it. takes. they're watching art see why from cairo where exemptions go to the polls for the first time since the fall of hosni mubarak and the questions over the legitimacy of the joining me and he's now wait for more details in other news. america many e.u. diplomats converge on washington to draw up a roadmap for the world's future by their respective was still basking in libyan success similar plans for syria under run. baring their anger to the world a group of ukrainian women make a show across europe with a series of naked protests against the abuse of women's rights.

and online twenty four hours a day you're watching r t monday sees egypt taking a first step of a long parliamentary election which will last in stages until march that's as the country struggles to shake itself free from nationwide unrest against the military regime for a firsthand report from the capital cairo that's. no way it's a huge day for the country how's it going. well as egyptians had to the polls for the first time since the fall of hosni mubarak there are several concerns that i want to break down for you first of all this is just the first round of parliamentary elections and it's not even the whole country going to the polls it's broken up by cities so we're only going to see some nine cities or so across egypt actually go and cast their ballot second of course it's the security and the in

stable situation in the country we saw a vicious vicious clampdown in clashes just ahead of these elections just this morning early part of apply pipeline was blown up that carries gas from egypt israel's there are very serious concerns about security as a jewish friends had to the polls but also about the legitimacy of this vote of course after mubarak left power scour for the supreme council of the armed forces took over and some announcements from the head of the military just before this vote are very concerning one of course is that the parliament that is elected will have limited powers they won't be able to actually dismiss any kind of cabinet and we're also hearing that they won't actually be the committee that that that sets up this presidential election that is meant to happen now we're hearing some time in twenty eight thirteen with that said the people that i've had a chance to speak to are excited about the vote but many of them are being distant courage by the fact that a lot of people think that even if they do go to the polls it won't really affect

this road to democracy or so-called democracy that egyptians on the streets have been fighting for in fact some of them say they will go to the polls only to point out and highlight the fraud that is expected and some of them will boycott the poll altogether. some adoptions are bracing for the worst medics are lined up and security is tight for egypt's first parliamentary election since the revolution the country's only female candidate for the presidency expects the vote to be void future from but since this summer. ssage to the supreme council of the armed forces or scout took over after mubarak we are as. movement. we are watching you. monitoring the election just to connect the mistakes and their products we had and our own good no waiting for them all chris others are planning to boycott the

ballot minya a protester at occupy cabinet says they are encouraging people not to vote trying to do with trying to pull the people to come zone here so we would be a lot of people and nobody would vote and then they would know that these votes and this elections is not correct it's wrong how could you ask us to vote for a parliament which which you are building under you were a. scout for. the violent crackdown that swept over egypt just before elections seems to be pulling focus from the long awaited dream of democracy minya says of the vote goes through the military will succeed in covering up the blood spilled. like to give in to scores or something like for the people the kills i got shot in my i like here but of course it's not that big of deal like other people go and now they are blind and a lot of them are did because of what happened was going to say when you were wrong

the party likely to win a staunch number of seats is the muslim brotherhood considered a terrorist affiliated organization in some countries appears a very popular here in egypt known for tight organization and a hard islamist line also accused by some of wheeling and dealing with the military supreme council they are politicians and they mean or who is wrong that they want me that it will use indians and this not for that when you send this all the power power. that the people on talk rere have been fighting for on the streets to how you square people would love to have a strong presentation in the parliament. so i urge everybody it was who was going to miss the election please don't do that but what egypt wants and what egypt gets has so far proven to be two very different results. many egyptians feel the

political parties that are on the ballot don't actually represent the people and even more so their revolution in fact a lot of what you hear on tough fear is that the people running the country are not very different than mubarak and it's thought that they're very much running this election. now and he said no way thanks for that. and coming up later today the gloves are off in crosstalk people of value groups his guests over the role of western foreign policy in the arab spring you can see the food program tonight at eight thirty am g.m.t. but here's a taste. we saw a year ago almost now that the turmoil in egypt which is now returning no democracy there obviously the americans or the west are waiting for a western friendly government to be imposed and this of course sucks up to the israeli situation so that the the border with gaza is controlled by the west

