happening to the global economy cause a report on. this is our internet egypt's crossroads day one of the first post mubarak parliamentary election is drawing to a close as people vote against a backdrop of ongoing protests over the military rule we've got the latest for you tonight. plus pakistan permanently closes a vital u.s. military supply route to afghanistan after the deadly nato air raid that triggered nationwide anti american rallies russia's also condemned the strike and called for an investigation. on the kremlin's human rights party says russian lawyers and get magnitsky could have been beaten to death in custody two years ago while awaiting trial for tax evasion. also making their point by making

a saying we've got the story of the ukrainian woman who's topless protests against women's abuse at home and europe now is set to go global. hello it's ten pm monday night here in moscow this is r.t. live with me kevin though in our top story a gyptian 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 let's get the latest and cross to karachi's in the snow is there and they say good evening how has the first day of the voting passed coming amid this backdrop of violence that we've been seeing so much recently. kevin there's certainly tremendous excitement here in egypt as people go to the polls since the first time since the fall of hosni mubarak some of them

voting for the first time in their lives with that said there are serious concerns over the legitimacy of this vote firstly of course because of the security situation in light of that violence the clampdown in clashes that we saw just ahead of this vote and also because an announcement from the military had that the actual parliament will have limited powers and they won't actually be able to just solve any kind of cabinet but that said the muslim brotherhood is expected to make major gains in this part of the mentoring vote like you said it's only the first round but i want to get some more analysis and joining me now is often found these political analysts here in congo thanks for being with us thank you i first want to talk about the muslim brotherhood it seems at least the people we've spoken to they're very popular here there has to be said in some countries around the world they're considered to be affiliated with terrorists why do reduces like them so much why are they so popular ok there are among many reasons you can talk about

many maybe for reasons first here we're talking about a religious group and we all know that religious religion in this part of the world especially in egypt makes a lot to the egyptians second we're talking about an organization that has been in on earth for eighty three years since one nine hundred twenty eight and has been standing at that from several governments starting from the kingdom of egypt until now. you have to look about the members of this organization with the amount of dedication they give. to that group and by the education i mean that they donate a lot of money and a lot of time to their cause to fourth i believe is the amount of charity and development work that the muslim brotherhood does especially in the rural areas of egypt but let's go back to the the revolution talk here the people. it was all about being on the streets and fighting for the future of egypt as i understand the muslim brotherhood was the party that took the least steps let's say on the streets

they weren't really out on the streets with the people these last couple of months when you could say so because we haven't seen them joining in some major strikes in in egypt. and yes they haven't been there and if you are talking about this affecting their popularity i would say. yes but when it comes to voting power i think it's a bit different maybe the last you can say they lost the respect of a lot of the revolution. and what about claims that the muslim brotherhood has a very tight relationship with scout which of course is the supreme council of the armed forces who is in control of the party and a lot of people say really taking care of these elections making sure they go fairly and there's no fraud per se what i would say that there is a relation but i would say from my point of view that country muslim brotherhood fears the scaf more than. it's the other way or so because their history with the

with the army starting nine hundred fifty four when they clashed with the army they were dismissed as a group and they were sent to jail almost all of the members of but by that time so they are free to to repeat what has been going on and i think this they. what they provided to the military is that they want to cause a lot of problems on the ground so that's maybe the reason they haven't joined unless things the thing strikes that. was talking about things that affects them direct right thank you very much for joining us here live in cairo on this first day of the first round of the parliamentary elections on tuesday voting will continue so far it looks like turnout has been very successful a lot of people excited but still doubting like i said the legitimacy of the vote i spoke to the only female presidential candidate who told me that she believes that this vote will in fact be void and some people that we spoke to are going as far as

to boycott the vote. oh ok 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 sends this message to the supreme council of the armed forces or scaffold who took over after mubarak we are as. movement. we are watching you. monitoring the election just to connect their mistakes and their products 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 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 if the vote goes through the military will succeed in covering up the blood spilled. like to get into scores 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 now they're blind and a lot of them are did because of what happened who is 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 the heart is. slimmest mine also accused by some of wheeling and dealing with the military supreme council they are politician and the man who is from the one in that it when you hear this and this is not for that when you show me this all the power power that the people on talk rere 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 who was 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 that 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 top rere 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 now a party. no just like you know the gloves are off next hour and crosstalk as people of el grills 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 the previous speaker was talking about the lack of democracy that been an uprising in egypt and had been clamped down there was no democracy there and then 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. so as you said wolf a piece of the team just a bit later tonight syria is another country feeling that its decisions are being made from outside the use agreed to widen financial sanctions on the regime to further punish it for failing to end the violence and allow foreign observers in syria's repeated the claim that measures against it are only fueling the crisis the depressors artist has to receive the comment or what's the e.u. targeting this time. well this time of the e.u. was putting more pressure on the financial institutions in the syria more specifically they put a ban a long term financial support on trade with the exception of perhaps a few industries such as food and medicine they also put a ban on loans to the government both bilateral and through financial institutions such as the syrian national bank and eat you companies are now prohibited from

