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live video you're looking at from cairo egypt where fresh clashes broke out in tear gas was fired at protesters venting their anger against egypt's military rulers in the wake of wednesday's football violence that left seventy four people dead. moscow says it can't support a new u.n. draft resolution on syria saying that despite being softened it doesn't address all of russia's concerns. and close up on the boat all polling stations across russia to get their own digital of deserver as webcams are installed on the order of the prime minister.
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eleven pm in moscow matras a good to have you with us here on r t our top story fresh clashes in egypt with reports of at least four killed and some four hundred injured across the country as police again fire volleys of tear gas and birdshot to disperse crowds of protesters they're looking at a live video from tahrir square where thousands have gathered to voice their their discontent with the government the unarrest broke out after wednesday's football violence when seventy four died in post match clashes protesters have been massing in tahrir square and around the interior ministry blaming police for doing nothing to prevent the soccer pitch deaths they also call on the military council to step down analysts say many young people are dissolute disillusioned with how their revolution has been turning out. the main recipient of criticism now in egypt is
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the military council because it really has all the powers and they are demanding that those powers louis will be transferred quickly either to a government or to an elected president and the military council is still very hesitant and i lindis to something that happened couple weeks ago when the military council of order and security forces to go and shut down democracy agencies both and education n.g.o.s and international n.g.o.s u.s. based n.g.o.s all of that indicates that the ministry counsel is very has been in transferring power to democracy a force that they want to cut the deal with a force which most likely will be in the muslim brotherhood that is something very odd about the fact that egypt brought down but then again in a leader and yet some of its agencies are acting as if the author can a human in iraq what is happening right now is that large segments of civil society specifically the youth of egypt who began the revolt and that result was taken away by other political parties including the muslim brotherhood and the south as those
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are angry at the government because they want the military council to transfer power to them or actually to their representatives and they fear that egypt is moving towards another authoritarian regime. tows what you think about the latest clashes in egypt r t dot com today we're asking why you think the comma's failed to return after egypt's revolution last year so far most of the voters believe it's because it's the same officials who were in power under mubarak that are now still running the country a quarter think that continuing on arrest plays into the interests of radical groups seventeen percent says unrest continues because of high unemployment persisting in fewer think that every revolution has its own creates its own downfall those figures are there on the screen you can help change them by logging on to r.t. dot com casting your vote. you can also see the events unfolding firsthand in cairo on our t.v. dot com where we're streaming the protest live on our web site. moscow
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says it can't support a new draft resolution on syria although the text has been softened overcome some of russia's objections the kremlin says it still falls short of addressing their main concerns. has the latest from new york. as the security council enters its for its fourth day of negotiations major powers are still divided over how this resolution should be drafted and what wording should be used now the russian foreign ministry said that moscow is still committed to talks and these talks are continuing but no vote is planned for the coming days now as we've been reporting the resolution the draft resolution that was first introduced to the council on tuesday has been revised and updated to meet some of russia's concerns you know some of those revisions reportedly include the fact that the text no longer is spelling out plans for syrian president bashar al assad to step aside or to
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relinquish its power it also reportedly deletes a paragraph that demanded that u.n. member states prevent the flow of arms to syria but at this point we still do not know what are the sticking points we do know that moscow opposes any language that would open the door for regime change in syria russia russian officials have acknowledged that the tax has softened but still does not meet moscow's major concerns now why the everything is so if there is because of what has taken place in libya russia china many other countries believe that western powers misinterpreted the text of the resolution that was passed for libya that allowed for a no fly zone and circumvented the text and and took advantage of what the security council wanted and that's why you have all these member states going through the text word for word and debating word for word because many countries do
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not want to leave the door open for misinterpretation by western powers some of which want to see a regime change in syria. marcus papadopoulos editor of politics first magazine thinks the u.s. is still committed to seeing power change hands in damascus western interest in the conflict in syria isn't guided by. advance human rights democracy or the rule of law in the region if it was about that then we'd probably see an american i feel for taylor off the coast of saudi arabia which happens to be one of the most repressive and brutal regimes in the world it follows a pro who western foreign policy syria is 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
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a more sort of pro western governments come to parallel should that happen that would give. almost full dominance politically in the middle way so instead of western governments the british and the american in the french ones talking about president assad stays being numbered they should be more responsible when their outlook and the main focus should be on bringing pace to syria marcus papadopoulos editor of politics first magazine speaking with us from london it will stay with us there's a lot more coming up the next few minutes including religious to the extreme. it's scary and it's freaking people like this is a misinterpretation of her secret groups. some hardliner rhetoric from a radical islamic group shocks belgian society including that will stay with us.
