on r.j. the crux growing wider in egypt's troubled election violence swells of a band would be just candidates with really militaristic would be the only ones to benefit. hillary clinton pitches for china's support on north korea and iran but the u.s. military's asia pacific buildup and support for chinese dissidents in beijing where . and nato fails to move forward on euro missile defense starlog with russia's moscow says it reserves the right to strike back if the system reaches its security.

five pm thursday afternoon here in moscow welcome to r.t. this hour my name is kevin aoun and first two of egypt's leading presidential candidates are suspending their campaign they blame the ruling military council for wednesday's brutal attack on protesters up to twenty people were killed and more than one hundred injured by unknown attackers sparking further clashes the rally was supporting a disqualified ultra conservative islamist candidate see this one of the frontrunners before he was banned various political forces accuse the ruling military of focus for the bloodshed first looks into the chaos religious tensions have created in post revolution. taking phone in middle eastern. this is the leading comic actor and a man and his satirical film the leader is just one of a number in which is that if you learn this in imprisoned offending islam it's a ruling that's in waging the public. thanks fred. but.

it was a good. case of i got really mad about this right. it's like i don't think the rest of the country and everywhere are right that freedom of expression. such convictions accosting occur now 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 the 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 i think people here in egypt. has hope. to build a new egypt. which is what will that new egypt look like for groups like hell no it means imposing much strict muslim codes who have no problem with.

this system so who have our culture out of this our culture. and out of the clan and. we live in egypt so. i think the system and the laws have to come from this culture and this culture means islamic. law many of these fishing 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 you can them slightly 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 eric cheek restraint in making it each

and there is still so what happens right now keep the ferals generations serious. the military council condemned wednesday's attacks in the news conference and reaffirmed his willingness to step down after the presidential election but political activist are committed no good believes the latest violence is actually the general's latest attempt to destabilize egypt that moves that have roots back in the revolution. they've been definitely there since day one of the revolution but this is what the military council kept calling or deferring to the third party the party have been part of the militias the national democratic party and the state security apparatus past twenty years those are all of them very intense criminal records and they're being used instead. of. militias all the army itself so they're doing the dirty work for the military council they've

tried already that in november and december during the parliamentary elections but it failed they trying to drive the muslim brotherhood into. a convict. and say that the muslim brotherhood is a violent violent group but they failed to do that now they're trying to do the same thing and every single time it turned against. obviously not learned the lessons of the following mubarak's steps exactly and that's why they've managed to unify everyone again all the liberals and the brotherhood and everyone is in the same trench right now against the military council. meantime on the other side of the atlantic spain gearing up for its own austerity fuel protests thousands of police lining vassals street set of expected mass demos there bit later as european central bank bosses decide on the euro's future we've got a report coming up. and it can trigger tremors and even poison water supplies but

british leaders insist they will plow on with a controversial method to extract underground gas despite the cost to residents around the. america's chief diplomat surging china to help rein in tensions over iran and north korea's nuclear activities hillary clinton is in beijing right now and said both the u.s. and china should work together to restrain pyongyang from further provocation and prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon clinton's visit comes an extremely delicate time though in their relations beijing accuses the u.s. of meddling in its internal affairs after the u.s. embassy briefly sheltered a chinese dissident activist it's also we're a tape of washington's military build and see if something chinese experts say isn't it distracting from its own problems. the u.s. strategy is really try to encircle china from all the way from japan to.

india so three quarters of the u.s. is calling china an expression. is south china sea there you have military exercise somewhere for philippines and vietnam so that these two smaller countries can dare to challenge china so they your strategy is to give enough backing to against neighboring countries to keep china occupied so a dead child never would not have tired to deal with the geopolitical things. to sort of his own institute in china to study social and economic development full season you can the cold war on the horizon this is just a clip of what we'll hear next hour. we've heard our talk about multi polar world but last century it was the soviet us this to be very simple minded about it this is the us and china that bipolar world is going to be dominated

by a 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 u.s. and or china that there will be a bipolar world replace in the soviet union but very different bases so no knowledge of war or yes a cold war but sort of a cold war with the soviet union on a larger logical basis with china economic.

