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

world news twenty four hours a day this is. the worst violence egypt has seen in months 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 protest staging a sit in the country's minister of defense senior wrangler at the banning of an islamist candidate from election various political forces have rushed to blame the ruling military for the bloodshed while the general say there but how to civilians an outcome of the presidential vote is decided in the first round many fear that it will do little to quell the chaos to pound democratic reforms. report. taking phone in middle eastern oil this is. the leading comic actor. and his

satirical film the leader is just one of a number in which he stirred the flounders him in prison offending islam it's a ruling at the same region with the public but this revolution. was a gathering. case of i got really mad about this right across. the cycle race back on to the rest of the country and everywhere else was there freedom of expression. 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 a barrack hardline parties like the muslim brotherhood and the newly created new party have gained serious political clout having won the lion's share of seats in parliament and people here in egypt. has.

to. choose what will that new egypt look like the groups like al know it means imposing much strict muslim coeds who have no problem with. this system of our culture our culture. and that of a clan and. we live in egypt so. i think that. has to come from this culture and this culture means. many of these implementing shari'a law in egypt let me publicly 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 got the policy everyone

is preaching moderate islamists but the same time there's 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 no matter how subtle the differences may be at the moment egypt's. each and there is still so what happens right now could be felt for generations. but here with r.t. and still ahead in the program a yellow card for ukraine several countries threatened to boycott twenty twelve football championships in ukraine milledge the mistreatment of the country's jailed retention. and a report on how fracking the extraction of natural gas from shale rock has caused outrage in britain has about its destructive impact on the environment. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is in beijing for wide ranging strategic talks

with china a 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 but the u.s. embassy harbored a chinese dissident activist china is also irritating every u.s. military buildup in the asia pacific region. for sure and so. u.s. leaders realize washington is actually in a weak position at this stage. so mean now obviously the chinese are not very happy at those developments and i think inside to some extent america's actions are much more provocative than they might be but from another perspective the chinese economy is growing in her normal space and the american economy is not so it's perfectly rational for the chinese leaders to in effect except these two print pictures on america's side and just realize that another five or ten years the

chinese position will be enormously stronger relative to america's leaders today given their very strong economic position right now and the vast amount of dependence america has and selling it stick to the chinese from a rational point of hating america is obviously in a weak position for that reason but a lot of american leaders seem to not recognize those realities or is still thinking that america is in the position it was ten or fifteen or twenty years ago the enormously dominant world superpower and that just is not the case anymore. or that john naismith set up his own institute in china to study session economic developments that says the world is yet to see a mega standoff between washington and beijing here's a quick taste of our interview with him which you can see in the extra. have been building the military but still you know the us has a military that equal all the other militaries of the world put together and i've

heard of we've heard a lot of talk about multi polar world but last century was over us. to be very simple minded. is the us and china that bipolar world is going to be dominated by the bipolar connection of china and the us and people will make countries will make decisions and calibrate their their actions against what they perceive will be the response of the us and or china. the us says it won't limit 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 more than fifty nations plan to attend. brings

us all the details there. missile defense has been at a deadlock for quite some time now between the us 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 must house trying to prove to all parties through dialogue for some time now and to no avail washington continues to stress that this deployment is no way meant sports erected 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 but they want to see it have been demanding are written legally binding guarantees that this is a defense system is not directed towards russia especially so close to its border but now with that said no major breakthroughs are expected to happen but it's about

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 being 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 in 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. well america's military web now spans the

world and then eight hundred bases in a quarter of a million personnel we explore this massive military presence in our special report there today. to a substantial degree and one crime or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth and the shadow is encroaching upon liberty. to leave early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the former sleepy empire that the united states is trying to build its 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. 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 of why are the

noises our noisy doesn't bother us at all because they're all basics but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two these spaces have been here. we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions you think else you get everything you needed. meeting of the european central bank in barcelona has sparked unprecedented security measures in spain affecting public anger of a savage austerity cuts to deal with the country's budget deficit several border controls have been restored or the authorities fear full of protests university of athens economics professor yanis varoufakis says the people have every reason to be furious while they see b.

