over to check enough so you you'll use that she is definitely working looking for

a marriage partner got purdy's true the rest was like a bad dream it was and sure enough see that the lego learnt that all his credit cards were blocked after his cell phone and laptop chargers were stolen no money no connection with the outside world and most importantly no yuliya a long way from home and love the american slept rough at the train station until he was found by local social services very seriously ill and he's not in a while but that's a fantastic trip for was a very serious case of the money. the us embassy in kiev came to the lego's rescue and bought train and plane tickets to get him home after more than a week in western ukraine the troubled american arrived in kenya alone as yulia has snubbed him that she arrived you come to your who you did she actually we met she call me once i missed the call she called me. and said just received all of the

e-mail that i had said she said she's going to come by the next day on one cherish you know we showed up and i miss you know how was it for you psychologically your former candidate a senate candidate and now you find yourself in the middle. being basically holborn the train station. i was look what's happened to machine next prime minister will speak for her since you have daughters you know when i say that there is these kind of things happen to people even that one thought was really no one's here want to mean to them you know it's quite a journey when tom sawyer style adventure in ukraine has fallen in love with a country that will definitely retard next spring whether that's because it would be purely scientific or blixt with a personal history has not yet made up his mind. r.t. reporting from ukraine. an extraordinary story there from ukraine and there's more

from that country now website party dot com that other nuclear wasteland that all that's been attracting tourists from around the world is now officially closed to visitors some of them happy. and also one life a call to a country faces in legal challenges a terror suspect. files a lawsuit saying it was secret cia prison there. and i website dot com. a nato air strike on an army checkpoint with west pakistan has killed up to twenty five soldiers or the country's military officials is on about has now been locke's the alliance is

a vital supply lines into afghanistan in response well the instance threatens to put more pressure on relations between pakistan and the military alliance already strained by continued u.s. drone attacks. for more perspective on this that's not correct president. pakistan's biggest lobbying group the nationalists for thank you for joining us here on our team that we're not discard is reacting strongly to this by closing its critical supply routes for nato mission in afghanistan how do you think it's not a bad should handle this tragedy. it's really very ironic just a day earlier the general the u.s. general who commands the ice forces in afghanistan was in indy and he met the fact that i mean army chief and the meetings purpose was basically to improve coordination and communication on the border so it's really very ironic that in less than twenty four hours we had this kind of an attack and in fact it occurred i think just five or six hours after that meeting now the pakistanis have closed down

one of two major crossings on the border of course there are calls as we speak right now to close both the crossings on the border and i think that the pakistani military and the government are in a very difficult position just a year ago in fact in a cobra last year a similar incident led to the closing of the closure of one of the crossings but this time of course the ypocras townies would have to do something that would pacify i not just their public opinion but also these soldiers and the officers of the pakistani army the feelings against what the united states doing enough understand the way the pakistani interests are being in ignored there's a whole long list of grievances and this is just the latest one of them as sanctuary is that exist now on the other side of the border in afghanistan. where protecting of course terrorists who are anti pakistan who are conducting terrorist

acts and cite pakistan as suicide bombings and so forth so there's a whole long list of grievances and of course another irony here is the is that the united states claims and nato and certainly the cia claimed that they have equipment and they ensure that whatever targets. they choose in our tribal belt are very specific and very accurate but it's really very surprising that we have these repeated incidents occurring against our check post and i think it's a deliberate act. hundred. military as you know the infrastructure in pakistan is being rolled back quietly again gradually by the pakistani military and the latest action in this regard was the removal of. talks in washington d.c. a key aide president says and he's a daddy i'm referring to ambassador. ok ok we're going to disappear even though i

make it. just a moment clearly nato wouldn't have intended these deaths so given the volatility of the region should pakistan consider this as a tragic consequence of a violent region. i don't think we are in a position now to give nato that benefit of the doubt the question of intentions this action occurred two and a half kilometers inside pakistani border. have kilometers so almost one and half miles the i think i think it's not the first time and we've seen situations before where there is a very close links between the action and the question of punishment if you recall earlier this year the pakistani military released a cia agent mr raymond davis and just hours after his release a major cia drone attack killed up to fifteen tribesmen who were pro pocs done

military on the border area it was quite obvious that it was an act of punishment of course we understand that there are diverse viewpoints in washington d.c. there are people who are there american officials who are not actually happy with what the cia is doing in the border region it's something that the americans need to sort out but at the same time i don't think the pox on the military would be in a position to sustain the current policy of of giving nato and the u.s. military the benefit of the benefit of the doubt for for a long time you would you tell you about yes when did you talk about the pakistani military there and how far can take this though because it gets lots of cash from america for limited tree. as you know the cash should question is really order rated and exaggerated the entire military assistance of the united states to pakistan has been blocked and it's been blocked for or almost more than a year now as a matter of fact and pakistan is demanding

a renegotiation of whatever whatever agreements verbal agreements both countries entered into ten years ago there is no military assistance really coming yes there is something billion assistance coming and that is also some it's a whole different question i don't think we have time for that right now but the question of military assistance is overrated and pakistan is perfectly in a position really to to take up this matter at the highest level ok we have to leave it there for now from the nationalist form thank you very much for joining us how naughty. it's a holiday season in america with millions that continues themselves in the pleasures of a shopping spree for many it's a chance to hold on to a lifestyle that's quickly becoming a rarity thanks to the ongoing financial crisis tearing through the world's biggest economies but for others queuing has become a matter of survival as artists are among their expats. i lost my house my business and now i'm just kind of surviving it's difficult for lisa jones to plan

beyond tomorrow she struggles to make it through the day the mother of three worries about her oldest son but in the war in afghanistan and she's among the millions of americans who go hungry every day you see families you see the elderly you see pregnant women you see people with polio and see people were people have died well eager shoppers camped out in front of retail stores on black friday joan sleeps on the cold pavement waiting in a different line for a free turkey i used to be a dog groomer i used to have my own shop and now i deny it i'm in desperate straits so this is a godsend this is my first year here just embark on me join the army after losing his job in the financial industry he can see that even members of the armed services are fighting an economic battle at home. for the soldiers that.

