a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. as reports. mounting pressure of the u.n. warns that syria is now in a state of civil war putting the death toll at over four thousand has its plans to hold emergency talks on the crisis there. all eyes are on egypt as a country a waste to see how the people voted in parliamentary elections despite the fact many doubt it will bring any real change. a record number of interruptions and cast their vote but many continue to. 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 that economic justice echoing occupy frustration

at the polls between the haves and the have nots. and in business russian markets open a bit later reversed into the red both fields yes the trading point three percent will be looking at the figures in our business bulletin is what. it is a lot of the on the russian capital you watching our team with me we're going to josh syria is in a state of a civil war and that's a warning from the u.n. which estimates the death toll in the nine months uprising now tops more than four thousand people and emergency one meeting on syria later today anges to put pressure on the country to hold the bloodshed this comes after the e.u. slapped fresh sanctions on his regime targeting energy and finance sectors the massacres has already dog the move an economic war. a little activist franklin lamb

says that history reminds us sanctions are not effective and lead only to deeper crisis. i don't think that the sanctions are going to bring down the regime because the regime is the screen showing the sick and weak and i think the visit enough of the population takes i'm this western interference in terms of these sanctions. they will also resist and i think that history going back to iraq and before teachers 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 those efforts and obviously both sides have got to find another way to defuse these.

dangerous situations. i think racing sanctions against syria are drawing of a war a perilous weather war in libya and fears it might be next in the firing line for a western military intervention and as artists are still your reports the evidence behind the leading 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 this story we got some medication which are being. recruited and said to the united nations human rights council and those allegations i've never been verified or check and this is a good news also as much for your thoughts your i.c.c. case against libya. of march seventeenth u.n. security council resolution one thousand seventy three was passed imposing

a no fly zone over libya. accusations were that gadhafi bombed his own people from air and land use foreign mercenaries ordered the use of rape as a weapon and killed by the thousands. can prove that there was no well being. is that there is no evidence of warming and so our interviews of the men went to the united nations human rights council. seaman which he gear was a former secretary general of the libyan league for human rights 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 that office government in 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 in tripoli alone where julian asked which he gear 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 market of the worthwhile a tribe was 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 kiri in this case for before it is very clear that some crimes attributed to their feet in this conflict were farce or exaggerated but we all do because of khadafi for us in the could if he was approached with a criminal on june twenty seventh international criminal court prosecutor luis a compliment and his requests for arrest warrants were more market afy saif al islam and graphics intelligence chief was granted of course we are prosecutor and judge and so we rely on the facts so we prove the crimes but what we did really i went through the pages of the arrest warrant application most of which were

redacted but a lot of the pages open to the public were use of articles to support the case one of which was which of us every twenty fifth speech one basin information bush yourself said we got the empty seat in there whether to answer documents to back the side with numbers but those who raised questions risk of 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 that 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 a friend to come up with a proof unless we're just reversing the whole brothers of the of civilization or with international law even cheerleaders of the intervention admit tends to be sacrificed. you are certainly right that they would produce something which is the goal of politically correct i don't believe so much in international law is just

used in one of the other for political purposes regardless julia last point is simply this it's such a legal systems in place any claims first and foremost should be. farley investigated the point he hopes will be heard before the next humanitarian war is waged just there is still your party brussels and coming up shortly in the program reaching boiling point. for storage as you can see it's of. course the people. making this is now it will be. thousands of labor union member states of the streets of new york to demand an end to canonic inequality. and egypt a result of the first stage of parliamentary elections are due to be announced on friday by the ballot has been boycotted by many protesters who are still demanding an end to the military rule while

a record number of people turned out for the country's first free election since the ousting of president mubarak many doubt it will bring any change our correspondent holds the 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 provinces will vote in the rest of the month and january this entire election process will not be over before large now was the brotherhood ensuring the largest support base at this stage and this is not in an expected 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 why form an alliance or a fisa law for its owner and the brotherhood has denied this the sufis farmer is a much more conservative party and has a much stricter interpretation of islam now this is the first election that is being hold and since the former egyptian president hosni mubarak was forced to

strip down that in february and the initial results were initially planned for green stay at that stage they were delayed the announcement was given that it was because the ballots by egyptians living aboard have not yet been tallied the results have been expected yesterday for this day they were game delayed at that time the reason given was because so many people had simply turned out there is a massive demonstration that is being planned for today friday in turkey square it has been a tribute to the heroes of mohamed roughnecks fees 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 the pigs who are behind today's demonstration and talking to protesters who will be out there in tahrir square and they say that in large turnout at the polls is simply and in remission people heard that the situation will improve there for as long as the military will raise and holler nothing in that it will change and so the rally in corn among the