they've escaped this insanity to green room. civilization notice their absence. but is there life outside civilization possible. watching out for it could happen with this. bomb that could launch a preemptive strike against the nato led defense shield plan for europe if

divisions between them over the project reach a critical point the country's military chiefs have been voicing their concerns at an international conference on missile defense here in moscow is innocent i followed the gathering. well missile defense has been in a deadlock for some time now but certainly no secret between the u.s. russia and nato and once again russian officials today reiterated the sentiment that deadlock needs to end or else russia is going to take response of action we heard the phrase preemptive strike this is pretty harsh rhetoric we're hearing from russia they're very serious about their their concerns their national security concerns being taken into consideration by nato and the u.s. we also heard from officials that if some kind of compromise isn't made that they're warning of in fact another arms race so very strong words coming from russia what they're hoping to come out of this two day summit is first of all to prove that these so-called rogue states like iran and south korea which the u.s.

and nato say this missile defense system which is well underway in eastern europe in poland romania even as far as turkey that russia has research and is giving basically officials details on why they believe those two countries certainly don't have the missile capabilities to reach europe so a lot of questions surrounding the goals behind this defense system so close to russia's border and also showing a computer model of why exactly this missile system poses a threat to russia's national security indeed how this is something moscow has been trying to convince the two of us through dialogue for years now washington continues to stress that the system is not against russia like i said that it's against iran and north korea but russia just isn't convinced oh let's not forget that hot mike that we heard in south korea where obama told medvedev hang in there i'll be ready to compromise after the election and of course it's an election year in a lot of countries across the globe in twenty twelve and officials certainly understand

that so what we're going to hear most likely as this two day summit wraps up is baby steps we're ready for dialogue but how far both sides are willing to compromise is still very unclear. in this an hour they will political analyst let him ole of told us although russia is capable of conjuring nato's missile shield it's dangerous to send a situation to boiling point in the first place. threats to europe very much exaggerate missile threats. of those countries which americans and europeans claim develop a long range missiles it is just not credible europe should not feel vulnerable and that is the trash. instead of europe feels vulnerable russia will defend itself russia is capable of defending itself. but we need to find the narrow window the closing window but still existing window of

opportunity for corporative project with cool europe illegally binding assurances on the us. but the format whether it should be agreement treaty or what kind of of those assurances this is an open question. we invite you to take a look at r.t. dot com our web site right now we're literally bringing you the wildest views how's this for some shocking shots think us if you can call it thrill seekers are going to have a heights in russia's far east showing that they've got what it takes to get that far with these dizzying pictures posted online over of course the police health and safety were happy please do not try this yourself but you see the pictures of r.t. dot com also hunting fox the phone hacking scandal plaguing rupert murdoch's news corporation seeing high level calls now for many of his american t.v. broadcasting licenses to be pulled people today on that developing story it's long

running plenty more to say about it in the teeth or call. it something else we're keeping an eye on this afternoon protesters are gathering in barcelona as european central bank chiefs meet there today and security precautions have been heavily ramped up spain even goes so far as to reinstate checkpoints along its border with france in a bid to limit the number of demonstrators arriving from within europe the meeting is expected to run parallel to a massive and potentially violent protest thousands of riot police are being deployed with reinforcements on standby the z.b. choose themselves are expected to resist calls to begin buying up spanish bonds as investors abandon the country's debt auctions all this is spain reels from those

disastrous unemployment levels we've just heard about a million strong austerity demonstrations ongoing economist yanis varoufakis says he sees glaring double standards. while the c b i spent over the last few months one trillion you cry in the banks. because greed of. it is using to come to the. states like spain like portugal like them like greece and to come to this european union that. requires misanthropy conditions to be. complete so you can. be monitored part of your one is towards the bank the bank is where essential. holding this crisis and they are being treated with it. and then you have to weigh the statement bring them being treated you have

does not mean you. should be there in order to have the kind of escape of insolvencies of speeds that we have been experiencing over the last couple of years more financial headlines here fifteen thirty g.m.t. on r t the cause report going gunning for the u.s. treasury secretary america's chief banker said of the statement the human errors that led to the two thousand and eight crash can't be cured by law my kids my ex and stacey though big to defer. to me think i hear 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 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.

