where at least twenty people have been killed and up to one hundred injured when unknown gunmen attacked the protesters the army since been deployed to try and the clashes the attackers you shot guns far rocks with demonstrators retaliating and beating some of the assailants the violence comes three weeks before egypt votes for a new president protesters have been camping outside the defense ministry for days demanding an end to the military rule that replaced hosni mubarak over a year ago. when i was promised let's go to cairo and now talk to political analyst mohamed followers know who do you think is behind the attack on protestors outside the defense ministry their own car. well first of all we have to know what is going on about say a square what is going the same big a very great clash between the rebels the revolutionary forces and between some kind of a civilian people buy. weapons like shotguns nine millimeter

pistols and not very killing machines. the protests to the people who attacked the protests today and yesterday and the day before from the beginning from the beginning of the sit in front of the minister of defense just the minister of defense people who have to be say that they are anonymous civilian no record for them no one no no them but they in fact they are the people and you disappear your council of foreign forces have granted them for you to them to attack the protesters of the peaceful peaceful protesters and the demonstrations of the peaceful protesters and to attack the you political activists and kill the political activists and claim that this crimes happen to some kind of unknown persons or unknown sides they want to destroy that if you are the basis of the national security of the country what if i don't see anything is it is it to derail the forthcoming elections what's the idea behind this supporting these attackers

and and promoting this violence at this crucial time just three weeks before the election. well there is a very important targets the the the you want us to do to do it first of all. you want if you want to destroy a revolution you have to destroy all the icons and therefore has been exposed to a heavy and the media attack on the political on the political activists and what's happening now it's are the result for the law of the fall for the planning has been happening from eleven february two thousand and eleven and what they wanted us to. they want to the people to hate and they want that they want a military court stays in egypt the military and state stays in egypt staying ruling the fiction country and they don't want presidential elections over they want to presidential some kind of a president or some kind of demo or some kind of an empty those who can work with

him they can work the country through him and rule the country through them sort of i do think that they want to have a reasonable reason a reasonable way to cancel the action in the direction presidential elections for faking vision press the elections for some kind of a candidate who we're not going to sadism you know oregon or not going to say to them we need a civilian state all right just like the joy in that election and if there is talk of this election being rigged and it's not to be free and fair is likely to be the winner of it what i can hear you will lose likely to win this election the big question in. the election what who is likely to win this election then. until now there was a very high bids on three candidates between. which one of the old parts of the mubarak regime he was the foreign minister of the mubarak regime for ten years and

. the morsi was the candidate. of brotherhood candidate and the and the most the most successful candidate until now up the minimal for two to the revolutionary forces because he was well known political activist in this kind of brotherhood and he was so moderate not very fanatic and not very liberal a lot of political and revolutionary forces respect him and he's some kind of one of the powerful people who contributed to the fiction of pollution and defended the rejection of the first state till now so those are the three most important data base it's it's a range according to this number one of them also number two on of the number three . at the most and this is my personal arrangement of that's what i think and what that's what i see the street well who would you like to see out of all of those three who'd be your preference what who would your preference be

clearly you're not too happy about the three main contenders that you think could bring some sort of change the egyptians really want to see that in the country. well first of all to make change in the egyptian country in our in our country you do you do not make a change by an election or in a proponent election or presidential election so the problem is that we do not want the change to come by all the election the change will come by making the ripple lucian rules and this is not the how the revolution rules that evolution do not truth so the problem is the change will come to egypt. porting system or judging system come to the power who sets the social to search the judgement between people sets the failed drug and respects the we respect everyone inside the country and that's were not going to happen why can't

a dating someone or moving someone. you know i think really just briefly i want to ask you as a young person there in egypt how do you see the future of egypt developing now since the revolution started what what are your hopes and fears very briefly how you see the future. how i see the future of i see though how the direction of lucia came from. now just briefly the future of your country you're a young person there what can the young generation expect now for the future of their country. i see i'm very optimistic in fact whatever happens the egyptian people have realized the way to freedom they're not going to step back and let another military court. control the country the problem is that the egyptian revolution after the step down of course has been attacked very hard for the people leave because of a little people believe there are the other to the targets of the revolution so

