yes where up in romania of the walk second poorest country leading to the nation's worst violence and more than a decade. nine pm in moscow i matras are good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story this hour islam is parties are the overwhelming winners of egypt's first post revolution parliamentary elections the final results show of the muslim brotherhood claiming forty seven percent of the lower house of parliament will hold its first session in just two days artie's marie if the notion of reports from cairo the fact that the absolute majority over the first palm and two of new age of to post mubarak age of to be taken by islam is some conservative parties means that . the secular right now will be. strictly religious codes and of course this is something people will not be happy with this is not

something they wanted they've been fighting for more open democratic society 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 just supporting the supreme council of armed forces that took power from mubarak last february the misery that has been the backbone. egyptian politics since the fall of monarchy in the nineteen fifties means that the minute you 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 a dictatorship right now this is how they take the things in egypt right now so again we can expect protests and tensions between ministry and people on the

streets to escalate. around the outcome of egypt's parliamentary election and we're joined by 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 that 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 islamize party came in second in the vote proposed banning women and christians from holding office ending alcohol sales cutting the hands off 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 this 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 parliament there are some already that it 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 require egypt away from the west and towards this new sunni islamist camp that's right rising up the army is very concerned about links between hamas which is also a branch of these lawmakers 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 affecting your 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 it 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 for reports are true the violence remains unabated interim or 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

r.t. sorry for reports from damascus. the arab league ministers going to be meeting to present their findings on what's been happening in syria and to discuss what the next move will be now the arab league mission which in the country to oversee the implementation of the arab peace plan by the syrian government now among other things that included the releasing political prisoners and the withdrawal of the government troops and tanks from some of the towns and cities how successful the sad league mission has been to play simple yet to be fully the arab league mission in that final day here in the country now there are questions raised as to the child and the credibility of the mission certainly seeing the way that they operated it clued into question really just how independent they were able to operate in the country on other sites as. he said he didn't really seem to

be taking in account of everything that they couldn't have heard from every single person he wanted to speak in another question that's raised about this mission is whether more of these monitors were needed then what is going to be interesting moving food is whether or not this mission is not extended because it can very divisive as a response to what the people want that's a hospital no some people think this really is essential to this mission continues and in fact just possibly that top i was speaking to one of the former advisers to the government and indeed the previous government here in syria we can listen to his opinion on the situation. the situation. no weakening syria if you are syrian and you like syria well there you are a sort of or you are indeed a position you have to put in your mind that you have to work with the other side

it's working with the other side. that's both anything and after lation all the conflict here in the country will started off as a peaceful protest that it's become increasingly to fight that if you haven't owned it to be an area where now the government no longer have control over again you've got all these different factions no one really knows anymore he was the voice of the people and i think that from a number of people we've been speaking i think that where he 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 you can check it out at r.t. underscore com 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 are you using cease fire they're out of the town under government control by the opposition she also says locals seem very worried that the violence could it erupt again.

its. capital zagreb police have clashed with protesters trying to pull down the flag ahead 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 devi advisors 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 crew ition 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've joined 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 using 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 romanians have been suffering under harsh austerity imposed in order to secure a cash injection from international creditors artie's tom barton 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 file. fighting as spruiking out between police and protesters just behind me you can see deep testers bringing up fences and now been expected 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 east fantasies into 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 there's a fence being thrown. earlier in the day thousands that poured into the remaining in capital to demand the resignation of the malian president try and assess the 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 but we need. not going to some people are upset because they've lost their job service because their pension was cut and others because they're being humiliated every day there's one thing that unites us all that we all want to say excuse and leave. but later on the mood became more militant. and bankruptcy and all the factions older hospitals schoolchildren the country have to walk five kilometers through the snow to school

that's the youth nowadays what choice do we have to go out and start to steal start migrating people for perth so we go to italy spain and germany to start to steal what fork let me warn you john but we can see some if you look over the. i know some of the missing but it being. just in stages the police are trying to move forward include a square with a meeting with a lot of resistance from the protests to see. as the crowd was broken up it revealed those affected by tear gas. and the struggle of those seized the day and night protesters have been demanding big political change remain here. because this is anything to go by the route to reform that long and hard for tom but. coming up

a little later max kaiser and stacy herbert compared the economic crisis to the recent coaster concordia cruise disaster focusing on captains abandoning financial ships for program coming up in two hours time here's a preview. so the captain schettino he's brought to shore he's now everybody knows he's abandoned ship his excuse costa concordia 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 diamond 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 life book and sell the way and lloyd blankfein and jamie diamond are saying well the market accidentally made me a billionaire i don't know how.

the u.s. 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 instantly 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 even a stop online piracy you know the bills didn't go directly after the owners of the site 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 in a post court order and then again there was going to be brought immunity for internet service providers to enforce 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 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 something everybody agrees with but the way they went about it was just completely. expansive and quite frankly ridiculous well stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour. doesn't the media have a responsibility to guide the lambing down a better path let me should have the mind of the room to explore how ready people are to believe me of stories when you throw in a much hyped read 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 manned 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 offer 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 on the 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 to cause the the gravity of the moon much less than there is and get see the effects less than gravity or zero gravity would have on a spacecraft much more than we can 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. when moon base is still science fiction for an hour 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 it is is the threat specifically. our safety has out. we can talk do you agree with his program. i think you put 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 the people not human there are lemmings well for 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're looking for some guy in

a 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 a 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 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. you know but do you think common sense takes over a little bit oh yes ok we don't know because that deep space but our moon you think we would know. a little look up there to see vegas bought anything on camera so it seems like some people are listening to what's being said and are

thinking for themselves let's just hope they can catch the much more subtle inaccuracy as they're bombarded 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. attacks has now climbed kill more than one hundred fifty people a 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 is due to leave for the us 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 will formally hand over power next

month after thirty three years at the helm of the country and is expected to return to ahmad after his stay in the u.s. . divers and blasted more holes in the stricken cruise liner coast to concordia as they continue searching for survivors after a twelve eight that was recovered booms have been placed around the capsized ship as light fuel begins leaking into the water near the vessel about half a 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 for skiers and snowboarders but it could spell danger for thrillseekers artie's dennis blots spoke with those fighting avalanches in the host city of the next winter olympics sochi. avalanche hunters have explosives and cannons on their song and. their mission to

keep the heat clear and see. it's been snowing heavily in sochi this weekend. but may seem is just snow to most of us can provide prized. avalanche hunters. 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 learn it 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. though 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 there's more than twenty centimeters chances are high it's going to slide for real proves the clues are easy to discover if you know it's like i was

not a thirty by thirty centimeter color at all and only hit it with the show exactly ten times very slightly as the colon falls apart at some point it 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. let's get. this batch over. there are no threats were given permission to have doctors started to keep cars. in february and march this resort will host international ski competitions bringing new challenges for the avalanche team head of the two thousand games when the venue faces its ultimate test learning to team the white beast will be more important than ever. are to sochi remember there's plenty more stories available if you're twenty four seven here's

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nine thirty pm in moscow the zero r.t. headlines islam is when an overwhelming majority in egypt's first parliamentary election since mubarak's deposition the muslim brotherhood takes almost half the votes. of. the future of the arab league mission in syria caught between those saying observers presence reduced violence and others criticizing the group for a lack of progress. police clashed with protesters in the croatian capital hundreds take part in a rally ago.