from around russia we've got the future covered. egypt's crossroads day one of the first post mubarak parliamentary election is drawing to a close as people vote against the backdrop of. protests so. we got the latest for you tonight. 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. also the kremlin civil rights party says russian lawyers and give magnitsky could have been people to death in custody two years ago while he waited trial for tax evasion. and making their point by making a scene the ukrainian women used topless protest against women's abuse and how that

in europe is set to go global. hello this is r t it's eleven pm monday night here in moscow my name's kevin though in our top story for you then gyptian za voting in the first step of a long parliamentary election which will happen in stages until march that follows a week of violence which returned to the cities with over forty people killed in protests against the military regime. has got the latest from cairo. 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 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. 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 if you took her on but sent this message to supreme council of armed forces or staff took over after mubarak we are as.

movement. we are rooting you. money during the election just to connect the mistakes and the crowd we had and all growing 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 with 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. the 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 take them to courts 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 more 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 a hard islamist line also accused by some of wheeling and dealing with the military supreme council they are politicians and they mean the always from that they won in that it will use indians and this not for that evolution this fall in the power of power that the people on to our career have been fighting for on the streets to

his 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 their revolution one of the most common things you hear on top here 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. to further discuss the start of the parliamentary election in egypt let's go to washington studio now lawrence freeman is the chief of the african section of a weekly news magazine called executive intelligence review mr freeman good evening to day one of the election almost within and no incidents of violence reported so far contrary to many forecasts we had before to think the rest of the voting is set

to go as smoothly as today. well i don't think anyone really knows if that's going to be the case i think we all are very happy today. that there was no violence but the the course of elections that's been set out between now and march and leading to a constitution and leading into president through elections in two thousand and thirteen . is very difficult and it's going to be very complicated and not the least of which by factors outside of egypt where you have very severe collapse of the transatlantic economic system of europe the united states there's been no economic aid for egypt to develop economy and i think this is something that's going to worsen the situation over the course of the next few weeks and months and internally indications are that the islamists most of the muslim brotherhood party is saying they're confident of securing a majority of votes is it

a done deal. well certainly the the muslim brotherhood was the most prepared they've been active in the power to egypt for a long period of time. so they are the most prepared they are the best organizer you know they're also getting support from some of the operations in saudi arabia probably and there's other operations being run into in egypt and then of course you have on the other hand you have the united states which has played a very nasty role in the entire region. the president obama and susan rice lead for regime change in libya they're complaining about human rights now in egypt and therefore their intervention has been harmful and the west has done nothing to really help the people of egypt over the last ten months since they started this revolution i want to stay if i could with the. muslim brotherhood i

just want to ask you to get your expert opinion on how it's going to affect things if they do have a majority at the end of the day when these elections are counted everything is done and dusted i mean how does that correlate with the revolutions demands at the start of this for democracy i have an islamist group considered terrorists or some countries is in control at the end of the day. well i think that that certainly it's a major complicating question because which you had in january when we took place in tunisia where you had a real uprising of the people young people in new twenty's and thirty's and forty's who want a future who want to be able to deliver the material standard of living to themselves and their children and they rebelled against the policies of more bar coups basically carrying out the policies of the the i.m.f. and the west and they're not going to accept the fact that the muslim brotherhood is now going to be in control of the situation nor are they going to accept the

fact that the military is going to be in control the situation because it's a real of it's a real revolution in people's minds and hearts has started and i don't think it's going to be suppressed. after the revolution the initial jubilation turned into frustration as we've witnessed back on tahrir square do you believe this election is going to be convincing enough at the end the day for egyptians to finally close this chapter on the transition period are you hopeful. i don't think the chapter is going to be closed quickly i think as i mentioned earlier there has to be some powell see considerations it's not a lections do not make a democracy that's my view all over africa you need to have the people involved in a very clear discussion of the future of the country what kind of economic policies are we going to have water food energy these are vital questions for egypt and in and leaders of the country no matter what party they come from have to begin to engage in

a dialogue of the scrushy and the future of egypt and elections i'm not the solution by themselves unless we get a change in the environment and that's why i said that the west is playing a harmful role unless we get a change in the environment where the people of egypt see their future getting better and they see progress then there is more hope and it could be more stability in the elections in the future you know i mean mr louche the leader of our group has been advocating for decades the economic development of egypt particularly water power energy and food production and this is been one of the reasons that course the revolution in the first place back in engender thanks for your thoughtful approach are much appreciated as not lawrence freeman chief of the african section of the executive intelligence review magazine over live from washington. no the gloves are off and crosstalk this people of el grills his guests over the western role in the arab spring. toward

a year ago almost to 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 steering winds and the people of bahrain ok because these are national security issues of the united states of america.

is another country feeling with its decisions being made from outside the e.u. has agreed to widen financial sanctions on the regime to further punish it for failing to end the violence and allow foreign observers in syria has repeatedly claimed that measures against it are only feeling the crisis. has got the latest from brussels. but 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 e.u. 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. some time in may now e.u. officials would maintain that all of this is to aimed at cutting off financial support to at the syrian government but 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 eighty you have to get some money and everything was done in cash and when you ask the locals why is the case they simply say because there are sanctions in our companies 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 increasingly 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 increasing the armed force capable of violence and so by putting pressure on one side it encourages another side of course volunteers for syria the house has been hearing a view from neighboring jordan the start of the sanctions will have no effect on syria just a tool for western maneuvers in the region. these sanctions are meaningless actually i think they're meaningless and on every level on the level on the economic level and on the security lap and it will not stop the violence western powers particularly the united states now to use these sanctions on iran to use the decisions of the arab league for their own purposes to put pressure on syria to put pressure not for the syrian regime to stop the killing as they put it you know they what they want is to weaken the syrian regime and to weaken the alliance between syria iran and lebanon i don't think that they they. as

