record turnout in egypt's first parliamentary elections in decades which comes after days of violent crackdowns against protesters that claimed more than forty lives. thousand so up to have their say in the future of the country but many boycott the vote demanding 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 this says a un report accuses the syrian regime of human rights violations. a russian woman accused of being a spy for moscow in order to gain information from her politician lover wins

a battle against deportation from the u.k. . two pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story our record number of egyptians have cast their votes in their country's first parliamentary election since the ousting of president mubarak parliamentary results are expected later this week but despite the turnout the voting was boycotted by many who are demanding the military rulers step down immediately this after ten days of bloody clashes with security forces that claimed more than forty lives artie's an isa now reports from cairo. but 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 that 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 protesters 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 valid 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 were counted it's coming up to actual polling stations and 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 of 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 is 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. husni mubarak may no longer be part of egyptian politics but his regime still haunts the country during this election season middle east expert dr ahmed but he says the outcome will be pivotal as the state moves forward . is gone but the regime still the explains why the demonstrations and. the. satisfaction continue the supreme council forces really weary of elections happening now because they

see a alliance that is thinking between the muslim brotherhood some of them some of the old regime and the supreme council of the forces and they're very worried that the results of the election would be a victory for this coalition and for them that would be in the do evolution would be hijacked. and that full interview with plenty more insights on the situation in egypt and syria coming your way in about twenty five minutes here on r.t. . russia says unrest in syria is mainly being provoked by an armed opposition that according to foreign minister sergei lavrov who said it's time to stop dealing and ultimatums and get back to peace talks the words come despite a u.n. investigation that found that syrian forces committed crimes against humanity and a tightening of the sanctions by the e.u. artie's tests are still you who 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 bama longer 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 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 well 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 because 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 it's just. 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 government and business leaders

it will also definitely impact the people. political analyst dr his xanga seen believes the e.u. is 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 that meaningless and on every level on the level of the economic level and on the security lapid it will not stop the violence western powers particularly the united states now to use these sanctions and 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 prisca the killing as they put it but you know what they want is to weaken the city and to g.m. and to weaken the alliance between syria iran and lebanon i don't think they they. as so much full city and blood in libya more than one hundred thousand people killed by nato bombings and the come through was devastated that nobody said anyone

so i can't actually believe that they're now so what it about three thousand syrians when they are not actually what it's about more than one hundred thousand libyans it has nothing to do with stopping the violence on the contrary they're feeding the bods 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. while western economies are struggling in the east that's been seeing rapid financial growth china's presence in europe can now be felt more than ever as beijing has been making strategic investments although it's still cautious about buying the continent's debt r.t. sorry for a report on china's growing influence in the e.u. . the fashion capital of the world where you can be sure to sponsor an emerging trend but right now it's the economy here that's being guessing i'm a cave with the west seeking east an inspiration concept is silly and you're going

to want to see the forget the italian business model with its focus on slow fine and expensive production business here is saying this competition from its chinese counterparts with their emphasis on fast cheap goods. some of the high streets here in the chinese influence isn't hard to spot with here at six one of the struggling countries like china and a better time to snap up a bargain such is the acquisition this year of the well known italian fashion brands to resee by a chinese luxury clothing retailer for. the interests of china. i suppose the. opportunity. to catch the west struggles it's been the emerging crepes the brics that is brazil russia india china

and south africa the defeat 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 china and it's really well if this lease that meeting economy has resulted in a great slump china in comparison has been full steam ahead and merging as a major manufacturing base it was chinese business is a preview of strong competition china is being cautious when it comes to buying up your debts the you must be told it more to the valuable. help me industries you start arriving all blonde is chinese investments and 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 year next year further investment seem extremely likely so you need to do . the job. but that we call it. could be very very. bad you know due to. financial crises as the crisis continues to readjust the konami 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 available our click away at our t dot com here's what's online for you right now. more than a thousand people detained by police during a massive and tell you your protest in germany i guess the storage of nuclear waste on home soil and. more about it at r.t. dot com also online the u.s. government reportedly orders julian assange destroy all material wiki leaks hold on

