three. videos for your media project free media. dot com. more tear gas fired into crowds of protesters in egypt as people vent their anger against the military rulers for not doing enough to stop wednesday's football pile and that left seventy four dead. un makes headway on a new resolution on syria with references to regime change removed answer russia's concerns. and a close up on the vote all polling stations across russia get their own digital observer as webcams are installed on the prime minister's orders.

six pm in moscow i'm not treasurer good to have you with us here on r t our top story protests are rage on across egypt with reports of at least three killed and some four hundred injured as police use heavy handed tactics to disperse crowds we've been seeing tear gas fired repeatedly into the crowds as happened again within the last hour an arrest broke out after wednesday's put ball violence when seventy four people died in post match clashes in cairo protesters continue to gather around the interior ministry blaming police for doing nothing to prevent the soccer pitch deaths are also calling on the military council to step down journalist believes there are forces in egypt that are banking on the rest. of the study just very difficult to say who's actually behind the violence and whether it was a spontaneous. street it's but what's certain is that there's a. security vacuum and in egypt and this security vacuum is intentional the police

and the security apparatus has wanted to since the revolution began has wanted to punish the people for the rebelling against it and. like in the immediate aftermath of the revolution the police disappeared off the streets and now they haven't returned to kill capacity the supreme council the armed forces . have been trying to sell themselves as a guarantor of peace and stability in egypt and so they jump on every opportunity to drive home the message that egypt is in like. mayhem and chaos and the only way we're going to get out of this is be you to support us as you'll read is basically the changes have occurred so far have largely been cosmetic ones to try and give. me the generals a sheen of legitimacy but i don't think they have any intention of stepping down

just yet unless forced to do so by the street. well as what you think about the latest clashes in egypt r t dot com today we ask you why has failed to return after egypt's revolution last year so far most of the respondents believe it's because it's the same officials who were in power under the ousted president mubarak that are now running the country a quarter think the continuing on the rest please to the interests of radical groups eighteen percent believes that every revolution creates its own downfall about the same number also say the unrest continues because of high unemployment persisting those are out of the figures stack up right now to change them by casting your own vote log on to our tea dot com and click away. and you can see the first hand events unfolding in cairo at r.t. dot com we're streaming the protests for you live on our web site. the u.n. is edging closer to a deal on syria with a new draft resolution softened to overcome russia's objections references to

president assad stepping down an arms embargo have been dropped from the revised text which is still pending approval moscow continues to warn it will oppose any attempt to even hint at targeting the syrian regime artie's anastasio churkin has more from new york. after some three days of diplomatic deadlock over this arab and western backed regime change resolution it looks like russia's calls that it would not support such resolutions have finally been heard and we're seeing somewhat of a game changer take place delegates and diplomats seem to have agreed on new elements that they are considering putting into a new document and we do know that these new elements are being sent over to governments at home for consideration approval and deliberation and for more we know that russia is a master to the u.n. has said that this does not mean that anything has been fully decided yet and russia continues to reiterate that even if the hint of

a regime change clause continues to be presented in such a resolution it would not be supported now what we what we're hearing and some reports that this clause will actually be nonexistent in this new text being considered whereas earlier the arab league and the west have been seeing that the syrian leader needs to step down if this does not happen within fifteen days further measures could take place another clause that we're hearing is going to be removed from this document is the arms embargo that russia has also been opposing but from what we understand what will continue to remain in a new text is a support of a facilitation of a political transition now of course they have to again say that some of the details are still largely up in the air some diplomats are saying that a vote could come very shortly we will just have to wait and see exactly how events play out the security council in the days to come. marcus papadopoulos editor of

politics first magazine thinks the u.s. is still committed to seeing power in new hands in damascus. western interest in the conflict in syria isn't guided by wanting to advance human rights democracy or the rule of law in the region if it was about that then we'd probably see an american naval flotilla off the coast of saudi arabia which happens to be one of the most repressive brutal regimes in the world but it follows a pro western foreign policy syria it's a huge player in middle eastern politics and the west principally america has a very problematic relationship with syria so it would be very much within america's interests for the syrian government for president assad to fall from power and for a more accommodating a more sort of pro western government to come to parallel should that happen that would give. almost full dominance politically in the middle weights so instead of western governments the british and the american and the french ones