so much for for syrian blood in libya more than one hundred thousand people were killed by nato bombings and the country was devastated the nobody said any word so i can't actually believe that they're now searching about three thousand syrians when they are not actually what about more than one hundred thousand libyans it has nothing to do with stopping the violence on the contrary they're feeding the violence. an even bigger blow for syria may be just around the corner too as u.s. president barack obama hosts the e.u. leaders in washington concerns over iran's nuclear program also on the table with a european oil ban the likely response there but syria and iran are not the only topics discussed in washington as both america and the struggling to contain their economic troubles the most urgent of course europe's debt epidemic at the center which lies athens now next out talk more about that are to speak to greek m.p. seymour skating called blue says there's no telling what tomorrow may hold for the

embattled you. who are 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 even move the ball those closed tomorrow to come to like greece doesn't produce where we need to meet the greeks need so it's the first time since world war two that greece current feed its people in 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 alliance's key military supply route for its troops in afghanistan the already strained relationship was sent into freefall after a u.s. airstrike targeted a known only base killing twenty four pakistani soldiers russians contend nato is actually simple for a thorough investigation into the tragedy innocent triggered massive rallies throughout the country elevating anti american sentiment to new levels it comes as

a new nato strategy came to light taliban fighters one hundred fifty dollars a month to stop the fighting journalist phil riggs says this shows how desperate. 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 gained 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. without see the adventures of ukrainian feminists. well we beat the scandals like this who believe revealing their bodies will expose the signals of politicians plus. governments and companies around the world up with caring for a possible disintegration of the euro in our business bulletin we examine why 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 so gay magnitsky who is being held on tax evasion charges at is peter oliver has more on their findings. well the presidential human 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 buttons by stuff at the detention center get my kids he was awaiting trial for corruption charges that led to his death they suggesting that a number of stuff from the detention center he said to my kids he we rather the told his they called this which led to his death now before he died so to get magnitsky had called his arrest as a retaliation for testimony which he had given which condemned high level law enforcement offices here in russia for for financial impropriety no so far as the investigations continue two doctors have been charged with negligence regarding the death toll so you might need to keep that investigation it is continuing but the the case itself has drawn

a lot of attention from human rights groups but by my gets his family who say that the thirty seven year old lawyer from 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 all responsible for the death of so to get by now this was slammed by russia's foreign ministry who said the united states had no place whatsoever in interfering in a investigation which is ongoing they said that if 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 them directly and that they didn't need foreign governments telling them who they should be talking to pedro for a correspondent there world news. what you wanted also online from us is what are called few stories there tonight might be interested if you've got them already yes they've reported about this one and coverage britain's prince william rescues two

russian sailors after the ship sank in stormy seas of north wales dramatic pictures the sadly there was tragedy to the details online also why you can't poke fun of the monarchy in thailand where a facebook joy getting a fat jail term want to know more about the place. undressed and unafraid a series of provocative protests against the abuse of women's rights have been raising eyebrows across europe and now for r.t. found these ukrainian activists who got this site set on new horizons to. oh yes. 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 do it i mean 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 terran embassy not only to celebrate but the say that he needs to go on trial for his sexual crimes. for more than a week the cranium topless protesters had been making themselves heard across europe on a dedicated road trip to draw attention to the sexual exploitation of women in room one of their activists made a revealing protest against injustice towards women in the catholic church in the vatican right in front of the pope. was before that they hit paris storming former i.m.f. banker dominique strauss kahn his residence. i mean women from italy came to us in

switzerland and said we know that you're coming to rome and will be staging protests again berlusconi and the pope thank you they said for sharing our problems there while draw free rallies in ukraine have been making international headlines for several years now from protesting against the alarming rate of prostitution especially with the upcoming you are twenty twelve tournament exposing flaws in ukraine's politics now they're looking even further afield those of them would do it within your could you were understood the classic famine is no longer works it is if you excuse me impotent but what we do by. the desire to fact that's why not only ukraine needs but europe as well who are planning to take over the world and that's. 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. really good we 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 if given tale for us. they started out as a few enthusiastic campaigners now all their talk was broad just messages go we 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 r.t. reporting from kiev ukraine. will be following their progress to not just out of ten minutes time devise a programs continue people about cross talk as if the world is taking too selective an approach right now to the arab uprisings more than shortly after we've come across like his business tonight with kareen.

good evening here in moscow 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 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. 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 forecast 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 very very weak growth but it's worth pointing out that 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. the former head of the european bank for reconstruction and development is jacques at a leap predicts that the euro may not survive until christmas governments and companies around the world are preparing for what could happen if the cards it is adequate and. capital believes all firms that russia would need government help to survive if the euro were to fall. we 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 with the. word the third stage russian company used. some

sort of alleviation for tax and dues. 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. look at the markets now u.s. stocks are higher after a strong start to the u.s. shopping season the financial stocks are paring early sessions gains and government reported sales of new single family homes rose one point three percent in october to his yearly rate we haven't and seven thousand you have traded higher as well marking the biggest rebound since october banks which have been among the biggest decliners throughout the for crisis were among the biggest gainers on monday that's after friday every forte's indicated that the region's leaders are making progress in addressing the eurozone debt crisis and here in russia equity markets close in

the black the r.t.s. and over four percent higher my six close like the other four percent also in the black now let's take a look at the individual shambles on the rise x. energy majors were on the rise supported by stronger crude have gained five and a half percent banking stocks were no exception verifying finished up over six percent and carmakers sollars also gaining use of its joint venture with japan's lost that's all from me of the business team here in r t will be back tomorrow with more financial news from russia and around the world.

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