great. comfortable. unique. so different but the only one. moscow. authorities say egypt's first round of elections has seen the highest turnout ever with a result. suggesting that the islamists are winning at this point. but you would be condemning these are human rights violations in syria although russia votes against the resolution saying the motion is one sided and will only aggravate the conflict. and a legal loophole in the u.k. is being used as a shield for convicted immigrant criminals saving them from deportation turning britain into a safe haven for serious offenders from abroad. now

seven o'clock on saturday night here in moscow you're watching arts' here with me will receive a shy egyptian officials turn out for the opening round of parliamentary elections has been the highest in the country quote since the time of the pharaohs the official results though are still being delayed for predictions of the lead to the islamist muslim brotherhood party to more election stages are said to be held in january. reports. well we're hearing from the military council record results will be announced today saturday that this is the third time that such an announcement has been made those events from adults with first exposed to be given on the wayne state we also know hearing from the election commission that the voter turnout they gave that stood at sixty two percent which suggested that more than eight million people turned out that that figure is under their view off to some questions were

raised about irregularities and the way that that the same type of sixty two was actually weak so we might actually hear later today that the voter turnout is significant you know well we haven't yet heard the results of the political party's history in these elections but there has been a lot of talk a lot of. exit polls and a lot of rumors that has been badly developed it does seem as if the muslim brotherhood's political party the freedom and justice party will come first with a standing of between forty to fifty five percent and in second position is likely to be ultra conservative enough as in the latest figures we have put that at some thirty to thirty five percent now this is a group that has said that it will push for stricter controls in the parliament bearing of course how much power the parliament at the end of the day is given this is in line with the trend we've been witnessing across who pass the care that in recent months has seen is the longest parties coming to the fore now what is significant about these results particular is that the voting at this stage was

done mostly in urban areas particularly men in cairo and in that xandra so when islamist parties have such a strong showing in urban cities it does fit the stage that in the next two phases of these voting the islamists will never meet continue to do as well because they're cold and they popularity in those kind of areas is much higher it also sets the stage for a coalition to be formed with a significant majority in parliament who come for me isn't on the policies not next week we'll see the second phase of voting this is for the house of parliament the third phase will be in january and then there will be virtually hold for the upper house of parliament seventy there is a significant number of egypt's ms who are going to be easy make since most of them have been taking to the streets of the past two weeks and months earlier this year they say that these votes are illegal they say that they did not change any real reality on the ground and the writing court here square does remain the same and

that is for the military to step down immediately the concern amongst these egypt is that it doesn't really matter whether you hold elections or whether you change the face of the government it is still the military who are pulling the strings behind the scenes now today saturday we do expect the announcement of the new covenant. that is being formed by the new prime minister come out. he has already named some of the cabinet at least a dozen ministers one of whom are actually ministers from the previous regime in the same for thirty years this includes the same foreign minister i think the same information minister and while they will be new means who will be forming part of this government the fact that such a significant majority remain part of the previous government it's just merely more ammunition for protesters in tahrir square who said that nothing is changing. his policy reporting right i want to see is monitoring that situation in cairo you can follow her updates on twitter feed in her latest tweet as we can see here she reports that hundreds continue the sit in on her rear square claiming the vote is

illegitimate and the turnout is significantly lower than what the government do follow her underscore calm get the latest from the streets of cairo. the un human rights council has passed a resolution condemning violations committed by syrian authorities and the document appoints a special investigator to look into the government's abuses during the months long calls for the main un body to take action russia and china voted against the resolution saying it might lead to a foreign intervention under the pretext of human rights both moscow and beijing believe the motion ignores crimes committed by the rebels will only aggravate the crisis i think that it is the role of the international community to help resolve the internal crisis. promoting dialogue what we don't understand is that why for that can be done in yemen that cannot be applied to serious imo from the outset

the message which has been set forth from some quarters capitals is there is no way dialogue can help those who go into dialogue they should stop it immediately that there is no future in the arab league. initiative we believe that this is something very counterproductive and this is something which has exacerbated the situation in syria the international community is not there to smell blood. found confrontation but the international community is there to prevent further bloodshed and to encourage it encourage what this is what the united nations is about this is what the security council is about. syria's main opposition group is valid to cut ties with iran hezbollah and have asked if the current government goes professor your hand the director of the transcend peace university told us here at r.t. that the agenda goes very well with the regional interests of some other countries

