egypt's worst clashes in months leave at least eleven dead with accusations that the military rulers are complicit in the violence adding to deepening concerns about the country's stability and presidential elections. american chinese relations are tested as hillary clinton's high stakes visit to beijing is overshadowed by controversy over a local dissident and the u.s. military buildup in the pacific. the u.s. refuses to limit its missile defense system in europe and builds a high tech case against a project that it considers a threat to its national security.

you're watching r.t. a very warm welcome to you today now the worst violence egypt has seen in months stoking political tensions in the country at the presidential elections at least eleven people were killed and around one hundred injured when a group of unknown assailants attacked protesters early on wednesday sparking further fierce clashes the protesters were staging a sit in the country's ministry of defense voicing their anger at the planning of its newest candidate from the election. it's the forces have rushed to blame the ruling military for the bloodshed and while the generals say they are hundred out to civilians if the outcome of the presidential vote is decided in the first round many fear that it will do little to quell the chaos and will need to prompt democratic reforms. reports.

taking phone in middle east and. this is the leading comic actor. and his film the leader is just one of a number in which he still has the flanders him imprisoned offending islam it's a ruling that's him reaching the public thanks very least and also that was he got the. case of i got really mad about this right that the process. was under this and it's like i said that it wasn't for the rest of the country and everywhere else was that freedom of expression and. such convictions accosting a cloud a very artistic plans actions which the great and the good of the arab media industry a quick to condemn after being banned for years until the barrick hardline parties like the muslim brotherhood and the newly created select this new look i see have gained serious political clout having won the lion's share of seats in parliament

and people here in egypt. has. to. watch is what will that new egypt look like the groups like al know it means imposing much strict muslim kinds have no problem with. this system of our culture our culture. and out of the club and. we live in egypt so. i think. the laws have to come from this culture and this culture means. many of these fishing for implementing shari'a law in egypt and we have likely that it could still be a long way off but there are already signs that change is taking place a lot of people who are currently governmental candidates for president are being

very cautious about the statements that they make with the go to policy everyone is preaching moderate islamists but at same time there is an undercurrent like for instance we're going to change that. likely we're not going to make schools but we're going to preach religion better at schools they matter how subtle the differences may be at the moment egypt's energy crisis rate in looking at each other and there is still this is what happens right now could be felt for generations. here with our table so they had in the program a yellow card for ukraine several you countries threatened to boycott twenty twelve football championships in ukraine the alleged mistreatment of the country's jailed form of detention. the report on how fracking the extraction of natural gas from shell rock has caused outrage in britain fears about its destructive impact on the environment. u.s.

secretary of state hillary clinton is in beijing for why do injuring strategic talks with china visit coming at an extremely delicate time in relations between the two nations beijing wants an apology from washington after accusing it of meddling in its internal affairs the u.s. embassy harbored a chinese dissident activist china's also irritated over u.s. military buildup in the asia pacific region well for more on this we're joined now by dr chen from the east asian institute at the national university of singapore thank you for joining us here on our taking our hillary clinton arrives in china for talks on corporation in reality what are the u.s. strategic goals in the region. i think the u.s. strategic goal actually is still thought that contain china rice and tried to keep the balance of power in the region underway and economically u.s. is doable he got engaged china they want to ask the economic and the treaty ties

with china that on the upper hand on the security and the strategic perspective actually the u.s. is still trying to look and contain the rights of china what washington does seem to be irritating china and with its military buildup in asia pacific and indeed as you mention the latest incident with a blind activist who escaped house arrest and fled to the u.s. embassy is any meaningful dialogue really possible between the two at this stage i think if there are some meeting for dialogue between the two candidates there must be in the economic trade area strategically and the security only security issues actually i don't think. congress will make some substantial compromises on the soft liner sees you i don't think any. concessions for us you mentioned economics there and china is the largest holder of

u.s. debt why does washington appear to be so provocative towards its biggest lender for example considering selling f. sixteen fighters to taiwan i think there has been us consistent diplomatic policy the only they insist on setting taiwan are those who do not admit that so why is an independent contractor that is being a us foreign policy for many decades and i don't think there's any reason for us to change it now even if they want to have a better relationship with china. i hear a lot about the u.s. view but what in your view is china's current policy towards ties with the u.s. in terms of those here in paris beijing what are they really thinking i think for china actually there any do stores. i think is

a bit. complicated i ding on the economic side they also or wants. more aid and walk operation from the u.s. but other human rights you see on the security i doing this perceive us as a potential or a rival in the region so i think this dialogue those economic and security so i think actually china we'll hold our barry. added us thoughts just to use us ok we have to leave it there thank you very much indeed of a chain gang from the east asian institute the national university of singapore thank you. ok. set up his own institute in china says the world is yet to see a major standoff between washington and beijing has a good taste of our interview with him which you can see in full in about twenty

