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a classic safe haven and tell business that see it could reach twenty one hundred dollars. next year the business of the. world news and comment twenty four hours a day this is out of egypt has begun the first step of a parliamentary election process due to the last into march while the current leadership says the ballot symbolizes an end to the country's recent up evil sentiment on the streets is quite the opposite parties and he brings the latest from the capital. 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 clamp down 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 jew actions had to the polls but also about the legitimacy of this vote of course after mubarak left power was down 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 the twenty third to balance that 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 the 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. but since this message to the supreme council of the armed forces or scout who took a. over after mubarak there we are as. movement. we are watching you we. are monitoring the election just to

connect the mistakes and there frogs we had an hour long no waiting for democracy others are planning to boycott the ballot minya a protester at occupy cabinet says they are encouraging people not to vote trying to do we're trying to call 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 in the scouts. 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 get into sports or something like for the people the kills i got shot in my yard like here but of course it's not that big of deal like other people go and now

they're 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 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're a man who was wrong that they wanted that he would use indians and this not for that he would use some of this all the power power that the people on to our career have been fighting for on the streets. people would love to have strong representation in the problem and. so i urge everybody who was it was going to miss the election please don't do that but what egypt wants and what egypt gets 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 here 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. and he says that to help you keep abreast of all the to the minute developments in egypt with the stream well it's just tweet says men and women are divided in the lines to vote in elections and women the have their own polling stations this is what it is on the screen. coming up later today the gloves are off in crosstalk people about grills his guests the role of western foreign policy in the arab spring and see the food program at thirty eight g.m.t. but i hesitate to. 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 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. well syria is also feeling the heat as damascus now finds itself battered by a slew of new sanctions from the arab league is seen as punishment for the country's failure to accept thousands of foreign observers past with reporting on the government's actions with sanctions are intended to completely isolate syria which is mired in an armed conflict between pro and anti-government forces. in the suspension of flights to the country a blockade of its central bank and an end to all trade with the state the sheer breadth of the sanctions is going to prison and cern ordinary people end up suffering the most as a result the arab league has lost its offer or it is the voice of the arab people according to dr. this to the root. 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 by hurricane protests that the government of the day and responded we threw toiletry 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 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 summit it's another farce it's another joke about that was imposed upon the arab world by the former colonialists that we're here. for the arab the maybe the least of damascus

as worries as representatives of the u.s. and europe gather in washington to discuss a much harsher solution the joint summit later today the two eyes will be targeting syria and iran but the hawk calling for regime change in one country and a preemptive strike on the other that's on he's going to take on reports 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 fortify 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 rand for example a country with bass natural resources it's not hard to see the benefits in such

a venture iran is the world's third largest oil exporter it's seconding gas reserves the u.s. is not getting any of the rain and oil in 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 the rand 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 singe. the u.s. and the e.u. are trying to press iran's 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 most urgent is europe's debt epidemic the center of which lies at ins and speaking to r.t. greek m.p.c. most of chemical gloom says there's no telling what tomorrow holds for the embattled union. very fearful 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 own good also you know german economy without the european clients is not going to do very well. catch more of mr kerry called his thoughts on what went wrong in his full interview next hour here not in. and they care that 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 have

been drawing eyes across europe and it's next in our ski found out these ukrainian activists have their sights set on new 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 we had staged a lot of protests against berlusconi and his sexual adventures here in kiev and they are really happy his political career has finished and it's an embarrassment to up to the next couple somebody who came to the terran embassy not only to celebrate but to 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 they are wild brawl 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 book tournament to exposing flaws in ukraine's politics now they're looking even further afield if the

when dealing with the now could be worse what they were understood the classic famine is no longer works it is if you excuse me impotent but what we do by. it's the desired effect 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 but those are. really going to 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 we are even ready to go to iran or any other islamic state to stage our topless protests but knowing all risks if given tail for us. they started out as a few enthusiastic campaigners now they're told lispro just messages go read 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

