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 overhaul the debt stricken eurozone and save the single currency. egypt's announcing the results of the country's first post revolution elections saying the turnout is the highest in history. every month. to represent the people in town here still say they want the military out from cairo interest a few moments. a

thousand strong march sweeps through new york to demand more jobs and better working conditions echoing the occupy movement. international news and comment around the clock around the world this is. the u.n. 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 are 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. syria has and will. 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 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 has 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 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 you know a little creative and said to the united nations human rights council and those allegations of never been verified or check and have been you was also as much tell you all for as the i.c.c. case against maybe. a march seventeenth u.n.

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 well being and so i can tell you as a man when to the united nations human rights council we seem and which we're seamen 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 u.n. 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 julian

asked bush a 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. in the car that he was the terrorist was a criminal on june twenty seventh international criminal court prosecutor luis a complement and his request for arrest warrants for moammar gadhafi saif al islam and get off his intelligence chief was granted. through 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 based on information bush you give yourself 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. in iraq 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 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. the un human rights council has also called for urgent

action to protect civilians in syria and condemn the regime for alleged crimes against humanity dr marcus papadopoulos the editor of politics first online magazine says moscow had grounds to question the international view of events in syria 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 we're seeing that the testimonies are based on members of the syrian opposition people who have a vested interest in seeing that down for president assad so i don't believe any significant should be attached to these findings and i think moscow is correct to question the findings in these in this report 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 how the american british

and french governments a demonizing president assad and taking the side of the syrian opposition it's not help in the situation one bit whatsoever and of course given their actions the there is always a potential for further escalation of the conflict but i don't necessarily believe that it's inevitable bear has to be mediation between the two parties. the person essentially in charge of europe's purse strings says there is no easy fix to the eurozone 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 going off as 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 city budgets and more importantly over their debts and defacto the introduction of such a fiscal union it would also mean like the revisal of the european union france and germany are also calling for the introduction of tougher sanctions against those countries which can't be there bills under merkel trusts that did germany will not support via 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 you've got a piece going on there will speak to economy 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. 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 say 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 also for the us summit next week and when under the american 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 american says we don't want euro bonds and with our bureau bonds the euro one 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. michael ross talking to me to learn it will still to come this hour here in r.t. deadly blast in deadline run up and casualties are on the rise in afghanistan we

look at how the situation in the region will change after foreign troops withdraw in twenty fourteen and. i work hard every day that we don't even have to make these to rub together. deployed for better jobs opportunities drives a fresh wave of protests in new york as a wealthy few pay thirty five thousand dollars each to attend an obama reelection fundraiser. the story still to come first egypt's started releasing the results of the country's historic elections after a forty eight hour delay it's the first voting after the fabry uprisings that toppled president hosni mubarak people flock to polling stations for two days well let's get more now from ortiz paula she's live in a car right so we know it's too early to say what all of the results so far. well the big news here at the moment is the voter turnout of some sixty two percent of this announcement was made friday paid. commission which means that in essence

some million egyptians turned out to cast their ballots in this the first phase of voting for the lower house of parliament now when one announcement was made at a press conference a huge cheer erupted from within the crowd the head of the electoral commission saying that this was the largest voter turnout in egypt in history indeed to quote him he said that not since the time of the sabers had so many people had a say in the future political direction of this country but he did admit that they had been some irregularities not enough he says to actually challenge the outcome of these votes that so me that the electro officers would be looking at these irregularities in central rounds of voting now it is widely expected that the muslim brotherhood also the strongest support base the figure being bandied about is some forty percent. the brotherhood which was established back in one nine hundred twenty eight has set as its platform various slogans that include rooting out corruption reviving the economy and transforming this country to democracy the

sort of this is expected to come in second with between twenty to thirty percent of what this really shows is that there is a strong is in the midst support in these elections who is the son of first certainly representing a much more conservative islam and that is going to be really one of the hallmarks of these elections. will there was still the issue boycotted the vote how a very viewing the outcome. how many of those thousands are in toughness square just behind me and they really has been no reaction from the square as these first election results start to trickle in and this is largely because people here say that these elections are illegal they should not be happening now and they attribute the fact that there was such a high turnout to water any luzhin people have they say of actually being able to change the country and to some extent this is supported by analysts who has the warning about reading too much into these election results it's still not clear how