what and that's what and that's happened because the year that we make a big mistake when they let the superior council of armed forces. handle the transaction level between revolution between february till now so i see a very very destructive all transaction level but i see i'm very optimistic because that evolution is in every street in egypt the people are still believing that their children the people knew the way the way to the to be different to freedom and you do a bit of your life so i think that there's a very great future waiting for us if we try to help the people more and culture of the more and i'll try to make some kind of a political awareness to the more very interesting to hear your points also hear your optimism thank you very much political analyst mohammed followers talking to us now from kara. thank you very much. neighboring israel is beefing up its military presence on the egyptian border and it's also sending more troops to its

front here with restive syria now middle east correspondent paula slim 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 and 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 that will now come to place in cairo will be one that will be a lot more hostile to the jewish state then that of course mubarak is seeing is this week israel beginning to build a seven needs a high concrete wall along its border with lebanon and this according to israeli

sources is to stop firing. 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 to israel the 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. the taliban says it carried out a suicide bombing that killed seven people in the afghan capital president barack obama wrapped up a brief visit to the country he sounded deal with president karzai cementing america's commitment to supporting afghan forces you know after the nato combat

mission ends in twenty fourteen stressed the importance of peace talks with the taliban even though the latest attack was in direct retaliation for his visit and the packed with cars and he was lead to pledge to end the war but is going to check out reports american tends to stay for at least another decade. the fact that president obama traveled to afghanistan exactly year after bin laden's killing two signed a strategic pact with ghana's that is seen as an attempt to put the nears 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 very moment 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 uighurs warrants a permanent basis in afghanistan so it made 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 the killing could serve as a convenient cover for some dubious policies we have been able to decimate the ranks of al qaida and a year ago we 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. the one. produced and. the best from

joe. 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 ben 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 there's too many questions still yet to be asked about what the justification that 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 a 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 row. was a success on the war on terror front 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 of the past as well as the future i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . live from moscow this is r.t.

still ahead this hour the may day which turns celebration to frustration because rallies across europe see thousands vent their anger over suffering deeply unpopular cuts but it boils over in some cities is a report shortly. but first in four days france chooses its next leader and the front runners are making their final big t.v. push to win votes is this is what's happening right now in paris live pictures there where nicholas. falls roland who we can see the squaring off in a live televised debate because he calls it a moment of truth and could be his last chance to live that vote as the socialist rival and is still ahead in the polls and sarkozy needs to turn the tables to secure a second both candidates are trying to scoop up supporters of the far right leader marine le pen is refusing to endorse either of them but its options choice for we re french voters as

a senior explains. so it's down to two men socialist francois long and incumbent nicolas sarkozy and 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. bill really is what. yeah yeah yeah. it's maybe in jest but what's seen as a lack of a clear solution for france's economic woes have left so. as a 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 in my project the next five. i will see the wall in this. and i will i would like to see for

all in this wall in this and. especially when francis economic quagmire 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 as if the public can vote 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's doubt that there will be much room for maneuver at all but. whoever the elected president is sarkozy or he will subject himself very quickly and very visibly to the power of the european union it will always require more succor faces for workers for the obvious interests of the large banking globalists. then they work on some very small things that are there if you recall that ok we're gonna give the vote for

immigrants in local elections. you know what we're going to lead. children's those are important measures but they're not the biggest measure of the tough choice to make for those who don't see one to begin with. yes or so yards. deep in european anger in ukraine couldn't come at a worse time as the country prepares to host football's prestigious euro two thousand and twelve finals e.u. members are lining up to possibly boycott the event because of ukraine's treatment of his jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko here's our eastern correspondent eastern europe correspondent i should say alexey. it certainly is getting darker and darker for key of in relation to the euro twenty two a football championship which starts in less than forty days from now and now the dutch government is the latest all 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 angela merkel says that unless tymoshenko is released she would not come to ukraine for the euro twenty two a 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 create a 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 the fork even particular now. sports presenter kate partridge says the football community wants to keep its eye on the ball and his reluctant to get involved in the real. 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 the teams taking part of say coaches players and also the fans