demonstrators of tell here has not changed and that is that the military needs to skip down immediately because the reporting there from cairo in new york around twenty thousand people have staged a march the man jobs and economic fairness hard off the occupy movement protests it was organized by the labor unions who have been demanding change or are married or work now it was their. because it has been organized by the new york city labor 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 idea cannot make disparity between the rich important basically the more than fourteen million americans unemployed at the moment one percent the richest one percent america has tripled its wealth in the past thirty years what this shows is that the eyes sentiments that nothing that by the occupy wall street movement for all of the past two months are now being forced by burning the unions out old

larger scale we 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 keep our list beds are walking around with signs that say we are the ninety nine percent we are the backbone and the working class of the united states that is being taken forward looking people in this country and as you can see it's a nationally. because the people who are making making decisions now it will be little we have. people come out. and make sure that we're so. we're caught every day. and that we don't even have to make these to rub together. looks like you're not the only one that there's thousands of people walking the streets and i tell you work on every day get up four thirty every morning. you did you can try to send my kids to school try to trace that oh that's rich people

finally. the irony here is that on wednesday us president problem was in new york city for three fundraisers for his reelection campaign one of those fundraisers cost more than thirty five thousand dollars per ticket to a time. many here say that. that shows. between the elected officials of the united states and what is being why the are the 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 according to the new york remember nine 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 growing displeasure as we report later this hour people in kyrgyzstan want the closure of a key american 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 the measure still needs the approval of the house of representatives and president barack obama in order to come into effect as follows hot on the heels of the e.u. which extended sanctions increasing pressure on the country it accuses off pursuing nuclear weapons now that's as the united states is committed to take steps to freeze iranian central bank assets delivering hard woad to the country's economy you know it's been comes days after an attack on the british embassy in tehran which prompted the u.k. to withdraw its diplomats and close ron's mission in london power a phony from the taliban research organization the cia foundation thinks the new sanctions are the west way to draw the entire middle east. the entire situation is very very strange i mean. even the presence of a t.v.

on the iranian soil which the beginnings of a. war type relationship this is not really sure that they want to gene change and it is a chess game iran is a key player for. the entire middle east and the united. states know very well that without the iran they would not be the middle east middle east that's in the new concept the geopolitical conception is much bigger than the original london we knew from the nineteenth century. description so it is an area 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 at the stage and in the interest of a number of european countries to go any further a fresh wave of concerns been

raised over a controversial key u.s. military base in kurdistan after the country underwent its first peaceful transfer of power in the republic history and he president expressed his desire to see the closure of fearing the facility makes the country a target. reports. they call it operation enduring misery several times a day use military planes takeoff from an airport near the cagas capital bishkek there angela's generating a lot of anger and want the locals it's so noisy here i can barely sleep back in soviet times the village of there was famous across kyrgyzstan for his gigantic watermelons but ever since their merican slandered here ten years ago locals say the quality of their crops has been steadily declining like most of his neighbors though there is convinced americans are dumping fuel on the field surrounding the base which is commanders deny. i watched 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 the 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 your 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 and kind of seems we're going america's mania enemies fighting wars in afghanistan iraq libya what a fraternity want to attack us. one former press than stand there americans and the vixen noticed only to negotiate a three fold lease increase a few months later the following year or commandeered by key was ousted from office on allegations of corruption related to payments from the us base mistrust and even

has delighted between the locals and hughes troops abroad are hardly anything new many countries are hosting american bases despite sometimes very strong objections of the indigenous population but here in kyrgyzstan the issue is so. politically charged with a past already shown the power of making or breaking one's presidency yet america's presence in the region has its legal benefits to military gear in accessories have long found their way to preserve our lives thanks to a shady network of buyers and sellers secondhand to use military uniform is held in very high regard here the owner of this business doesn't want us to show his face as 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 the americans do try to be nice in addition to

sixty million dollars a year for billy's 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 outstay their welcome that's one of the art see. and it's just in here on our team explosion near a nato military base in afghanistan with conflicting reports suggesting over seventy people have been injured. a suicide bomber is reported to have used a truck packed with explosives explosives and that's all we know for now and we'll of course be keeping you up to date. as we get more information on this. going to other stories we're covering for you here in r.t. today french president nicolas sarkozy says france and germany must join the er efforts to guarantee europe's future this comes as the e.u.

