if the most part is i will well maybe it will be the opening round of those posts revolution elections in egypt with around two thirds of the votes. the arab league gave syria a sunday deadline to accept foreign observers into the country old face more action it follows a gun rights council resolution condemning damascus for violence emotional russia opposed the need for one sided. bludgeon is underway in russia's parliamentary elections as polling stations open in the east of the country with the counting to begin after the ballot closes nationwide on sunday.

hello and welcome to r.t. twenty four hour news live from moscow volatile main story now official results of first post-revolutionary actions in egypt have been released with islamist parties overwhelmingly winning the opening round of the pull with around two thirds of the votes newspapers reported the freedom and justice party the political wing of the muslim brotherhood has won around forty percent meanwhile the new pontiff fundamentalist organization has won twenty five percent of the country's main liberal allies the egyptian blog got around fifteen percent of the blood the country's high elections commission has said it will release official results for possible it's only january also also restage is of the election for the people's assembly finished also we want to see it has all the details from cairo for us and i think we have now received confirmation of how political parties have done in this first round of voting and as one's interests are paid to the muslim

brotherhood's political arm the freedom and justice party has come in pros they've been followed by the ultra conservative party of the party and a reminder that this party has the better parents to push forth could. religious codes and then in third position as was predicted is the coalition of liberal party is known as the drug from bloc now we are hearing reaction from israel it has called these developments to quote the israeli government very very disturbing he's a defense minister and he says that he hopes that in egypt without fear into mashi treaties that it has signed in the past particularly the now shaking 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 a mass has issued a statement on its website commending the egyptian people for what it says clearly showing support for what is a must be running call in talking square remains much the same as it has been three

weeks now and that is at people who 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 end of point in the government under kemal on guns really analysts have been warning not to read too much into these elections it's still not clear exactly how this new problem which 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. also has policy of 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 the rest of the country are facing more sanctions it has also banned nineteen syrian officials from travel to arab states and has frozen their assets this comes as army dessert is have clashed with government troops and

a new outbreak of violence was twenty five people reportedly killed on both sides meanwhile the un human rights 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 vote against the motion saying no crimes committed by the opposition and knightly to foreign intervention under the pretext of protecting human rights of well we think that it is the role of the international community to a dry cold resolve internal crisis. promoting dialogue what we don't understand is why that can be done in yemen that cannot apply to syria in serious imo from the outset the message which has been set up from some quarters capitals is that 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 to smell blood to affirm confrontation but the international community is there to prevent further bloodshed and to encourage it encouraged 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 to cut ties with iran has blind hamas if there are some version and professor your hundred gulden of the trance and peace university says that corresponds to the regional interests of foreign powers. the western intend this of course to split of syria completely from any range and connection as they see it in yemen the west is with the leadership and against the opposition. in syria there will be oppositional against the leadership cutting in march to a shark so it's

a question of where the big boys are the big boys which group of the big boys fighting the big western parts to keep the condition of the libya being played again in the road that you would be following that would probably cost much more and more many more civilians than the loaves that will protect and it will set the tone for a war that will go on for a long time. voting in russia's elections to the lower house of parliament does day duma has kicked off in the east of the country seven parties that fighting to overcome a threshold of seventy percent of votes needed to win for presentation at this is the first time that's those running which get five or six percent will also be represented in parliament but only would have wanted to see the outcome of most interest is whether they really 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 elections are being monitored by international observers from seventeen european countries the u.s.

and israel and voters in russia's studying followed elsewhere across the nation throughout the nine times i was around one hundred thousand polling stations will be open with both police and military 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 the citizens of kaliningrad they westernmost region of the country and they will start to vote in about us. and our live coverage of those election starts in just an hour once polling stations open in the russian capital so stay with us for the first results reaction and in depth and. account closes. the people prepare to speak. in duma election eleven. in-depth coverage of has won the hearts and minds of the russian people on the party's. european leaders are planning was being described as

a budgetary intervention in the running of the u. number states german chancellor angela merkel is pushing for the creation of a fiscal union of the eurozone countries it would mean that the financial policy is over your nation's would have to be approved by brussels with penalties for countries would break the rules the move would require changes to the treaty and robert oulds director of the bruise group warns that crazing a fiscal union would put amends to democracy within. 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 then they're going to cap more problems onto that by creating a fiscal union which will mean that government's tax and spend policy will in