talking about president assad stays being numbered they should be more responsible in their outlook and the main focus should be on bringing pace to syria markets papadopoulos their editor of politics first magazine talking with us from london. there's a lot more coming your way in the next few minutes stay with us coming up religious to the extreme. and this freaking people this is a misinterpretation of your secret groups some hard liner rhetoric from a radical muslim group shocks belgian society including fellow muslims plus. a shock u. turn in a long running spy a murderous saga as the father of slain f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko backtracked on accusations of vladimir putin was to blame for his son's death. live pictures from every polling station in russia will go online with the help of a new website launched friday thousands of webcams were being installed across the

country ahead of next month's presidential vote the move was introduced by current prime minister and presidential candidate vladimir putin as a one step toward stopping the fraud during the vote. has more. inch after inch mile after mile big brother is preparing to cast his eyes on polling stations as the massive campaign to install web cameras is in full swing across the entire nation but actually sometimes but i think if anything i ask the central electoral commission to install web cameras at all polling stations across the country so that everyone can watch online what's happening there almost twenty four hours a day and they want that only. the idea was put forward following the biggest protests in russia since the collapse of the u.s.s.r. with tens of thousands demanding fair elections so wiring up over ninety thousand polling stations is the scale and around a half of a billion us dollars is the price tag. coming into the system is not be made only

for one day we help this project want only develop elections acknowledges but will also help modernize the telecommunications infrastructure across the entire country . all cameras will be feeding the videos the film to local digital storage facilities after computer processing will be then sent to seven large storage and distribution centers via cable radio and satellite these centers will then broadcast the information to several web portals it's estimated that all together the cameras will film and broadcast four hundred and ninety years of video information in good quality however there is still doubt this technology will help make the vote more transparent. you'll get us to and i'm sure the observer is going to be able to check to advance if these cameras work will not then if she reads it agreement over everyone knows about cameras in supermarkets but these still doesn't

stop robberies from happening so it's every ballot box will be monitored by two cameras one with the general view and another with a close up of this lot there are many ways to rig a vote and the cameras don't provide one hundred percent guarantee against them but using that should still make it much more difficult to stuff boxes course there's nothing you. or web cameras. using them to monitor elections on such a scale is a first for any nation and regardless of the success of the idea everyone will be able to monitor the vote online and not to mention no one is against having more real life observers on the spot he was going off r t moscow well that voting video isn't online just yet but there is a lot streaming right now and you can check it all out at r.t.e. dot com government web sites in the ukraine suffered a two day blackout after being attacked by happened groups are shutting down

a popular file sharing resorts. crewmembers will be stuck in orbit for an extra forty five days find out what caused the delay on our website r.t. dot com. it may be a minority but they are making their presence felt in belgium a group of radical muslims gets a mixed public reaction ranging from fear to ridicule as artie's tests are so your reports their extreme message may contradict the very religion they claim to observe. bearded wearing a comma floss jacket and constantly surrounded by men fought a belt is hard not to notice he heads the islamic fundamentalist group sharia for belgium in september the group opened the country's first sharia court in antwerp to mediate domestic disputes among muslims with our own system. of handling things if you want to accept it accept it if you don't. there is a judgement day if you if you're

a muslim you will go to paradise if you are this believer you will go to hell. any further controversy may have ended there if that was all there is to it but videos such as these. have caused outrage. the freedom of speech and. the hatred incitement to violence starts we have. leadership. he openly. said that. i should be. should be killed because i am an enemy of in january in antwerp or prosecutor recommended two years in prison and a fine of five hundred fifty euros for about a sum for inciting hatred and violence against muslims that's in addition to fourteen police court convictions and criminal convictions for robbery defamation and violence. just a few people maybe

a dozen of people maybe two dozen of people dressed like. the green flag. and. yet it has its repercussions on other muslims. this kind of of course they are moved but they have no religious background it is a minority perhaps that in search of an identity. that's a big difference and the misses they're using it's scary and it's freaking people language. unfortunately just kind of crude chills about image of islam and muslims condemn this kind of funny you know that this is a misinterpretation of her secret. muslims comprise about six percent of the belgian population one of the highest rates in europe and is expected to rise to more than ten percent by two thousand and twenty the muslim who live in belgium

they say. they are belgium from the region. and the first. muslim radical groups such as those of the islamic fundamentalists comprise a minority and it's not representative of the muslim community in belgium nevertheless politicians analysts and even the bells of muslims themselves acknowledge that the problem is what these groups symbolize radicalization the process it spreads and the allure of extreme views. tests are still here r t brussels. u.s. announcement that its combat operations in afghanistan well and earlier than expected has stirred up some confusion among afghan officials who say it could be a disaster for the whole transition plan defense secretary leon panetta said earlier that the country wants to switch to a role of supporting and training local forces before the end of next year or correspondent and author eric margolis thinks the upcoming election could be the main motive for the decision. first of all pressure from other this year's

