mounting pressure the u.n. warns that syria is now in a state of civil war putting the death toll at over four thousand the plans to hold emergency talks on the crisis they are. all eyes are on egypt as the country of wait to see how the people vote with the parliamentary election by the fact many doubt it will bring any real change. thousands of protesters take to the streets a record number of interruptions and calls the vote but many continue to warning that the military would step down and make way for civilian government from cairo in just a few moments. thousands of protesters take to the streets of new york to stage a labor union rally demanding jobs and economic justice occupy frustration at the

gulf between the haves and the have nots. it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t joshie syria is in a state of a civil war that's the warning from the u.n. which estimates the death toll in the nine months uprising now tops more than four thousand people and emergency un meeting on syria later today aims to put pressure on the country to hold but bloodshed this comes after the e.u. slaps fresh sanctions on us is regime targeting energy and finance sectors damascus has already dogs of the move and economic war political activist franklin lamb says that history reminds us sanctions are not effective and lead only to deeper crisis . like drones. i think the sanctions are going to bring down the regime because the

regime interest in the actual seek and the i think there's enough of the population that takes underage and this western interference in terms of these sanctions. they will also resist and i think that history going back to iraq and before teachers and those sanctions you know are not really affective in changing the behavior of a regime very dramatic there for local consumption i know the u.s. congress is thrilled with these sanctions against syria and against iran but in real political terms i don't see the fruit of you know of of those efforts and it's so obviously both sides have got to find another way to defuse these. dangerous situations all increasing sanctions against syria are drawing ever more

parallels with a war in libya and fears that might be next in the firing line for western military intervention and as artists are syria reports the evidence behind the even campaign remains controversial. there is no evidence to justify the humanitarian war in libya that's the conclusion of filmmaker and independent journalists in. the beginning of the story we got some medication which is being. created even said to the united nations human rights council terms of the allegation of never been verified or checked and z. said the news also was michael your four zero i.c.c. case against libya. of march seventeenth a un security council resolution one thousand seventy three was passed imposing a no fly zone over libya. accusations were that gadhafi bombed his own people for air and land use foreign mercenaries ordered the use of rape as

a weapon and killed by the thousands. concludes that there was no bombing. and that there is no evidence of warming and so i interviewed was a man who went to the united nations human rights council results from a career seaman which appear was a former secretary general of the libyan league for human rights and now the libyan ambassador to burn in switzerland on february twenty five he went to the un human rights council to present his organization's allegations of crimes against gadhafi government and that session a decision was taken to freeze libya's membership in the council he underlie the number of deaths six thousand including three thousand and tripoli alone when julian asked which appear how these claims can be verified he pointed to the former rebels now libya's government as his source here where i got information from the libyan prime minister that mr mcauliffe the work for other tribes on the other side

of the national transitional council was the one who gave me these numbers. yet there are still those who defend the libyan intervention like this former french intelligence officer with clearly in this case before before it is very likely that some crimes attributed to could have in this conflict were a farce or exaggerated but we all do because of gadhafi for forty years of any kind of he was the terrorist was a criminal on june twenty seventh international criminal court prosecutor luis a compliment and his request for arrest warrants were moammar gadhafi saif al islam and the office intelligence chief was granted of course we are a prosecutor and judge and so we rely on facts so we prove crimes or we did you know what do the pages of the arrest what happened cation most of which were redacted but among the pages so consider public were use of articles to support the case one of which was which against every twenty fifth speech the one place and information we should give himself said he got the empty seat for the web answer

documents to back the side with numbers but those who raised questions risked being accused of taking the side of a man seen as a brutal dictator already labeled by some world powers as the bad guy i think it is absurd if you are against. declaring war on a country it's not because you like the government so i'm sorry it's up to the it's up to the ones who is there for them to come up with a proof a list were just reversing the whole process of the of civilization a law but international law even cheerleaders of the intervention admit tends to be sacrificed. you are certainly right but they will do something which is not all of it if you could call it i don't believe so much in their mission a lot is just a tool used in one hand and for political purposes regardless julia's point is simply this if such legal systems in place any claims

