egypt's worst clashes in months leave at least eleven dead with accusations that the military rulers are complicit in the vote it's going to be deeply concerned about the country's stability at the presidential elections. american chinese relations are testing facility clinton's high stakes visit to beijing is shattered by controversy over the call dissident and u.s. military buildup in the pacific. the u.s. refuses to limit its missile defense system in europe as well should i take place against a project that it considers a threat to national security. around

the world and around the clock this is r.t. the worst 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 protest as were staging a sit in the country's ministry of defense forcing their anger at the banning of an islamist candidate from action various political forces have rushed to blame the military for the bloodshed and while the generals say there are hundreds of power to civilians of the outcome of the presidential vote is decided in the first round many fair that and to do little to quell the chaos only to prompt democratic reforms surface ripples. taking phone in middle eastern. this is the leading cleric a man. and his satirical film the leader is just one of

a number in which he stirred the flounders him in prison for offending islam it's a ruling that's in waging the public but this revolution. was a gathering. pace of i got really mad about the right process. and if i go right back i don't think the rest of the country and everywhere are right that freedom of expression in the. convictions accosting occur now dave or artistic plans actions which the great and the good of the arab media industry a quick to condemn after being banned three years until a barrick 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. watch is what will that new egypt look like for groups like al know it means imposing much stricter misl incurring aides who have no problem with. this system who have our culture our business our culture. and out of a club and. as we. saw. i think. the laws have to come from this culture and this culture means. many of these pushing for implementing shari'a law in egypt at least 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 eric cheek restraint emerging in each and the results of what happens right now could be felt for generations third party kyra. here with r.t. and still ahead in the program a yellow card for ukraine several e.u. countries threatened to boycott the euro twenty twelve championship that would be alleged mistreatment of the country's jailed. report on how fracking extraction of natural gas from shell rock its course outrage in britain fears about its destructive impact on violent. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is in beijing for wide ranging strategic talks

with china but they say it's coming at 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 home but chinese dissident activist china is also irritated over u.s. military buildup in the asia pacific region. thank you so u.s. leaders don't realize washington is actually requires issue at this stage. 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 papers 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 any america's 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 nesbitt's set up his own institute in china to study social economic developments that says the world has yet to see a major standoff between washington and beijing here's a quick a taste of our interview with him which you can see in full next hour. they have been 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.

to be very simple minded about. 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 actions against what they perceive will be the responsible u.s. and or china. now russia is warning it could make a preemptive strike against nato until missile defense shield plan for europe if the u.s. for cysts in the going ahead ignoring the kremlin's opposition says the system threatens its national security and is deterring its concerns an international conference in the russian capital representatives from over fifty nations well it's he's and he's annoyed joins us live now with more on this and they so what exactly

is russia looking to demonstrate at this. moment on defense has been a deadlock for some time now between the u.s. and russia and nato and basically russian officials have already reiterated bad sentiment saying that if that deadlock is not resolved sometime in the near future of course they understand how much work needs to be done but they will have to take responsive measures like you said a preemptive strike if there is no response from the u.s. or from nato this is been an issue for many years now and russia has made it very clear that the missile defense system which started us back to thirty pretty much fully fledged under way in eastern europe in poland romania even as far as turkey russia sees that as a major threat to its national security and officials here basically saying that they will have to move forward and take steps to protect themselves if they don't see your response from the. u.s. and in nato washington for years has been trying to convince russia that the system

is not against them but it's meant to be a deterrent against so-called rogue states like iran and north korea will official that this summit are going to show basically results of research that they've done to prove that they believe both north korea and the long don't have the capability to reach europe so major questions surrounding the goals of that defense system so close to the russian border we also know that we're going to show a computer model of how that missile defense system affects russians. just outside its border of course especially in poll that's a real concern here from the russian side and harsh rhetoric in response to that lack of response from the u.s. and from nato we're hearing no bond of similar statements about how dialogue has to happen but really what officials needs to see if we're hearing the certainly from the russian side is some kind of compromise the way russian sees it the way out of this is only if there's some kind of joint system between nato and the russian

federation and that is something that hasn't gotten quite a positive response from the u.s. house or from nato officials continuing to try to prove their point really about why they believe this is such a threat to russia's national security with that said no major breakthroughs are expected it's in the election year let's not forget that open mike in south korea when president obama told medvedev to hang in there that compromises could calm after the election a selection you're going to make hundreds of hospital over in twenty twelve will take that into consideration and also the fact that i was invited to this summit but i did not take me up on that invitation was nato secretary general anders fogh rasmussen who declined but his spokesperson saying no way represents his openness or readiness for dialogue but that's not going to be taken as a very good sign ahead of an upcoming major nato summit in chicago at the end of this month what it seems like we're going to hear from officials as this two day

summit wraps up is that there needs to be baby steps and this is the difficult issue both sides are going to push to the u.n. to defend their interests. ok in the snowy thanks for that update. but america's military weapon now spends the world with nearly eight hundred bases and a quarter of a million personnel exposed this massive military presence in a special reports late today. to a substantial degree and one time or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth. and the shadow is an approaching a whole different. leave early twenty first century military base is a network of military bases all around the forms that believe 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 or 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 of. the noise is our noise it 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 end of world war two these places i've been here. we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions you think also you get everything you needed but a meeting of the european central bank in barcelona has sparked unprecedented 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 to the events with your thoughts is fearful of protests he bestie 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 could be a loan because they don't want to send. it is if using to come to this is. states like spain like portugal like i don't 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 two completely different attitudes because hundreds of your one is towards the bank of bankers who were 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 you know does not have the needs that you feel. should be there in order to have the kind of good skate of insolvencies of states that we have been experiencing over the last couple of years but to the marks kaiser and stacy herbert take on those they blame for being behind they were financial chaos. to me think that 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. has 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.