elections poll showed sixty percent of american voters are fed up with the war in afghanistan or against that the price is approaching one trillion dollars a time when washington's very hard cash and it's cutting budgets and obama wants to be leander just now regretting already remember he was a piece presidency about his and repeat stupid states and this is a very important step to us and we drove to a smaller number of fortified bases and the drone attacks will conduct special forces raids it's not over yet understand what it's going to have the eighty thousand u.s. paid mercenaries who are in afghanistan remains uncertain. you know some other stories making headlines across the globe cambodia's supreme court has sentenced the come urges chief jailer known as comrade to life in prison for crimes committed

while running a notorious detention center appeal judges rejected demands plain that he was only following orders boldly seeing the torture and execution of more than twelve thousand victims he's already serving a thirty five year prison sentence for crimes against humanity. rescue teams are continuing to battle heavy seas and strong winds the search for survivors after a ferry sank off papua new guinea with three hundred fifty passengers and crew aboard almost two hundred fifty people have been plucked from the sea but many are still missing the ship's operator said the vessel sent out a distress call thursday but then all contact was lost most of the passengers were university students and teachers and training. a cold snap has claimed already some one hundred sixty four lives in eastern europe as nations continue struggling with record low temperatures heavy snows caused widespread transport chaos and power outages more than one hundred people died in ukraine alone after temperatures plummeted to minus thirteen celsius most of the victims homeless

people. an unexpected u. turn from the father a former f.s.b. officer who was pretty poisoned in london six years ago he says he'd been wrong to accuse of lad of your putin of being responsible for his son's death walter lippmann an go ahead said his claims have been driven by grief and hatred adding he had no idea that his son alexander worked for british intelligence artie's or catherine mcgrath has a story. but is it would it be a limited edition of m b c's how we found might could eat medium coup praying in his tiny telling apartment no electricity no gas no water. what if the if it wasn't for the help of various people i would have died from hunger or frozen to death the last time i took a bath was on christmas eve. we expected more because six years ago after his son former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko was poisoned in london he was taken care of by some

very powerful patrons like self ixil tycoon boris berezovsky and ahmed zakayev and a tourist former chechen militant both hiding in the u.k. you could be here just three of them we broke. yet you get extremist you know which of dorset there is just give me a yell pretty here doris you would be. one vitally thing and co sent a letter asking to be interviewed by russian television we expected more of the same but instead. we're going to a different if not be me that the mood of each if you're watching this program please forgive me for all the slander the thai said and wrote about you know the hatred i had for you even only i had known my son worked for british intelligence i would not talk about his death he could easily have been shot as a double agent betrayers should be short of story what else can i add to the holes

on the roof of. the u.-turn vaulters says came when his sons we doe marina been and co revealed to the british media that her husband had worked for m i six further details followed when a newspaper launched its own investigation alexander litvinenko was receiving a retainer of around two thousand pounds a month from the british security services at the time he was murdered it is understood that sir john scarlett now head of m i six and was based in moscow was involved in recruiting him to the secret intelligence service. at first by turnitin and cole like many others claimed his son had been poisoned with polonium two ten on put in order the former f.s.b. officer and fierce critic of the kremlin alexander litvinenko spent twenty three days in a london clinic slowly dying from a toxic substance possibly consumed through a cup of tea even before police in london started questioning suspects the victim's

father was actively kissing the russian government today by their at me it's he was saying only what the west wanted to hear. of course i realize russia's f.s.b. and the idea you know if to take polonium to london sprinkle it over some heads and leave traces everywhere and their suspect and a little boy is not a fool either way it was anger and blind hatred speaking inside of me viger now believes his son fell victim to his own game of double agents now he wants his words to be heard but the media outside russia which once beat down his door for interviews now won't even reply. to his requests. why is that because they like it when i scold the regime i was a root treasure for the movie the whole there are very few people who would say as many horrible things about as i did as well you know living in two thousand and eight but the only thing young call flat russia for sanctuary needs healing is settled in the sleeping quiet town of sinegal it offered to new anonymous life the

