more open democratic society not just one of these of course is expected to fact tourists which is a very important part of it gyptian economy because tourists don't want to go to the country where they are forced to cover their faces and hands of course since moved in brotherhood is supporting the supreme council of armed forces that took power from mubarak last february the minister that has been the backbone. in egyptian politics since the fall of monarchy in the nineteen fifties means the military will stay longer in power and this is of course something also again something people here in egypt are not happy with because they say they want to do the revolution in two thousand and eleven to get rid of the and they don't want another one which is a miniature dictatorship right now this is how they take the things in egypt right now so again we can expect protests and tensions between military and people on the

streets to escalate. for more on the outcome of egypt's parliamentary election we're joined by yaakov lapin a reporter from the jerusalem post who has covered the muslim brotherhood extensively thanks for joining us here on our t.v. so we've just heard from our correspondent in cairo the country could be headed down a more sectarian islamic road do you think the changes will be drastic. i think eventually they will be drastic because the muslim brotherhood has been preparing for this moment for decades they have a very. detailed agenda for how they wish egypt to look like and it's a very different egypt from what we've known until now they're now going to be trying to consolidate their political power to eject the military from power and then they will begin a series of changes to bring egypt in line with their agenda it's going to be a much more religious conservative place and much more hostile to the west and some members of egypt's ultra islamic party came in second in the vote proposed banning

women and christians from holding office ending alcohol sales cutting the hands off even if you think egypt will get the democracy that so many of the protesters in visage during the revolution. well i think this is democracy in egypt it's quite similar to what happened when democracy was introduced in gaza when people call for democracy they may not always realize that the electorate has a very different vision of how they would like their society is run and then in other places such as western europe people have called for democracy in egypt this is the result we have islamist hard line parties coming to power and it's going to be an earthquake for both egypt and for the region the fact that the all new party the second party in terms of size. came well ahead of all the other secular parties is also a sign of where egypt's future direction is headed although egypt's military government

said it will fully hand over power to the new parlor. and there are some worry that they will try to retain its influence in the country what do you think. i think it's a certainty that the military will try and retain power because it's very concerned first of all for the future direction of egypt it does not want the new islamist government making changes that would damage the economy and that would reach egypt away from the west and towards this nice sunni islamist camp that's right rising up the army is very concerned about links between hamas which is also a branch of the islamic brotherhood movement and the new government in cairo and they're also worried about their stake in both egypt and economy in the egyptian political life they've gotten used to running the show and it's going to be very difficult for them now to accept the idea that they're only going to be tasked with defending the country physically and not having a say in how the country is run so i'm sure they're going to try and hold on to power for all those reasons how do you think the small effect egypt's ties with the

rest of the world. as i've said i think egypt is going to start moving away from the pro western camp and it's going to find itself at the center of a new sunni islamist camp that's rising up in the region will be made up of countries such as turkey it would make it made up of gaza under the hamas islamist regime if syria is in syria if such falls it would be very likely that an islamist sunni camp would rise up there and you would see this new regional alliance springing up and i think egypt would be at the heart of that all right yeah i'll plop in a reporter at the jerusalem post thanks for your insight. the arab league is deciding what to do next in syria where airfare ports are true the violence remains unabated it's rumored that the group will extend its observer mission in the country because they think the presence of monitors has reduced the crisis in some areas are sorry for reports from damascus. they add minutes. meeting to present their findings on

what's been happening here in syria and to discuss what their next move will be now the arab league mission in the country to oversee the implementation of the arab peace. syria's government among other things that included the release of political prisoners the withdrawal of the government troops and tanks from some of the towns and cities how successful the sad league mission has been to place it will actually follow the arab league mission in the final three days here in the country now there are questions raised as to the neutrality and the credibility of the mission certainly seeing the way that they operated it couldn't question really just how independently they were able to operate in the country although the size of the poster be speaking to you he said. he didn't really seem to be taking in account of

very thing this being obvious. from every single person he wanted to see another question that's raised a valid question is whether more of these monitors were needed than what is going to be interesting moving food is whether or not this mission is now extended because it can very divisive as a response to what the people want that the hospital not some people think this really is essential to this mission continues and in fact just possibly that i was speaking to one of the former advisors to the government and indeed the previous government here in syria we can listen to his opinion on the situation. the situation. taking place now we are weakening syria if you are syrian and you like syria. where you are. you have to put in your mind that you have to. be working with the other

side. a says anything an escalation of the conflict here in the country will start it off as a peaceful protest if it becomes increasingly to fight if you haven't owned it you know it well now the government have control over again you've got all these different factions no one really knows anymore he was the voice of the people and as it had from a number of people we've been speaking to that radio is in the area of major concern. and sarah ferguson currently on a trip to various parts of syria sending updates on the latest developments in the country via her twitter stream. underscore calm her most recent post from the town of zabadani in the southwest of the country the scene of heavy fighting sara says there's a right now when a ceasefire they're out of the town under government control by the opposition she also says very worried that the violence could erupt again.