and by israel so there's lots of problems and even the small country of kuwait has got a very hidden agenda there which we're not actually seeing in the media yet and of course the whole thing in syria we've got another potential libya coming up here and plans for it already in the arab countries to impose a no fly zone over syria where is this going to stop i should probably point out that this idea of a wide arab spring is a bit of an exaggeration considering even in bahrain or in any of the situations in which several. segments of the society have risen up and demanded some kind of civil rights. to. syria is

also feeling the heat as damascus now finds itself battered by a slew of new sanctions from the arab league it's seen as punishment for the country's failure to accept thousands of foreign observers past with reporting on the government's actions the sanctions are intended to completely isolate syria that is guided armed conflict between pro and anti government forces because of the suspension of flights to the country a blockade of its central bank and an end to all trade of the state the sheer breadth of the sanctions is drawing criticism the concern that ordinary people are suffering the most as a result of the arab league has lost its off mauritius the voice of their own people according to numerous real university by them and then it. the arab league is basically digging its own coffin here and it is publicly declaring that it has no more legitimacy in the our world so it is no longer speaking for the arab people are representing are of interest in any way whatsoever and when we look at the credibility of these countries i mean that if you want to take one example when we

had mass protest and beheading protests that the government of the day and responded with brutality against protest in which the people were asking for democracy and reform as is their legitimate right the g.c.c. countries did not ask for sanctions against the bahamian government for the suppression but rather they introduced their own armed forces into a hurricane and supported the repression so when you have these very calm trees hear themselves condemning repression committed by another arab country they like any credibility to call for that so again what is this arab league it's not it's another farce it's another joke about that was imposed upon the arab world by the former colonialist that were here for the hire of the maybe the least of damascus is worries as representatives of the u.s. and europe gather in washington to discuss a much harsher solution and a joint summit later today that to our allies will be targeting syria and iran the whole nobody's calling for regime change in one country and a preemptive strike on the other side he's going to teach a kind of ports the goals are often seen as far from democratic.

splitting the spoils of war in the middle east and north africa the u.s. and europe are meeting in washington searching for new ways to forty five their global position now with syria and iran on their plate here at the white house european leaders together with the u.s. president might be trying to turn political tensions around syria and iran into economic gain after all the decision on whether or not to meddle in a foreign country's affairs is never entirely selfless looking at the ranch for example a country with vast natural resources it's not hard to see the benefits in such a venture iran is the world's third largest oil exporter its seconding gas reserves the u.s. is not getting any of the rainy and oil europe on the other hand accounts for a significant part of iran's crude exports a year has severe energy problems there are a huge net importer of better europe has recently stopped buying oil from syria it

might stop buying crude from iran as well if the e.u. decides to impose an oil ban on iran but analysts say it's not full long that the west would want to deprive themselves of middle eastern oil that would mean more oil more gas lower price of oil lower price of gas more steady supply. how to make it happen typically what we'd like to do is make the population so you cannot make the measurable that they will seek to change the regime and the second way is to isolate the country from its neighbors to the point where you can safely without too many complications go in and simply attack iran and destroy the regime through destroying the country synch. the u.s. and the e.u. are trying to press the rands biggest trade partner china to do less business with tehran the u.s. is now calling on pakistan to stop building

a gas pipeline with iran isolation seems to be the strategy regime change the end game the benefits could be enormous get a check on our team washington d.c. . but syria and iran weren't the only themes dominating the summit in washington as both america and the e.u. struggle to contain their respective economic crises the most urgent is europe's debt epidemic the center of which lies athens and speaking to r.t. greek n.p.c. mosquito group says there's no telling what tomorrow holds for the embattled union . fear for tomorrow we don't know what's coming next and i believe that the whole of europe doesn't know what's coming next now everybody realizes that it's not just the greek problem it's a european problem it's the whole system that we have made up of the european union isn't working and this creates the problems that we see today we believe that the

germans must change their position they must realize it's for their roles good also you know german economy without the european clients is not going to do very well. catch more of mr kennedy of his thoughts on what went wrong and it's put interview in about twenty minutes time. also coming up with a program of warming up the arctic. we're convinced that this is something that our country and even the entire human race really need . pressure from rubber bands to venture into the cold sit on bands of daring project to build a town in the far north. and they could woman in a city's central square is bound to attract attention which is exactly what one protest group is hoping for

