great. comfortable. unique. so different but the only one. moscow. authorities say egypt's first round of elections has seen the highest turnout ever but the results are delayed with forecasts suggesting the islamists winning. the un condemns human rights violations in syria although russia votes against the resolution saying the motion is one so i did 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 and turning britain into a safe haven for serious offenders from abroad our top stories this hour.

international news in comments around the clock around the world this is. egyptian officials turn up for the opening round of parliamentary elections has been the highest in the country since the pharaohs the official results are still being delayed but predictions give the lead to the islamist muslim brotherhood party to more election stages are to be held by january and artie's paula smear reports. well we're hearing from the military council record results will be announced today saturday but this is the third time that such an announcement has been made those election results were first are supposed to be given on the waynes gate we are also now 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 review after some questions were raised about irregularities and the way that the percentage of sixty two was actually weak so we

might actually hear later today that the voter turnout is significantly lower we haven't yet heard the result of the political party's history in these elections but there has been a lot of talk a lot of initial exit polls and a lot of rumors that have been bandied about 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 its own and the latest figures need to have that at some fifty 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 passed the care of that in recent days has seen as an honest parties coming to the fore now what is significant about these results particularly 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 merely continue to do as well because their hold and the 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 to come for me isn't on this policy he's not makes we will 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 once who are going to these elections most of them have been taking to the streets of the past two weeks and months earlier this year they say that these votes. they say that they did not change a real reality on the ground and the writing court in the 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 cabinet that is being formed by the new prime minister come out all guns already he has already made. and some of the cabinet at least a dozen ministers one of whom are actually ministers from we've seen in the same portfolio this includes the same foreign minister to 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 nothing is changing. and paula is monitoring the situation in car you can follow updates from her on twitter feed and we can look on screen and see her latest tweet she says that hundreds continue they're sitting on top here square claiming the vote is illegitimate and the turnout is significantly lower than the government posts. underscore com and get

the latest from current. u.n. human rights council as possible solution condemning violations committed by the syrian authorities the document appoints a special investigator to look into the government's abuses during the uprising which has gone on for months and calls for the main un bodies to take action russia and china voted against the resolution saying it might lead to a foreign intervention under the pretext of human rights with moscow and beijing believe the motion ignores crimes committed by the rebels and will only aggravate the crisis. think that it is the role of the international community to help resolve internal crisis through promoting dialogue what would don't understand is why if that can be done in yemen that cannot apply to syria in syria some out from the outset the message which has been set up from some quarters capitals is there no way dialogue can help those who go into dialogue we should stop it immediately

the 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 to smell blood and to 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. well syria's main opposition group is bound to come ties with iran has been if the current government goes professor you know and belton director of the transcend peace university told r.t. that that agenda goes very well with the regional interests of some other countries . the western intend this of course to split of suit completely from any rain and connection as they see it in yemen the worse there is with the leadership and against the opposition. there with the opposition and against the leadership

cutting it much too sharp so it's a question of where the big boys the big boys which group are the big boys fighting the big wasted but it's so typical. libya being played again. that would probably cost much more and worse many more civilians than the lives that will protect and it will set the tone for the award will go on for a long time. r.t. live here in moscow with you twenty four hours a day still to come this unemployment falls in the u.s. a sign of recovery or massaging the figures. these are real jobs this is a plantation economy. we look at whether the recent drop in joblessness reflects the real state of things in the american economy. but also still to come for you investigate how the russian speaking community in the former soviet republic of a stoner is falling victim to what they call a language inquisition often losing jobs for speaking their native tongue. a

story still to come but first in britain an article on the all 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 in reality by criminals because they can overturn decisions to deport them for their offenses by using the legal loophole that allows them to stay your smith explains the rights to our family life is not an absolute right and it must not be used to drive. 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 paul 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

mr broom 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. he basically for a guy trapped under the wheels in the water car amy's killer asso mohammed abraham already had a string of minor convictions even before he moved her down and fled but because he subsequently fathered 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 his social life and a killer who lived with his parents in may this year it was revealed that nearly four thousand foreign criminals were 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 used the human rights act to avoid deportation the vast majority citing the right 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 even him 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 that we have torches in the aftermath of the second world war so make sure that we always. go into society on those principles that we hope to. through a grieving father like poll that's missing the point what we have a special we articulate human rights facts we have criminals terrorists murderers this drug dealers oh using the human rights act as a shield to hide behind and so on to stonewall contre. i haven't got a problem where new genuine asylum seekers or think anybody has but what we don't want to see is we will see people abuse and ask what's wrong i think not what needs to be addressed 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.

lancaster. remember you can always find more stories on our website artie dot com let's see what's lined up there right now hacking in but helping out find out how to groups of crack computer whiz kids known as anonymous and teen poison are joining forces to steal from banks and give to the poor. plus a brand new cosmodrome called easton is set to be built in russia's far east you can discover the astronomical amount to be spent on the cutting edge space shuttle launch site all that and plenty more that r.t. dot com. russia's independent election monitoring organization has become embroiled in scandal on the eve of the country's parliamentary poll the company says it's going

to sue russian television channel n.t.v. for violation of privacy the royal began when the channel's journalist went to the offices of the ngo to ask questions about the fact it receives funding from abroad the reporters before starting told they didn't have permission to film and t.v. says it's puzzled that the forceful reaction to the questions asked by its crew the court ruled on friday that the channel should pay a fine of a thousand dollars for violating election coverage laws so today is a day of political silence and russia on sunday millions will head to cast their ballot in the parliamentary called. and tomorrow sunday you can join us for extensive coverage of those elections we'll be bringing you the results the reaction and in-depth analysis of. the campaign closes. the people prepare to speak. in duma election eleven. in-depth coverage of who has won the hearts and minds of the russian people are to

