the u.n. human rights watchdog agrees to send an investigator to look at abuse allegations in syria but russia votes against saying a report criticizing the government crackdown is not the full picture. germany predicts it could take years to over stricken eurozone and save the single currency . the results of egypt's first post revolution elections are yet to be announced but the muslim brotherhood is already celebrating. everything because you want to maintain represent what people in town here feel free they want. more from cairo in just a few moments. strong

sweeps through new york to demand more jobs and better working conditions echoing the occupy movements. across the markets and the week flats with a wave of selling in the final minutes of trade on friday as investors decide to play it safe by head of an election weekend more than twenty. international news and comment around the clock around the world this is good to have you with us this hour the u.n. human rights council has appointed a special investigator to look at like ations of abuse in syria linked to a government crackdown on protesters russia and china were among those who voted against the resolution which criticized damascus says the u.n. report which led to the vote was not fully objective and the international

community is receiving biased accounts of what's happening in the country. as more . the doubts being raised when it comes to syria is certainly coming from russia specifically on the objectivity of the report saying that this is unilateral prejudicial and biased reports about events that the u.n. and human rights council is getting especially because it's coming from about two hundred witnesses and doesn't reflect the situation on the ground it has to be said though that almost all of the countries if not all have expressed concerns about what's going on in syria the question here that he is raised is on the process of gathering that evidence to condemn serious specially when calling for tougher russian lucia on the country again if we remember this is the third meeting a special meeting held on the situation in syria and this is also right after the fresh sanctions from the e.u. just slapped on thursday on certain individuals and organizations as well as in addition to arab league sanctions which were the toughest imposed on an arab state

an arab nation and russia through all of this again maintain that sanctions they are against all of those and would rather see the two sides in the country sitting down and still talking to the u.n. has called the situation on the ground a civil war saying that about more more than four thousand syrians have already been killed so it's not so what the doubts expressed is not so much to say that this is not happening it's so much questioning the legal process a process of gathering evidence in order to support tougher resolution on a country because in effect this is calling the international community to come up with a strong move short of a humanitarian war as we had seen in libya so once again the questions be race now on syria reminds us of the questions that have been raised before that humanitarian war was launched in libya there is no evidence to justify the humanitarian war in libya that's the conclusion of filmmaker and independent journalist. beginning of the story we got so many good. united nations

human rights council and. never been verified or check and zeus have been you was also as my tell you all falls in your i.c.c. case begins to be. a march seventeenth un security council resolution one thousand nine hundred 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 i can prove that there was no bombing all i know is that there is no evidence of warming and so i can tell you as a man who went to the united nations human rights council the reason seem angry or seamen which again was the 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 gadhafi is government and that session a decision was taken to freeze libya's membership and the council he underlined the number of deaths six thousand including three thousand in tripoli alone when julia asked which she gear how these claims can be verified he pointed to the former rebels now libya's government as his source here where i got that information from the libyan prime minister that mr mahmood of the warfalla 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 it is very likely that some crimes attributed to their feet in this conflict were farce or exaggerated but we got of khadafi for us in the could he was the terrorist was a criminal on june twenty seven the international criminal court prosecutor luis

a compliment at his request for arrest warrants for more market offie saif al islam and get off this intelligence chief was granted. to the pages for the arrest warrant application most of which were redacted but among the pages soaked into the public were use of articles to support the case one of which was which if your several twenty fifth speech one basin information bush you give yourself said you got to be anti c 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. international law even cheerleaders of the intervention admit tends to be sacrificed. you are certainly right but they will do something which is not politically correct i don't believe so much in international law is just a tool used. for political purposes regardless point is simply this with such legal systems in place any claims first

and foremost should be farly investigated a point he hopes will be heard before the next humanitarian war is waged does are still your r.t. brussels. well for more on the situation in syria we can now talk to dr marcus papadopoulos he's the editor of politics first online magazine joining us there in london while the un human rights council is accusing syrian government forces of crimes against humanity in their actions against protesters but these findings are based on just over two hundred testimonies from witnesses with russia calling the report biased is moscow right to question these conclusions. well i think that russia has been behaving in a very responsible manner in relation to the ongoing violence in syria and also in accordance with international law and i think that moscow israelites question the conclusions in this report this report needs to be approached in the same way that a court of law would approach it with impartiality each statement needs to be

