but the first round of elections are seen the highest turnout ever but the results are delayed with forecasts suggesting the islamists are winning. the un human rights violations in syria although russia votes against the resolution saying the motion is one sided only aggravates 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 a top stories. international

news incoming to around the clock around the world this is the egyptian officials say turnout for the opening round of parliamentary elections has been the highest in the country since the pharoahs 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. reports. well we're going for the military council record results will be announced today saturday that this is the third time that such an announcement has been made those election results with they're supposed to be given on the way in state we also know hearing from the 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 the view off to some questions were raised about irregularities and the way that that the same to sixty two was actually reached so we might actually here later today that

the voter turnout is significantly lower we haven't yet heard the results of the political parties who stood in these elections but there has been a lot of talk a lot of initial exit polls and a lot of rumors that has 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 off between forty to fifty five percent in second position is likely to be ultra conservative enough its own and 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 there and 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 if africa that in recent months has seen as an honest 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 some in cairo and in that xandra so when

islamist parties have such a strong showing in urban cities it does set the stage that in the next two phases of these voting the islamists will merely continue to do as well because their hold and their 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 form isn't on this policies not next week we'll see the second phase of voting the system. house of parliament the third phase will be in january and then we will be voting hold for the upper house of parliament will serve you there is a significant number of egyptians who are against these elections most of them have been taken to the streets of the past two weeks and months earlier this year they say that these votes are the go they say that they did not change real reality on the ground and the rallying call into this square does remain the same and that is for the military to step down immediately the concern amongst these egyptians 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 all week he has already named some of the cabinet at least a dozen ministers all of whom are actually ministers from the previous regime in the same portfolio this includes the same foreign minister includes 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 is just merely more ammunition for protesters in tahrir square who say that nothing is changing. paula is monitoring the situation in caro you can follow what dates from her twitter feed and in her latest tweets reports of hundreds continued there sitting on top here square claiming the vote is illegitimate the turnout is significantly lower than the government post photos at all to underscore coleman get the latest from the current. un human rights council as possible solution condemning fall ations

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 for the you and buddies 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 motion ignores crimes committed by the rebels and will only aggravate the crisis. we think that it is that all of the international community to help resolve internal crisis through promoting dialogue what don't understand is that why if that can be done in yemen that cannot be applied to see it in syria as a mile from the outset the message which has been set forth 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 smell blood and to found confrontation but the international community is there to prevent further bloodshed and to encourage it encourage dialogue this is what the united nations is about this is what the security council is about. well syria's main opposition group has vowed to cut ties with iran hezbollah and hamas if the current government goes professor your hand delton director of the trans and 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 syria completely from any range and connection as they see it in the west with the stiffest. and in syria there with your position and against the leadership cutting it much too shy

so it's a question of where the big boys sound a big voice which group and the big boys live in. the big western parts so people can do. is libya being played again we have heard that too and. that would probably cost much more and more many more civilians than the lives they would protect and it will set the pattern for the border to go on for a long time. still to come this hour here on r.t. unemployment falls in the us a sign of recovery or message in 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. class or investigate how the russian speaking community in the former soviet republic of a stone year is falling victim to what they call a language inquisition often losing jobs for speaking their native language.

in britain an 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 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 artes nor smith explains the right to a 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 mr broom the driver of the car the runner or. current on the corridor on the apollo

the car and. she became trapped under the wheels of the car and. he basically fled the scene a little diatribe on the wilson or car amy's killer so mohammed ibrahim already had a string of minor convictions even before he moved her down and fled but because he 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 either 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 two options in the aftermath of the second world war so make sure that we always in

a range is over in society and those principles that we hope to hear through a grieving father like paul that's missing the point what we have especially articulate human rights facts we have criminals terrorists. drug dealers or use and human rights acts as a shield to hyper hind and. contra. the genuine asylum seekers and also coming up the house but what we don't want to say is we will see people abuse and wrong i think. amy was paul's only child now lives alone spending his time campaigning against article eight and wondering why the rights of his daughters immigrants killer outweigh his own laura smith r.t. . forty live in moscow remember you can always find more stories all over. side art

dot com in addition to what you see here on screen let's see what's lined up there right now. helping else you can find out how to groups of crack computer whiz kids known as anonymous and 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'll discover the astronomical amount to be spent on the cutting edge space shuttle side all that and plenty more for you dot com. russia's independent election monitoring organization is becoming broiled and 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 there all began when the channel's journalist went to the

