the army since been deployed to try and the clashes the attackers use shotguns far bombs and rocks with demonstrators retaliating and beating some of the assailants the violence comes three weeks before egypt votes for a new president the testers have been camping outside the defense ministry for days demanding an end to the military rule that replaced hosni mubarak over a year ago political activist believes that the most recent attack is a doing the military's dirty work. been definitely there since day one of the revolution but this is what the military council kept calling or deferring to a party this party have been part of the militias the national democratic party and the state security i put out this past twenty years those are all of them very intense criminal records and they're being used instead of. the army itself so they're doing the dirty work for the military council they've

tried already in november and december during the parliamentary elections but it failed be trying to dry and muslim brotherhoods into the square so that they can declare martial law and say that the muslim brotherhood is a violent violent group but they failed to do that now they're trying to do the same thing and every single time it turned against they've obviously not learned the lessons have been following mubarak's steps exactly and that's why they've managed to unify everyone again all the liberals and the brotherhood and these everyone is in the same trench right now against the military council. neighboring israel is beefing up its military presence on the egyptian border and it's also sending more troops to it from here with rest of syria a middle east correspondent has the latest. well it certainly is a massive mobilization what we're hearing from the israeli army is that they've given the approval for the call up of twenty two reserve battalions many of these

are soldiers who've already completed their annual reserve duty what commanders are saying is that these troops are needed to deal with security threats that are coming from israel's borders with egypt to syria and also because of the growing instability in those countries now we're hearing from sources today wednesday also that the situation in the sinai desert which of borders israel is becoming a manageable television is fearing that the regime will now come to a place in cairo will be one that will be a lot more hostile to the jewish state then that of course the mubarak what the seeing is this week israel beginning to build a seven nice a high concrete wall along its border with lebanon and this according to israeli sources is to stop firing from lebanon into northern israel we've been told that the war will take several weeks to finish until now there has been an electrified fence along the israeli lebanese border but it comes on the back of a nother security barrier war that israel is building in the south of the country

along its border with egypt's sinai now here two israeli sources are saying that this is to stop security alerts and also to prevent smuggling into israel so certainly we are seeing a lot of activity happening on the ground israel taking security threats very seriously and fearing that they will be more attacks but at the same time this is having the effect of isolating israel from its neighbors and from the international community. to tell about it says carried out a suicide car bombing that killed seven people in the afghan capital earlier president barack obama wrapped up a brief visit to the country you saw to deal with. cementing america's commitment to supporting forces even after the nato combat mission twenty four team obama also stressed the importance of peace talks with the taliban even though the latest attack was in direct retaliation for his visit and the pact with karzai the u.s. leader pledged to end the war was going to chicken reports america intends to stay

for at least another decade. the fact that president obama traveled to afghanistan exactly year after bin laden's killing to signed the strategic pact with ghana's then is seen as an attempt to put the years of a success story on the decade long war in afghanistan but success in afghanistan is very arguable to say the least the afghans want american troops out we constantly see people there expressing outrage over the killing of civilians over night raids and other actions by u.s. troops the american people want their troops out so both governments are anxious to tell their people that this is over but the agreement that the leaders have signed in visions the u.s. staying in afghanistan through twenty twenty four at least not in those numbers of course and the agreement by the way does not address specific troop levels or the size or location of u.s. bases and this is something that many afghans are worried about and that is that the u.s. warrants a permanent basis in afghanistan so amid all these questions you have the anniversary of bin laden's death which is hailed as

a great victory here is my report on how bin laden's killing could serve as a convenient cover for some dubious policies we have been able to make the ranks of al qaida. go. were able to finally bring osama bin ladin just. by now nobody doubts that bin laden's killing is going to be the highlight of obama's presidential campaign it's already featured in his ads. the harder. than the more on. and the one that produced in my opinion the best route so. as hyped as bin laden's killing is some ask whether it's being used to mask the feeler of u.s. policies abroad during the last ten years the bin laden thing i think makes things

easier it sells well but again i don't think you can put that good a face on ten years of combat in afghanistan and the afghan and the iraq invasion i think is to me question still yet to be asked about what the justification was no matter how much killing bin laden means you can't take away ten years of failure it was going into afghanistan and especially into iraq ok that created more enemies you know and the recruits for. you know you had this kind of salafist. you know then that then weakening them the pentagon's new strategy is to move away from ground wars bin laden's killing has become the face of the new war on terror obama style through targeted assassinations in different countries with the use of drones and special ops experts say that policy can also backfire the attacks end up killing many civilians and they steer and new wave of revenge extremism. how many people are we going to have to kill before we can finally say ok that's it

