if the parties have surged to overwhelming victory in the opening round of egypt's first post revolution election according to official results on local reports. the arab league gives syria a sunday deadline to accept foreign observers into the country also a small action it follows un human rights council resolution condemning damascus for violence emotion russia opposed saying it was a one sided. voting is underway in of russia's parliamentary elections as polling stations opened in the east of the country with counting to begin after the ballot closes nationwide on sunday.

international news live from moscow this is r.c. with me thanks for joining us first islamist parties have searched an overwhelming victory in the opening round of egypt's first post revolution election according to official results and local reports newspapers reported the freedom and justice party the political wing of the muslim brotherhood has won around forty percent of the vote meanwhile the new party a fundamentalist organization has won twenty five percent the country's main liberal outlines the egyptian blogger around fifteen percent of the vote the country's high elections commission has said it will release official results but partly it's only january after all three stages of the election for the people's assembly have finished off he has all the details from cairo for us i think because we have now received confirmation of how political parties have done in this first round of voting and as one sentence a pated the muslim brotherhood's political arm the freedom and justice party has

come in they. quartered by the ultra conservative party of the party and a reminder that this party has the better parents to push for religious codes and then in third position as was predicted is the coalition of liberal parties known as the drug from bloc now we are hearing reaction from israel it has called these developments to quote the israeli government very disturbing he's a defense minister and he says that he hopes in egypt without fear international treaties that it has signed in the past particularly the shaky nine hundred seventy nine peace treaty with israel the muslim brotherhood has always been to this peace treaty it has close ties with ten months and in this respect mass has issued a statement on its website commending the egyptian people for what it says clearly showing support is a must be running call in talking square remains much the same as it has been three

weeks now and that is that people there simply do not believe the commitment of the promise by the government and the military the military is saying that it will step down once a new parliament is in place mixture and it has to this independent in the government under kemal own guns and then this have been warning not to read too much into these elections it's still not clear exactly how this new law will be structured how much power it will have and its sucking off you know how much power the military in the long run is prepared to hand over. all she's reporting there from cairo and you can find more details on the historic elections from her on her twitter feed. the arab league has given syria until sunday to accept observers to monitor and rest in the country and face more sanctions and has also banned one thousand syrian officials from travel to arab states and has frozen their assets this comes as army deserters have clashed with government troops and a new outbreak of violence was twenty five people reportedly killed on both sides

meanwhile designer wife council has passed a resolution condemning alleged violations by the syrian authorities and appointing a special investigator to probe into the matter but russia and china voted against the motion saying it ignores crimes committed by the opposition and might lead to foreign intervention under the pretext of protecting human rights with a book with think that it is the role of the international community to help resolve internal crisis. promoting dialogue what we don't understand is why if that can be done in yemen that cannot oblige us a mile from the outset the message which has been set up from some quarters but also is there no way 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 blood ship and to encourage it. this is what the united nations is about this is what the security council is about and the leading wings of the countries opposition the syrian national council and the free syrian army have agreed to work together to meeting in turkey the council has vowed to cut ties with iran hezbollah and hamas if they are sad regime goes professor. of the transept peace universe decides that corresponds to the regional interests of foreign powers . the western intend course to split completely from any range and connection as they see it in yemen the west is with the leadership and against the opposition. with your position against the leadership. and march to a shark so it's

a question of where the big boys are the big boys which group and the big boys fighting the big western parts to keep the conversion of the libya being played again be referred to and because that would probably cost much more and more many more civilians than the loads that will protect and it will to turn for the border to go on for a long time. voting in russia's election so the lower house of parliament or state duma has kicked off in the east of the country seven parties that fighting to overcome a threshold of seven percent of votes needed to win seats but this is the first time that those running which get five or six percent will also be represented in parliament but only within one or two seats the outcome of most interest is whether the ruling united russia party manages to keep its majority of over two thirds the number needed to pass amendments to the constitution in the lower house they lections are being monitored by international observers from seventeen european countries the u.s. and israel and of voters in russia's east being followed elsewhere across the

nation thrives to nine times i was around one hundred thousand polling stations are to open in russia through the day as both police and military officers are on high alert for the elections in ten regions ballots have been printed not only in russia but also in other local languages the last ones to cause their votes will be citizens of kaliningrad they westernmost region of the country and they will start to vote in about three hours. and our reporters will provide all the latest on those elections from the central election commission and all the main political parties headquarters all sunday so stay with us for the results reaction and in-depth analysis. company closes. the people prepare to speak. in duma election eleven. in-depth coverage of has won the hearts and minds of the russian people or to.

