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

world news twenty four hours a day this is r.t. i'm kerry johnston. the worst of violence egypt has seen in months stoking political tensions in the country ahead of the presidential election 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 pastors are staging a sit in in the country's ministry of defense voicing their anger at the banning of them is the most candidates from the election various political forces that rushed to play in the ruling military for the bloodshed and while the generals say their hyundai over how to secure this outcome of the presidential vote is decided in the first round many fear that it will do little to quell the chaos and lead to prompt democratic reforms surfer three point. shooting phone in middle. this is the leading comic actor. and his satirical

film the leader is just one of a number in which he still heard learned as an imprisoned offending islam it's a ruling that's him reaching the public thanks very much. but also that it was a god. case of i got really mad about this right. if i got right down to the right god take. a breath right there freedom of expression and. convictions accosting a cow dave are artistic plans actions which the great and 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 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 for groups like i don't know it means imposing much stricter misl in kinds who have no problem with. this. system who have our culture our culture. and out of a club and. we live in egypt so. i think that. has to come from this culture and this culture means. many of these pushing 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 got the 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 no matter how subtle the differences may be at the moment egypt's eric sheikh restraint in making it he and the results of what happens right now could be felt for generations. kyra. here with r.t. and still ahead in the program a yellow card for ukraine several countries threatened to boycott the twelve football championship that edge the mistreatment of the country's jailed i mean. we report on how fracking the extraction of natural gas from the shale has caused outrage in britain with fears 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 countries beijing wants an apology from washington after accusing it of meddling in its internal affairs of the u.s. embassy harbored a chinese dissident activist china is also irritated over u.s. military buildup in the asia pacific region. and sentimental says u.s. leaders realize washington is actually. stage. obviously trying to. they're 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 and are 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 than it is today given their very strong economic position right now and the vast amount of dependence america has in selling its debt 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. author john nesbit set up his own institute in china to study session economic developments that says the world is yet to see a major standoff between washington beijing and i could taste our interview with him which you can see in full in twenty five minutes. and building their military but still you know the u.s. 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 it was over us this tree to be very simple minded about this is the u.s. and china that bipolar world is going to be dominated by the bipolar connection of china and the u.s. and people will make countries will make decisions in calibrate their their actions against what they perceive will be the responsible u.s. and or china. the u.s. says it won't limits the deployment of a nato missile defense shield in europe as part of junctions 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 what is in the snow it brings to the test 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 moscow has been trying to prove to all parties for dialogue for some time now and to no avail washington continues to stress that this deployment is no way a mentor to wrecked it against russia that it's terence against probe state stuff like braun and north korea and this is something quite frankly that russia just isn't funny but they want to see it have been demanding a 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 after this summit it's

not like senior 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 me it's ready to hang in there that is you ready to compromise after the election so that's a case in more than a few countries this year with elections be held out 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 new. russian 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. where america is at military web now spans the world with nearly eight hundred bases a quarter of a million personnel explo this

a massive military presence in a special report that is 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 earth and the shadow is encroaching on. the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms the belief empire that the united states is trying to build it's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million a 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 our bases are fine the

noise is our noise and doesn't bother us at all because they're our basics 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 you know think i'll just get everything you need. well meeting of a european central bank in barcelona has sparked an precedented security measures in spain affecting public anger over savage austerity cuts to deal with the country's budget deficit several border controls have been restored before it is fearful of protests university of athens economics professor yanis varoufakis says the people have every reason to be furious while they seem to be spent over the

last few months one trillion euros financing bank of banks. think it would 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 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 monetary authorities in europe one is the world the bank a bank is where essential in holding 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 films should be there in order to avert the kind of good skate of insolvencies of states that we have been experiencing over the last couple of years. what they did today max keiser and stacy herbert take on those

they blame for being behind global financial chaos timothy guy 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 it's purposefully blind to the crime in front of them you can't hear anybody out there committing crime 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 land has been given the go ahead in the u.k.