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science technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've. covered. the mission free accreditation free zones for charges free. three. four year media. media r t v dot com. thanks for staying with us here on r t ten minutes past the hour in moscow live
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pictures from every polling station in russia will go online with the help of a new web site that launched friday thousands of web cameras are being the installed across the country ahead of lex next month's presidential election the move was introduced by current prime minister and presidential candidate vladimir putin as a step toward stopping fraud during the vote. as the tales. 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 for a central electoral commission which is 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 then they go we want them there. the idea was put forward following the biggest protests in russia since the collapse of the u.s.s.r.
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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. the system is not be made only for one day we hold this project want only develop elections acknowledges but will also help modernize 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 down to this technology will help make the vote more transparent. you'll get passed on i'm sure the observers won't be able to check in
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advance if these cameras work or not and if she's in a camera everyone knows about cameras in supermarkets but these still doesn't stop robberies from happening. it's planted that every ballot box will be monitored by two cameras one with a general view and another with a close up of the slot there are many ways to rig a vote and the cameras don't provide one hundred percent guarantee against that but using them should still make it much more difficult to stuff boxes. course there's nothing new. or web carer's. in them to monitor elections on such a scale is a first for a nation and regardless of the success of the idea everyone will be able to monitor the vote on a line and not to mention no one is against having more real life observers on the spot the war is going on forty moscow while the voting video isn't online just yet
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but there is a lot streaming right now you can check it all out at r t dot com as hacker group unveils secret correspondence revealing details of the massacre of iraqi civilians by u.s. troops in two thousand and five. international space station crew members will be stuck in orbit for an extra forty five days find out what's causing the delay at r.t. dot com. is . the official. launch
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on. video. and. in the palm of your. they may be a minority but they're making their presence felt in belgium a group of radical muslims is getting a mixed public reaction ranging from fear to ridicule as artie's tests are sillier 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
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handling things if you want to accept it accept it if you don't that's your problem but there is 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 that video such as these. have caused outrage. the freedom of speech and. the hatred incitement to violence starts we have. leadership here for belgium he openly. said. i should be. should be killed because i am an enemy of islam in january and work or prosecutor recommended two years in prison and a fine of five hundred fifty euros for about a seven for inciting hatred and violence against muslims that's in addition to
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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. green flag. and. yet it has its repercussions on other muslims. this kind of group 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 group shows about image of islam and muslims condemn this kind of. this is a misinterpretation of her secret. to muslims comprise about six percent of the
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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. in 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 belgian 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 will and earlier than expected has stirred up confusion among some afghan officials who say it could be a disaster for the whole transition plan u.s. defense secretary leon panetta said earlier that the country wants to switch to a supporting and
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a training role for local forces before the end of next year or correspondent and author eric margolis thinks the upcoming election in the u.s. may be the main motive for the decision. first of all pressure from other this year's elections poll shows sixty percent of american voters are fed up with the war in afghanistan or against that the price is approaching trillion dollars a time when washington's very hard of catching is cutting budgets and obama wants to enter jobs now regret it already remember he was a peace presidency browsers and repeat stupid states and this is a very important step you must drop to a smaller number of foreigner five places and the drone attacks will conduct special forces raids it's not over yet understand what's going to have the eighty thousand us paid mercenaries who are in afghanistan remains uncertain.