man claimed putin was his number one enemy so hiding in europe he believed was the only safe solution today was the libyan young co is still afraid to open this door not because of putin though but because of his landlord to whom he was a lot of money this miserable life has made him a slave of his sanctuary but surely the namco sold everything he had in russia to come to eataly he opened a small business several years ago but it went bankrupt things got worse after the seventy three year old had buried his wife but are now furious her casket could be removed because he hasn't paid the cost of a barrel plot and it's been months since the electricity was shut off to his flat he was lost forty euros went on a gas canister and that is gone to. this is how most of us look at that even the door to let the southern wind inside. there is east

only as russia your home learned. tourists i want to go home to russia. through i do want to stay here. in the church over r t sinegal yeah eataly me up in a bit the moscow team is on the hunt for new ways to spend your time and beat the winter friends while staying indoors here's a peek. good morning everybody. hello to all this week program we're exploring the popular subject of hobbies in the working capital from board games to extreme sports the cold weather certainly doesn't put anybody off here but why the mosque well that's

because i'm here at the big language school in the center of moscow where this group or even the popular game of maque are. coming your way in about five minutes here on our team but first latest business news with me. thanks matt a war of words has broken out between russia and ukraine over disappearing supplies to europe it's an austrian slovakia say they're all getting between twenty and thirty percent less than usual gazprom says it's perplexed about the declines it claims it to raise deliveries by twenty percent last week to meet extra demand caused by the exceptionally cold weather sweeping the continent the russian gas

monopoly points the finger at transit country ukraine for taking more gas than contract it however of denies these allegations and says it's keeping to the terms of agreement and that it's a gas problem that's reduced the pressure in the. market watchers expect the darkness of the euro zone debt problems to get some light suit ratings agencies down and poor's expects the currency union to gradually climb out of its mild recession in the second half of this year and twenty thirty the firms achieved european economies designed he said see explained. the risks of the more severe recession. that could go into twenty thirteen are significant we estimate about forty percent probability yet i think we have to look at all the fact is there has been some and cool edging ever upwards inside the you was own and outside the eurozone what we expect to be is at the moment from emerging markets particularly.

a shout to strengthen again in the second half of the and that should be supportive of a very gradual recovery in the euro zone we also expect that investors confidence will gradually come back. as they do up here in central bank continues to provide ample liquidity to the banking sector in the euro zone. not everyone shares this opinion saxo bank is predicting an economic apocalypse with european equity markets losing a quarter of their value this year we asked the author of the best seller extreme money so that she does which scenario seems more likely to him. well i think the best way to describe the s. and p. report is whatever they're smoking i'd like to have some as far as the sex a bank report goes i think they are believers in the mayan calendar which believes

that the world will end in two thousand and twelve but i think the major thing is that when you look at the situation there is no way that europe is going to have a small recession it's going to have a longer a say shit because the government spending will have to be cut and that has been the major stimulus which kept its economies grow the second thing is the banking system in most of these countries is not creating any credit will not be able to create this technically if you are honest about it they are marginally solve them to bits and we still have not result of the debt issue and the real question is what will happen to portugal what will happen to spain what will happen to italy and there is absolutely no result on the part with european leadership and the european economic community because there is really no easy solution the big question now is so what is the price europe could afford to pay to pull itself out of the crisis we asked the director of the international sense of full mondrian banking studies in geneva to put a price on it for us. private as teammates by university

researchers. the cost of restoring bank fails to about one thousand people so we come close to ten thousand euros we don't need to spend it but we have to have it ready and having it straight he will stop the crisis there are two ways to do it why nice to announced we will do it if need be that will scare the market and stop immediately the prices. that i don't think will happen what will happen is that they will spend and spend and spend. on a second look at the markets and there's a change for the better pretty much all across the board in europe for example the four cs now up one point three the dax one point four percent as the u.s. economy added two hundred forty three thousand jobs in january that's twice what was expected and this brings the unemployment rate to eight point three percent in the u.s.

russian markets are high off the struggling for direction this friday both the r.t.s. and the my sex a fifteen minute before closing are up more than one percent take a look at the main movers and there's a big money making in the gold it's up thirty four percent the most in three years media reports that his london listed parent could make a buyout offer and now as burbank you will among financials has gone into positive territory and gas from is also up point seven percent despite this talk of shortages and supports. finally a quick look at the exchange rates and the euro is slightly stronger versus the dollar whereas the greenback and the euro are gaining slightly the russian ruble. sand finely another look at oil and light sweets and brant have moved into positive territory after this employment data coming out in the u.s. light sweet is ninety seven almost dollars but there. and now it's the end

of the business bulletin i'll be back in fifty five minutes time with a look at how the u.s. markets open. up . more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images go by.