egypt's crossroads voters lining up to cast their ballots in the first post new guards are booked parliamentary election against a backdrop of protests against the military and warnings of further violence. president obama meets e.u. leaders to discuss syria and iran with experts predicting further isolation of the country's ultimately aiming at regime change. and making their point by making a scene the ukrainian women whose topless protests against women's abuse at home and in europe set to go global.

four pm in moscow i mattress are good to have you with us here on r t our top story egyptians are voting in the first step of a long parliamentary election which will happen in stages up until march is follows a week of violence that returned to cities with more than forty people killed in protests against the military regime for more on this we go live to cairo in artie's and he said no way standing by with more so and so how are the polls going despite the violence that we've been seeing. but this is just the first round of these parliamentary elections in fact you don't actually have a parliament set up if the vote is considered valid until march sometime and then the presidential elections only happening in twenty thirteen with that said the atmosphere is tense it's very festive at the same time a lot of people voting for the first time in their lives from young to old release there is excitement. about this this vote some people see it as the first step in

egypt's road to so-called democracy but no people have forgotten what we saw unfold here over the past couple of weeks the very vicious clampdown and clashes that we saw and calls for the military rule to resign just ahead of elections what is concerning people with these votes despite long lines that we're seeing voter turnout so far looks to be very positive people really getting out there trying to have their voices heard for what's concerning the people first stop of course is the security situation just this morning we saw a blast this is something that has happened several times since the revolution part of a pipeline that carries gas from egypt to israel so the security situation very tense although it has to be said that so far there have been no kind of. unsecure situations throughout the day so far another concern of course is the legitimacy of the vote and people here say that scaf is very much in control that in fact some

people that we've spoken to are either going to boycott the vote or going to vote to make sure they highlight what they see as fraud during this first holes. where. 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 due to from want but since this is a message to the supreme council of the armed forces or scout took over after mubarak we are as. movement. we are rooting you. money during the election just to connect the mistakes and the prague we had and all good no waiting for democracy others are planning to boycott the ballot minya. chester 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 if 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 got 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 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 who is strong that they want me that it would use indians and this not for that he would use this all the power power that the people on to our career have been fighting for on the streets to where you square people would love to have a strong presentation in the parliament. so i urge everybody of those who is 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 party is on the ballot don't resent the people. and even more so with

their revolution one of the most common things you hear on top three year is that the people running the country are no different from mubarak and they're thought to be very much running this vote reporting from cairo and he's there now a party. the gloves are off later today and cross talk as host peter lavelle grills his guests over the western role in the arab spring take a look. we saw a year ago almost now 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 border with gaza is controlled by the west and by israel to create this who is talking about the lack of democracy that been an uprising in egypt and have been clamped down there was no democracy there and these developments are part of the process and i believe that it is an inexorable

process in which ultimately the arab peoples will achieve the democracy that they aspire to everyone should have the right to democracy except for the palestinians and the people of bahrain ok because these are national security issues of the united states of america. syria is another country that are feeling about the decisions being made from outside it's now suffering more pressure and isolation after the arab league imposed economic sanctions measures include freezing freezing assets cutting off investment projects to punish the government for failing to end the violence and or allow international observers in damascus lambasted the league's unprecedented move as a betrayal saying it encourages arming anti-government forces acting in the country some arab experts think the sanctions are likely to hit average syrians to discredit the to the discredit of the arab group. it's going to make the situation

much worse definitely for the government for the syrian people part particularly so how can we look to the arab league with any kind of credibility or legitimacy how can we claim that they are speaking on behalf of the arab people rather it becomes evident that they are speaking on behalf of western interest again if we look at qatar and we look at saudi arabia and we see the positions that they have taken and with whom they are most. aligned we see their alliances are quite close with the united states and they seem to be mouth pieces from the for the united states which again for anyone who has studied the arab league none of this is surprising the arab league was constructed officially to protect the our poor old you would think one of its most basic that it would do would be to protect the arab countries like instead of asians they each of these arab countries have promised to support and defend any arab country that has been invaded and yet when lebanon was consistently invaded by israel not one our country came to its protection so again what is this our ability to get so it's another farce it's another joke about that was imposed

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levels this is a new nato strategy has come to light paying taliban fighters one hundred fifty dollars a month to stop them from fighting author and author and reporter phil aris though says this shows how desperate the situation has become for the alliance. the point about afghanistan and you know there was a very unflattering colonial statement about the afghans that. you can buy an afghan but you can rent him in other words that you can you know gain loyalty for a short but after the money runs out you know their loyalties will return to where they were before and i think the afghans are very well trained as it were taking from both hands so as a strategy you know i think this is going to fail and what's going to stop taliban members simply taking their money and going back home and i you know i think it's a it's a desperate measure and i think it's a sign of the failure of the whole afghan episode and the

fact that the taliban are probably going to return as the most powerful political force once the west is gone. as we've reported damascus has been hit by fresh sanctions from the arab league but there's another blow awaiting the country is the u.s. president barack obama host e.u. leaders in washington to thrash out additional measures against syria concerns over iran's nuclear program also on the table with european an oil band a likely response. to reports on why the two countries are caught in the crosshairs . 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 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 rain 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 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. syria and iran won't be the only topics discussed in washington as both the u.s. and e.u. struggle to contain their respective economic troubles the most urgent is europe's debt epidemic at the center of which lies athens speaking with our. greek m.p.c.

go blue says there is no telling what tomorrow holds for the embattled union full interview coming your way in about fifteen minutes here's a preview. of the fearful tomorrow we do know what's coming next and that i believe that the whole of europe doesn't know what's coming next we will move toward those closed tomorrow. greece doesn't produce we the media the greeks need so it's the first time since world war two that greece come to feed its people in the country like greece where everything can grow i think it's a crime. undressed and unafraid a series of provocative protests against the abuse of women's rights have been raising eyebrows across europe as r.t. is alexei these ukrainian activists have their sights set on new horizons. oh yes. on a chilly morning in kiev hoff 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 up to the next couple somebody who came to tell an 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 boat.