the western intend this of course to split of syria completely from any raney and connection as they see it in yemen the west is with the leadership and against their position. in syria and they're with the opposition and against the leadership cutting it much too sharp so it's a question of where the big boys saudi big boys which group and the big boys citing the big waste advice that's a typical vision of the libya being played again be referred to in the front that would probably cost much more many more civilians than the lives that will protect and it will set the tone for the award to go on for a long time. we with our two live from moscow we're still to come with this hour here on the program unemployment falls in the united states a sign of recovery or a sign of massaging the figures. these are real jobs this is a plantation economy to look at whether the recent drop in joblessness reflects the

real state of things in the american economy. but reinvestigate how the russian speaking community in the former soviet republic of a stone is falling victim to what they call a language inquisition often losing jobs for just speaking their native. eight minutes past the hour here in moscow in britain article of the human rights act ensures the right to a family life for those who live there but what sounds fair on paper is being used by criminals in reality because they can overturn decisions to deport them for their offenses by using their legal loophole that allows them to stay to shed some light on this artie's laura smith explain the rights to our family life is not an absolute right and it must not be used to drive a coach and horses through our immigration system. article eight an innocuous sounding element in the human rights act but which means having children

can stop illegal immigrants being kicked out of britain no matter what they've done pull houston knows what it's like to have your family destroyed his twelve year old daughter amy was killed in a hit and run by an iraqi who was banned from driving as she was crossing the road . the driver of the car the runner or. encourage on the corridor on the apollo the car and. she became trapped under the wheels of the car and. he basically for dissing a little guy trapped under the wheels of the wall car amy's killer mohammed ibrahim already had a string of minor convictions even before he moved her down and fled but because he's subsequently for the two children by a british woman he still lives in the u.k. it's article eight that keeps him here oddly enough it was one of these that catapulted the issue into the headlines the home secretary seizing on claims that

an illegal bolivian was allowed to stay in this country because of the emotional trauma of separating him from his pet not quite true but it got people talking and noticing much more serious cases including a rapist who successfully argued asylum over his social life and a killer who lived with his parents. in may this year it was revealed that nearly four thousand foreign criminals was set free from detention centers because it was decided they couldn't be deported within a reasonable time among them dozens of rapists murderers and paedophiles separately last year nearly six hundred people use the human rights act to avoid deportation the vast majority citing the rights to a private and family life in the case of amy's killer a series of bungles and delays by the authorities meant that by the time eva haim came up for deportation he appeared to have created

a family despite flimsy evidence about his parenting intentions he was allowed to stay yet she would rights campaigners argue britain's status as a haven for the persecuted is sacred these are very hard back hundreds of years they're they're embedded in international law you know the real torch is in the aftermath of the second world war so make sure that we always been a going to go into society on those principles that we hope to hear through a grieving father like poll that's missing the point what we have a special we are human rights act we have criminals terrorists. drug dealers oh you silly human rights acts as a shield to hide behind. contra. i have got a problem when the genuine asylum seekers have also come in party hard but what we don't want to say is we don't see people abuse and what's wrong i think not. amy

was paul's only child he now lives alone spending his time campaigning against article eight and wondering why the rights of his daughter's immigrant killer outweigh his own laura smith r.t. . now at twelve minutes past the hour here in moscow as you bear in mind you can always find more stories on our website dot com let's see what's lined up for you there right now. helping out find out how to groups of crack computer whiz kids known as anonymous and poison joining forces to steal from the banks and give to the poor or. the head of russia's parliamentary elections or you can begin your battle for power in an online debate the way to wield influence in such a hands. the people prepared to speak. in duma elections eleven.