doing business especially with syrian state banks as well as investing in sectors such as energy and oil there's already an oil embargo on syria that has been imposed by the e.u. sometime in may now e.u. officials would maintain that all of this is to aimed at cutting off financial support to the syrian government and some analysts would even put in the analysis that it is also to cut off or corner businessmen the business elite in a damascus and aleppo to have the the biggest cities in syria where the business elites have for the for a large part been a sitting on the fence and some of them still supporting the assad regime and what the people themselves so the syrians the state t.v. in syria have been showing them going out into the streets by the thousands granted these are state backed protests but they are frustrated with the growing growing number of sanctions on the country because they are the ones who are feeling the pinch just an example i was there with the r.t. crew about a month ago and it was almost impossible to find it was impossible to actually five

of eighty you have to get some money and everything was done in cash and when you lost the locals why is the case they simply say because there are sanctions in our company so we have a day more financial sanctions while it may cripple the economy it may corner the government and business leaders it will also definitely impact the people despite what you say nonetheless damascus still appears at the moment being defiant. certainly they are because that from the very beginning they have maintained that all of this you bring from the outside i mean this is the perspective of the government and in this the e.u. sanctions are in addition to the arab league sanctions which is the toughest sanctions by the arab league to work towards an arab country and they think that this is a betrayal they feel that an economic war has been waged on the country and that they maintain that by doing so it's simply exacerbated the situation is just encouraging those who are involved in what the government sees the terror as terrorists and those who are part of an opposition that is growing peacefully militarized the government thinks that all these sanctions would just encourage

them and those who are opposed to a putting sanctions on the assad government and one of the arguments put forth this if this is really intended to come up with a solution to the crisis why is it only focus on one side when both sides first of all are both increasingly armed both capable of violence and so by putting pressure on the one side it encourages another side again that question has been raised over and over by those who have been against putting sanctions as a solution to the crisis thanks for bringing us up to date on the perspective from brussels appreciated now an even bigger blow for syria may be just around the corner as u.s. suppressors and barack obama hosts e.u. leaders in washington concerns over iran's nuclear program are also on the table with a european oil the likely response but syria and iran and all the only topics discussed in washington as both america and the e.u. struggle to contain the economic troubles the most urgent of course europe's debt epidemic at the center of which lies athens and in about fifteen minutes tonight we

speak to greek m.p.c. most says there's no telling what tomorrow holds for the embattled you write. with 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 even though the borders closed tomorrow the country like greece doesn't produce we don't know. greeks need so it's the first time since world war two that greece can't feed its people and the country like greece where everything can grow i think it's a crime. pakistan's intensifying its rage against nato it's now permanently closing the alliances key military supply route for its troops in afghanistan the already strained relationship was sent to the freefall of the u.s.'s strike targeted a no place in twenty. years russia has condemned nature's actions and called for

a thorough investigation of the tragedy the instant triggered massive rallies throughout the country elevating anti american sentiment to new levels this comes as a new nato strategy came to light paying taliban fighters one hundred fifty dollars a month to stop them fighting journalist field research this show is so desperate the alliance is now to. the point about afghanistan and you know there was a very unflattering colonial statement about the afghans that you can't buy an afghan but you can rent him in other words that you can you know gain loyalty for a short term but after the money runs out you know their loyalties we 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 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. exactly sixty minutes past ten moscow time you're watching r.t. and still ahead the adventures of ukrainian feminists and europe. we meet the scandalous activists who believe revealing their bodies will expose the sins of politicians also. governments and companies around the world are preparing for a possible disintegration of the hero business bulletin we examine why a double dip recession in the eurozone now seems all but inevitable. but next a russian lawyer who died in custody may have been killed because of police torture the presidential human rights council has been looking into the high profile two thousand and nine death of some good magnitsky he was being held on tax evasion charges on this night of marti's peter all of it peter on what grounds is the

council basing its suggestion for the presidential cuban rights council is demanding that new evidence into the death of sodium magnitsky be looked into by those investigating his death now these new documents that have come to life suggest that it was the illegal use of rubber batons by staff at the detention center where its key was awaiting trial for corruption charges that led to his death they suggesting that a number of stuff from the detention center seats so game with rubber soled says they called this which led to his death now before he died so give magnitsky had called his arrest as a retaliation for testimony which he had given which come damned high level law enforcement offices here in russia for full financial impropriety though so far