minutes time. they have been building their military but it's still the u.s. military that you call all the other areas of the world put together and we've heard a lot of talk about all the world but. to be very simple minded. is the u.s. and china the. world's going to be. china and us and people countries. calibrate their shoes. will be responsible and or. the u.s. says it won't limits the deployment of a nato missile defense shield in europe despite objections from russia the project is the cause of one of the deepest divisions currently between the two countries

russia is now making a high tech case against the system and a special conference in moscow which fifteen nations planned to attend but it's now . no way on this and if so what exactly does russia want to demonstrate at this international gathering. for missile defense has been at a deadlock for quite some time now between the u.s. russia and nato it's a long standing issue on what russian officials at this summit are hoping to do is to prove with a computer model how deployment of missile defense systems in poland romania even as far as turkey plans which aren't even plans really anymore they're really in full force pose a major threat to russia's national security this is something moscow has been trying to prove to all parties to dialogue. for some time now and to no avail washington continues to stress that this deployment is no way meant or to wrecked it against russia that it's terence against probe states like iran and north korea and this is something quite frankly that russia just isn't part of what they want

to see it have been demanding are written legally binding guarantees that this set defense system is not directed towards russia especially so close to its border but now with that said no major breakthroughs are expected at this summit it's an election year officials understand that and it's well known that if you want to win you can't really go soft on the french remember that hot mike in south korea with obama telling medvedev to hang in there that he was ready to compromise after the election but that's a case in more than a few countries this year with elections be held up throughout the world really in twenty twelve also the meeting is considered high level a lot of high level defense officials here but nato secretary general rasmussen did decline an invitation to join in although his spokesperson says that no way represents or reflects his openness and readiness for dialogue it's not going to be seen as a great sign in terms of nato russia relations especially out of a major summit coming up in chicago at the end of the month so what it seems we're

going to be hearing from officials coming out of this are baby steps everyone says they're willing to go further on dialogue but how much they're willing to compromise is still very unclear. ok and he said no i thank you for that. how the u.s. that web of war is actually spawning all over the good with almost eight hundred bases in a quarter of a million personnel we explore this massive military presence in a special report i said today. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the or. and the shadow is an approaching i will never. leave early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the former sloop empire that the united states is trying to do it's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more

than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around. we don't have power bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in cross our bases are flying over the noise is our noise it doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been . working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions you think also you get everything you needed a meeting of the european central bank in barcelona a spot on precedented security measures in spain reflecting public anger of

a savage stare to cuts to deal with the country's budget deficit some border controls have been restored with the authorities fearful of protests university of athens economics professor younis artifacts says the people have every reason to be furious. while they seem to be have spent over the last few months one trillion euros financing bank of banks i. think it could be a loan because trade upon percent. it isn't husing to come to this is of states like spain like portugal like ireland like greece and to come to their systems it opinions a whole acquires misanthropy conditions to be imposed upon the populations of those countries so you have to completely different attitudes by the more that your heart is in europe one is towards the bank a bank is where essential. for during this crisis and they are being treated with

love. and then you have the way the states like spain are being treated europe does not have the need to do from should be there in order to avert the kind of gets kade of insolvencies of states that we have been experiencing over the last couple of years. well today max kaiser and stacey herbert take on those they blame for being behind the global financial chaos. timothy geitner you can't legislate away stupidity or risk taking greed it was just an accident i think that the global financial markets collapsed i don't see any crime here or. selective amnesia and he's purposefully blind to the crime in front of them he can't hear anybody they're committing crimes he can't see anybody even though it's presented the evidence every single day criminality no. ambiguity about it.

fracking the process of extracting natural gas from rock on land has been given the go ahead in the u.k. the technique is causing shock waves amongst residents new drilling sites who claim they haven't been informed of the potentially disastrous environmental impact studies of a bennett explains. it triggers earthquakes and could poison water supplies but fracking suggests got the green light in the u.k. a government study says the controversial gas extraction technique be safe despite causing two tremors in the popular coastal resort of blackpool last year environmentalist sphere a smokescreen hiding the far more dangerous side effect of large scale deadly pollution what it fails to address is the fact that both quakes and seismicity you

know those issues are actually a new very small fraction of the other associated problems with fracking so the report doesn't really do justice to any other aspect totally says the department of energy climate change to regulating this hydraulic fracturing or fracking extracts methane gas from underground millions of gallons of water and chemicals including hydrochloric acid pumped into a three kilometer deep well that high pressure when the rock cracks gas escapes but so too can deadly toxins and radiation previously locked in the ground this site just sixty kilometers south of london is one of many the government intends to drill and the people who live here have had no say permission is already been given for fracking to start and that's the hole that will be pumped with water at one thousand meters it's not shallower than most of the fracking sites which means the risks of tremors a much higher but so too the chances of toxic chemicals seeping into the water