join me on a journey to the heart of the kremlin to a place is hidden from the tourist he's going to meet some real credible insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . looking. for ways to give.

the. world. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got those huge earth covered.

hello again deep beneath the rolling english countryside lies pockets of gas suitable for energy but the trouble is getting it can be destructive and toxic to those living above the process of fracking is banned in some countries but the british government intends to drill away anyway irrespective of public fears or the environmental consequences is artie's i have a bennett. 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's fear is a smoke screen 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 these 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 soltanieh says 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 side 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 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 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 coal 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 fracking but 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 either bennett r.-t. sussex. the world's top news stories now in brief an apparent protest against president assad in syria as aleppo universities left at least four dead and seen hundreds arrested and verified video shows troops raided the campus firing at

demonstrators while students are knives also attacked the. protests at university almost day. trying to write a fugitive vice president has been postponed while his lawyers appeal for a special court to hear the case should be denied running death squads targeting government officials security forces and pilgrims he's currently seeking refuge in turkey because the trial politically motivated the hearings next. it's been an attack on a cattle market in northeastern nigeria has killed at least thirty four this is a gunman armed with explosives began shooting before setting the market on fire. juries in jus a spate of violence a few days ago gunfire and explosions rocked the northern city of kandahar following clashes between the army and militants there getting keep abreast of all the latest stories twenty four seven on our website dot com so we have twenty four minutes past five in the afternoon here in moscow let's catch up with the me treat

them the business side to be true the labor market in the u.s. once again in the spotlight what's the latest data telling you that well actually it's a first time in a month that we've seen jobless claims go down so the number of people looking for a job is declining and that's of course a very good sign by twenty seven thousand jobless claims have gone down to a bit over a four year low so of course we'll see a reaction in the u.s. markets around six minutes time when they start trading so far in europe it's looking still positive although the x. has lost much of its steve it's up now just point four percent as is london of course everyone is focusing right now on mario draghi speech the e.c.b. chairman is in spain talking about the economy so far is that you. spec's the economy to recover gradually and a bit of positive news from spain also the government successfully managed the sale for two and a half billion euros and they used to be rate has remained unchanged and therefore

we are seeing the euro right now going the positive against the dollar used to lose twice as much as it's gaining right now so that's a big recovery whereas the ruble continues its decline against both currencies on the russian market was still seeing a cautious trade today with the r.t.s. my six pointing in different directions look what's moving to my six now despite the fact that oil prices defacto a bit lower than they were in the previous session gazprom is up more than one percent so it's one of the biggest drivers of the market is up slightly of the report saying disappointing first quarter results of its net profit almost and after value is the big loser today it's down more than six and a half percent on rumors that run only seven may come close to taking control of the company so i could look at that story in more detail now the partnership is

setting up a joint venture with say corp russian technologies through which it will increase its stake in after vast needs and will invest seven hundred fifty million dollars and essentially double its share in the company with just over fifty percent head of after the us says its partnership with international majors will help the company to diversify its a production line. here is the year off. launching new cars and. after was we launched a new line. and together with airlines during the last six months as we watched two new cars by the end of the year we're going to produce. and. manufacture and in one year we're going to launch. cars as well on the same physical way. also making headlines in the business world u.s. energy giants are cutting gas production due to low fuel prices wall street journal says exxon mobil's output declined around two percent the first quarter. point five

percent us have seen gas prices drop to the lowest level in ten years due to warm weather and booming shale gas production. right that's all i have for you this hour but of course next to have the opening figures for the u.s. markets will be closed to the because about in russia. thanks to be true here now to just a few minutes and update on the progress of such ease a limb pick venue's construction all appears to be going well but we've got an update for you after a quick look at this headlines with me kevin next. thank

you. it is me.

there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is what helps keep journalism on a real world.