and spent over the last few months one trillion euros financing bankrupt banks. think it could be a loan because trade upon sand. it is excusing to come to this is of states like spain like portugal like ireland like greece and to come to their assistance european union as a whole requires misanthropy conditions to be imposed upon the populations of those countries so you have a completely different attitude by the market heard it in europe one is the world the bank of bankers who were essential in forging this crisis and they are being treated with a glove. and there 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 there today marks the cars are in stacy 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. as selective amnesia and he's purposefully blind to the crime in front of them he can't hear anybody they're 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 iraq and then has been given

the go ahead in the u.k. for the technique is causing shock waves amongst residents near drilling sites who claim they haven't been informed of the potentially disastrous environmental impact montes of about it expects. 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 fees despite causing two tremors in the popular coastal resort of blackpool last year environmentalist's fear is 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 his 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 so ultimately 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 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 has already been given for fracking to start and that's the hole that we 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 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 the provide water to much of england densely populated. se 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 after gas leaked into the water system but britain insists it's a cleaner 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 new clear fracking don't increase resilience and don't move as a way to reduce clo it impact fracking is banned in france and bulgaria because of

public outrage but in the quaint corners of england's countryside people's fears are no match for the energy giants either bennett r.t. sussex. remember there's always plenty more to check out on our website at r.t. dot com but here's what's lined up there few right now one of the half a million tons of tsunami to every from japan set to reach the u.s. pacific coast by. discover what its impact might be online certainly. in just three weeks that's how long some pentagon strategists think it would take to overcome iran with the u.s. were to attack a country read more about this highly contentious post back a piece of its war muscles in the region r.t. dot com.

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several e.u. members are threatening to boycott the u.s. twenty twelve football championship of ukraine's the treatment of its jailed former prime minister yulia tymoshenko he claims she was beaten by prison guards parties i see her so skincare and has the details. 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 boy call it 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 angle 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 to put it off cold way to create a 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 for keven particular now. let's take a look now at some other unease were around the world this hour in libya new laws prohibiting public praise or. have been brought in by the ruling national

transitional council punishment could be as much as life in prison for this is deemed as damaging to the state censorship also prohibits indorsing a former leader's ideas series of the wars have introduced probably written into one of elections in june. newt gingrich has officially dropped out of the race for the republican presidential nomination to losing five state primary elections last week he believes mitt romney is the clear favorite to challenge president barack obama for the white house in the commentators say his support for romney during his speech was somewhat grudging gingrich won just two of the thirty one primary elections that have been held so far. this gravity defying diverse with. the jet man was flown over we didn't hear a jet suit he dropped out of a helicopter in world his way around the christ the redeemer statue and i'm going

to pull that box touching down about beach itself a star man that claims he can reach speeds of close to three hundred kilometers per hour. well time to check what's going on in the world of business now with. hikari well we are literally waiting for the russian markets open because there's not much going on today asia is the only one trading at the moment and even there the japanese markets are closed for public holidays so we really have only a hang signs of fall and as you can see it's still in the red minimal changes from the previous hour and now the reason it's in the red is because we had this of points and data coming out from europe and the u.s. on the wednesday on the form and has now reached record high levels in the euro zone which of course is not really helping boost investor confidence anywhere right now or less money to the u.s. markets there are close to where you see them right now is the picture from wednesday session a mix performance their economic data was the main focus of course other than

disappointing jobs they also had a ball in a factory orders so that there really helped matters but on friday will be another jobs report for the month of april and analysts say that that might be another disappointment soon investors will of course tell you when we get that information we're moving on to exchange rates the euro is still losing against the dollar and that's a mainly due to disappointing p.m.i. data for the month of april for the eurozone it was way below expectations and also it raised concerns yet again about employment all the region when it comes to the ruble it gains against both major currencies on the ones that will give you the updated figures when there are some markets open and about an hour from now i'll tell you more about the russian markets in a second first let's take a look at oil prices they are still a mix this hour in fact crude has slipped the most weeks after reports that u.s. stockpiles have climbed to the highest level in over twenty one years boy here in

russia as i said it's an hour ahead of the opening bell what we saw on wednesday is that both the arts yes and the my stocks lost over want and the have to reset. really have much to be optimistic about and in general the country is still pretty much in celebration mode because of the public holidays that we had earlier on in the week it will be more to follow next week so a lot of investors are away on holiday right now and. the retail market has become the biggest in europe with almost fourteen percent growth last year it has now overtaken france and almost a third of the increase was a result of inflation which pushed total sales to two hundred thirty seven billion dollars haven't set the per capita spending on food in russia which was one hundred forty dollars a month it's still a half of what the average french person spends. right carrie that's what i have for you next hour finally there are some markets will open next hour so we'll have

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