objective achieved war over we can call this thing off and i look at the israeli experience with targeted assassination and that suggests to me that when you engage in that kind of a policy really what you're going to do is end up having an endless list of targets . and i fear that's the past we have gone down bin laden's death was a success on the war on terror fight no doubt about that but there is an attempt to sell it as the success story of the whole war on terror and many fear that the largest killing could serve as a convenient cover for bad policies in the past as well as the future i'm going to check our reporting from washington to. india base political analyst straight i'm charlie i think that washington's repeating its new tour is vietnam war has which means the battle for afghanistan is lost the taliban know very well they are playing the waiting game and i don't see them being defeated at all in fact rather

sort of them victory lies in outlasting the united states because as long as there are question military forces present these indigenous insurrection or nonresistance will keep going if you have several franchises in the branches of a car that is too quite potent i think it is totally misguided to believe that the organisation has been any we needed or and i later did and what we're going to see then is you know the united states will call it to be eventually because of the economic crisis at home they want to or to sustain these but the reserve section within this of richmond that wants to believe that they can still achieve victory this is the mistake i made during johnson's time in the vietnam war and then repeated it all over again so it's a real tragedy because the facts on the ground is go of a from the urban centers and the highways and it's all totally one learnt every patch of it and therefore what are we talking about in terms of victory is not control. still have the may day which turns celebration to frustration workers rallies across europe see thousands vent their anger over

suffering deeply unpopular cuts but it boils over in some cities as reports shortly . but first in four days france chooses its next leader and the front runners will make their final big t.v. push to win voters just a few hours from now because of course he and for all and trying to scoop up supporters of far right leader marine le pen who's refusing to endorse either of them but it's a choice for weary french voters as. explains so it's down to two men socialist francois long and incumbent nicolas sarkozy the french say around one of the presidential race is about choosing the candidate you like the most round two is voting for the one you dislike the least unless of course you voted for one of them to begin with and this is where it gets tricky for some especially for those who question what kind of a choice they really if there really is one. yeah yeah yeah. it may be in jest but what's seen as a lack of

a clear solution for france is economic woes have left citizens skeptical from the onset. of the french people to see one of the two come to the t.v. you will see on say. this them oprah that the next five. i will see the wall in this. and i will i would like to see for all those in this wall in this. especially when francis economic quite mark is already a tough one to muddle through unemployment is at a twelve year high of almost ten percent debt is doing ninety percent of g.d.p. growth has all but ground to a halt in a series of measures are likely to continue to get both candidates are in favor of euro bonds more intervention from the european central bank and to varying degrees both have put on

a confrontational tone towards brussels and germany but there is doubt that there will be much room for maneuver at all. whoever the elected president is sarkozy or he will subject himself very quickly and very visibly to the power of the european union and it will always require more sacrifices for workers for the obvious interests of the large banking group. then they work very small things that are there if you recall that ok we're going to vote for him in local elections. you know what we're going to lead and what actual couples adopt children those are important measures but they're not the biggest measure but tough choice to make for those who don't see want to begin with. tess or sylvia r.t.u. paris. deepening european agate ukraine couldn't come at a worse time as the country prepares to host football's prestigious euro twenty

twelve finals members a lining up to possibly boycott the event because of ukraine's treatment of its jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko is eastern europe correspondent. it certainly is getting darker and darker for key of in relation to the euro twenty two well football championship which starts in less than forty days from now and now the dutch government is the latest of the european officials to express their wish to boycott the tournament here in ukraine the list which already consists of the german and the czech republic presidents the head of the euro commission and the german chancellor angela merkel who even said that the german national football side should boycott their participation in the upcoming summer storm here in ukraine and poland merkel says that unless tymoshenko is released she would not come to ukraine for the euro twenty two well football championship the dutch government and the czech presidents are a bit softer in their statement saying that they just want to see and prove in the

treatment of political prisoners in ukraine but all in all definitely this creates a very great deal of pressure on key of last friday's terrorist attacks and to put it all skoal radio created serious concerns about the security during the summer storm in but now the euro twenty two off to become a victim of political pressure from the european union on ukraine the ukrainian leadership reacted to all these statements coming from the european union but saying that this kind of rhetoric puts the countries back in the cold war and in fact there may be right in some sense because the one of the villa vivid examples of a political boy called during a sporting championship sporting event was in one thousand nine hundred eighty one sixty countries refused to come to moscow for the olympic games there and then the soviet union four years later replied by not sending fourteen countries fourteen republics of the soviet union to the olympic games in los angeles but you know the political boycotts during the sporting events happen even now days four years ago during the beijing olympics some countries also wanted to abstain from coming to