analyzed and also in particular the sources need to be scrutinized and if we do that with this report that the testimonies are based on members of the syrian opposition people who have crested interest in seeing that down for president assad so i don't believe any significant should be attached to these findings and of course it's not the first time we've seen such reports we saw such reports regarding kosovo we saw them regard in iraq we saw them began to libya and they've all been proved to be completely incorrect so i think moscow is correct to question the findings that they see in this report but nevertheless the majority members of the human rights council are clearly very concerned and the chief has called for urgent action to protect civilians there in syria so what further steps could we expect from the u.n. now. well theoretically there's a whole host of steps that the u.n.

could put forward for discussion for example there could be talk about a no fly zone over syria as what we saw with libya and also today the reports has recommended that president assad. be referred to the international criminal court but i think realistically speaking if the difference between syria and libya is the russian factor russia has made it very clear that what happened in libya will not happen in syria and they've already. vetoed a resolution of the security council so i you know of course it's going to be a whole a lot more talk by the u.n. of what can be done but i think the russian facts proved to be a critical one but the u.n. human rights council is saying that basically witnessing a civil war in syria with more than four thousand already killed so it is not a wider conflict now inevitable. certainly the situation in syria is very very

war in that there's a terrible loss of life but i don't think i don't face and never support there's going to be an escalation of the of the conflict what needs to happen is that the international community needs to act as a mediator between the syrian government and the opposition parties that's what really needs to happen and unfortunately it's not helping and how the american british and french governments are demonizing president assad and the taking the side of the syrian opposition it's not help in the situation one bit whatsoever and of course given their actions there is always a potential for further escalation of the conflict but i don't necessarily believe that it's inevitable there has to be a mediation between the two parties you mention libya a little earlier the situation seems slightly different when we look at the international reaction so far there is an unusual unity isn't there among arab nations europe and the u.s. all backing pressure on president assad this is pretty significant isn't it this

kind of international unity which we didn't actually see over libya. ald i probably disagree with you i think we did see this unity over libya i mean we saw how the arab league came on board with what's the american government was saying and what the europeans were saying i think in explaining the arab league's position. arab countries have been watching with horror of what's happening with the so-called arab the arab spring and i think i think they want to be seen as being on board with nato the most powerful military alliance in the world and also if they work for peace certain sections of their public for example it's a missed player who played a major role in libya and also some of the some of the most powerful groups that president assad is facing at the moment so i think the fact that the arab league is taken such a hard line position with syria i think the streets are a host of factors but in particular trying to appease their own their own sections

of their own public markets produce the editor of politics first online magazine there in london thank you for your thoughts thank you very much. the person essentially in charge of europe's purse strings says there is no easy fix to the eurozone crisis and finding a solution will take years german chancellor angela merkel said the region needs a new financial union with stronger controls and debt regulations are going to peace cannot has more. the german chancellor continued pressing on the policy currently being put forward by germany and france which are the keep winners of the euro zone and the idea is to create a fiscal union which would include all seventeen members of the eurozone and perhaps all members of the european union as well it would create more essential ization off our more control over states delegates and more importantly over their debts and defacto the introduction of such a fiscal union it would also mean what they revise all of the european union france

and germany are also calling for the introduction of tougher sanctions against those countries which can't pay their bills until merkel stressed that it germany will not support the idea of euro bonds well all seventeen members of the eurozone would share the responsibility for these loans germany has already allocated billions of euros to support the weaker members of the eurozone at the same time and other key players of the e.u. great britain also wants to take part in the every formation process this all comes as some of the key players of the e.u. are set to meet in brussels next week of course this would include germany and france and we're expecting that they're going to continue putting forward this policy of creating the fiscal union revising the european union treaty meanwhile tens of thousands of protesters there marched in brussels against the e.u. austerity measures these protests were organized by the three major unions and it

just really shows the levels of tensions among the ordinary people ordinary europeans as the big players in politics are trying to resolve the current situation europe is going off there one aspect economic analyst michael ross who told me he agrees with the e.u. monetary chief who warned the eurozone is running out of time to tackle its debt. we in fact don't have years we have only days in order to solve this crisis and with the words of under an american today we can see that acquires is not solved every week we have a new emergency meeting every week we have a news every week we have new hopes and every wreak nothing happens so this is the prognosis of forecasts of the for the e.u. summit next week and when under market says no to euro bonds this means nothing else then no to the euro because you must not be an economist to know that the common currency cannot work without