monetary affairs chief warrant the euro zone has just ten days to stabilize the single currency sarkozy and the german chancellor angela merkel are set to meet next week to propose new measures to ensure the block's stability turmoil continues in greece were unions brought the country to a standstill in the first general strike since the new government took power last month thousands of people took to the main square in athens as the one day walkout quote 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 should tie their budgetary policies closer together financial analyst johan van overtveldt says tighter economic governance is needed but country's sovereignty could be separate price 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 under pressure don't forget for example the situation of poor to

go to 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 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 is 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 euros so while going to find out why the taxpayer is they are hitting the streets to fight against military spending that could cost the impoverished country billions and. big brother expose we can weeks reveals data on a new global surveillance and interception industry spanning twenty five countries r.t. reports online. also join r.t.r. europe's largest ice skating ring which has just opened in the center of the russian capital. more world news in brief this friday and first to yemen were heavy shelling between army and tribesmen in the country's second largest city of taiz as left thirteen

people dead including civilians and dozens more were injured it happened when troops loyal to president ali abdullah saleh tried to storm the town center a hotbed of the anti-government protests that have been raging since january all roads leading into to use were blocked by the fierce fighting that has left outlying districts isolated the emmy government accuses them main opposition party of being behind. this spike in violence comes in the wake of a power transfer deal to an interim government to have an early election next year . the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has said there will be no immediate and to american sanctions on myanmar in a meeting with the country's president clinton urged the nation to continue making reforms in order to have the restrictions on with that included in the list of requests was the release of political prisoners and the promotion of internal peace clinton said myanmar must prove reforms will last before any action is to.

the trial former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is due to reopen on friday in the land the seventy five year old is accused of paying our age prosecute for sex and twenty tan is also charged with the abuse of power for getting the moroccan born girl released from custody after she was arrested for theft but denied the accusations actor george clooney and soccer star cristiano ronaldo are among witnesses expected to give testimony during the trial and a bit later on in our cross started a shell will get the answers of how the pakistani government can attempt to reconstruct relations with the u.s. when and how american sentiment is running so high before that we'll take a look at what's happening in the world of business with kareena. o. and welcome to

a paper thanks for joining me russia goes to the polls on sunday to choose who sits in parliament election season or when he concluded with a presidential vote in early march through experience of the global economy is having a effect on the election campaign and unlike previous years the government has not ramped up public spending ahead of the vote. i think it reflects that the economy is growing quite strongly on its own it reflects concern of the global environment and the desire for more prudent policy but i think it also means. we're starting from the slightly stronger position. than other warranties so complete is that we are going to see some increases in spending and cut some times at the beginning of next year we're going to see big increase in police a big increase in military pay and a big part and social contribution tax so there is already. increase in spending programs into the budget twenty twelve regardless of the result of the election.

german industrial john siemens will launch a new gas turbine manufacturing venture together with its russian partner power sheens siemens will hold two thirds of the venture with total investment of around two hundred seventy 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 facilities r.t. caught up with the head of cedars energy unit gave gave us an idea of what the companies are teaming up for. if you take the fish and sea level the average of ghosts just far here in russia if you would exchange them for the state of the art technology which can save the amounts of stress you're exporting every year which is a third of the whole production and this is the gold which is driving us and that's the way we see the markets. look at the markets now all is heading for its first

week again in three clashes between iran and the west has sparked speculation that middle east supply may be at risk that's despite concerns demand may falter in the u.s. china and europe q two global economic slowdown asian shares a mixed ahead of a key u.s. jobs report due out later in the day after rolling chopping the previous session japan's nikkei at a point half percent while hong kong is losing a quarter less than a quarter of a percent carmakers are gaining in tokyo motor over one percent after the automaker posted an almost twenty percent gain in the w. where sales. and russian markets are trading flat to positive let's have a look at some individual shammal banking stocks bounced back from earlier losses with russia's biggest lender spare bank gaining point two percent carmaker after vases on the rise as well the company's sales rose thirteen percent in the first eleven months of the year and shares of dunn producer plunged forty percent after

seeing the similar growth at the very start of the trading session. so corporate news now ikea russia has posted revenue growth of 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 will have no problem with double digit growth in the future. i think so even though when there was a lot of it not all discussion around the christmas things will drop and you have the election secured but i think coming back to the strength of the concept i think the key concept suits there well the market in the majority of people and when things are slowing down. when you know when people have nice money in their purse and they say ok and it's cool tweaky i'm buying something or things and have some affordable food i think we have a concept that suits many people and especially when you have when you have

a slowdown in the economy. that's your update for now more in about fifteen minutes . if. the room in. the brain the fists

. just seemed to. say. i am. as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for dumas seats causing flooding here put in the small seats good to me to live in two thousand and eight it may do so again in points well after midday for post putin for the presidency current campaign slogan the future is not a priority needs modernization suckling inequality fighting corruption maximizing losses in fights international affairs.