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position. has won the presidential elections with a margin of sixteen percent she took more than fifty five percent of the votes. she's more than enough to beat her rival minister emergencies i told him below his party says the vote was rigged with an accusation that caused the supreme court to hold the ration of foreigners out until tomorrow mr hitchens first presidential election since russia recognized. as an independent state in two thousand and eight defining war. it's more international stories in brief for you this hour. controversial shipments for your waste has arrived at its final destination in northern germany despite a vast three day protest and intense clashes were forty's. activists threw fireworks stones and painted police responded with water cannon tear gas thirteen hundred arrests have been reported since of them astray she began on friday nuclear industry remains extremely unpopular in germany and in many countries affected have

disastrous fallout in ninety six chernobyl catastrophe. at least three people have been killed and twenty seven injured after a powerful blast rocked the city hotel the southern philippines the strength of the explosion a sentimentalist go to the second floor collapsed a roof was blown off the victims were staying in a hotel for a wedding celebration was to take place on monday city's population predominantly christian troubled by an islamic insurgency for decades. from flooding in eastern australia has cut off around two thousand people claimed the life of a three year old boy every weekend heavy rain lashed several towns in the state of new south wales swamping roads and buildings these two towns of the isolated emergency relief has been flown to the area but it's expected that many people could be stranded for up to week. check out of business news with them each.

thanks gary hello you with business r.t. it's good to have you company a financial tidal wave is frightening to swamp europe and many economists are now predicting a severe recession on the continent and twenty twelve government significant cut spending however this could be of great benefit to gold prices. from u.b.s. says the average price for the precious metal will reach two thousand 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 movie certain each word safehaven acid and 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 for two thousand and twelve so at some time gold is approaching those

record highs that people need to be perhaps a little bit more proactive be prepared to take profits with a view to coming back in again and buying goals you know one hundred hundred fifty dollars lower the former head of the european bank for reconstruction and development. predicts the euro may not survive until christmas governments and companies around the world are preparing for what could happen if the currency does integrates let the metals on course ski from north capital believes oil firms in russia would need government help to survive if the euro were to fall. strive to survive by hiking the domestic rates 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 rates will be all the word the third stage russian companies will be some sort of alleviation of tax duties for the

in order for them to preserve positive trade your margins so we're made in the government who would have to make huge sessions to rational companies in order for them to survive. and there's been leapfrogging mushers oil market as team k.b.p.s. become the second largest oil producer in the country produce half a percent more crude during the first nine months of the year than nuku oil and the same lukoil has been concentrating more on foreign operations than domestic expansion. which brings us nicely to the markets oil prices are heading up band they've gained another dollar per barrel just over the past hour this is on a strong start to the holiday shopping season in the u.s. flights we discount the trading at almost one hundred dollars per barrel brant is at almost one hundred nine. european stock markets are pushing higher on monday

with investors are driven by hopes that european leaders could be moving toward fresh solutions to the crisis in your region we can people said euro zone officials had agreed on the way to leverage the european financial stability facility rescue and that france and germany were also studying ways to deepen fiscal integration. and russia's markets also shot up at the opening of trade here in moscow the r.t.s. is up more than three percent of my sex almost. that that value let's take a look at some individual share moves on the my sex energy majors on the rise of water by crude prices rose kept up three point six percent banking stocks in line with the global trend bt be up more than three percent and carmakers saw this is also up on news of its joint venture with japan's mazda more on that mazda is joining the list of international car makers to localise production in russia has

agreed to establish a joint venture with saudis as we just said starting from next year the japanese company aims to annually produce over thirty thousand cars it's always found in the countries far east masses of most of the investing around eighty million dollars in the project was already has production agreements with a number of international companies including saying yong and see it. all right we will be back in around fifty five minutes time with more business news or you can check out our website r.t. dot com forward slash business for all the other stories.

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