first and foremost should be. coralie investigator it's a point he hopes will be heard before the next humanitarian war is waged this are still the r t brussels. and coming up shortly in a program breaking boiling point. for storage and as you can see it's a very rich and we must stop for some people who are making more to make you says. it will with. thousands of labor union members take to the streets of new york to demand an answer to the nomic inequality. and it results of the first stage of parliamentary elections are due to be announced on friday but the ballot has been boycotted by many protesters who are still demanding an end to the military rule the record number of people turned out for the country's first free elections since the ousting of president mubarak maybe doubt it will bring any change will correspond policy or reports from cairo. this was the first of three rounds of

voting for the lower house of parliament nine out of twenty seven provinces have voted including cairo and alexandria the remaining problems as well voted the rest of this month and january and then they will be voting for the upper house of parliament this entire election process will not be over before march now the muslim brotherhood is showing the largest support base at this stage and this is not an unexpected it is the largest the oldest and the most well organized political group in here in egypt despite the fact that it was once banned now there has been some concern that the muslim brotherhood might form an alliance with eastern afghanistan or and the brotherhood has denied this the sufis partner is a much more conservative party it has a much stricter interpretation of islam and now this is the first election that is being hold since the former egyptian president hosni mubarak was forced to step down that in february and the election results were initially clarified wednesday

at that stage there were delayed the announcement was given that it was because the ballots by egyptians living aboard have not here been tallied the results have been expected here today first day they were again today their time the reason given was because so many people had simply turned out there was a massive demonstration that is being planned for today friday in turkey square it has been a tribute to the heroes of mohamed one which means this is the street coffee three people were killed and more than a thousand people were injured in recent clashes between the army the police and protesters now there are twenty three political from pigs who are behind today's demonstration and talking to protesters who will be out there in tahrir square they say that a large turnout at the polls is simply an indonesian people heard that the situation will improve therefore as long as the military remains in power nothing in egypt will change and so the rallying point among the demonstrators is tell here has not changed and that is that the military reads to step down immediately. the reporting

there from cairo in new york around twenty thousand people have staged a march demanding jobs and economic fairness half the occupy movement protests it was organized by labor unions who have been demanding change our correspondent now i was there. isn't that has been organized by the new york city council that is an umbrella for more than three hundred unions and the reason these people say they're out on the street is that they are frustrated and fed up with the i think an ominous narrative of seeing the rich and poor they see with more than fourteen million unfair against them with at the moment the one percent the richest one percent in america has tripled its wealth in the past thirty years and what this shows is that the eyes sense that not that the by the occupy wall street movement for over the past two months are now being forced by the unions at a larger scale did see labor unions join occupy wall street

a month or so ago but that turnout was not as large as this one the people to dispense are walking around with signs that say we are the ninety nine percent we are the bad guy in the working class united states that is being ignored for you people course this country and as you can see it's a nationally. because the people who are making. decisions now a little we have. people come out. and make sure that. we're caught every day. in that we don't even have to make the world together. looks like you're not the only one that there's thousands of people walking the streets and i tell you work hard every day get up four thirty every morning. to get construction my kids to school. that tradition people finally. the irony here is that on wednesday us president proper obama was in new york city

for three fundraisers for his reelection campaign one of those fundraisers more than thirty five thousand dollars per ticket to a time. many here say that. that shows another. between the elected officials in the united states and what is the voice by the odd constituents and they say that if things are not achieved the crowd that you see out here will multiply by an enormous amount in the coming months what are your green up for nigh on party. it's not just americans themselves who have a grudge to bear against the u.s. government on the other side of the world there is a growing displeasure as we report later this hour people in kyrgyzstan want the closure of a q merican military base that they say has often been bad news for the local community. the u.s. senate has unanimously approved sanctions on iran central bank despite warnings the

move could disrupt markets across the globe but measure still needs the approval of the house of representatives and president barack obama in order to come into effect this follows hot on the heels of the e.u. which extended its sanctions increasing pressure on the country it accuses of pursuing nuclear weapons. bad same as the united states that is committed to take steps to freeze arabian central bank assets delivering hard wote to the country's economy he now owns one comes days after a tap on the british embassy in tehran which prompted the u.k. to withdraw its the come at him closer ron's mission in london power phony branding tie in a research organization the sea i.p.i. foundation thinks the new sanctions are the west way to redraw tired middle east. the entire situation is very very strange i mean we are in the presence of activities on the iranian soil which group like the beginning of