them and to stop using government insiders to gather fresh information plus. a previously unknown work by a russian painter victoria investments of his around a record breaking one point seven million dollars at christie's auction. a russian woman accused of working as a spy for russia while romantically linked to a british m.p. has won the case against deportation from great britain a london court granted twenty six year old catarina as a tool event or the right to remain in the u.k. she was accused of attempting to collect sensitive information including the details of a top secret nato paper she had made it having an affair with a live demo m.p. mike hancock for whom she worked as

a researcher. fresh clashes have erupted between nato forces and locals along the serbian border with northern kosovo two serbs and two nato soldiers were injured in the latest round of violence earlier this week tensions have been running high since nato forces fired tear gas at protesters and it helps dismantle road barricades put up by serbs living in the area they've been blockading the route since july when kosovo authorities tried to take control of border checkpoints to impose a ban on serbian goods kosovo unilaterally perk claimed independence in two thousand and eight a move that's never been recognized by belgium for the latest footage of the action there you can head over to our tease you tube channel.

four news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images. from the streets of canada. before asian to rule the day. i had to go through a ten year old boy over there. we train them how to. develop the orders for them so. we never explain to them why it's ok. most people at the point of looking down and time to pull the trigger became conscientious objectors. i don't remember squeezing the trigger i don't remember seeing him go down when i remembers that we shot him.

on the other side are soldiers too and soldiers do assault and they're trying to kill us we're trying to kill them and that's just the ugly face of war. nothing honorable and killing. i went to the war zone and i started seeing how i need to change. in the only way to do the job of a rival and kill another person that's why i'm applying for cancer subject. oh oh oh. oh. fifteen minutes past the hour in moscow let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe pakistan has

ruled out doing business with washington and frightened to wrap up its cooperation with the united states on afghanistan now when it followed 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 official. insisted that the air strike lasted for almost two hours and continued even after pakistani commanders pleaded with coalition forces to stop. around seven thousand pro khadafi prisoners have been are being held behind bars by former libyan rebels this according to the u.s. what that says are the detainees do not have access to legal systems as local police and courts are not functioning most of the prisoners are accused of working for gadhafi regime some may have even been tortured this is the first u.n. assessment of libya since the end of its eight month long civil war. massive protests in kuwait how forced the prime minister to resign along with his government he stepped down after opposition party members accused him of bribing

m.p.'s for their support he will remain in power until a new cabinet is formed the prime minister's been in office for five years and led seven governments during that time. less than a week left before russians elect a new parliament many wonder what direction the country will take next in search of a manager to answer jacob reeves got on his bike and took to the streets of moscow . a wonderful bike you're. going to let us see how this fund them bicycle works. i know it's right if so. how do you know. unsteady no more appropriate place right now than the duma wants you made frame you can go to sleep this is what i actually found it sent happened to the united thrushes the party. was a set up ten years back and it made

a really impressive start and it got capitalized on the watch but you're wearing off why didn't your putin but what happened after that they relaxed a bit broken off 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 it's. going to be honest a little bit not good for roy i think if you can take the lead and absolutely this is working a bit better i think i like i like about taking a backseat when you look at the opposition they were worried you had two leaders of the country if it comes to the business community you know i don't think they're actually capable of leading they don't have that leadership that would take over from united russia as a main legacy or united russia will be

a political stability and normal rules and a lot of critics have said that she was you have a president has moved on from stability and it's the danger of turning to stagnation if you think that's the case if you know what russia remain is a majority power in the duma i think if you're not rational stayed in power through a stability about north stagnation social justice would be number one priority for new. development and as a result are seeing united russia will have to change itself to speak in ten years since she noted russia and now sits. on the political stage coming to power with a mandate was the biggest see that's a message that seems somewhat outdated now among votes is the general consensus we've been hearing that more change will be needed in the future regardless of whose leave the country. returning now to our top story