the technique is causing shock waves amongst the residents near drilling sites who claim they haven't been informed of the potentially disastrous environmental impact artie's i've got it reports 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 is safe despite causing two tremors in the popular coastal resort of blackpool last year environmentalist fear a smokescreen hiding the far more dangerous side effect of large scale deadly pollution fails to address the earth quakes 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 aspects so ultimately the department of energy climate change regulating this hydraulic fracturing or fracking extracts me thing 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 other 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

balcombe surrounded by a network of reservoirs that provide water to much of england's densely populated southeast 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 methods of energy such as nuclear and fracking that don't increase resilience and don't move as a way to reduce kloet 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. well remember there's always plenty more to check out on our website at r.t. dot com let's have what's lined up a few right now one of the half million tons of tsunami debris from japan is set to reach the u.s. pacific coast by. discover what its impact might be in the online story. of the most framed paintings in the world scream sold for one hundred twenty million u.s. dollars in new york and sixpence a bit more to the public option don't worry if you missed the chance to bid you can find out more.

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several members are threatening to boycott the euro twenty twelve football championship of ukraine's treatment of its jailed former prime minister yulia timoshenko who claims she was beaten by prison guards. have has the details now. 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 mangler 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 all skoal 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 and certainly the situation is very very tense for ukraine and the fork even particular now. let's take a look now at some other news from around the world this hour. new laws prohibiting public praise and lately the market data has been brought in national transitional

council punishment could be as much as life in prison for offenses deemed as damaging to the state the censorship also prohibits indorsing the formally design ideas a series of new rules have introduced by the revolution of government ahead of elections in june. due to gingrich has officially dropped out of the race for the republican presidential nomination in the us after losing five state primary elections last week he said he believed his rival mitt romney is the clear favorite to challenge president barack obama the white house and that there are some commentators however clinton's support for romney to in his speech was somewhat grudging gingrich won just two of the thirty one primary elections that have been held so far. and check out this gravity defying diverse was devil then simply as the jet man has flown over rio de janeiro in a jet wing suit and he jumped out of a helicopter and he's going around the city. all touching down on the bonnet beach

. claims he can reach speeds of close to three hundred kilometers per hour. ok well that's from the world of business now rena what have you got for us this hour hi carol well this hour the russian markets i have opened so we have new figures there of course before that we only had asia which was trading so it's great to have another one and so the market well if we take a look at the latest figures will see that the russian markets have managed to reverse wednesday's losses we see that the arts u.s. is adding a quarter of a percent of all the my sense is that in almost a half a percent next hour we'll have a breakdown of the main movers on the my stocks where you get a better idea of the sides ments there but for now let's move on to currencies we have updated figures there as well when it comes to the ruble with the euro it's still losing against the dollar and when it comes to the ruble it's now losing against both major currencies losing streak for everyone involved the dollar of

course all right moving on. and asia we have japanese markets are closed for public holidays so we only have to focus on and we see that it's in the red and banks in fact are meeting that the cline's there and it's basically tracking overseas losses we had disappointed data coming in from europe and the u.s. when it comes to the eurozone of course we know that unemployment has now reached record high levels which is no helping investors boost their confidence now in the u.s. markets are closed so we're seeing in the closing picture from wednesday a mixed performance there other than a disappointing jobs report we also had falling factory orders which didn't help matters and on friday we'll get a monthly jobs report for the month of april and many analysts are now saying that it doesn't look good that we will see more disappointment coming out from there but will keep you posted i suppose we get that information course on friday and with oil prices are still mixed and five crude has slipped the most into weeks after

reports that u.s. stockpiles have climbed to their highest level in over twenty one years in other news of russia's of food or. market has now become the biggest in europe with almost forty percent growth last year it has overtaken friends and almost a third of the increase was the result of inflation pushing total sales to two hundred thirty seven billion dollars bought support capital spending on food in russia was one hundred forty dollars a month which is still half of what the average person spends. while they do have that expensive cheese and wine so i'm sure that's why they spend more well kerry next hour we'll have the european markets for you ok thanks for that marina speech you can. well that coming up in a few minutes especially interview right after mind of our top stories.

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