capital zagreb police have clashed with protesters trying to pull down the head of the country's membership referendum sunday recent surveys suggest forty percent of the population are against joining the patrick young from investment advisory firm advisers says it's easy to understand because currents can see their neighbors in the bloc facing hard times. the key consideration here is that when we look at the croatian referendum there's been barely one and p. in the entire parliament who's actually been turning round of publicly saying

anything against the e.u. itself so the fact that we have this amazing grind swell of support at something like forty percent easing credible it demonstrates the fact that the political classes are completely and utterly of touch with what the people are thinking and what the people are thinking is quite simple they've seen neighbors they've seen similar who are emerging european countries such as themselves people like slovakia slovenia is stony up all coming into the europe european union they join the euro zone and they find it the worst choice and chalice imaginable because slovakia nurses and pensioners are not getting paid a third of what they would get paid if they were working in greece and to add insult to injury they're actually paying money to the greeks in order to support their euro zone bailouts that's why the people in croatia are deeply concerned and that's why it's going to be a very interesting referendum result tomorrow meanwhile romania one of the newest members is suffering its worst protests in years for the second week running thousands of people are demanding the resignation of the government and president

or medians have been suffering under harsh austerity imposed in order to secure a cash injection from international creditors artie's tabart reports from bucharest . things turn nasty in the streets as book or arrest. protesters have been peaceful for the past few days but now the demonstrations turn violent. voicing as is broken out between police and protesters just behind me you can see the protesters bringing up fences and now going to expect it to clash with the police line here they've started to throw bottles and other things at the police line and they're going to try and push cease . and serious injury to the police line now. this is a voluntary one hope that they could avoid today but it seems that it has broken out after all has

a fence being thrown. at. you earlier in the day found support into the remaining in capital to demand the resignation of a president try and assess for opposition politicians address the crowd all that didn't just come from all over the country means that this right has begun and it must not stop until we reach what we want what we need. back and some people are upset because they've lost their job service because their pension was cut and others because they think humiliated every day there's one thing that unites is all that we all want to say excuse to leave. but later on the mood became more militant. and private all the factions older hospitals school children the country have to walk five kilometers through the snow to school that the youth nowadays what choice do we have to go out and start to steal start my gay people

for perth so we go to italy spain and germany to start to steal what fork we want john but we can see some if you look over the line now some of the missiles but it being thrown. just in stages the police are trying to move forward and create a square with a meeting with a lot of resistance from the first testers and. as the crowd was broken up at greenfield those affected by tear gas. and the struggle of those seized the day and night protesters have been demanding big political change of behavior. but is this is anything. to. root for them. box. coming up a little later max kaiser and stacy herbert compare the economic crisis to the

recent kosta couldn't courtier a cruise disaster focusing on captains abandoning financial ships for a program coming up in two hours time here's a preview. so this captain schettino he's brought to shore he's now everybody knows he's abandoned ship his excuse kosta can cordie had captain says he tripped and fell into lifeboat and that's the reason why he abandoned ship that sounds exactly like the excuses that lloyd blankfein and jamie dimon gave to congress i tripped and fell into tarp that well the algae would be the one that they always is is the market did it this guy saying he tripped into the lifeboat and sell the way lloyd blankfein and jamie diamond are saying well the market accidentally made me a billionaire i don't know if that upper. us congress has yielded to massive online pressure and temporarily shelved two

controversial anti-piracy bills it follows some of the largest ever hacker attacks on americans top government and entertainment industry websites and a massive internet blackout in protest supporters of the legislation claim it will help protect the copyright online but internet giants like google and wikipedia say it will halt the free flow of information lawmakers stressed that although it's too late the initiative could be revived trevor tim from the electronic frontier foundation says the laws are not just and that fighting piracy. unfortunately the provisions were written so broadly that they would probably end up censoring millions of innocent users who never even thought about copyright infringement and the worst part was it wasn't going to stop online piracy you know the bills didn't go directly after the owners of these sites they kind of went around everything around it so it was going to be censored domain names or they were going to be delisted from search engines on the orders of the government or corporations were going to allow be allowed to cut off payment process or an advertiser from these

sites just basically on an allegation and on a closed court order and then again there was going to be broad immunity for a net service providers to its. force these bills so they could end up over blocking sites and capturing innocent users and even blocking sites voluntarily just on the unofficial orders of corporations so that there was a lot of a lot of free speech problems with these bills overall goal of stopping online piracy you know it's it's it's something everybody agrees with but the way they want to about it was just completely expansive and quite frankly ridiculous. well stay with us here on r.t. still ahead this hour. the media have a responsibility to guide the lambing down a better path no let me should have their mind of their own to explore how ready people are to believe me up stories when you throw in a much hype threat to the president out on the streets of new york with more. tame

in the elements and the next winter olympics host city we have people on daily patrol to hunt out avalanches and ensure safety. but first russia's announced plans to build mad research colonies on the moon the country's space agency is due in partnership with nasa and their counterparts in the e.u. to put men back on the lunar surface permanently artie's peter author explains how scientists hope exploring the moon will help us better understand the nature of life back on earth. because most want to send first off to unmanned probes to the surface of the nearest celeste steele neighbor and take samples bring them back to earth so they can be studied and analyzed with the hope eventually that we can set up a permanent base move now this all sounds very science fiction books it could very soon be science fact a moon base has been said that it could very well be a very good place to to launch spacecraft from could also be