in-depth coverage of this one the hearts and minds of the russian people. watching r.t. now european leaders are planning what's being described as a budgetary intervention in the running of e.u. member states german chancellor angela merkel is pushing for the creation of a fiscal union of eurozone countries it would mean the financial policies of e.u. nations would have to be approved by brussels with penalties for countries which break the rules or the move would require changes to the e.u. treaty robert oulds the director of the brewers group warns that creating a fiscal union would put an end to democracy within the. if there is a fiscal union which will take years to build in the u. that will mean that there will be the end of democracy within europe it will mean that countries will be effectively governed by the european central bank and germany cannot make thinking and the interests of very few. european elite

based in brussels it's really dangerous i think to centralize power the euro has created a great deal of economic problems and then they're going to have you know cap more problems on to that by creating a fiscal union which will mean that government's tax and spend policy will in a sense be wrong form blossoms and frank first that is a new deeply undemocratic move further trouble in the future for the problems are with the euro and they really do need to recognise that the euro should be broken up into more manageable parts and countries have control over their own economic policies again and that way they can get growth back into europe at the moment the european economy is just stagnating because they're stuck in the straight jacket of the european single currency and as the global economic crisis or roaches on artie's financial pundit max keiser continues his mission to expose the shadowy figures behind it his revelations in full coming your way in about two hours but

for now premier. german finance minister says big bazooka not ready would not stem crisis even if it was this suggests to me that in fact what's getting shelled well is meeting in private with goldman sachs bankers and telling them to short the heck out of europe right now because the plan is to pull the rug out from under them where we saw that in the greece an area remember john paulson the hedge fund manager was in greece in athens shortly before the crisis to call there and was meeting with the government and instructing them on how he was going to rip that country down using massive short sales so this financial terrorism using weapons of mass financial destruction to destroy them. impose austerity measures is that now taken to a much wider level they want to take down the entire eurozone.

now seven fifteen pm here in moscow unemployment in the united states has dropped to its lowest level in two and a half years this according to the latest official figures and while it could bring cheer to barack obama in the run up to elections republicans are unimpressed saying the jobless rate is still higher than when he took office for cost gerald cilento thinks the democrats are simply spinning the numbers to the toral advantage when you look at the real numbers in who got the jobs it's food stamp employees oh there were jobs created in retail you know those wonderful jobs we take people's money and you say have a nice day and there were jobs in hospitality that's another word for cleaning up somebody who's room oh when there were jobs in health care you know working in nursing homes making sixty to fifty

a week by that slime after taxes you know so these are real jobs this is a plantation economy and the big law i that no one's talking about as they pump up this week number you need one hundred twenty five thousand jobs a month just to account for the new people moving in to the economy and population growth so that leaves all the people that have lost all these jobs since the great recession hit still out of work well as many americans are struggling to find work busy planning their christmas shopping but is there a place for keeping up to date with world events on their shopping lists laurie how finessed has been looking for those on since on the streets of new york. i people are aware of what's going on in the world this holiday season are they only interested in shopping this week let's talk about that what do you make of the

first egyptian election since the revolution i don't know anything about well what do you think is the importance of it i don't know anything about that sort of what's on your mind that shopping do you agree with britain's choice to pull out of its embassy in tehran. we don't follow the news these days so i'm not so informed about what do you follow these days. all the dripper on this need to how do you think the european union should handle the greek situation but hear me answer that you really don't follow that closely now what are you guys been following the news . knowledge of. and he watches the news i watch the. what is that h.d.t.v. and the cooking channel did you think nato had a right to pakistan this is getting very political i'm on a five day holiday i'm not going to get into i think political discussion i don't

mean the sit down not worldly but i'm being more tension there was having over it it was happening in another country that is somewhat not affecting us do you think that's what most people feel probably what about you probably whether or not you've crossed everything off your list this holiday the bottom line is you might want to consider taking a break from shopping to find out what's going on in the rest of the world. nearly twenty possible here in the russian capital time for the world update for you now here are some other headlines around the world iranian diplomats have returned home to a hero's welcome after being expelled from the u.k. they were told to leave the country after protesters stormed the british diplomatic compounds in tehran. western officials blame iran's leadership for allegedly endorsing the attacks crowds of students gathered at tehran's airport to show their support for the diplomats chant and british slogans. flashes between rioters and