a common bond market so all because of the fact that germany is not permitted to pull out of the euro until american says we don't want euro bonds and with our bureau bonds the euro work in europe we are twenty seven different countries with different cultures and different ways of living and of course we don't want to be ruled by brussels it is a fact that if you have a common currency you have to have a centralized government but this nobody wants to greece don't want it to germany don't want it and maybe also the french don't want this. still to come this hour deadly blast and deadline run up as casualties are on the rise in afghanistan we look at how the situation in the region will change after foreign troops withdrawal in twenty eight fourteen and. i work hard every day that we don't even have to make nice to rub together demand for better jobs and opportunities drives a fresh wave of protests in new york and wolf if you paid thirty five thousand

dollars each to attend the bomber reelection fundraiser. the story still to come but first the gyptian is awaiting for the results of the country's historic parliamentary election the announcement of the two day voting has been postponed twice and is now expected within a few well as paul is larry's gauging the mood in current the latest word is that the election results will be made at around eight o'clock this evening local time but no one here is holding their breath those results already more than forty eight hours too late people are already celebrating and by people i mean the muslim brotherhood it's posted on its web site that it expects to walk away with some fifty percent of vote now this is not a big surprise the brotherhood is the largest the most well organized and one of the longest standing political groupings here in egypt but perhaps what is a surprise is the strong showing are these salafi us our new a group now they're predicting that they will receive some fifty percent of the

vote and according to their spokesperson they will impose a strict religious rule on the parliament if indeed the parliament is given the power to actually do anything this has raised concerns particularly among six interest they talking about a strong is the must move of this country the elections are with the usual reports of irregularities you have been hearing stories from the stories that the brotherhood has been giving people food and money to vote for it there's also been concern expressed that many of the candidates the simply lack the experience to run an effective in mixing campaign. in terms of voter turnout the figure being bandied about is roughly seventy percent a very strong showing but if you talk to people here in cafes where they say that people turned out in large numbers largely because they have been hoping the idealism that things really can change in this country just about everybody here in turkey is telling me that that hope is badly placed that things will remain much the same because the rallying point which you can hear behind me has not changed in

town here and that is for the military to step down immediately. one person has been killed and some seventy people injured after a taliban suicide bomber targeted a nato military base in afghanistan the attack occurred just south of the capital kabul a suicide bomber is said to have used a truck packed with explosives it's cause more concern over just how stable the country is as u.s. combat troops start their withdrawal of the twenty fourteen deadline although a substantial presence is expected to remain to train locals. from the school of international affairs in new delhi thinks america rizzoli staying on in the region to serve its own interests it's an unfortunate you started to reality that long after the immediate security needs and the rights on that or for u.s. forces is over this stay on they will be says and then they hunker down and that is you know typically the united states has viewed the curity through the lens of its military bases which continue to be all over seven hundred number so although there

is an argument that president obama and the steam are now moving towards you know an area security policy we have only competent resume you know to braun's into helicopters and that they don't really want people on the ground occupying countries for a long time the reality is that the pentagon is pushing for the same strategy we had been hunker down and stay there for as long as we can so this is going to mean that even after twenty fourteen it will become a justification for the united states to stay on for much longer this is a recipe for more and more instability more and more suicide attacks more and more terror attacks and more and more casualties. pati dot com is always on life you with a lot more stories and eye catching videos and here's some of what you'll find there right now. the questions they were asking. absolutely. and that's when i actually got. a russian woman who earned her right to remain in the u.k. after being wrongly accused of espionage talks about a year long battle against the british security services. but as london hunts for

