egypt's crossroads voters queue to cast their ballots in the first post mubarak parliamentary election against a backdrop of protests over 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 countries ultimately aiming at regime change. and making their point by making a scene the ukrainian woman whose topless protest against women's abuse at home and in europe is set to go global.

hello you're watching r t live from moscow it's a here monday night here my name is kevin oh enough top story for you egyptians are voting in the first step of a long parliamentary election which will happen in stages until march it follows a week of violence which returned to the cities with over forty people killed in protests against the military regime and he said this it has the latest from cairo . 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 but what's concerning the people first off 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 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. 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 for on but send this message to the supreme council of the armed forces or scaffold took over after mubarak we are as. movement. we are rooting you we. are monitoring the election just to connect the. mistakes and then there are frogs we had and our own good 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 if the vote goes through the military will succeed in covering up the blood spilled who's gonna. like take them to court or something like for the people the kills i got shot of my i 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 mean the or who is wrong that they

want me that it will 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 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 want. egypt gets so far proven to be two very different results many egyptians feel the political parties on the ballot don't resent the people and even more so their revolution one of the most common things you hear on throughout the year is that the people running the country are no different from mubarak and their part to be very much running this vote reporting from cairo and he's there now a party where the gloves are off later crosstalk you might want to know as people of these guests over the western role in the arab spring. we saw

a year ago almost 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 to create this because talking about the lack of democracy that been prizing in egypt and have been clamped down there was no democracy there i mean 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 power studios and the people of bahrain ok because these are national security issues of the united states of america. want to.

pick the two bit later meantime syria's another country feeling that it's to citizens are being made from outside it says the newly imposed arab league sanctions amount to a declaration of economic war the measures include freezing us off investment projects to punish the government for failing to end the violence and allow international observers in damascus lambasted the league's unprecedented move as a betrayal saying it encourages armed anti-government forces acting in the country some arab experts believe the sanctions are likely to hit average syrians to the discredit of the league they say. it's going to make the situation much worse definitely for the syrian 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 closely aligned we see their alliances are quite close with

the united states and they seem to be mouthpieces from before 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 against invasions 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 league gets and it's another farce it's another joke about that was imposed upon the arab world by the former colonialist that we're here so to run in most respects we really are wrong this is our to you still to comb through the adventures of ukrainian feminists in europe. we need the scandals activists who believe revealing their bodies will expose the sins of politicians. governments and companies around the world are preparing for

a possible disintegration of the euro business border we examine why a double dip recession in the eurozone now seems or whatever. there's a war of words between pakistan rages on islam about announced that the recent closure of nato supply routes to afghanistan by its territory will be permanent the already strained relationship was thrown into chaos after a u.s. airstrike targeted a known army base killing twenty four soldiers close to the pakistan border we have seen triggered massive rallies throughout the country elevating anti-american sentiment to the. it comes as a new nato strategy came to light paying taliban soldiers and fighters one hundred fifty dollars a month to stop the fighting reporter and author field reece says this shows how desperate the lions has become. the point about afghanistan and you know there was a very unflattering colonial statement about the afghans that you can't buy enough but you could rent him in other words that you can you know moral to for

a short term 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 you know i think it's a desperate measure and i think it's a sign of the failure of the whole africa. 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 for sanctions from the arab league and there's another blow away from the country's u.s. president barack obama hosts e.u. leaders in washington to thrash out additional measures against syria concerns over iran's nuclear program also on the table with the european or the likely response is going to she can report from why the two countries are caught in the cross is.

leading 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 appears is never entirely selfless looking at the rand. 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 it's 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 a rant but analysts say it's not full long that the west would want to deprive themselves of me to lease an oil that would mean more oil more gas a lower price of oil lower price of gas more steady supply. how to make it happen typically what they would 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. but syria and iran will be the only topics discussed in washington as both america and the e.u. struggle to contain their economic troubles the most urgent is europe stead epidemic at the center of which lies arsons in about fifteen minutes tonight r.t. speaks to greek m.p. symbols kedikoglou says there's no telling what tomorrow holds for the embattled union. fearful tomorrow we do know what's coming next and believe that the whole of europe doesn't know what's coming next we will move the ball those closed tomorrow to local greece doesn't produce we mean the greeks need so it's the first time since world war two that greece called to feed its people in the country like greece where everything can grow i think it's

a crime. russia's presidential human rights council says police torture could have led to the death of a russian lawyer who was imprisoned at the time members of the council insisted the prosecution looks into the new evidence magnitsky who worked for a foreign investment firm and was arrested on accusations of corruption in two thousand and nine he died in a pretrial detention facility several months later his family and colleagues claim he was deliberately denied medical help to prison doctors have been charged with negligence during the ongoing investigation instant reverberated through human rights groups and prompted the u.s. to blacklist a number of russian citizens of a thinker linked to the case russia criticized the move responded with similar measures for u.s. officials. well news when he wanted r.t. . what we got online for you today you might be interested in crown courage britain's prince william rescues two russian sailors after the ship sank in stormy