. european leaders are planning what's been described as budgetary intervention in the running of e.u. member states german chancellor angela merkel is pushing for the creation of a fiscal union of euro zone countries would mean that the financial policies of e.u. nations would have to be approved by brussels with penalties for countries which break the rules the move would require changes to the e.u. treaty robert oulds director of the group warns that creating a fiscal union would put an end to democracy within the e.u. . 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 a 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 to try 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 will be run from brussels and frankfurt and that is a plea undemocratic a more store of further trouble in the future with the problems are with the euro and they really do need to recognize 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. as the global economic crisis rages artie's financial pundit next kaiser continues his mission to expose the shadowy figures behind his revelations and for coming up in about fifteen minutes from now but here's a preview. german finance minister says big bazooka not ready would not stem crisis even if it was this suggests to me that in fact wolfgang schauble 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 when 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 colonies and impose austerity measures is that now taken to a much wider level they want to take down the entire euro zone. because a report a little later here in unemployment in the u.s. has dropped to its lowest level in two and a half years according to the latest official figures and what 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 trends forecast gerald celente thinks the democrats are simply spinning the numbers to their own advantage when you look at the real numbers in who got their 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 syme after taxes you know so these are real jobs this is a plantation economy and the big law that no one's talking about as they pump up this week number you need a hundred twenty thousand 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 covers a busy planning the christmas shopping but is there a place for keeping up to date with world events on the lists are often a subpoena conferences 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 so knowing about it so well what do you think is the importance of it don't know anything about it or 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 trip around the city how do you think the european union should handle the greek situation but hear me out so that they really don't follow that closely now what are you guys been following the news. knowledge and. he watches the news i watch the good. 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 to try to political discussion i don't mean the sit down not worldly but i'm being more tension there was having over here it was happening in another country that is somewhat not affecting us do you think that's what most people feel probably what about to 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.

and here is a look at what else is making news around the world iranian diplomats 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 compound in toronto 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 and chant and british slogans. clashes between writers and police in southern peru have seen one person killed and another twenty wounded furious demonstrators blocked the pan-american highway protesting against the expansion of a local prison skirmish flared up when police arrived at the scene to disperse the crowd and clear the way for vehicles is the country's second violent protest this week twenty were injured in peru's north and a demonstration against a mining project on tuesday. police are prepared for riots in south africa as

thousands of protestors begin gathering in durban to raise awareness about climate change billed as a global day of action the demonstrations come as a summit on the topic reaches its halfway mark in the city 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 she's confident industrial countries will renew goals to cut greenhouse gases after their current commitments expires next year. two people were killed and more than fifty injured after a stampede at a close factory in the bangladeshi capital dhaka thousands of workers rushed out of the building after rumors of a fire a staffer for the exits many were trampled underfoot officials said they couldn't find any trace of the fire labor rights groups say safety standards are inadequate in many of the countries. it's that 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 close look at the american troops who struggle with the morality of killing in combat is coming your way shortly here in r.t. and you can watch our special report in the next hour but here's a preview. i had to go through a ten year old boy. we train them how to. develop the orders for them so. we never explain to them why it's ok. most people at the point of looking down and time to pull the trigger became conscientious objectors. i don't remember squeezing the trigger i don't remember seeing him go down well i remember is that we shot. the other side are soldiers too and soldiers do this all the they're trying to kill us we're trying to kill them that's just the ugly face of war.

nothing honorable and. i went to the war zone and i started seeing how i need to change. the way to do the arrival of the other person that's why apply. and that report coming away shortly here on over two decades since the collapse of the soviet union the russian language is coming under pressure in a stone it used to be an official language there but has since faced a clamp down by the authorities the vast russian community is now worried that they will be forced to favor estonian over their native tongue. he has more. russian

speaking fisherman catches a magic fish it promises to fulfill all his wishes in this tony and but he does not understand the language and he jumps. this social ad urges the russian minority in the stone to learn estonia 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 it also applies to people working in the majority of public services. just like other post soviet baltic states estonia 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 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 every so often cursed soviet power never applied and were stricken the languages historians were free to educate in their language she nowadays the authorities have almost banned 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. and i don't

want to sound rude but as long as we leave in this country we have to leave by the lord and i fired those people because they had been warned but did not. win rights activists acknowledge the. all of the law but stressed that in the language case it is not applied properly the law doesn't put any difference between our of us and 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 that is going to activists in another baltic state law to be 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 a stone 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. let's see russia ski see reporting from thailand

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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. he swap seats with dmitri medvedev in two thousand and eight may do so again in twenty twelve after midday to propose putin for the presidency current campaign slogan the future is the last priority needs modernization tackling inequality fighting corruption maximizing russia's impact in international affairs criticized as a monolith that's too slow to react to social change the world for being home to the tons of logic and dmitri medvedev pointed russia election two thousand and eleven on our t.v. .

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