keep. remember. most the purpose. of this year even the organizers of the give away needed a helping hand i probably never had to go on t.v. to ask for any donations of things like that but you know some parents brought me through to protest by sunrise the line grew as far as the eye could see this a microcosm of a hungry nation divided by the haves and have nots we haven't spent enough time on job creation all of this wesley about whether or not the bridge you got to pay their fair share is ridiculous the rich pay their fair share government figures show that los angeles is still the worst place in america when it comes to food insecurity and these long lines for a free trip to give away may be an indicator of that but throughout the name. and it remains a large problem with forty nine million americans struggling to feed themselves on

a daily basis sixteen million of those are children it's amazing actually just so many people in the same fifteen hours later in freezing temperatures in a rollercoaster of emotions jones can smile again knowing shell feed her family this holiday season it just brings out the rest of the rest of their. christmas is this is a guy. in los angeles. archie. so the global financial rollercoaster has made millions of people around the world tighten their belts ati's lower half of this task people in new york just how much of a hit the habits of taken. tis the season once again will this lousy economy affect your holidays this week let's

talk about that in a moment it's ok not so much effected. as to spend a lot of money for other european countries in the moment i guess so that's an effect i personally don't feel personally you can enjoy your holidays and shop in portugal is a lot of trouble there with the money do you think people will have less shopping and different holidays not at all to me i mean holidays i'm from brazil so the economies are helping me. how is it helping you to travel you know i'm from brazil is a developing country. personally i don't it hasn't affected me too much i'm a real budget or so has my income went down i just changed my budget so for me it hasn't been a huge problem is it just that the world is bad at budgeting i believe the world or america is very bad at budgeting you're not personally impacted.

with that africa. that flows really we can buy anything partment of something. happening some people are not affected i'm sure some people are affected and so the countries like we're from singapore i've got friends it's hard to find jobs and stuff like that but for us really not as effective as the ones that. are you scared that it's going to start affecting thing up or more. but until then your shop and it's. going to keep their you know their finances under control this year i know i am so do you feel like that's a good or bad thing. sometimes it could be. which has been in the past i think it may be it may work for the best people. you could give a little less and still have the same meaning to christmas i think. it's almost

like that's what got the economy into a bad place people spending money they didn't have right yet. whether we have the money or not whether or not your how it is will be effected by the economy this year the bottom line about how it isn't supposed to be about money so maybe cutting back this year will be a good thing. there's a couple of other world headlines for you now this hour german police have used water kind of. activists trying to stop the arrival of a train carrying processed nuclear waste from france police also removed campaigners staging a sit down protest on the tracks of the train crossing the border illegally is the first nuclear shipment to pass through germany since decided to shut down its sentence. and some amazing pictures from switzerland where jet.

flying display using a taser made. you just leapt from a helicopter performed a series of. yelps no less then joined two jet planes in a super nice flight. flying channel. around. but even higher than the jet nasa scientists who did set on discovering traces of life on mars the latest mission to the red planet is due to take off within hours preparing a huge array of high tech tools and crucial to its success is a cutting edge to fight the russian scientists. the people behind. a source of wild flights of imagination and of scientific speculation for centuries the red planet getting there has never been easy many missions have failed but

hopes are high for this new rover it's called curiosity and it's two on mars next year the science with war three on board ship on so many questions first and foremost if there's ever been life on the red planet or god. one of the greatest mysteries of mars is its surface a street with what looks like from rivers and streams with almost everyone agrees the mass was similar with rivers lakes and rains there was a theory that order evaporated together with the martian atmosphere we seem to have discovered it may have sunk inside the planet and the form of for us or. for this mission the russian scientists have created a unique device it'll point the rover to places where water might have accumulated whether it's in ice or encased in underground minerals as imagined in the blogosphere saif i totally recall. and here it is this ordinary case conceals the dynamic all be that of neutrons what simply friends.

it weighs no more to back to sugar and may not be much to look at but in fact it's an impressive piece of high tech hardware but the hard thing the magic is that this has been downscaled crumpets based on bore hole equipment used to find the one metre long neutral generator has been turned into a small light and compact one. this is the heart of the device this tiny chip produces neutrons capable of penetrating up to one meter a little the surface enough that was about the challenge was to accommodate a device on board a spacecraft and were not only limited in weight it also had to endure all the hardships of interplanetary flight. and now meet dan's second half the hydrogen detector which will act as the probes aqua never gator. throws me out of what.

the rover is like a small car and our devices placed on a bright headlights so the balsam neutral generator shoots newton is going to the ground griffey will be way under if liquid or frozen water is now and convincing measure without a director and the rogue comes fully loaded seven thousand high definition cameras aluminum wheels that can be stated independently and mount lasers uprise rock and a robotic arm to drill and scoop up samples among other instruments under the hood then you clear powered engine to give it a top call in speed of five centimeters per second with this also no one slow down device shows the right sponsor the lab will start its meticulous work and mankind will hold its breath for one of the most elusive on says in space exploration. r.t. moscow. indeed where up soon mark skies and stacy herbert look at how playing fast and loose on wall street has backfired on the bankers as are the headline short

sighted. wealthy british style. but i buy my book.