a record turnout in egypt's first parliamentary elections in decades which comes after days of violence against protesters which claimed more than. half their say in the future of the country but many in the code to mandate the military rulers step down immediately i mean he's now in cairo with more details. russia says the unrest in syria is mainly being provoked by an armed opposition. even more he says the syrian regime of human rights violations. and the east in control use financial ministers are set to meet the spiralling debt crisis china's influence on the common is is growing fast. difficult times in europe

but experts told business russia is much better equipped to have standards three years ago find out more and it's. international news and comment twenty four hours a day this is r.t. a record number of egyptians have cast their votes in the country's first parliamentary elections since the ousting of president mubarak preliminary results are expected later this week but despite the turnout the voting was boycotted by many demanding the military rulers step down immediately he comes after ten days of bloody clashes with security forces which claimed more than forty lives and this annoying reports now from cairo. it really seems like a gypsy is are split into two camps and very simply outlined how they feel about

this election and you have the group that is flat out boycotting this vote because they say the military rulers are still very much in charge it's them who came up with this system of voting they will essentially be the top people monitoring these votes and then you have the camp of people who don't agree of course with the military rulers especially in light of that crackdown that we saw just ahead of this vote but they feel like if they don't come out to have their say that they would be essentially giving up giving up the months that protests are spent on talk we're square trying to bring change to egypt so really a split of opinion a lot of people are voting here for the first time in their lives and it almost seems as if they're not really thinking so much about whether this will be a ballot election what the results will be for them what's important is that this vote is taking place there have been some minor violations the most common that we heard work candidates coming up to actual polling stations in campaigning we heard of some minor i don't think you can even call them clashes but fights that happened

at polling stations with people understanding that this was wrong that this is this was a flat out violation we also heard of some parties actually setting up booths if you will with laptops trying to help voters because what we're hearing is that the system that was created is quite complicated in a lot of people came to the polling station and didn't actually understand how it all works it's only the first round of this parliamentary election in fact the parliament won't go into session until sometime in march also not even the whole country is voting in this first round it selected by districts in cities so a lot more of the country has has their say and with the situation with these military rulers in power and you think in change here at any moment and egyptians are very aware of that. when hosni mubarak may no longer be a part of egypt's politics but his regime still haunts the country during the election middle east expert dr ahmed says the outcome will be pivotal as the state moves forward. barak is gone but the regime still the just

explained the demonstration of. the satisfaction continue the supreme council of the forces there are very wary of elections happening now because they see a alliance that is taking shape between the muslim brotherhood some remnants of the old regime and the supreme council of the armed forces and they're very worried that the results of the election would be a victory for this coalition and that would mean that the revolution would be hijacked. they can watch the full interview with more insights into the situation in egypt in syria in just over an hour's time an r.t. . russia says the unrest in syria is mainly being provoked by an armed opposition that according to foreign minister sergei lavrov also said it's time to stop dealing in ultimatums and get back to peace talks are his words come

despite a u.n. investigation which found that syrian forces committed crimes against humanity and a tightening of sanctions by the e.u. parties it has just been to syria has more. 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. 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 but the people themselves so the syrians a 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 a role it was impossible to actually five eighty have to get some money and everything was done in cash and when you ask the locals why is the case they said we say because there are sanctions on 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 increasingly capable of violence and so by putting pressure on one side it encourages another side against the end of the day more financial sanctions while it may cripple the economy it may corner the govern. net and business leaders it will also definitely impact people. for political analyst after his sham garcia believes that he was unconcerned about the civilian population in syria and that sanctions are designed solely to remove president assad's government these sanctions are meaningless actually i think they're meaningless and on every level on the level on the economic and on the security lap and it will not stop the violence western powers particularly the united states now to use these sanctions 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 know what they want to weaken the syrian regime and to weaken the alliance between

syria iran and lebanon i don't think they they. so much for for syrian blood in libya more than one hundred thousand people were killed by nato bombings and the country was devastated that nobody said anyone so i can't actually believe that they're now searching about three thousand syrians when they are not actually what it about more than one hundred thousand libyans it has nothing to do with stopping the violence on the contrary they're feeding the bodies we can't expect the syrian government and the syrian army to end the violence if the other if the gangs do not stop atrocities against the syrian armed forces. well also ahead for you this hour on r.t. spying secrets and scandal woman who's accused of working for a russian intelligence order to gain information politician awaits her fate u.k.