a sense would be wrong form brussels and frankfurt that is a deeply undemocratic move stored 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 they're stuck in the straight jacket of the european single currency. meanwhile unemployment in the u.s. has its lowest level in turn to health care is according to the latest official figures and while it could bring trip to barack obama in the run up to elections republicans are unimpressed saying they'd jump this rate is still higher than when he took on fits transfer cost. things that democrats simply spinning the numbers to their advantage when you look at the real numbers in who got the jobs it's

food stamp employee 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 the time 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. but as many americans are

struggling to find one who god is a busy planning that christmas shopping but is that place for keeping up to date with world events and that lists the way home finance has been looking for answers on the streets of new york for. 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 annoyed 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 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 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'm not going to get to try to political discussion i don't mean the sit down not worldly but i'm being more attention there was have been 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. so to come this hour for you here in our sea of raising their hands against erasing their native tongue to find out how the russian speaking minority in the former

soviet republic of hysteria is suffering from the so-called language school. and verse in the article of the human rights act ensures the rights to family life for those who live there but also sounds found 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 on his last minutes explains 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 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 cross in iraq mr abraham 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 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 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 embedded in international law you know that we have tortured 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 paul 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 where the genuine asylum seekers at all think anybody has but what we don't want to see is we don't see people abusing or not what's wrong i think not what needs to be addressed amy was pulled only child he now lives alone spending his time campaigning against article eight and wondering why the rights of his daughters immigrant killer outweigh his own laura smith forty.

is a part of a soldier's life that can never be forgotten or undone when they pull the trigger with another person in their sights that ended in an in-depth look rather at the american troops who struggle with the morality of killing in combat is coming your way out of the headlines here in our city. i had to go through a ten year old boy over there. we train him out of jail we his 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 conscientious objectors. i don't remember squeezing the trigger i don't remember seeing him go down when i remember is that we shot at him.

but. the other side are soldiers too and soldiers do it all the time they are trying to kill us we're trying to kill them and that's just the ugly face of war just. gets. nothing honorable and kelly. i went to the war zone and i started seeing how i need to change. and the only way to do there is not pick up a rifle and kill another person that's why i'm applying for a concert subject. over two decades says the soviet union and as they russian speaking minority in that stadium has been suffering because of their mother tongue native speakers face

discrimination and can lose their jobs they are protected by the european union or it's human rights provisions that if he or she has not. a 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 dumps it this social and 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 it so often curse soviet power never applied in the restrictions of languages the stoniest 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 that is 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. 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 not. human 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 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 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. see reporting from thailand in a story. here's a look now at what else is making news around the world nathan summers a roadside bomb 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 was draw the statement was made during his of the short visit to the gigot stan there are around one hundred forty thousand international troops in afghanistan due to his drop 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 marked the twenty seventh anniversary of the book paul disaster in which a union carbide pesticide plant leaks 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 the one nine hundred eighty five or around the corner about what does traitors are demanding around eight billion dollars compensation. the biggest cake in the world way through returns has drawn thousands of visitors to watch and to ease the colossal creation the festive season and the spirit of christmas has been traditionally marked in dresden with the annual cake parade almost two hundred million of raisins have been in the dry and shortened cake how many calories it involves well we won't ask about that. remember you can always find more stories on our website it's not a dot com and here's what's on line for you that right now. apple's busting into flames point out why some it's going because the hottest touchscreens on the market . and bought a pop tell you trawled see out told great dollars stars battle it's out on the downslope it's an international contest here in moscow. and i will

back with a recap our top stories in just a few moments stated. as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for juma seats

party leader gennady zyuganov types the achievements of communism from before his time but he's criticized for his rebel small with the russian orthodox church current campaign slogan the politics of the majority is made to when we return the motherland stolen from us priorities free education and housing pushing illegal immigration and introducing ethnicity stumps in passports party success story second in all presidential elections since the end of the u.s.s.r. criticized. for exploiting soviet nostalgia with pensioners and to just contented industrial working class known for its red flags with the hammer and sickle and the communist party of the russian federation election two thousand and eleven on our t.v. . sets. phone watches show every single move. and waiting for you to stumble.

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as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for duma seats the party's ever present leader love him usually ne by far russia's most boisterous and controversial bully politician current campaign slogan we are for russians priorities food housing transport and science big success here in northeast polls third in russia's first presidential election critics cry over racist remarks personal violence and populist slogans known. for putting them out britain says poisoned alexander litvinenko on the party list and ensuring his parliamentary protection. the liberal democratic party of russia election two thousand and eleven fund r.t. .

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