you u.n. human rights watchdog agrees to send an investigator to look at abuse allegations in syria russia votes against a report criticizing the government crackdown is not the full picture. germany predicts it could take over stricken eurozone and save the single currency. the results of egypt's first post revolution elections are yet to be a muslim brotherhood is already celebrating. convict. people in traffic they want the military out from cairo in just a few moments. through

new york to demand more jobs and better working conditions echoing the occupy movement. and russian stocks give up most of their. investors in the last minutes of trading ahead of an election we get more than twenty. international news and comment around the clock around the world this is r.t. the un human rights council has appointed a special investigator to look at allegations 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 moscow 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 at the un human rights council is getting especially because it's coming from about two hundred witnesses and it 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 resolution on the country again if we remember this is the third meeting a special meeting held on a 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 resolutions 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's no evidence to justify the humanitarian war in libya that's the conclusion of filmmaker and independent journalists at the beginning of this story we got somebody geisha on which is being. created even said

to the united nations human rights council and those allegations of never been verified or czech and zeus have been used also as my tell you all follows the i.c.c. case against the media. on march seventeenth a 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. come prove that there was no bombing you know is that there is no evidence of warming and so i can tell you was a man went to the united nations human rights council always assume and was freer seaman which again 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 gadhafi is government in that session a decision was taken to freeze libya's membership in 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 car that he was the terrorist was a criminal on june twenty seventh international criminal court prosecutor luis

accomplishment and his request for arrest warrants for more market offie saif al islam and get off this intelligence chief was granted. to the pages of the arrest warrant application most of which were redacted but among the pages soaked into the public were lists of articles to support the case one of which was which against every twenty fifth speech the one place and information bush it self said he got the empty seat 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 tell you something which is not politically correct i don't believe so much in international law is just a tool used in one. for political purposes regardless julius 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. where for more on the situation in syria i can now talk to lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine joining us live there in the states well russia has said that the un human rights report on syria doesn't reflect the real situation in the country what is it that worries russia and china over the un stance. both russia and china are correctly worried about what is behind the policy in syria and also iran. unfortunately president obama is acting on a british geo political plan to force a confrontation with russia and china a military confrontation of which syria and iran would merely be the initial

point but the real goal is a war to stop the progress that russia and china are involved in and of course this could result and i think the russians and the chinese are aware that this could result in world war three so it's extremely dangerous and measures have to be taken now to stop these policies by president obama and the british some would say extremely far reaching views you have there. but let's look at the situation at the moment where we have the majority of those in the human rights council supporting what has been said about the human rights issue there what do you think then could happen next in what way would this problem the next move from the u.n. security council. well i think we can see very clearly look how the situation in libya was run which was the point that now ignited him pushed the whole process

forward you had various claims of human rights abuses so on the tony blair doctrine of the responsibility to protect obama lead in nato bombing drive illegally pointed us constitution so called to protect people so called every humanitarian concern and everybody knew or should have known that this was a policy for regime change and that's what we're looking at here and now i think you've seen the recent involvement again the international criminal court which is a total creation of george soros and this court is being used to carry out regime change all over africa and this is the danger that people see in syria why have a policy of sanctions and all teary intervention why not have a power of diplomatic development and encouraging the country to resolve the

problems as i think the russians and the chinese realise is the best way forward you're talking about regime change there in syria regime change was indeed affected by what the nato did during the libyan conflict not the un human rights chief has actually called for urgent action to protect civilians in syria that is reminiscent of what was said in libya wasn't it or about libya when that no fly zone was imposed. oh yeah look those are the key cold words when they start talking about humanitarian concerns and they really don't care at all about the people this is the same thing that was done against president bashir in sudan they used the key word humanitarian concern and this doctrine of tony blair the responsibility to protect and says ok now we will move in we will decide with our military capability of nato backed up by the u.s. now with the british pulling the strings behind the scenes we were moving in and

this i would is good for a country and this is completely opposite of what the real interest of the united states are and the russians and the chinese are seen as being played out again and they are beginning to respond especially the russians are responding militarily by sending. because nasser of aircraft carriers into the syrian border is is a risky game but the russians are aware of the danger if they don't do it what could happen certainly major implications there you're talking about is very interesting to hear your thoughts lawrence freeman from executive intelligence review magazine live there in baltimore in the usa thank you for your thoughts. the person essential in charge of europe's purse strings says there is no easy fix to the euro zone's debt 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 or to european off has more. the german chancellor continued pressing on the policy currently

being put forward by germany and france which are the keep winners of your 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 state budgets 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 under merkel trust that 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 another 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 and their respective economic analyst michael ross who told me he agrees with the e.u. monetary chief who ruled 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 us summit next week and when under markell 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 under the american service 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 because effect there 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 of the french don't want this one person has been killed and some seventy people injured after a taliban suicide bomber targeted a nato military base in afghanistan just south of the capital kabul a suicide bomber is said to have used a truck packed with explosives it's caused more concern over just how stable the country is as u.s. combat troops start their withdrawal ahead of a twenty fourteen deadline on their substantial presence is expected to remain to train locals. from the school of international affairs in new delhi thinks america's only staying on in the region to serve its own interests. it's an unfortunate historical reality that long after the immediate security needs and the rights on that or for u.s. forces is over they stay on their bill basis and then they hunker down and that is you know typically the way united states has viewed the curity through the lenses