european leaders are planning was being described as budgetary intervention in the running of the young member states german chancellor angela merkel is pushing for the creation of a fiscal union of euro zone countries it would mean that the financial policies of the u. nations would have to be approved by brussels with penalties for countries which break the rules the move would require changes to the new treaty that old direct overbridge group was that creating a fiscal union would put an end to democracy over there. 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 get thrown and they're going to cap more problems onto that by creating a fiscal union which will mean that government tax and spend policy will in

a sense would be wrong form brussels and frankfurt that is a new deeply undemocratic 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 aussie's financial pundit mocks kinds it continues his mission to expose the shadowy figures behind it and his revelations in full at coming up this summer 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 economies and impose austerity measures is that now taken to a much wider level they want to take down the entire eurozone. unemployment in the u.s. has dropped to its lowest level in turn to have years according to the latest official figures and while it could bring truth to block obama in the run up to elections republicans are unimpressed saying the jobless rate is still higher than when he took office and trends for cost of things the democrats are simply spinning

the numbers to their 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 why that's why i'm 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. doesn't that americans are struggling to find wire cutters that this is planning their christmas shopping but it's not a place for keeping up to date with well violence on that knowing often as has been looking fonts is 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 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 powering 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 don't 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 worlds.

and celtic on the souring on r.t.e. of raising their hands against iraqis in their native tongue find out how they work for speaking minority of the former soviet republic of astronomy is suffering from the so-called language police. inversion an article of the human virus angst ensures the rights to a family life for those who live there but what sounds found paper is being used in reality by criminals because they can of the turn decisions to deport them for their offenses by using the legal loophole that allows them to stay on. planes the right to a family life is not an absolute right and it must not be used to drive a coach 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 cross and. the driver of the car the runner or. encourage long corridor on the bomb of the car and . she became trapped under the wheels of the car. he basically fled the scene and left the 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 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 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 eva 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 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. going to go into society on those principles that we hope to hear through a grieving father. like a poll that's missing the point what we have a special we articulate human rights facts we have criminals terrorists murderers rapists drug dealers or using the human rights act as a shield to hide behind and so i want to stone contra. i haven't got a problem with any genuine asylum seekers or think anybody has but what we don't want to see is we don't all see people abusing or not what's wrong i think not what

needs to be addressed amy was pulls 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. . is that part of a soldier's alive that can never be forgotten or undone when they pull the trigger with another person in their sights and into absolute the american troops who struggle with the morality of killing in combat it's coming your way next hour here in austin. i had to go through the ten year old boy over there. 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

consciences objectors. i don't remember squeezing the trigger ma'am i don't remember seeing him go down all i remember is that we shot at him. so. it's. the other side are soldiers too and soldiers to assault and they're trying to kill us we're trying to kill them and that's just the ugly face of war just. nothing honorable and killing. i went to the war zone and i started seeing how i need to change. the only way to do there's not a bit of a rival and still another person that's why i'm applying for a concert subject. oh oh

. over two decades of the soviet union and as they were speaking minority in a state here has been suffering because of their mother tongue native speaker discrimination and can lose their jobs seemingly unprotected by the european union or its human rights provisions r.t. the next. russian speaking fisherman catches a magic fish it promises to fulfill all his wishes in a story in but he does not understand the language and he dumps it this social ad urges the russian minority in the story here to learn estonian in a rather amusing fashion the reality is no joke at all. all 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 story 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 is 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 soon if you're through every so often cursed soviet power never applied and were stricken the 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. 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 acknowledged the rule of the law but stressed that in the language case it is not applied properly because of the law doesn't put any difference between narva were 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 direct 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 a stony despite being criticized 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 stone. refer to a quick look at some other news stories from around the world latest poll that has killed three troops in eastern afghanistan this comes as the u.s. state department's top of the show robert blake says washington is considering setting up a military base in the country after nato coalition forces withdraw the statement was made during his official visit that the trick is done there are around one hundred forty thousand international troops in afghanistan due to withdrawal by the end of twenty fourteen. indian police have clashed with protesters angry over a lack of compensation for the world's worst industrial accident violence marks the

twenty seventh anniversary of the pile disaster in which the union carbide pesticide plant to leave lethal gas killing around fifteen thousand and poisoned up to half a million people the indian government wants another one point seven billion dollars for the victims after a previous administration settled in one thousand nine hundred eighty five for around a quarter of that but demonstrators are demanding around eight billion dollars compensation. the biggest cake in the world weighing three tons has drawn thousands of visitors to watch and each the colossal creation of the festive season the spirit of christmas has been traditionally marked in dresden with the annual cake parade almost two hundred million of raisins have been used in the dry and a stall in cake how many calories it involves well talk about that. and remember you can always find most stories on our website home and he has a water line for you right now. after his bursting into flames find out why some i

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