offices of the ngo to ask questions about the fact it receives funding from abroad for the reporters before starting told they didn't have permission to film and t.v. says it's puzzled at the forceful reaction to the questions asked by its crew and a court ruled on friday that the channel should pay a fine of a thousand dollars for violating pre-election coverage laws saturday is a day of political silence here in russia as on sunday millions will head to cast their ballots in the parliament tree. and tomorrow on sunday you can join us for extensive coverage of those elections where we bring you the results the reaction and in-depth analysis. closes. the people prepare to speak. in duma election. coverage of those one hundred miles of the russian.

european leaders are planning what's being 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 now that 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 bridge group 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 and the interests of 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 or in

a sense will be run from brussels and frankfurt and that is a deeply undemocratic and will store up further trouble in the future with 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 this stuck in the strait jacket of the european single currency. as the global economic crisis rages artie's financial pundit max kaiser continues his mission to expose the shadowy figures behind it his revelations in full are coming up later today 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 report a little later here in r.t. 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 for costa general selenski thinks the democrats are simply spinning the numbers to their own advantage but 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 slime 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 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. when it's many americans are struggling to find work there's a busy planning their christmas shopping but is there a place for keeping up to date with world events on their lists their health and this has been looking for answers on the streets of new york. are people 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 but 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 to 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 plowing in 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 am not going to go to try to political discussion i don't mean the sit down not worldly but i'm be a more tense know 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. here's a look at what else is making news around the world in our world update if you are interested 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 british diplomatic compounds in tehran western officials blame iran's leadership for allegedly endorsing the attacks crowds of students gathered at tara to show their support for the diplomats and chant anti british slang. clashes between rioters and police in southern peru have seen one person killed and another twenty one peers demonstrators blocked the pan-american highway protesting against the expansion of a local prison the skirmish flared up when police arrived at the scene to disperse the crowd and clear the way for vehicles to the country's second violent protest this week twenty injured improves north in a demonstration against the mining project on tuesday. these 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 come as a summit on the topic reaches its halfway mark in the city negotiations a focus on how the next period of agreements will be shaped who will participate and under what rules the top u.n. official says she's confident industrial countries will renew goals to cut greenhouse gases after their current commitments expire next year. or so i welled up at this hour two people were killed and more than fifty injured after a stampede at the clothes factory in the bangladeshi capital dhaka thousands of workers rushed out of the building after rumors of a fire and stuff ran for the exits many were trampled underfoot officials said they couldn't find any traces of labor rights groups say safety standards are adequate in many of the country's factories. what is that part of

a soldier's life that can never be forgotten or undone when they pull the trigger with another man in their sight a close look at the american troops who struggle with the morality of killing in combat is coming your way here on r.t. and you can watch our special report in just under ten minutes from now but in the meantime here is a brief pretty. i had to go through ten year old boy over there. we train him 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 in time to pull the trigger became conscientious objectors. i don't remember squeezing the trigger i don't remember seeing him go down when i remembers that we shot at him. the other side are soldiers too and soldiers do the soldiers and they are trying to

kill us we're trying to kill them and that's just the ugly face of war just. nothing honorable and. i went to the war zone and i started seeing how i need to change. and the only way to do there's a knock at the door rivaling kill another person that's why i'm applying for. the. that special report coming your way very soon here in r.t. over two decades since the collapse of the soviet union the russian language is coming under pressure in a stone year 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'll be forced to favor stonie and over the native tongue artie's alexy has more . 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 stone 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 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 store new language exam the body may then initiate the sacking of this employee human right activists say this has turned a 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 in the restrictions of languages historians were free to educate in their language 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 ian 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 nothing. human rights activists acknowledge the rule of the law but stressed that in the language case it is not applied properly because the law doesn't put any difference between where almost everyone sees russian as their native language and other parts where most of the people speak a stone ian and with such disproportion we can talk of direct language discrimination and indirect ethnic discrimination because 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 odyssey reporting from thailand in a story. coming up to twenty seven minutes past the hour here in the russian capital stay with us for our special report on the moral dilemmas faced by soldiers in battle that's coming up very shortly after a brief look at the headlines stay with us here in moscow this is.

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