foreign spooks there seems to be a lack of agents in his own ranks as intelligence services seek to recruit geeks through a code breaking game on the internet those stories available to r.t. dot com. a vast new protest wave swept through new yorkers some twenty thousand people marched demanding better job and economic opportunities the demonstration was organized by labor unions but the rhetoric borrowed liberally from the occupy movement which has been protesting in the u.s. for months artie's marina portnoy heard the voices of discontent. this event 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 i think an ominous disparity between the rich and poor the sick with more than fourteen million on there against mine employed at the moment the one percent the richest one percent in 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 over the past two months are now being voiced by labor unions at a 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 taking part in this bed are walking around with signs and think we are the ninety nine percent we are the backbone and the working class of the united states that is being ignored for you people force this country and as you can see it's a nationally. because the people who are making making decisions now they will with little we have. people who don't come out now and make sure that we're so heard. that we're caught every day. in 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 hard every day get up four thirty every morning. to do construction might get to school. that's what it is people finally said all the irony here is that on wednesday u.s. president problem 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 tight. many here say that. that shows. that it's we acted if we should be embedded in what is being voiced by the od the constituents and they say they did things are not change the crowd that you see out here almost to ply by an enormous amount in the coming months according to the new york marina or ny r.t. . before the business news with dmitri let's check out some other news from around

the world in our world update the u.s. senate has approved a list of harsh sanctions against the iranian central bank an oil industry with a view to stifling the country's alleged nuclear weapons program the sanctions will effectively ban foreign companies from doing business with the iranian central. pose for sanctions yesterday and agreed on a coordinated would draw all of the. arab nation given iran's position as a primary oil exporter many worry the sanctions could backfire on western economies . in the yemeni city of tell us government troops shelled residential areas for the fourth straight killing three residents a shell fire came from tanks positioned in the hills around the city as well as a clash between government troops and dissident tribesmen in the city center early on friday morning the opposition wants an end to president sunday's thirty three year reign. hundreds of survivors of one of the world's worst industrial disasters have the protests in india angry at the chemical sponsorship of the london olympic

games the company was responsible for a lethal gas leak that killed an estimated fifteen thousand people in the pile in nineteen eighty-four just as if it is a two members of the mint the committee now abandoned signs of the disaster activists accuse the chemical company of failing to clear the contamination caused by the tragedy. but to bring you up to date for the moment with the some of our main news stories in six minutes from now as promised dimitris next with a business. thanks bill russia goes to the polls on sunday to choose who sits and part of it the election season will then be included with the presidential vote in early march the week states of the global economy is having a no blink effect on the campaign analysts say unlike previous years the government has not ramped up public spending a head of the vote. i think it reflects that the economy's growing quite strongly on its own it reflects concern about the global environment and

a 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 the second thing to say is that we are going to see some increases in spending and cuts in tax at the beginning of next year we're going to see big increase in police pay a big increase in military pay and a big cuts in social contribution tax so there is already increase in spending programmed into the budget twenty twelve regardless of the result of the election. cycle to the markets this hour and latest jobs data is out in the united states is supporting the market because it's showing the economy added one hundred twenty thousand jobs in november bringing the unemployment rate down to two and a half year low of eight point six percent. this is the close in europe also higher markets over there investors are more optimistic of the german

chancellor angela merkel made the point of issues already to tackle your zones debt crisis taking a tough stance banks and resource stocks were on the rise be. more than eight percent. russia ended the week flat as investors cashed out before the election we can but overall it was very strong. nine point four percent my six six point seven percent in five sessions take a look at what's been moving the my six at the end of trade most blue chips were recovering from losses seeing in the in the morning when russia's largest lenders burbank up two percent of the close carmaker after it was down three and a half percent after reporting sales growth of thirteen percent of the first eleven months of the year you get a call with our chief investment officer on capital wraps up the day for the markets market is moving on the was it to wait for the week. there was a news in the middle of the week about the news the actions of the central banks

are all divorced including federal reserve including e.c.v. about the swap rate decrease also there was a decrease of the rate by china's central bank on the other hand there was a chinese be my which came lower than expected still i was point seems to the nine but still it was not the influence was limited on the market some markets are very positive this week on the back of the central bank news. hike here russia has posted revenue growth of fourteen percent this year the company's new general director in the country attributes the success to ickes ideology of offering affordable goods he says the company will have no problem maintaining double digit growth in the future i think so even though when there's a lot of a lot of discussion in russia that after christmas things will drop you have the election secured but i think coming back to the to the strength of the concept i think your concept suits very well the market and the majority of people where

things are slowing down. when people have less money in their purse and they say ok let's go to some more 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. coming up next i'll see the headlines with their.

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