now the worst violence egypt has seen in months is stoking political tensions in the country ahead of 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 history of defense voicing their anger at the timing of its newest candidate from election. day school forces have rushed to blame the ruling military for the bloodshed and while the generals say they'll hundred power to civilians if the outcome of the presidential vote is decided in the first round many failed that it will do little to quell the chaos and the two prompt democratic forms. reports. taking phone in middle eastern news this is the leading comic actor. and his film the leader is just one of a number in which she's learned as an imprisoned offending islam it's

a ruling that's in reaching the public. face revolution. but example was the gathering i think the case of i got really mad about the like that and also about how much that it was nothing if i could write that it wasn't for the rest of the country and the fact that pretty well right there freedom of expression in the . convictions accosting a cloud a very artistic plans actions which the great in the good of the arab media industry a quick to condemn after being banned for years until mubarak hardline parties like the muslim brotherhood and the newly created new policy have gained serious political clout having won the lion's share of seats in parliament and. has hope. to. do.

will that new egypt look like the greeks like i will it means in praising much street said mr lim coates i have no problem with. this system so we have our culture out of this our culture of content and out of atlanta and. society as we live in egypt so. i think. the laws have to come from this culture and this means. many of these pushing for implementing shari'a law in egypt and we have to clean 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 lame and egypt's eric cheek restraint in making it each of them there is still so what is right now keep the parents' generation. there with our table still ahead in the program a yellow card for ukraine several e.u. countries threatened to boycott twenty twelve football championships in ukraine the alleged mistreatment of the country's jailed form of detention. we 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 doing strategic talks with china is it 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 in artane our hillary clinton arrives in china for talks on corp in reality what are the u.s. strategic goals in the region. i've been there u.s. strategic goal actually is still thought that contain china rice and tried to keep the balance of power in that region on the way and economically u.s. is doable in were engaged china they want to. make and the treaty ties with china but on the upper hand on the security and the strategic perspective actually the u.s. is still trying to look and contain the right 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 to skate house arrest and fled to the u.s. embassy is any meaningful dialogue really possible between the two at this stage i think you get there are some meeting for dialogue between the two candidates there must be in the economic trade area strategically and this is your daily security is yours actually i don't think. congress will make some substantial compromises. sees you i don't think any. concessions with 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 insist on setting to 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 you know this is i think is a bit. complicated i ding on the economic side they also or wants. more aid and more cooperation from the u.s.

but other human rights you see on the security i doing this perceive us as a potential our rival in the region so i think this dialogue is economic and security so i think actually china we all hold our barry differentiated adage us thoughts just two issues ok i will have to leave it there thank you very much indeed of a chain gang from the east asian institute and the national university of singapore thank you. ok you know what. 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 still you know the u.s. has a military that equal 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. china and us people countries. will be responsible u.s. or china. 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. well mr de france has been at the 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 crimes 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 sports direct 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 funny what they want to see and have been demanding are written legally binding guarantees that the said 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 defense remember that hot mike in south korea with obama telling medvedev to hang in there that is you 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 farm or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow is an approaching illiterate. early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the former sleep 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 alitalia. we don't have power bases and 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 our bases are flying over the noise around one or two 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 in the world war two the spaces i've been . working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions they have pickles get everything you needed a meeting of the european central bank in barcelona a spot on precedented security measures in spain affecting public anger of savage a 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 is accusing to come to this is for states like spain like portugal like ireland like greece and to come to their systems in europe as a whole but acquires misanthropy conditions to be imposed upon the populations of those countries so you have to completely different attitudes by the market is harder to hear one is towards the bank of bankers who wear essential in holding this crisis and they are being treated with love. and then you have the way the states like spain are being treated you know does not have the needs that you find

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 him he can't hear anybody out there committing crimes you 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 are bennett explains. it triggers earthquakes and could poison water supplies but fracking just 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 earthquakes and seismicity you know those issues are actually new very small pression of the other associated problems with fracking so the report doesn't really do justice to any other aspect

so ultimately if the department of energy climate change 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 is 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 are 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 that provide water to much of england densely populated south. at least the fear is the toxic cocktail left by fracking will pollute supplies only a quarter of the carcinogenic 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 coal local campaign is far from convinced we really need to be looking at know what we're going to move away from fossil fuels and what's happening is that the government is diverting its attention and its resources towards. energy such as new clear fracking don't increase resilience and don't

move as a way to reduce. the impact fracking is banned in france and bulgaria because of public outrage but in the current corners of england's countryside people's fears are no match for the energy giants bennett r.t. sussex. there's always plenty more to check out on our website r.t. dot com. view right now one million tons of tsunami debris from japan set to reach the u.s. pacific coast. discover what its impact might be online story. just three weeks somebody had to go on strike just think it would take to become iran u.s. were to attack the country more highly contentious as america gets 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 timoshenko and claim 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 trying to do well 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 vivid 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 well let's take a look now at some other unease around the world this hour in libya new doors predicting a public praise of late in the market off we have been brought in by the ruling national transitional council punishment could be as much as life in prison for offenses deemed as damaging to the state censorship also prohibits endorsing the form of the design 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 losing state primary elections 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 forced.

to check out this gravity defined dive a swiss do it 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 cabana beach self study claims he can reach speeds of close to three hundred kilometers per hour. speedily there were two the world of business with what's happening area 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 data coming out from europe and the u.s. in fact on employment 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 another of 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 crude has slipped from its ice level in sioux weeks and that's a following the plies in the you why has it reached record high in twenty one years of course and that normally drives prices down from the known 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 that right now well and other news are russia's. the sell 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 how are pro capital spending on food to russia it's one hundred forty dollars a month and that's still half of what the average of french person spends. i care that's how business looks that's our facts here ok thanks for update very near.

well coming up in a few minutes our special interview right after a mind of our top story this.

to esther stanchfield agree and one farm or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow is i'm quoting a little different. to the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms legal 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 or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around the world. we don't have foreign 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 our bases afai

there are the noises one officer 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 into world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions being of thing else to get everything you needed. on the.

time to recap our top stories now egypt's worst clashes in months leave at least eleven dead one hundred protesters injured accusations that the truth is a place in the bods i'd into deep new concerns about the country's stability of a presidential election. american chinese relations are tested as henry clinton's high stakes visit to beijing is overshadowed by controversy over a distance even refuge for a short time in the u.s. embassy. tensions continue to rise in the u.s. military buildup in the pacific. and u.s. refuses to limit its missile defense system in europe despite russia's concerns returned to building a high tech case against a.