a series of extravagant demonstrations against the abuse of women's rights i mean joining our eyes across europe as vecsey our ski found out these ukrainian activists have their sights set on your horizons. oh yes. on a chilly morning in key of health naked women in racing outfits drink champagne and chant slogans this is how the feminine movement celebrated the resignation of silvio berlusconi several days prior to that that very same ladies were in rome voicing their support to the anti berlusconi protest even do it until he had staged a lot of protests against berlusconi and his sexual adventures here and here and they are really happy his political career has finished and it's an embarrassment to update the landscape with somebody who came to the terran embassy not only to celebrate but the say that he needs to go on trial for his sexual crimes. for more than a week the cranium topless protesters had been making themselves heard across europe

on a dedicated road trip to draw attention to the sexual exploitation of women in room one of their activists made a revealing protest against injustice towards women in the catholic church in the vatican right in front of the pope. was before that they hit paris storming former i.m.f. banker dominique strauss kahn his residence. and women from italy came to us in switzerland and said we know that you're coming to rome and will be staging protests again berlusconi and the pope thank you they said for sharing our problems there while draw free rallies in ukraine have been making international headlines for several years now from protesting against the alarming rate of prostitution especially with the upcoming who are twenty twelve tournament to exposing flaws in

ukraine's politics now they're looking even further afield the dealing with the now could be worse what they went through the classic famine is no longer works it is if you excuse me impotent but it would do by. it's the desire to fact that's why not only ukraine needs us but europe as well who are planning to take over the world and actually distort what we see how well you are receiving in europe remember your colorful actions in ukraine where are you planning to expand now. we receive lots of letters telling us to continue fighting against religious injustice towards women especially in the muslim states that's where we want to develop it even ready to go to iran or any other islamic state to stage our topless protests but knowing all risks given tail for us. they started out as a few enthusiastic campaigners now they're told to scrawl just messages going global. in ukraine alone they have tens of thousands of supporters the

family network has been set up in europe and now stretches as far as the united states still they say they've got a lot of demons to fight at home. because you from kiev in ukraine. you can discover the ins and outs of. knowledge is being used because of our website article also online role rescue prince william tries his best to save the lives of the groove a sinking russian cargo ship. to safety five are still missing the boat was overcome by treacherous waters i've seen. plenty of rough as a rocket to mars the country's scientists once again looking for the red planet that i started dot com.

in south asserts here the election commission claims the former education minister . has won the presidential elections with a margin of sixteen percent she took more than fifty five percent of the votes if he's going to be rival minister of emergencies or torrent below his party says the vote was rigged accusation that calls the supreme court to halt the declaration of the final results until tomorrow is the region's first presidential election since russia recognize the sector as member pendent state two thousand and eight by georgia. so the international headlines in brief for you now. controversial treatment of nuclear waste has arrived at its final destination in northern germany despite a vast three day protest that ended in intense clashes forty's and you could activists through fireworks stones and paint police responded with

a group to try and tear gas thirteen hundred arrests had been reported since the demonstrations began on friday you claim this true remains extremely unpopular in germany one of the many countries affected are disastrous fall out of the twenty six germany catastrophe. at least three people have been killed and twenty seven injured after a powerful blast rocked the city hotel in the southern philippines the strength of the explosion was so immense that most of the second floor collapsed on the roof was blown off most of the victims were staying in the hotel for a wedding celebration was to take place on monday. christian has been troubled by an islamic insurgency for decades. flooding in eastern australia has cut off around two thousand people claiming their minds and really no way over the weekend heavy rain lashed several towns in the state of new south wales implements buildings at least two towns have been completely isolated emergency relief has

been flown to the area but it's expected that many people could be stranded for up to a week. now russia is developing technologies to boldly go where no city has gone before it's part and vicious project from the arctic settlement sheltered from the extreme elements dumbarton explores the well of architecture on ice. frozen wilderness building site a russian architect has come up with a plan to populate the far north he thinks his ice town can be built big and built . a new core convinced that this is something that our country and even the entire human race really need it may not happen overnight but people or vengefully move to the north. others are so short i think it may be carrying a settlement a dream and dreams are very often healthy. it is very ambitious and it probably very costly. as it's architect valarie regime ski calls it will rise from the