seas off north wales got pictures there for you also online tonight why you can't poke fun of the monarchy in thailand where a facebook could get you a fun jail term if you like that story had to walk to the. next undressed and unafraid a series of provocative protesters against the abuse of women's rights have been raising eyebrows across europe and now as a jet ski finds out these ukrainian activists of the site settled. on a chilly morning in kiev health naked women in racing outfits drink champagne and chant slogans this is how the feminist 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 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. before that they hit paris storming former i.m.f. banker dominique strauss kahn his residence. i mean no one from italy came to us in switzerland and said we know that you're coming to rome and will be staging a protest against 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 tournament to exposing flaws in ukraine's politics now they're looking even further afield if the when dealing with your could be worse or they were understood the classic term is no longer works if you excuse me impotent but what we do brings the desired effect that's why not only ukraine needs us but europe as well who are planning to take over the world and that you distort what 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. received lots of letters telling us to continue fighting against religious and justice 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 to think that they started out as a few enthusiastic campaigners now they're talking this protest messages go really 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 let's see russia ski altie because you from kiev ukraine. getting the message across and bring observers world news in brief police have arrested four people after ordering occupy los angeles protesters to leave downtown intersection the rest came as hundreds gathered in the street after a deadline passed to vacate city hall park water bowl. pools were held in offices as they began clearing the area a steady supply of public health reasons to say the activists had been learning resistance tactics including how to deal with rubber bullets from pepper spray. or

suicide bombers rammed a car packed with explosives into a prison entry gate north of baghdad is killed at least nineteen the blast also left twenty four others wounded no groups yet admitted the attack which is the third major assault in iraq in just a week. fresh clashes took place in northern kosovo where locals resisted nato forces attempts to dismantle serb barricades barriers were put up to oppose an alliance takeover of border checkpoints last week similar clashes left dozens injured on both sides so the cost of blocking the road since july when cost of authority has tried to take control of checkpoints to impose a ban on serbian goods because of the unilaterally proclaimed independence in two thousand and eight but both bray doesn't recognize the breakaway move. just a quarter of an hour tonight the tributes to the wales football manager after his shock death more in the sports news first though before that occur in a city with the latest monday night business update for you.

hello and welcome to our business update is our thanks for joining a double dip recession in the euro zone now seems all but inevitable the organization of economic cooperation and development was that the bloc will see a sharp contraction in the fourth quarter and will continue to shrink in two thousand and twelve nick parsons from national australia bank believes that the o.e.c.d. is understating how bad it could get. quoting the worst fears the coming true those worst fears could be substantially worse than what the o.e.c.d. actually announced today you're right to point out that it's revised down substantially its growth forecasts it's saying for the euro area as a whole next year it's only going to grow by point two percent so it's a very very weak growth but it's worth pointing out the central focus best guess if you like want of a better phrase central forecast is not the midpoint of

a range there is a chance that things could turn out a bit better than expected but there's also a very great chance that they could turn out a whole lot worse to use the jargon of the economics profession as an asymmetry downside skew so it could actually get a lot worse and they're even saying that. and former head of the european bank for reconstruction and development. predict that the euro may not survive until christmas governments and companies around the world are preparing for what could happen if the currency disintegrates but the. north capital believes that all firms in russia would need government help to survive if the euro were to fall. we 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 of the. word. russian companies. some sort of alleviation of tax and duties for the all 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 a russian oil company in order for them to survive. let's have a look at the markets now commodities first oil is heading up on a stronger start to the holiday shopping season in the u.s. light sweet is trading at over ninety nine dollars per barrel while brand is that over one hundred nine dollars a barrel u.s. stocks open higher as europe maps a plan to leverage original rescue found the dow jones rocketed nearly three hundred points in early going every stock following fifteen again the new york stock exchange here's europe that's trading higher as well in evening session

marking the biggest rebound since october banks which have been among the biggest decline as throughout the crisis are among the biggest gainers on monday that's after a righty of reports indicated that the region's leaders are making progress in addressing the eurozone debt crisis shows of i n g a certain nine point eight percent and b. and p. perry jumped ten percent and russia's markets closed in the black on monday the r.t.s. and it over four percent higher was its close likely under four percent of the black let's take a look at some individual share moves on my six energy majors or on the rise supported by stronger crude rossley have has gained five and a half percent banking stocks were no exception was. bank finishing up over six percent and carmakers dollars was up on news of its joint venture with japan's master eager pro higher from talk a dollar grabs the day's trade. watched the markets opened the shop in the morning after kind of rumors that will be given the i.m.f.

will give you a credit of about six hundred billion dollars this is not confirmed but again this is sentiment driven market so when shopping up we saw some profit taking in the morning but then again bars and on average warms we're about six sorry about five percent up in some spots. more of the japanese company joy is joining the list of international carmakers to localize production in russia starting from next year mas there will only produce over thirty thousand cars at sollers plant in the country's far east. reportedly investing around eighty million dollars in the project so there's already has production agreements with a number of international companies including korea's ssang yong and at least fiat's. now there's been a leap frogging russia's all market is tanking b.p. has become the second largest oil producer in the country the company produced half

a percent more crude during the first nine months of the year than look oil analysts say look or has been considered concentrating more on foreign operations than domestic expansion. and cold war era trade barriers against russia may finally be lifted as it joins the w t o the us ambassador in moscow says congress could abolish the jackson vatican medal next year artie's sour for a healthy. the jackson vandyke amendment itself is an old amendment that was a mistake to take trade privileges to countries that had limits of human rights never gratian though it's a full agreement this concert every year with russia anyway but there are now concerns that american businesses could suffer losses was russia joins the world trade organization love that's because this amendment is inconsistent with the w t o rules and so there has certainly concerns now that american businesses won't receive all the benefits that they gave me a print up to other nations was russia joins the trade board a though say a u.s.

ambassador has said today the amendment's a relic of the cold war era having it were killed has been a long time coming a battle there is unlikely to happen by the end of this year is certainly going to be a priority getting it repeals for the u.s. and twenty twelve well that's our update for this hour join me in about fifteen minutes for more here on business r.t. .

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