the other side of politics so this situation there's a reason we're with 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 as there is at the hasn't been any sort of blogging or responses on a political sense the fans are much more concerned with the logistics get me 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. made a marchers were out in force across europe with thousands getting the chance to vent. their enduring but violence more of the demonstrations in some cities in italy police beat protesters with. the fiercest clashes italians are of the putative cuts being carried out on the country's three main unions develops the

reforms been pushed through by. prime minister mario monti rallies also turned violent in germany as left wing demonstrators clashed with police in berlin and hamburg the druze reported on both sides to make it four hundred thousand to cross the country the more the growth strategy rather than cults 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 work the message was clear throughout the economy of the future need centering around citizens not bailing out banks. italy or the violence come from. establishment with the politics of austerity when you have a cut in your. you wage when you cut social security when you of cut of employment then you see that.

the people are confronted with very violent process in their life the they lose their middle to survive and that's why i think we see that sort of reaction in the population we have to go with 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 renewed economy in total business that's one 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. more the main news now in our. province is apparently killed fifteen government soldiers

on tuesday u.n. observers reported multiple nations from both sides during a gun battle near the turkish border the u.n. warns the attacks threaten the peace plan and help and wants to significantly increase the number of monitors in the country by the end serious conflict has taken thousands of lives since it began over a year ago. could face sanctions if they don't stop the border violence a unanimous un security council resolution that gives both sides two weeks to return to negotiations clashes in the disputed all rich area have claimed dozens of lives in recent weeks raising fears of a return to military conflict the decades long civil war killed over one of the half million people and ended last july when the self won independence. standard and poor's elevated the country's status out of default it's on the back of the world's biggest ever restructuring which services members means investors

have lost billions. and dependent. from the e.u. and the i.m.f. totally two hundred fifty billion. so that brings up the big the moment that with some of our main news stories in five minutes from now business next there's dmitri so how is the day being on the market after the first of may celebrations and all those holidays well we've seen a lot of selling pressure actually especially here in russia given that. negative. come out in the u.s. we have had a report from the a.d.p. that the private sector added one hundred nineteen thousand new jobs april which is the slowest growth rate since september and therefore we have seen this. point. over in europe. very positive way of seeing the unemployment rate in italy reached

a twelve year high in march in germany even the jobless rate rose to rose by one point one percent by point one percent for the same period which was slightly higher than expected of course spain is still in the lead up at twenty four point four percent the unemployment rate of five point six million people looking for a job. and therefore we have also seen selling over in europe worse than in the u.s. at the moment the close we're seeing the footsie down almost a percent x. three quarters of percent and russia has seen a big hit although half the session was positive in the end there was a plunge of more than one and a half percent for both the r.t.s. and the my six now on the ross nafta was down zero point six percent so you can look at those stocks it was down point six percent better than the market because shareholders were expecting a record dividend payout of one billion dollars or around. twenty five percent higher than last year also an overtaxed nosedive of ten percent that's after the

government approves hikes for taxes when it comes to mineral extraction and the most liquid stock on the market was down one percent at the close when succession. and currencies we have seen in the euro and the dollar pretty stable against each other whereas the ruble managed to strengthen against currency this by lower world prices and that's when things business for you joe my colleague in the course or she'll be here at eight twenty am moscow time on the first day of course things not to have a good night good to see you in season now just to remind you to in a few minutes from now we've got cross talk for you heated debate of course with peter van these guests but first i'll be back with a reminder of our top stories in about two and a half minutes from now stay with us live here in moscow.

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twenty people killed one hundred in. protest against egypt's military rulers the pre-election tensions but neighboring israel. from its borders. to tell about bombing kills seven in kabul in retaliation to the surprise visit which saw him commit americans in afghanistan for at least another decade. plus for the country's move. and. that's it for me and the news team for the moment we'll be back with more in the meantime as promised. consider if you can measure a pleasure.