a sort of war type relationship this is not really sure they want to redeem change in iran it is a chess game iran is a key player for the shaping of the entire middle east and the united states know very well that without iran they will not be shaped the middle east middle east that in the new concept the jew political conception is much bigger than the original one that we knew from the nineteenth century. description so it is a letter that goes from afghanistan down to even morocco so all this area has to be reshaped i do not think there is an interest from the major was the country which is the united states to engage in any warfare with iran that this stage and in the interest of a number of european countries to go any farther. a fresh wave of concerns been raised there over a conover for key u.s. military base and kerry stand after the country underwent its first peaceful

transfer of power in the republic history the new president expressed his desire to see its closure fearing the facility makes the country a target parties accountable for its. they call it operation enduring misery several times a day u.s. military planes take off from an airport near the cake is capital bishkek there and gins generating a lot of anger and monk the locals passing this it's so noisy here i can barely sleep back in soviet times the village of brahman there was famous across kyrgyzstan for his gigantic whatever melons but ever since the americans landed here ten years ago locals say the quality of their crops has been steadily declining like most of his neighbors. is convinced americans are dumping fuel under fields surrounding the base it's commanders deny your presence and i watch the u.s. planes come and go several times a day i know there should be the noise is disturbing but i sort of got used to

what's really bad is that they're killing nature the fields and the crops and people's health is getting worse through the congress airbase represents the shortest and the most efficient route to deliver you supplies and servicemen into afghanistan nicknamed the gateway to how it's the last safe start on the way to combat but for the residents here getting rid of the base is a battle in its own right as i mean the point of him is we are going to america's minion and sliding wars in afghanistan iraq and libya where for turning one to attack us number. one for marcus price than stand there merican and the vixen noticed only to negotiate a three fold police increase a few months later the following year of course he was ousted from office on allegations of corrupt. really did to payments from the u.s. base mistrust and even has delayed you between the locals and use troops abroad are

hardly anything new in many countries are hosting american bases despite sometimes very strong objections of the indigenous population but here in kyrgyzstan the issue so politically charged that it has already shown the power of making a breaking once presidency yet america's presence in the region has its legal benefits to military gear in accessories have long found their way to biscuits possessors thanks to shady network of buyers and sellers secondhand u.s. military uniform is held in very high regard here the owner of this business doesn't want us to share his face he usually gets it from american troops on the ground for a couple hundred bucks and he sells it to a wide range of clients many of whom come from all over the former soviet union according to the basis commanders them americans do try to be nice in addition to sixty million dollars a year for the least use personnel in kyrgyzstan have done volunteer work and

raised money to renovate a local school and the locals are appreciative they say they have nothing against the americans per se except that they have long outstayed their welcome as one of the artsy bishkek because the. french president nicolas sarkozy says france and germany must join their average to guarantee europe's future and this comes as the e.u. monetary affairs chief warned the eurozone has just ten days to stabilize the single currency sarkozy and german chancellor angela merkel are set to meet next week to propose new measures to ensure the block stability turmoil continues in greece where unions brought the country to a standstill in the first general strike since the new government to power last month thousands of people took to the main square in athens as the one day walkout close schools disrupted public transport and left hospitals relying on emergency staff meanwhile the european central bank said it's ready to play

a bigger role but nations for tie their budgetary policies closer together financial analysts johan bent over as well says tired i governance is needed but country's sovereignty will be sacrificed in the process. the sense of urgency certainly has not only to do with greece's it has to do with what is happening overall in the monetary union there are a lot of countries on the pressure don't forget for example the situation of pork ago the spain problem is also very much on the table and then of course there is the italian problem it's very basic you can't have a functioning monetary union without a political union that's a choice you have to make and you can't have one without the other that has been very much proven now in the last two years of crisis and what we do lack is political authority now of course that needs to be build up democratically but we have cornered ourselves so much in this euro crisis that we don't have the time left to build up the political union in

a normal democratic way so we will have to do it in another way that this through the representatives of the different countries being the heads of governments of the different countries it still leaves a lot of questions with respect to the democratic value of all this on the table but there is no more choice either you do that or you let the euro and the monetary union go down the drain. we have more on the euro crisis on our website r.t. dot com including how italy is dealing with its two trillion euro debt so long on to find out why taxpayers there are hitting the streets to fight against military spending that could cost the impoverished country billions and. big brother exposed wiki leaks reveals data on a new global surveillance an interception industry spanning twenty five countries our teeth reports online. and join our team on europe's largest ice skating rink which has just opened in the center of the russian capital.