a russian woman facing deportation over claims that she was working as a spy for the kremlin has won the right to stay in the u.k. twenty six year old katherine as a tool you better was accused of attempting to collect sensitive information while romantically linked to a british politician for more on this let's go live to london with the latest our correspondent ivor bennett al alive or so today sees the end of this tribunal and now it is the to leave better has officially secured the right to stay in britain tell us more. yes well the ruling is just been cast that she's been acquitted from her spy charges the court has ruled that she's in fact innocent is said but on the balance of probabilities it's ruled that she was and is not a russian agent a catch is that it was accused by m i five britain's security services of acting on behalf of the russian intelligence services as a honey trap to ensnare and seduce a british member of parliament she used to work for the man in question was mike kang called who was on. both parliamentary select committees for one for defense

one for russia so he had access to some top secret documents m i five accuses her did accuse her of specifically targeting him for his alleged marital indiscretions and we do know that they had an affair for four years during the time that she was working for him as a researcher and that was that was there evidence they used against him and against her apart from that were there really wasn't much other concrete evidence because of the hearing that concluded last month was actually large chunks of that were held in secret when am i m i five gave their other evidence they deemed was too secret and too sensitive for her or her lawyers and the public to hear the court did hear it though and he said that even even if she was approached in russia by the f.s.b. the security services we have seen nothing which satisfies us that she was recruited as an agent always tasked acted as one so she's been let off the hook it's been going off on for a year though very costly legal proceedings and during that time she's been under

very strict bail conditions but those have now been been lifted all charges against her have been dropped and she's now allowed to stay in britain right out here so i have a better life for us and london paris but report. all stay with us here on r.t. and update you on the headlines after business news with dmitri. thanks matt and double dip recession in the euro zone now seems all but inevitable during the first wave of the crisis in two thousand x. russia suffered a rapid economic contraction as the world beyond its borders slowed however this time it is in a better position and even if europe does collapse russia is predicted to stay healthy as nick passons 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 that is 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 forecast 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 aeration into two thousand and thirteen the euro zone may be in danger of falling apart but here russia and its customs union partners stand there trying to establish a new economic bloc pressing ahead with the eurasian economic community which is aimed at creating a common market between former soviet states one of the most important initiatives is the anti crisis spondee its managing director explains that it would prevent european style 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 currently 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 adhere to. for a let's now move to the markets we start with commodities and oil has reversed into

positive territory mostly lights we desire seventeen cents of this brant is still correcting twenty five cents per pound. european markets are trading mixed this footsy is a quarter of a percent lower on rumors that. downgrade on france's aaa credit rating to negative in the near future banking stocks even in frankfurt under pressure across the continent as another rating agency moody's has eighty seven eurozone banks on review spirits producer remi cointreau is up but two and a half percent of. first of net income. russia's markets still flat at this hour they actually kicked off tuesday's trade with a moderate upswing but still correcting point two percent this is our second to get to what's so moving with me my six energy majors. reversing back into positive

territory since the will has been no coming back up or snapped is up by just a notch. and. is down almost a full sentence launching mass production of its newest model law the ground pipe make it is on the rise the company has nine months net profit almost tripled to two hundred eighty million dollars. also among the results recently released retail group has posted a two point one million dollars net loss in the first quarter of the year but that was better than expected and this predicted the russian operator would suffer a loss of of around eighteen million dollars due to the integration of recently acquired. and currency fluctuations says the result was supported by strong sales and through capital management. russia is currently experiencing a liquidity crunch the central bank has kept interest rates unchanged citing

inflationary risks but. capital says there are other tools to resist a big squeeze. in the reason. the budget who. want more budget expenditures should come into this system and provide some relief but the global conditions we deteriorated in. the fourth quarter investments. and. these central banks which from our currency buying more. current saving more and these all factors brought. in a little bit more but still the central. able to fully control the situation in the domestic money market while business r.t. will be back in fifty five minutes time with now it's time for a short break and then headlines.

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