china for the olympic games but then they managed to negotiate it somehow with the authorities in china but certainly the situation is very very tense for ukraine and for keven particular now. boards present a portrait says the football community wants to keep its on the ball and is reluctant to get involved in the row i think here in the situation there is a divide between the political side and the football side the football side is very much to do with the seams taking part of said coaches players and also the fans the other side of politics so this situation there's a reason why it was to machine care you have these teams coming in but in terms of the fans themselves there isn't really a great deal of reaction from the fans that there is there hasn't been any sort of blogging or responses on the political sense the fans are much more concerned with the logistics of getting a hotel getting flights getting tickets but sporting football in particular it's not it's not never been their place to be politically involved it's more a case of taking the game taking the game to the wider world to the wide to the fans to the wider global football community and by helping regeneration and by

definition just by being there helping to highlight some of these issues. may day marchers were out in force across europe with thousands getting the chance to vent their anger at the sturdy they're enduring but violence more the demonstrations in some cities in italy police protest is with children seeing the fiercest clashes turn into angry of the punitive cuts being on the country's three main unions denounced the reforms being pushed through by an elected prime minister mario monti rallies also turned violent in germany is left with demonstrators clashed with police in berlin and hamburg injuries reported on both sides in the west to make it four hundred thousand to cross the country to demand a growth strategy rather than cuts and in spain which is battling a double dip recession trade unionists focused on the record eurozone unemployment rate of twenty five percent nearly half of young people rather good message was clear throughout the economy the future needs centering around citizens bailing out

banks. in italy where the violence come from. establishment with the political territory when you have a cut in your wage. your wage when you cut social security when you of cut in and then you see that. people are confronted with very violent process in their life they lose their middle to survive and that's why i think we see that sort of reaction in the population we have to have an economy with the with the people first the people and not the profit and we have an economy with solidarity and corporation and not always fighting and competition between countries and people and so on so we have

to renew the economy. basis that's why. one thing but directly for the moment we have to take measures that the rich people are paying for the crisis with taxes against them and not against the common people. on the way through this are here in our family torn apart by indian police who think they're above the law take justice into their own hands a grieving mother tells r.t. how corrupt murderous police killed innocent daughter. but first america's chief diplomat on a charm offensive in china hillary clinton's high level talks come amid concerns in beijing over washington beefing up its military presence near chinese territory last sunday clinton promised military assistance to the philippines with which beijing has a territorial dispute relations between china and the u.s. are also tainted by diplomatic tussle over chen chairing the blind activist who has

been under house arrest for four years foreign affairs analyst richard he says the two nations are dependent to lock horns with each other. as far as the human rights groups concerned i'm sure that the obama administration will try to be some sort of lip service to it because they will know that the republicans will hamare them voxel if the obama administration seems to be you know not pushing the democrats these are an issue for us china is concerned but i do not see that america much of the leverage over china the fact that china and united states are very economically for defense and what this dependence goes through we offer china is also dependent on america perfect on the gene pouring oil for or. forth and for investment of course there are two dimensions for america's so-called people to asia the first they mention is the economic they mention but the second they mention of the key vote which makes it more controversial as even increase in american military presence in the region in the philippines in single for and of course the show of

american troops in northern australia so this is the second dimension which is making the north american relations very tense and that's why i feel that hillary clinton is going to china right now to do some sort of damage control so i think because one of the impetus for miller kony has been to be generate power. time now for more of the world's main news now in our world updated training twenty one they are arriving ambush in syria's aleppo province has apparently killed fifteen government soldiers on tuesday u.n. observers reported multiple ceasefire violations from both sides during a gun battle in the turkish border here when more of the attacks threaten the peace plan that helped broker and wants to significantly increase the number of monitors in the country by the end i'm a serious conflict is taking for thousands of lives since it began over a year ago. sudan and south sudan could face sanctions if they don't stop the border violence

a unanimous un security council resolution gives both sides two weeks to return to negotiations clashes in the disputed oil rich area have claimed dozens of lives in recent weeks raising fears of a return to military conflict a decades long civil war killed over one and a half million people and ended last july when the self independence. it's the heralding of a new era with opposition leader aung san suu kyi taking it into parliament after twenty five years in a world peace prize when i was sworn in along with other opposition m.p.'s barking at historic chapter in the country slow move towards democracy the party still has too few seats to challenge the military dominated parliament but the reforms have seen other countries soften their attitude towards. a rare ratings chink of light for greece standard and poor's has elevated the country's status to quote it's on the back of the world's biggest ever debt restructuring