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as the u.s. presidential campaign heats up our debate show cross talk takes a look at which republicans may choosing to face off with barack obama. to have a debate with the president on the health care reform bill it's going to be laughable because the bill that the president signed into law was based almost entirely on the bill that mitt romney signed into law in massachusetts. you're right he's not even going to be able to make that argument and the question earlier is is a conservative enough i mean how could anyone call him a conservative when he himself has called himself a moderate the real deal here is the republican party is trying to get the conservative grassroots to support the guy who lost to the guy who lost to obama and so there's this endless cycle of you know it's your turn that's being shoved down the grassroots throat he's been running for five years he already has organization set up in all the states plus the backing of goldman sachs and the
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republican establishment and the guy still can't break fifty percent i don't think he would do well in the general. coming your way in about ten minutes here on our t.v. . turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe at least thirty seven people have been killed in a shootout between rival police forces in the south sudan dozens more have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds fighting erupted during a peace meeting to resolve local disputes about stolen cattle south sudan which declared independence last year is plagued with ethnic tension violent cattle raids and rebel attacks. cambodia supreme court has sentenced the committee as chief jailer you know it is comrade to life in prison for a crime committed during while he ran a notorious prison facility appeal judges rejected the man's claim that he was just following orders while he oversaw the torture and execution of what than twelve
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thousand victims he was already serving a thirty five year prison sentence for crimes against humanity. rescue teams are continuing to battle heavy seas and strong winds to search for survivors after a ferry sank off papua new guinea with three hundred fifty passengers and crew aboard almost two hundred fifty have been plucked from the sea but many remain missing the ship's operator said the vessel sent a distress call thursday but then all contact was cut off most of the passengers were college students and teachers in training. and a cold snap has already claimed one hundred sixty four lives in eastern europe is countries struggle with a record low temperatures and heavy snowfall led to widespread transport chaos and power outages the extreme cold even caused the black sea to freeze off the ukrainian coast in that country alone more than one hundred people have died after temperatures plummeted to minus thirty celsius most of the victims were homeless people. coming up later to join the moscow out team on the hunt for new ways to
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spend your time and beat the winter freeze while staying indoors. good morning everybody. we're exploring the subject. from board games to extreme sports the cold weather. here but why the because i'm here. in the center of. the game. it's all coming your way in the next hour here on r t but first business news next
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with dmitri. welcome to the european union is reporting a fall in russian gas supplies. the exceptionally cold weather is putting strains on supply from siberia to cornwall. bushell out in the freezing night. what we do know is that e.u. energy commission a good to see gazprom did warn of potential shortages and for the last three days several states from the likes of poland to italy and austria said there have been caught no there has been increasingly cold weather in europe so that means that the morning has risen but those countries have got reserves for such a contingency the european a-g. companies have not complained yet officially which means that goes from says it's not making a statement because it's received no complaint previously goes from said that it
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may preference russian consumers which is also suffering russia is also suffering from fairly cold weather at the moment but ukraine and russia have accused of being behind these cuts but it is not really become clear what the real reason for these cuts is at the moment and we do expect this issue to toyed over where near the called received so more and more determined to normal market watchers expect the darkness of eurozone debt problems to get some light soon ratings agency standard and poor's expects the house the union to gradually climb out of its mild recession in the second half of this year and into twenty thirty the firm said chief european economist see explain. the risks of the more cvo 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
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and cool edging ever upwards inside the you was own and outside the eurozone what we expect the is at the moment from emerging markets particularly. asia to strengthen again in the second half of the and that should be supportive of a very gradual recovery in the eurozone we also expect that investors' confidence will gradually come back. as you walk in central bank continues to provide ample liquidity to the banking sector in the eurozone. but not everyone agrees the 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 such as dos which now it 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 of bank
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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 these economies growing 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 solvent that bits and we still have not resolved the data 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 of the european leadership and the european economic community because there is really no easy solution. and the russian mob could so ended friday's session with gains marking the full full session in a row after the pain from the u.s.
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where the economy added two hundred forty three thousand jobs in january twice what was expected and that will be unemployment rate to eight point three percent in the u.s. if we look at the market movers on the my sex partners gold surge the most in three years media reports it's a london this is parent will make a buyout offer of what's next is also strong you will giant has reported a twenty percent increase in net profits for twenty eleven which is bt for costs that's all for now the headlines are next on r.t. to stay with us.
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