supply and that's the worry for residents who live nearby the fact that fracking could take place four miles from my home makes me feel very angry very disillusioned very disappointed in our legislators to things absolutely exasperated that they can even countenance sanctioning because it is an eco sidle technology it's short term it's short sighted halfway between the capital and the coast bulk i'm surrounded by a network of reservoirs to provide water to much of england's densely populated south. east the fear is the toxic cocktail left by fracking will pollute supplies only a quarter of the cast and jenny chemicals pumped in actually come out again fracking has already begun america these online videos show what happens if the well casing splits taps flaming off the gas leaked into the water system but britain insists it's a clean alternative to cold local campaigners are far from convinced we really need

to be looking at how we're going to move away from fossil fuels and what's happening at the moment is that the government is diverting its attention and its resources towards. energy such as nuclear and fracking that don't increase resilience and don't move as a way to reduce close. impact fracking is banned in france and bold garia because of public outrage but in the current corners of england's countryside people's fears are no match for the energy giants either bennett r.t. sussex. i remember there's always plenty more to check out on our website r.t. dot com here's what lined up for you right now one million tons of tsunami debris from japan set to reach the u.s. pacific coast while discover what its impact might be online story. in just three weeks on that somebody had to go on strike just think it would take

to become iran u.s. were to attack the country more about this highly contentious post as america be sucking its more muscles in the region more r.t. dot com. several e.u. members are threatening to boycott the u.s. twenty twelve football championship if ukraine is that treatment of its jailed former prime minister yulia tymoshenko he claims she was beaten by prison guards. as the details. 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 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 all football championships all in all definitely this creates a very great deal of pressure on key of last friday's terrorist attacks and it also already created serious concerns about the security during the summer storm and but now the euro twenty two also 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 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 certainly the situation is very very tense for ukraine and the fork even particular now. reporting let's take a look now at some other nice around the world this out in libya new doors for hitting the public crazy. michael duffy having been wanting the ruling national transitional council can be as much as life in prison for a face is dangerous and damaging to the state censorship also prohibits tossing the form of these ideas a series of new laws have been introduced by the revolutionary government ahead of elections in june. gingrich has officially dropped out of the race for the republican presidential nomination last year using a private state primary election last week he believes that mitt romney is the clear favorite to challenge present barack obama for the white house in the despite

their political rivalry gingrich grudgingly endorsed romney as the obvious choice gingrich won just two of the thirty one primary elections that have been fast. check out this gravity defying dive a swiss diet of all known simply as the jet that has flown over. jet crowd we see he dropped out of a helicopter and world his way around the christ the redeemer statue in notable that box before touching down on the record on a beach self styled jet that claims he can reach speeds of close to three hundred kilometers per hour. well speedily now we were to the world of business with what's happening hi carry it well i want to start with the international stock markets asia is the only one trader right now when it comes to japan markets are closed for public holiday so it's they will focus on the

one hand side where banks are leading the lines then this regard to come as a surprise because it's all on the back of this appointment the labor they have coming out from europe and the u.s. in fact unemployment has now reached record high levels in the euro zone and we see that affect all of the markets across the board moving on to the u.s. markets are closed so what you're seeing right now is the picture from the ones they session was a mixed performance overall economic data was the main focus of course first of all we had polling of factory orders as well as of course a very disappointing jobs data and on friday will be a new report that will show job drops report for the month of april and many analysts are not saying that it might be yet and disappointments will be washed in that are moving on to currencies the euro is losing against the dollar and when it comes to the report again against both major currencies on the ones that will give you an updated figures when the russian markets open in about two hours from now and i'll tell you more about them and then a little bit but first let's take

a look at oil prices now as we can see it's a mixed picture as well light sweet is trading at around one hundred and five dollars per barrel and the brand blood is at around one hundred and eighteen dollars now crude has slipped from its highest level in su weeks and that's a following that applies in the us to reach record high in twenty one years of course and that normally drives prices down from uno to russia as i said it's two hours ahead of the opening bell both the arts yes and m i six lost over one and a half percent significant losses there and that's of course tracking losses overseas investors are in very calm for them right now well and other news a rush. market has become the biggest in europe with almost fourteen percent growth last year has now overtaken france almost a third of the increase was a result of inflation pushing total sales to two hundred thirty seven a billion dollars however for capital spending on food in russia it's one hundred

forty dollars a month and that's still half of what the average person spends. i care that's how business likes this hour back to you ok thanks for update there enough. well coming up in a few minutes our special interview right after a mind of our top story.

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