which helps greece services members but means investors have lost billions greece is now rated triple c. meaning it's vulnerable and dependent following two payments from the the i.m.f. totally two hundred seventy billion euros. corrupt police in india a bypass in the courts luring criminal suspects to the deaths but claiming the defense what's worse is that innocent civilians are being subjected to the extra judicial killings as british read reports from mumbai i'm. sure mima is a widow with six children desperately trying to make ends meet doing embroidery work for local shops her family has been at the center of the media storm after her daughter was shot and killed by police at the age of nineteen as an argument in my world fell apart and my house felt empty without her she was the only one bringing light into my life and she is the one who supported the whole family i totally depended on her i want to look on me to guide me is sure it was part of

a fake encounter where police kill usually an armed suspect and claim the killing was in self-defense she was accused of working with pakistani militants and planning to assassinate a key regional politician a later investigation concluded she was murdered by police hoping for financial gain for killing suspected terrorists is just story is unfortunately not uncommon here according to indian civil rights groups police every minute and minute that they have been trained encouraged to carry them out for money it's a reality that sheds light on india as a lawless society where rampant corruption and bribery has led to a broken law enforcement and judicial system those who have served on the front line say it's a tough job with little pay police here have to cover three times as many people per officer compared to many parts of the world as a part of the business and this is. according to some of the problems.

i think. what can go to should they need to see change new committees have been set up to monitor police. complaints while an extra two hundred thousand officers will be hired in the next two years but for those like shamima who have to live every day without her beloved daughter the government's reforms are simply too little too late for the ultimate i have totally lost my faith in the police we were just living our life quietly even though we did not have enough money we didn't do anything wrong so why did they kill my daughter it just makes me so angry though. still trying to make sense of her family's tragedy preassure either our team mumbai india. time no for the business dimitri and it seems to be true that the latest jobs data in the us and europe is

not providing any optimism to the markets that is true but i have to tell you that the markets are taking it much much easier than they did two hours ago when the a.d.p. reported that one hundred nineteen thousand new jobs were added in the private sector which is the slowest pace of growth since september and therefore what we're seeing right now on the markets is that the dow jones is still low it's down around one fifth of a percent while the nasdaq has moved back into positive territory over in europe we're also not seeing that much of a different situation and the point right there it's only as we said twelve year high in march in germany even the jobless rate rose by point one percent for the same period and of course spain has the highest unemployment rate in the european union number of job seekers rose for the month in a row in march they hit five point six million people or record twenty four point four percent and therefore the reaction that we saw at the end of the session

turned into these valleys with almost one percent of the acts three quarters of a percent over in russia investors have come back after a long weekend coming important new one actually on sunday. and this is what they saw at the end of the first session down one on the percent of the mice in the r.t.s. and it was pretty dramatic only by the end of the day was pretty quiet and actually the session the indices were fairing in the black and among the interesting stories ross snapped is down two point six percent does its shareholders are waiting record dividend payout of one billion dollars twenty five percent increase on twenty eleven nobody was down ten per cent dramatic nosedive there after the government approved new changes to the taxation system in the in the industry they're going to increase the mineral extraction tax and there's burbank the most

liquid stock on the market was down one percent at the cottage over in the currencies markets pretty stable the to be of parity between the euro and the dollar barely any change whereas the ruble managed surprisingly again against both currency despite the fact that world prices. and that's what i have for you with this i'll be back in two hours time to bring an update great c.l.a. dimitri thanks very much indeed for that update well in a few minutes here on r.t. capital accounts from washington but first a reminder of our top stories coming your way very shortly. in the euro.

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karachi twenty people killed in the run one hundred injured by unknown attackers during a protest against egypt's military rulers pre-election tensions put neighboring israel on alert it's strengthening its borders. a tell about kill seven in kabul in retaliation to barack obama's surprise visit which saw him commit americans in afghanistan for at least another decade. plus the e.u. reaches for the red card as countries move to boycott football zero twenty twelve in ukraine and the handling of its jailed former prime minister. i'll be back with another some of those news stories for you in about half an hour from now in the meantime lauren lyster runs over the numbers and artie's capital next from washington. good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm more in leicester here in washington d.c. is your headline for may first two thousand and twelve.