now fracking the process of extracting the natural gas from a rock on that end has been given the go ahead in the u.k. however the technique is causing shock waves amongst residents in a drilling sites who claim they haven't been informed of the potentially disastrous environmental impact montes of events expect. 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 fees despite causing two tremors in the popular coastal resort of blackpool last year environmentalist's fear a smokescreen hiding the far more dangerous side effect of large scale deadly pollution what it fails to address is the fact that 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 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 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's densely populated south. east the fear is the toxic cocktail left by fracking will pollute supplies only a quarter of the cast and then 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 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 close. impact fracking is banned in france and bold garia 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 a plenty more to check out on our website r.t. dot com here's what's lined up there for you right now one of the. tongues of tsunami debris from japan is set to reach the u.s. pacific coast by uptown but discover what its impact might be on the online story. that's one of the most famous paintings in the world about monks sprit sold for a record one hundred twenty million u.s. dollars in new york the most expensive ever as

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several new members are threatening to boycott the euro two thousand and twelve football championship of ukraine's treatment of its jailed former prime minister yulia tymoshenko who claims she was beaten by prison guards. can't have 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 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 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 and certainly the situation is very very tense for ukraine and the fork even particular now. let's

take a look at some other international news now. may be a. riveting public praise of the late leader moammar gadhafi. the ruling national transitional council punishment could be as much as knife in prison for offenses deemed as damaging to the state and censorship also the hits indorsing the former leader's ideas a series of new laws have been introduced by the revolutionary government ahead of elections in june. due to give riches officially dropped out of the race for the republican presidential nomination in the u.s. . using five state primary elections last week he said he believed his rival mitt romney is a clear favorite to challenge president obama for the white house then but some commentators however claim to not forgotten the jew in his speech was somewhat grudging gingrich won just two of the thirty one primary elections that have been held so far. and have a look at this a gravity defying diverse is simply the jetman discipline of it really didn't it

jim and. he dropped out of a helicopter in world is way around the christ the redeemer statue and the notable not. touching down on a beach self-styled object that claims he can reach speeds of close to three hundred kilometers per hour. that fly over to the world of business now with marina we've got for us this hour maria hi carol europe has a finally joined the trading session along with russia and asia so let's start with europe for us all enough the numbers are in pause that when i say only enough that's because of the news that we got yes there was quite negative and i'm talking about unemployment rates of course which have reached record highs in the euro zone this is normally something that would knock the confidence of investors but we're seeing that today they don't seem as affected by it but of course we get a clearer picture once the session is at least our. all right let's move on and

take a look at what's happening here in russia now it's now been over a one hour into the trading session it started off in positive territory then it slipped into negative and now we see that it's made a comeback and it's again in positive territory haven't sat that still remain in the red if we take a look at the major movers on the mice x. will see that most of the energy shares are in the red and power generator answer is no exception but that shouldn't come as a surprise after its first quarter and that profit fell by almost forty percent year on year and we also have flaws which is that of course russia's flag carrier and also we see that it's news in almost half a percent there and that's because it's a fourth quarter net profit fell by almost half half of that of what it saw last year and now both of these companies post their results on the accounting standards now moving over also have gas producing and it's flat out the moment and that's after losing almost ten percent on that wednesday ok let's move on and take

a look at exchange rates when it comes to the euro it's still moves in against the dollar and we see that the ruble is also losing against both major currencies right now and comes the euro shouldn't come as a surprise again because the official p.m.i. data that was released for april was a below expectations and raise concerns yet again about the region's economy and when it comes asia japanese markets are closed today for public holiday so we only have the hang sign to focus on today and their banks are leading the declines and of course investors are worried about the negative for jobs they got from the u.s. as well as everything the labor market that we've been seeing in the euro zone is only a help and see boost investor confidence there either all right moving on so the u.s. markets now are closed at the moment so what you're seeing is the picture from the closing time it was a mixed performance we saw there is a fall in the factory orders as well as a disappointing jobs that hasn't been mentioned and also on the. friday works by

going to get a monthly jobs report for the month of april and many analysts are now saying that there aren't many high hopes for that and they're expecting that we'll hear some more disappointing the figures right there when it comes to oil prices there are still makes them crude has actually slipped the most in two weeks after you. were seen on the rise climbing to the highest level in over. twenty one years while in other news russia's food a retail market has now become the largest in europe with almost fourteen percent growth last year it has overtaken france almost a third of the increase was the result of inflation pushing total sales hundred thirty seven billion dollars however per capita spending on food and russia was one hundred forty dollars a month and this is still half of what the average for a french person spends on. whenever i go shopping here it seems like i'm

spending a fortune i don't know about you carry that i have for you this hour ok thanks for that larry. but i'm more insight into the world's financial headlines in the kaiser report coming out right off the recap of our headlines. wealthy british style sun. that's not on the tires on. the.

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