court. while western economies are struggling it's the east that's been seeing rapid financial growth china's presence in europe can now be felt more than ever because beijing has been making strategic investments although it's too cautious about buying the continent's debt parties itself reports now on china's growing influence in the e.u. . and the fashion capital of the world where you can be sure to sponsor an emerging trend right now is the economy here this being getting a make a for with the west seeking east an inspiration concept is silly and you're going to want to sell but forget the italian business model with its focus on some fine and expensive production business here is saying this competition from its chinese counterparts with their emphasis on fast. some of the high streets here in the chinese influence isn't hard to start with you are struggling for countries like

china and a better time to snap up a bug in search is the acquisition this year of the well known italian fashion brands risi by a chinese luxury clothing retailer for the interest of the china. very store so. i suppose the. opportunity. to catch the west struggles it's been the emerging grapes the brics that is brazil russia india china and south africa that if impairing ahead this is really kind of a moment where you might look back and say this is a chance where emerging markets finally got their opportunity to become much bigger players and much bigger powers around the world take a look at the g.d.p. growth to china and italy well if this least that meeting economy has resulted in a great slump china in comparison has been full steam ahead emerging as

a major manufacturing base but was chinese business is approving strong competition china is being cautious when it comes to buying up your debts the investment for be told to more to the valuable. help me industries you start arriving all blonde check is chinese investments in western companies and infrastructure grows so you to just china's control and influence across the entire european economy with the chinese trade and investment delegation g. to visit europe next year further investment seem extremely likely. that they would call a big. could be very. you know a bit of it. financial crises as the crisis continues

to readjust the tsunami aid is on the global stage emerging economies such as china looks set to remain firmly in the spotlight surf city. all of our news coverage and much more is available for you on line it's not a web site party dot com but what's waiting for you there right now more than five thousand people were detained by police during a massive protest in germany. hence the storage of nuclear waste on home soil read about to watch the footage on time dot com also online. the us government reportedly ordered julian assange on to destroy all material wiki leaks homes on them and to stop using government insiders to gather fresh information and. a previously unknown work by russian painter big soft catches record breaking one point seven million dollars at the christie's auction.

a london court is due to decide the fate of a russian woman facing deportation of claims she was working as a spy while her magically linked to a british politician twenty six year old cat is a tuna vetter is accused of attempting to collect sensitive information including details of a top secret nato paper cuts across large parts of london to get the latest from our correspondent i have a better fiver today says the end of the strike people so what can we expect to hear. well we can expect to hear the final verdict on whether she's allowed to stay in britain or has to go now back in december following her arrest on suspected espionage charges the home secretary said that she should be deported. today

catches up to yet his fate is in the hands of a panel of three judges that makes up the special immigration appeals commission that was set up to contest that decision our actually hearing actually ended over a month ago so this verdict has been quite a long time in coming and it'll bring to an end what's been a real headline grabbing case it's got all the ingredients of a classic old fashioned james bond spy thriller she's accused of being used as a honeytrap by the russian intelligence services to ensnare and seduce and british member of parliament in order to gain access to some top secret material another member of parliament in question is might can call them and then my five says that he was targeted specifically by the russian intelligence services and me said to me it's because firstly of his access is level of access he was on both parliamentary select committees for defense and also for russia and secondly because of his reputation for infidelity the m i five says mr to reiterate ruthlessly exposed and

exploited now this is something she denies usage in eyes ever being in contact with the russian intelligence services but details did emerge during that hearing of an affair that the two conducted for around four years shortly up beginning shortly after they met in moscow in two thousand and six and her defense throughout this hearing was that she was in fact in love with my can cork and a strange it may be for a twenty something woman to be in love with a man three times her age that was indeed the case and their relationship was nothing but genuine either what evidence have the prosecution brought though to make the case for her deportation. well in terms of actual concrete proof concrete evidence there really isn't that much we do know that the two mr. hancock mr conduction affair for around four years we also know that she was working for him for two of those four years as his research in parliament but other than that what else we know the answer is not really much my can call and catch is actually

a to both deny that she ever was given access to top secret documents or ever saw any. and the other thing to note is that she could have been but isn't being tried on the secret that could mean two things first. enough evidence for a my friends going on more of a hunch given her close proximity to the top secret documents the secondly the evidence that they do have is deemed to secret to be made public now although the majority of the special immigration appeals commission was in the public to main large chunks and crucial chunks weren't and those were the parts where m i five actually put forward their evidence and and it was deemed too sensitive in terms of national security not only for the prestige but also amy said juliet and her lawyers and so if she is deported then we'll never know what if any evidence there is against it. ok out about it reporting from london there thank you.

for coming your way in the program choosing a new direction. we left the elections russians are beginning to wonder whether tandem that's been driving them the past few years will take them in the future. fresh crashes have erupted between nato forces and locals along the serbian border with northern coast of the two serbs and two nato soldiers were injured in the latest round of violence earlier this week where tensions have been running high since nato forces fired tear gas at protesters in an attempt to dismantle road barricades put up by serbs living in the area they've been blocking the route since july when cost of as authorities try to take control of border checkpoints to impose a ban goods across that to proclaim the dependents in two thousand and eight and move that's never been recognized by belgrade but the latest what if you can head to our you tube channel.