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 a protest 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 for book ornaments exposing flaws in ukraine's politics now they're looking even further afield the dealing with in your could be worse what they were understood the classic famine is no longer works it is if you excuse me impotent but it would do. the desired effect that's why not only ukraine needs us but europe as well who are planning to take over the world. while we see how well you were received in europe remember your

colorful actions in ukraine where are you planning to expand now but those are what he did and you received lots of letters telling us to continue fighting against religious unjust us towards you in the us 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 i've given tale for us to think that they started out as a few enthusiastic campaigners now they're told to scroll 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 still they say they've got a lot of demons to fight at home. alexi russia altie because you from kiev in ukraine. find all the latest world news when you want to that your fingertips are t

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a prison entry gate north of baghdad killing at least nineteen people the blast also left twenty two others wounded no group immediately admitted the attack which is the third major assault in iraq in a week. a train load of nuclear waste has reached its destination in northern germany hundreds of protesters made a last ditch attempt to stop the train were turning the radioactive material from reprocessing into friends with some chaining chaining themselves to the tracks activists say the containers and storage facility are not safe delivery delivery was heavily policed and led to some thirteen hundred arrests. environmental activists in peru take a stand against us big business coming up in the next hour we find how far major corporations are willing to go to protect their bottom line here's a creek here's a peek. magine hanson it's the phone watches you every single mom. and waiting for you to stumble.

i saw a man with a video camera so i moved over and he followed me so. you know we realized they were following everyone from early in the morning. the only chance to get rid of him. is to reveal him. the devil operation on r g. a little more than fifteen minutes the tributes to the wales football manager after his shocking death kate has more news on that in sports but first career joins us with the latest business update.

thank you matt hello and welcome to our business up at this hour cold war era trade barriers against russia may finally be lifted as a choice the world trade organization the u.s. ambassador to moscow says congress could abolish the vatican madman's next year for the details. the jackson vatican itself is an old amendment that would say restrict things right privileges to countries that had limits of human rights never gracious no it's a full agreement this council every year with russia anyway but there are now concerns that american businesses could suffer losses was russia joins the world trade organization that that's because this amendment is inconsistent with the rules and so there are certainly concerns now that american businesses won't receive all the benefits that they gave. to other nations what's russia joins the trade board a u.s. ambassador has said today. it's a relic of the cold war era having it repealed has been

a long time public battle there is not likely to happen by the end of this year is . a priority getting it repeals for the u.s. and twenty twelve. a financial tidal wave threatening to europe many economists are now predicting a severe recession on the continent in two thousand and twelve as government significantly cut spending this could be of great benefit to gold prices from u.b.s. says the average price for the metal will reach two thousand and seventy five dollars per ounce next year gold reflects emotions so it's fear about the current climate and fear about what lies ahead you know there's there's a mistrust of governments governments in europe and you know the debt management for many of the european nations there's a moose are huge word safehaven are since the one 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 times when 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 gold you know one hundred hundred fifty dollars or. the former head of the european bank for reconstruction and development predicts that the euro may not survive until christmas governments and companies around the world are preparing for what could happen if the county disintegrates. nor capital believes what 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 this stage number two there will encounter the anger from the government then obviously there will be a clash of the. word. russian companies.

some sort of alleviation of tax duties or will be in order for them to preserve positive trade you margins so we're made in the government who would have to make huge sessions to rational companies in order for them to survive. has been a leap frog and russia's all market has tank a b.p. has become the second largest oil producer in the country company produce half a percent more crude during the first time months of the year than look or i'll say local has been concentrating more on foreign operations than domestic expansion. and that brings us to the markets commodities first oil prices are heading up on a strong start to the holiday shopping season in the u.s. light sweet is currently trading at ninety nine and a half dollars a barrel and brant is that over one hundred and eight dollars per barrel european stock markets push higher on monday banks are in the lead up to media reports

pointed to leaders making progress in addressing the eurozone debt crisis we can report said eurozone officials had agreed on a way to leverage the european financial stability facility rescue funds and france and germany are also studying ways to deepen fiscal integration. russia's markets shoot up on monday as well let's take a look at some individual shambles on the my xix energy majors are on the rise supported by stronger crude is gaining over nearly four percent banking stocks are no exception with. over burbank up over four and a half percent and carmakers dollars is also off on news of its joint venture with japan's. found more in that mother's joining the list of international car makers to localize production in russia starting from next year the japanese company aims to only produce over thirty thousand cars at solar plant and the country's far east mazda is reportedly investing around eighty million dollars in

the project seoul is already has production agreements with number of international companies including. italy's. that's all for now i'll be back in forty five minutes with more here on this except.

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