a very good place to build spacecraft of course the the gravity of the moon much less than there is a get see the effects less than gravity or zero gravity would have on a spacecraft much more than we could ever simulate on earth hopefully lots of very exciting things that we can see coming up in the next few years they say that hoping to these unmanned probes can be the first step towards perhaps setting up a permanent home on the moon. well moon base is still science fiction for now but some people seem ready to believe anything especially if you throw into the mix a long considered threat artie's laurie harshness went to the streets of new york to find out more. in the case of iran's nuclear capabilities people are quick to make judgments based on what they hear in the media but are they actually listening to what's being said this week let's talk about that do you agree with president obama's initiative to monitor iran's nuclear program from the moon. yes why i think it's important to

know what's going on i do yeah why well just because of the threat to the world what is the threat specifically. our safety has that. we can talk do you agree with his program. i think you're putting me on you don't believe that from the moon. maybe from a satellite but i think you're putting me on would you be surprised to know that a lot of people just say by me that they agree with the program from the moon oh that wouldn't surprise me at all that people not human there are lemmings well furry things i like to jump off cliffs doesn't the media have a responsibility to guide the lemmings down a better path no lemmings should have their mind of their own and they should be educated i mean people are watching t.v. radio internet so it's if you know even if you are looking for some going of

disease you know you find so many interpretations so which one is the right on this difficult yet people say i saw it on internet so i believe it's absolutely true so it's very hard to find the right source most people just don't have the time don't have the inclination come people there to get into it if you ever tried to have a meaningful discussion with someone about politics i try every day it's pretty pretty bad to be honest say you never going to know anyway even if they did put something up there you wouldn't know anyway so. we don't know if. yeah but do you think common sense picked over a little bit oh ok we don't know that deep space but our moon you'd think we would know. tonight they're going to look up the biggest ball they. should come this seems like some people are listening to what's being said and i thinking for them let's just not think catch the much more subtle inaccuracy parted with by the

media every day. take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world beginning in nigeria where the death toll after a series of coordinated gun and bomb attacks has now climbed to more than one hundred fifty people the radical islamist sect boko haram has claimed responsibility for targeting different locations including police stations and a regional police headquarters the group which is behind a string of bombings in the region recently claimed the attacks were in response to authorities refused to release members their members from prison. the yemeni parliament has approved immunity from prosecution for president ali abdullah saleh to leave for the u.s. to seek medical treatment he's been accused of suppressing protests and killing the yemeni people but under those working under the president could still face legal action solly will formally hand over power next month after thirty three years at

the helm of the country and is expected to return to oman after his stay in the u.s. . divers a blast and more holes in the stricken cruise liner coast to concordia as they continue searching for survivors after a twelve victor was recovered booms have been placed around the cops ice ship as light fuel begins leaking into the water near the vessel or about how often million gallons of heavy fuel and hundreds of tons of diesel oil aboard twenty people remain missing after the ship ran aground off the italian coast a week ago. and heavy snow is always good news. skiers and snowboarders but it could spell danger for thrill seekers artie's dennis polaski spoke with those fighting avalanches in the host city of the next winter olympics sochi. sochi avalanche hunters have explosives and cannons on their side. their mission to keep the mountain peaks clear and say.

it's been snowing heavily in sochi this weekend skip full of magnificent but what may seem is just snow to most of us can provide prize last day total recall avalon chanters the avalanche team surveys every new can cranny of the resort they say russians love to push the boundaries and many skiers like riding off the beaten track need is the team's lead expert he uses computers and weather stations to monitor the snow fall but being a local who's been living in the caucasus mountains for over forty years the man says there is more to his job than that the snow is a living being it has its own life you just have to learn how to understand it and this in turn is only possible if you spend your life with it at times the snow can turn nasty if there's more than twenty centimeters chances are high it's going to slide for real prudes the clues are easy to discover if you know if the guy was not

a thirty thirty centimeter coleman tall one and only hit it with the show exactly ten times very slightly as the colon falls apart at some point that means the snow is too soft and it will collapse in the morning survey it's over so now it's time for snow angels to descend to their headquarters and pass on the good news. given permission to have. started to keep cars. in february and march this resort will host an competitions bringing new challenges for the. head of the two thousand games when the venue faces its test learning to team the white beast. than ever. are to sochi remember there's plenty more stories available twenty four seven here's a bit of what's waiting for you now on our website. and see how waste is being put

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sturdy agger of protest rock romania the bloc second poorest country leading to the nation's worst violence in more than a decade. capital account up next stay with us here on r.t. . good afternoon and happy friday welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington d.c. as the u.s. heads into the presidential primary in south carolina the most recent republican debate had gingrich defending his marriage more reality brawny defending his tax returns and the only one making real sense of the country in terms of dollars dollar bills. are going to see the federal government have a currency that. is will lack of more opinions like that in washington helping turn cash into trash we'll talk to mike maloney founder of gold silver dot com about the path the u.s. is on.