exactly the problem in full function for example it's still not clear just how much power the army is going to be giving up and that is why many observers are saying that the road they paid for the egyptian political map remains as walky and as uncertain as ever now they were supposed to be a million people turning out into the square today friday we did not see those kind of numbers of walking around the square just a short time ago people come up to us as a foreign crew they show us posters of people who have been killed in the last two weeks of violence people who they call martyrs so certainly here in tahrir here they remain a very strong spirit of revolution over what we are witnessing is declining numbers actually turning out in the streets to protest paula thanks very much indeed for that live update from karachi. 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 the 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 the head of the twenty fourteen deadline with a substantial presence is expected to remain to train locals. from the school of international affairs in new delhi thinks america is only staying on in the region to serve its own interests it's an unfortunate historical reality that long after the immediate security needs in the rat race on that or for us forces is over this stay on they will be serious and then they hunker down and that is you know typically the way united states has view all data curity through the lenses of its military bases which continue to be all over seven hundred number so although there is an argument that president obama and his team are now moving towards you know an area will be a security policy where they will have only. 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 strategy where they hunker down and steer 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. aarti dot com is always online for 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 stupid and that's when i actually got scared. a russian woman who earned her right to remain in the u.k. after being wrongly accused of espionage it talks about a year long battle against the british security services. part of the london hunts for foreign spooks there seems to be a lack of agents in its own ranks as intelligence services seek to recruit geeks through cobra game on the internet. a vast

new protests were swept through new york and 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 one hundred unions and the reason these people say they're out on the street is that they are frustrated and fed up with the eyes economic disparity between the rich and poor they see with more than fourteen million americans unemployed at the moment the 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 have by the occupy wall street movement for over the past two months are now being forced by

labor 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 taking part in the suspense 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 in 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 less people don't come out now and make sure that we're so heard. we're caught every day. in that we don't even have to make nice 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 construction might get to school. better that's what it is people finally

said all 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 more than thirty five thousand dollars per ticket to a time it was so many here say that. that shows they are different 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 will multiply by an enormous amount in the coming months reporting from new york marina or ny or r.t. . and now let's update you on more news from around the world this hour for the business news. the u.k. foreign office has confirmed that the iranian diplomat expelled from the london

embassy of left the country they were told to go after the british embassy was stormed in tehran on tuesday the european union has also agreed on a coordinated withdrawal of passages from iran and fresh sanctions have been issued against the iranian central bank an oil industry by the u.s. and the e.u. to stifle the country's alleged nuclear weapons program. limits of you please government troops have shelled residential areas for the fourth day straight reportedly killing up to five people residents shellfire 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 friday morning the opposition to be pushing for an end to present some is thirty three year reign. hundreds of survivors of one of the world's worst industrial disasters held a protest in india angry chemical sponsorship of the london olympic games the company was responsible for a lethal gas leak that killed an estimated fifteen thousand people in bhopal in one

thousand nine hundred eighty four protesters burned have a g.'s of two members of the games committee on the now abandoned side of the disaster activists accuse the chemical weapon i should say 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 member found gunned down in monterey or wednesday suspected victims of cartel attacks drug related violence is on the increase in northern mexico and is estimated to have killed forty thousand people in the last few years. well shortly we'll be asking whether the u.s. government can solve its relations with pakistan after misguided drone strikes continue to kill civilians there that's in cross talk but before that let's get the business update with dimitri.

for a warm welcome to business r.t. russia goes to the polls on sunday to choose who sits in parliament the election season or will then be concluded with the presidential vote in early march the week states of the global economy is having a no bleak effect on the campaign and the unlike previous years the government has not ramped up public spending ahead 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 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. secular 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 day crisis banks were some of the biggest gainers with b.m.p. power imbalance of sedition are up more than eight percent. russia ended the week flat as investors cashed out before the election we can but overall it was very positive. nine point four percent m i six six point seven percent in five sessions we look at some of the main movers on the mice you see the financials and energy shares with some of the biggest gainers was burbank gaining more than two percent but carmaker after viruses was lower after reporting so thirteen percent for the

first eleven months of the year here cause our chief investment officer at some life isin capital wraps up today. the markets market is more going on there was a two wave for 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 e.c.v. about the swap rate decrease also there was a decrease of the raid by china's central bank on the other hand there was a chinese p. . my which came lower than expected still i was point seems to the nine but still it was not the influence was unlimited on the market some markets are very positive this week on the back of the central bank here's. mike here rush is posted 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 discussion in russia that after christmas things will drop you have the election secured but i think going back to the to the strength of the concept i think your concept suits very well the market in the majority of people where things are slowing down where 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. so for now the headlines are next on as you do stay with us if you get.

culture is that so much a given to each musician to find the market going from very high to even worse this is the stage of us pakistan relations after a cross border attack that left up to twenty pakistani. move. to.

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me devil operation on our cheek. well into the future of science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for a do list seats party leader vladimir putin he swapped seats with dmitri medvedev in two thousand and eight and may do so again in twenty twelve after a majority of proposed putin for the presidency current campaign slogan future is dos priorities modernization and tackling inequality fighting corruption maximizing russia's impact.