ice on an uninhabited island off russia's north coast he intends it to house five thousand people under a huge dome containing parks swimming pools and even a church it will host main oil and gas engine is. the word these people provide the entire country with a huge budget funds therefore they deserve to live in proper conditions so we're providing them with comfortable living conditions practically like five star hotels . it's estimated the arctic could hold a third of the world's undiscovered gas and thirteen percent of its oil as the soviet union ended so did many of the mining and mineral projects it had in the arctic but in two thousand and seven the russian explorer after chilling got out of planted the flag on the seabed under the north pole and with international competition increasing for gold in the cold russia is turning back north. some

mines had to be shut down and many settlements were abandoned therefore today we have to do some reconstruction it's all and gas companies that will played a major role here with an estimated cost of five to seven billion dollars the larry wants to get oil companies interested in investing but to see what they'd be getting into i decided to go and look for myself sort of. this plan seems ambitious some would say wildly so it's no secret it's part of a territory grab up here in the frozen north but we'll have to wait a long time to find out whether we'll see an arctic blast you know up here or just a very cold damp squid. r.t. . well it's possible to come this hour bring you the results from the latest round of the russian premier league in our sports bulletin in about twenty five minutes time right now though it's the business news and to make.

banks carry a financial tidal wave is frightening to swamp europe many economists are now predicting a severe recession on the continent and twenty twelve as government significantly cut spending however this could be of great benefit to gold prices or they'll tell you from u.b.s. says the average price for the precious metal may reach two thousand and seventy five dollars per ounce next year. gold reflects emotions fear bad current climate and fear about what lies ahead in this there's a mistrust of governments governments in europe and you know the debt management for many of the european nations there's a move certainly each would save haven acid but what we saw in two thousand and eleven was a very volatile year for gold and for other assets we continue to see that expect that again fifty thousand and twelve so at some time gold is approaching those record highs that people need to be perhaps a little bit more proactive and be prepared to take profits with

a view to coming back in again and buying goals you know one hundred hundred fifty dollars lower. for maybe a d. had a shock utterly predicts the euro may not survive until the upcoming christmas governments and companies around the world are preparing for what could happen if the single currency doesn't a great many members and north capital believes all firms in russia would be government help to survive the year award. strive to survive by hiking the domestic raids at the pump stations obviously after the station number two there will encounter the anger from the government then. there will be a clash the raids will be word. for station russian companies. some sort of alleviation of tax and dues for all will be in order for them

to preserve positive trade in margins so we're made in the government who would have to make huge sessions to rational companies in order for them to survive. by let's move to the markets and start with commodities oil prices are strong our this is on a strong start to our holiday shopping season in the u.s. light sweet is up almost two dollars this hour brant is just below one hundred eight dollars per barrel. stocks now asian shares are high as investors reacted to reports of europeans national measures to get a grip on the region's debt crisis that includes news that the i.m.f. may provide financial support of up to six hundred billion euros to get sleep which saw its government borne use surge again on friday banks and commodity firms are some of the top again is no more holdings is up two point three percent at the close in japan so we don't matter who says four percent higher on strong prices.

this is the opening picture for european markets stocks also pushed higher with their investors driven by hopes that the european leaders could be moving towards fresh solutions to the crisis in the region we can of course said euro zone officials are agreed on a way to leverage the european financial stability facility rescue fund and fund to germany also studying ways to deepen fiscal integration. in russia the markets also shot up in the first minutes of trading in one monday overly will be able to show you those figures there they are the out years up almost two percent there myself not far behind one point eight percent in the black secular what's moving the my six if we can because energy majors are on the rise are supported by strong crude rosenau two percent banking stocks also showing strong performance going to be able to send carmakers solace is also up on news of its joint venture

with japan's master will look at that in just a second. as one leapfrog in russia's world market is to k.v. has become the second largest oil producer in the country the company made harder percent more crude during the first nine months of the year the new quarter which long held the position till now however the twist was not a surprise for analysts as new call paid more attention to its foreign operations lately. mass is becoming yet another international car giant to localise production in russia it's agreed to establish a joint venture with car makers sol is here in the country starting from next year the japanese company aims to only produce over thirty thousand cars of the russian plant in the country's far east earlier there was reported to invest around eighty million dollars into this project so the first international corporation for russia seoul is though that provides its production capacity used to a number of foreign companies which include ssang yong and feel that. the headlines

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