as the investigations continue to doctors have been charged with negligence regarding the death of so you might mitigate that investigation it is called tin ewing but the the case itself has drawn a lot of attention. for human rights groups backed by its case family who say that the thirty seven year old lawyer from the hermitage capital was denied medical attention on purpose and not led to his death now the united states weighed in they came up with a so-called black list of those that they want to see that they claim are responsible for the death of. now this was slammed by russia's foreign ministry said the united states had no place whatsoever in interfering in the investigation which is ongoing they said that russian prosecutors wanted to speak to anybody in this case if new evidence came up relating to any new people in this case that they wanted to talk to the russian prosecutors would speak to them directly and that

they didn't need foreign governments telling them who they should be talking to parties correspondent peter all of the things bring yourself with what you know with them bring us up to date with the latest pre-shared well these what he wanted of course on lot of r.t. dot com let's see what we've got a line few tonight and show a crowd encourage story boy yesterday good pictures he had to britain's prince william rescues two russian sailors after the ship sank in stormy seas off north wales there was some tragedy involved there as well and find out more online also while you can poke fun at the monarchy in thailand where a facebook can get jailed some of that story and to r.t. don't come from. undressed and unafraid a series of provocative protests against the abuse of women's rights have been raising eyebrows across europe and now is alexey and jeff ski found out these ukrainian activists of the site said on new arises to.

on a chilly morning in kiev half 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 the very. same ladies were in rome voicing their support to the anti berlusconi protest even though it we had staged a lot of protests against berlusconi and his sexual adventures here and here and we are really happy his political career has finished this inhibition interrupted the last couple somebody who came to the ten 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 ukrainian 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. woman 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 brawler 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 you are twenty twelve tournament exposing flaws in ukraine's politics now they're looking even further afield the dealing with. went through the classic famine is no longer works it is 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. while we see how

well you are 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 injustice towards women especially in the muslim states that's where we want to develop we are even ready to go to iran or any other islamic state to stage our topless protests knowing all risks of getting tale for us. they started out as a few enthusiastic computers now they are told this broadcast 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. ski r.t. because you from kiev ukraine. and also around the world tonight in brief police

arrested four people ordering. protesters to leave the downtown intersection he says hundreds gathered in the street after a deadline to vacate state. water bottles were hold in place officers who are clearing the area which city leaders say is for public health reasons the activists had been learning resistance tactics to including how to deal with rubber bullets and pepper spray. the suicide bombers rammed a car packed with explosives into a prison entry gate north of baghdad it killed at least nineteen the blast also left twenty four others wounded no group yet response sponsibility for that attack it is the third major assault in iraq in 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 checkpoint last week similar clashes left dozens injured on both sides serbs in kosovo been blocking the road since july when cars

were authorities trying to take control of checkpoints is a ban on serbian goods. unilaterally proclaimed independence back in two thousand and eight but belgrade doesn't recognize the breakaway move. in just over a quarter of an hour a big decision for david packard should he stay or should we go will cain scott the latest on. the pond in the sports news let's get across the mountain i business know right now with kareen. thank you kevin hello and welcome to our business update a double dip recession in the eurozone now seems all but inevitable the organization for economic cooperation and development warns that the glock 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 the o.e.c.d. is understating how bad it could get clothing 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 is saying for the euro area as a whole next year it's only going to grow by north point two percent so it's a very very weak growth but it's worth pointing out that central falls the best guess if you like want of a better phrase that 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 right. now the former head of the european bank for reconstruction and development zajac atherley predicts 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 american coughs get nor capital believes that all firms in russia would need government help

to survive if the euro were to fall. 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 of the. word. third stage russian companies. from third world will be shown for tax and duties or will be you know to pull them to preserve positive trade you margins so we made the government we would have to make a huge sessions to rational companies in order for them to survive. but have a look at the markets now or climes us thanksgiving we tell sales advance to record in the united states futures jumped to as much as one hundred dollars seventy four

cents after u.s. consumers spent fifty two point four billion dollars during a hearty where we can light sweet is currently trading at over ninety seven dollars per barrel while brand is that nearly one hundred eight dollars about a strong start to the u.s. shopping season is lifting u.s. stocks higher as well stocks move higher as europe maps a plan to leverage original rescue funds and they're also lifted by those holiday retail sales with financial stocks paring earlier sessions gains also the government reported that sales of new single family homes rose one point two percent in october to the only rate of three hundred seven dollars. and europe traded hires well on monday marking the biggest rebound since october banks which have been among the biggest acquired throughout the crisis were among the biggest gainers that's after a variety of reports indicated that the region's leaders are making progress in pressing debt crisis. here in russia markets close in the black r.t.s.

and over four percent higher from isaac close likely on the four percent. and the black let's take a look at some individual channels on my six energy majors on the rise supported by stronger crude cross they have gained five and a half percent banking stocks were no exception woods bear by finishing up over six percent and carmakers zola's also gains on news of its joint venture with taps. that's all for this hour join me in about forty five minutes with some more news here on this.

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