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. that now at some other news from around the world this hour pakistan has ruled out doing business with washington and threatened to wrap up its cooperation with the united states on afghanistan announcement follows a nato attack on saturday near the afghan border that killed twenty four pakistani soldiers thousands of people across the country protested on the streets outraged by the attack the country's military officials insisted that the air strike lasted for almost two hours and continued even after pakistani commanders have pleaded with coalition forces to stop. around seven thousand program dulcie prisoners are being held behind bars by former libyan rebels possible into a new u.n. report which says the detainees do not have access to legal systems there's no police and courts not functioning most of the prisoners are accused of working for gadhafi is regime and some may have been tortured this is the first u.n.

assessment of libya since the end of its eight month civil war. a massive protests in kuwait first the prime minister to resign and on with his government to step down after opposition party members of cues to bing and peace will support them in power until a new cabinet is formed the prime minister has been in office for five years and seven governments during that time. with less than a week left before russians elect a new parliament and he wondered which direction the country will take next so in search of an answer grieves his bike and took to the streets of moscow. you know wonderful. let us see how this fund them bicycle works yeah i know it's right so.

no more appropriate place right now to do but once you made you can go to sleep this is what actually happened to the united russia party. was a sad and years and it made a really impressive. if the lights are on the wasp popularity of putin but what happened after that they relaxed a bit of the russian position they preferred to criticize they prefer just to be to be a part of the opposition. but at the same time to every responsibility. to see if the two are going to be honest hour later we're not good for roy i think if you could take the lead and absolutely this is working a bit better i think i like i like the back taking a back seat when you look at the opposition they were worried you had two leaders

of the country comes the business community you know i don't think they're actually capable of leading they don't have that leadership. which take over from united russia as a main legacy or united russia will be political stability and economic rules and a lot of critics have said that actually what you have a president has moved on from stability and it's the danger of turning to stagnation i think that's the case if you know what russia remain is a majority power in the duma i think if you're not russia will stay in power through a stability about north star good nation social justice would be number one priority for new. development and as a result are seeing united russia change itself to speak in ten years since she noted russia and now sits self on the political stage coming to power with

a mandate of stability that's a message that seems somewhat outdated now among voters the general consensus we've been hearing more change what we needed in the future regardless of who's leave the country. where we have it well just ahead when billions of dollars are at stake how far are corporations willing to go to protect their bottom line so our special reports will face their business news. thanks kerry double dip recession in the euro zone now seems all but inevitable during the first wave of the crisis in two thousand and eight. as the world beyond its borders load however this time it's in a better position and even if europe does collapse russia is predicted to stay healthy as nick parsons from national australia bank explains russia for example at no period in the next three years has a growth rate according to the o.e.c.d.

of less than four percent so i think that is very substantially encouraging if you look at china yes there's a modest slowdown to eight and a half percent in two thousand and twelve but again that the focus for thirteen is well above nine so for the emerging market economies for asia for russia for latin america i think we've got a slowdown from some of the rates of growth in prospect for the next twelve months but the o.e.c.d. themselves are seeing some insulation from the pain and they're seeing continued outperformance and alex their liberation into two thousand and thirteen well euro zone may be in danger of falling apart but here russia and its customs union partners believes in kazakhstan are trying to establish a new economic bloc they are pressing ahead with the economic community aimed at creating a common market between former soviet states one of the most important initiatives is the anti christ is founded managing director explains it would prevent european

crises. there has been an agreement to coordinate macroeconomic fiscal and monetary policy why it's very obvious from the experience of european debt crisis when countries that belong to the same economic club had significantly divergent macro economic and monetary policy this of course means that one country which allows much higher inflation essentially. benefits from its lis disciplined less rigorous policy and this of course hurts the economic prospects of its neighbors of its members of the same club so this agreement to coordinate the policy affects the level of budget deficit the level of inflation if it several other parameters and this is what all three countries of the customs unions will hear to. take a look at the markets we start with commodities and light sweet is shedding seventy

cents brant twenty three cents this is after a session on monday which showed pretty significant gains. to stocks now european markets opened lower and rumors that could downgrade the outlook on france's aaa credit rating to negative in the near future banking stocks are under pressure across the continent as another rating agency moody's eighty seven euro zone banks review. russia's markets pretty much showing the same picture they actually kicked out of tuesday's trade moderate upswing but now they're correcting after a very strong session on monday when they gained four percent. moving the my six energy majors are retreating from sharp gains in previous session was never climbing half a percent hydro one of the biggest losers the hydro electricity monopoly after is also its launching mass production of its newest. model mother ground.

zero is retail group x. five has posted a two point one million dollars net loss in the third quarter of the year beating expectations and this predicted the russian operator would suffer a loss of around eighteen million dollars due to the integration of recently acquired change campaign and currency fluctuations x five says the results were supported by strong sales and improved capital much. russia is currently experiencing a liquidity crunch the central bank has kept interest rates unchanged citing inflationary risks but of a capital says there are other tools to resist a big squeeze. the budget who. want more budget expenditures should come into this system and provide some relief and the global. portfolio investment law

and. their central bank speech from hard currency buying more. courage to say and more and there these all factors brought. in a little bit more but still the central bank able to fully control the domestic money market coming up next on the headlines with carrie stay with us.

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