for more world news in greece this friday and first again and we're having shelling between the army and tribesman of the country's second largest city up to yes has left thirteen people dead including civilians dozens more were injured it happened when troops loyal to president ali abdullah saleh tried to storm the town center there out of the anti-government protests that have been raging since january all roads leading into use were blocked by the fierce fighting that has left outlying districts isolated the enemy government accuses the main opposition party of being behind the unrest this by violence comes in the wake of a power transfer deal to an interim government ahead of an early election next year . the u.s.

secretary of state hillary clinton has said there will be no immediate end to american sanctions on myanmar and a meeting with the country's president clinton urged the nation to continue making reforms in order to have the restrictions lifted included in the list of requests was the release of political prisoners and the promotion of internal peace clinton said meow maher must prove reforms will last before any action is taken. the trial of former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is due to reopen on friday in the land the seventy five year olds accused of paying under-aged prosecuted for sex in two thousand and ten he's also charged with the abuse of power for getting a moroccan born girl released from custody after she was arrested for theft both deny the accusations after george clooney and soccer star cristiano ronaldo are among witnesses expected to give testimony during the trial and some now for the

business of date with kareena. her welcome to this is something the star he also goes to the polls on sunday to choose who sits in parliament the election season will that be concluded with a presidential vote in early march the weak state of the global economy is having a bleak effect on the election campaign and like previous years the government has not run public spending ahead of the voting. i think it reflects that we call it is growing quite strongly on its own how it reflects concern about the global environment and the desire for more prudent policy but i think it also means that we're starting out in a slightly stronger position. than other war is second thing to say is that we all get to see some increases in spending and cut some tax at the beginning of next year we're going to see big increase in police power a big increase in military pay and a big cuts in social contribution tax so that is already. increase in spending

programmed into the project twenty twelve regardless of the results of the election . seven industrial giant siemens will launch a new gas turbine may fracturing venture together with its russian partner power machines things will hold two thirds of the venture with total investment of around two hundred seventy five million euros the new company will be mostly targeting the c.i.s. market where siemens expect a two percent annual growth for power generation over this decade the production plant will be located close to st petersburg it will have on site research and development for thirty days we caught up with the head of siemens energy you gave us an idea of what the companies are teaming up for. if you take the deficiency level the average is just just far non-secure in russia if you would exchange them for state of the art technology the term save the amounts of suggests you are exporting every year which is

a third of the whole production and this is the goal which is driving us on the road that's the way we would see the markets. let's have a look at the markets now despite choppy trading oil is heading for its first week peaking in three clashes between iran and the west the sparks regulations that middle east supply may be at risk that's despite concerns demands may falter in the u.s. china and europe future global economic slowdown. markets in asia mixed ahead of a key u.s. jobs report due out later in the day after rallying sharply the previous session and japan's nikkei at that point four percent of the hang and hangs in hong kong's hang seng is losing a quarter of a percent now energy companies and brands on the highlights crude oil futures jase holdings rose point six percent in tokyo and runs half percent and hong kong. and here in russia markets opened high at and are trading higher in the first minute of trading. in advancing a quarter of a percent in the my six point four percent on thursday markets were higher as well

as have been largely by coordinated response of central banks to the e.u. costs. in other news i care russia has posted revenue growth and fourteen percent to fourteen percent in two thousand and eleven the company's new general director in the country attributes the success to ikea's ideology of offering affordable goods he says the company's expansion in russia will be gradually and gradual initially focusing on the capital. we are extremely successful in moscow things of that we must go in we need to know also for up for ourselves also to operate the store more efficiently and to offer a better and better the shopping climate for the customers we need to add more more so there was a more schools that has an absolute priority so when we have done that in the competition that really really worried we look at conservatives how we do it we do it step by step and so we want to control the risk but you don't want to rush too

fast because i mean building three stores by itself is a big undertaking these are not small new kind of stores there's a huge towards europe so it's quite a challenge to do that. or for this i stay with us for headlines coming up right after this.

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