police in southern peru have seen one person killed at least twenty wounded furious demonstrators blocked the pan-american highway protesting against the expansion of the local prison the skirmish flared up when the police arrived at the scene to disperse the crowd and clear the way for vehicles it's the country's second violent protest this week twenty were injured in peru's north in a demonstration aimed at a mining project on tuesday. police are prepared for riots in south africa as thousands of protesters begin gathering in durban to raise awareness about climate change billed as a global day of action the demonstrations summit on the topic halfway mark in the city the negotiations are focused on how the next period of agreements will be shaped who will participate and under what rules a top u.n. official says that she's confident industrial countries will renew goals to cut greenhouse gases after their current commitments expire next year. two people

killed more than fifty injured after a stampede at a factory in the bangladeshi capital. thousands of workers rushed out of the building off the rumors of a fire. run for the exits many were trampled underfoot officials say they couldn't find any trace of the fire labor rights groups say that safety standards are inadequate in many of the countries. but it's not part of a soldier's life that can never be forgotten or undone when they pull a trigger with another man in their sights a closer look at the american troops who struggle with the morality of killing in combat it's coming your way here and i see you can watch our special report a little bit later today for now a preview. i had to go through the ten year old boy that. we train him how to tell we as officers developed the orders for them to kill. we never explained to them why it's

ok. most people at the point of looking down in time to pull the trigger became conscious objectors. and i don't remember squeezing the trigger man i don't remember seeing him go down well i remember is that we shot him. on the other side are soldiers too and soldiers do it so he did and they're trying to kill us we're trying to kill them and that's just the ugly face of war there's. nothing honorable and kelly. i went to the war zone and i started seeing how i need to change. in the only way to do there's not a bit of

a rival and kill another person that's why i'm applying for constant subject. oh. oh oh oh. you're watching r.t. live from moscow over two decades since the collapse of the soviet union the russian language is coming under pressure in estonia and used to be an official language there but has since faced a clamp down by the north already as the vast russian community is now worried that they'll be forced to favor a stone ian over their native tongue as r.t. is alexy russia port's. a russian speaking fisherman catches a magic fish it promises to fulfill all his wishes in a stone ian but he does not understand the language and he dumps it this social ad urges the russian minority in the stony to learn estonian in a rather amusing fashion the reality is no joke at all. old state

officials are obliged to know the estonian language in the course of their work this is written in our language law it also applies to people working in the majority of public services. just like other post soviet baltic states study has its own language inspection the body which oversees how the language law is being observed at times laying it down quite harshly the language inspection has the legal right to conduct spontaneous checks on anyone working in any sphere and should a person fail the store new language exam the body may then initiate the sacking of this employee human right activists say this has turned the language inspection into a punitive body. it is not that they have nothing to say it's just that they believe their voices are being silenced estonia's three hundred thousand strong russian minority has been protesting at what they describe as the language inquisition some of these people either lost their jobs or are on their threat of doing so because

they are forbidden from speaking their native language soonish us through the so often cursed soviet power never applied in the restrictions of languages historians were free to educate in their language nowadays the authorities. to ban the russian language from schools besides some russian communities don't have qualified teachers who can teach physics or chemistry in a stone in the latest twist five workers at an orphanage were fired for not being able to speak a story into the children that's in a town where ninety six percent of the population are ethnic russians. i don't want to sound rude but as long as we have in this country we have to leave by the lord and i fired those people because they had been warned but did nothing. cumin rights activists acknowledge the rule of the law but stress that in the language case it is not applied properly because of the law doesn't put any difference between we're almost everyone sees russian as their native language and other parts where most of

the people speak a stone and with such disproportion we can talk of direct language discrimination and indirect ethnic discrimination because activists in another baltic states have been gathering signatures and holding a referendum to make russian the second state language and many say they have a strong chance of pushing it through as stony despite being criticised by amnesty international for its language policy is adamant and it seems the russian minority would not catch the magic fish granting their wish anytime soon. see reporting from tallinn in a story. we are coming here live from the heart of what go around our back in just a moment with a recap of our top stars. thank

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