of its military bases which continue to be over seven hundred number so although there is an argument that president obama and his team are now moving towards you know an aerial security policy where they will have only counterterrorism you know two braun's and two 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 or strategy where they hunker down and stay there for as long as they 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 egyptians are waiting for the results and indeed announcing the results of the country's historic parliamentary election they've already been postponed twice but artie's paula slim is gauging the mood at the moment in cairo. 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 the votes 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 these strong showing are these to last us our newer 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 powers to actually do anything this has raised concerns particularly among secularists they talking about a strong islamised 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 to simply lacked the experience to run an

effective in makeshift campaign in terms of voter turnout of the figure being bandied about as roughly seventy percent a very strong showing but if you talk to people here in toughness square they say that people turned out in large numbers largely because they have the hope and the idealism that things really can change in this country but just about everybody here in turkey are 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 interfere and that is for the military to step down immediately just to remind you all to dot com a web site is always online few with a lot more stories night catching videos here's some of what you find there right now should you log on. the questions they were asking. absolutely. and that's when i actually got scared that a russian woman who and her right to remain in the u.k. after being wrongly accused of espionage talks about her year long battle against the british security services. for the london hunts for foreign spooks there

seems to be a lack of agents in its own ranks as intelligence services crude through code breaking going on be. a vast new protest wave are 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. heard the voices of discontent. this event has been organized by the new york city labor council that is an umbrella group 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 out you cannot make this narrative between the rich and poor they say with more than fourteen million americans unemployed 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 have 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 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 ignored for you people for us this country and as we can see it's a nationally. because the people who are making making decisions now they will with little we have. people don't come out now and make sure that we're so heard the last word 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 dig you wish you could get construction might get to school. better that's what it is people finally said all the irony here is that on wednesday the u.s. president probably 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 was so many here say that. that shows another layer just between the elected officials in the united states and what is being voiced by the od the constituents and they say that if things are not changed the crowd that you see out here well modes apply by an enormous amount in the coming months reporting from new york marina or ny our party. dimitris here with the business news shortly but first

let's update you on some more news from around the world in our world update the u.k. foreign office is that the it raised its expelled from the london embassy have left the country they were told to go after the british embassy was told in tehran and choose day european union is also agreed on a coordinator would draw all of the un but it is from iran and first sanctions have been issued against the iranian central bank an oil industry by the u.s. and the e.u. to startle the country's alleged nuclear weapons program. the evidence if you please government troops of shelled residential areas for the fourth day reportedly killing up to five people in some shell fire came from tanks positioned in the hills around the city as well as a clash between the government troops and dissident tribesmen in the city center early on friday morning the opposition have been pushing for an end to the presence of his thirty three year reign. hundreds of survivors of one of the world's worst industrial disasters hold a protest in india angry at chemical sponsorship of the london olympic games the

company was responsible for a little gas leak that killed an estimated fifteen thousand people and in one thousand nine hundred four the test is burn effigies of two members of the games committee on the now abandoned site of the disaster activists accuse the chemical company of failing to clear the contamination caused by the tragedy. the mexican military is reportedly dismantled a huge telecommunication network used by drug cartels in the country's northern provinces the operation uncovered thousands of electrical devices the gangs used to communicate and monitor military movements this comes after six men were found gunned down in monterey on wednesday suspected victims of cartel attacks drug related violence is on the increase in northern mexico and is estimated to have killed forty eight thousand people in the last few years as promised the business news is next with dimitri and i'll be back with a look at the main stories in about six minutes from now.

where a warm welcome to business. goes to the polls on sunday to choose who sits in parliament the election season that will then be concluded with the presidential vote and early march the week states of the global economy is having an effect on the campaign and unlike previous years the government has not ramped up public spending ahead of the votes of. 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 and 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. second look at the markets briefly european markets ended thursday session high on a better than expected jobs report states verses were also optimistic of the german chancellor angela merkel made the point of facials are ready to tackle the euro zone's debt crisis banks were some of the biggest gainers with b.m.p. power balance of sedition and more than eight percent in. russia ended the week flat as investors cashed out before the election we can but overall it was very positive. nine point four percent in my sixty six point seven percent in five sessions if we look at some of the main movers on the mice you see the financials and energy shares with some of the biggest gains was burbank gaining more than two percent but carmaker after virus was lower reporting so thirteen percent for the first eleven months of the year here because our chief investment officer of one

fison capital wraps up today. the market market is more going on there was a two wave from the week there was the news in the middle of the week about the coordinates the actions of the central banks around the world including federal reserve including the swap rate decrease also there is a decrease of the raid by china's central bank on the other hand there was a chinese be my which came with the extract is that i was point seems to the nine but still it was not the influence was limited on the markets and markets are very positive this week on the back of the central bank news. mike here russia's first the revenue growth of fourteen percent in the latest financial year 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 maintaining double digit growth in the future i think so even though when there was 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 the key concept suits very well the market in the majority of people where things are slowing down when when people have less money in their purse and they say ok let's go to buy and 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 so for now the headlines are next on our to stay with us if you can.

as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for duma seats party leader gennady zyuganov types the achievements of communism from before his time but his criticised for his rebel small with the russian orthodox church current campaign slogan the politics of the majority is made to when we return the motherland stolen from us priorities free education and housing punishing illegal immigration and introducing ethnicity stamps in passports party success story

second in all presidential elections since the end of the u.s.s.r. criticized for exploiting soviet nostalgia with pensioners and a discontented industrial working class no no broad for its red flags with the hammer and sickle the communist party of the russian federation duma election two thousand eleven on r.t. . it's a beautiful easy to feel. ill .