made a miss. see the cracks grow wider in egypt's troubled election violence well really just kind of it with the ruling military seem to be the only ones to benefit. hillary clinton pitches for china's support of north korea and iran but the u.s. military's asia pacific build support for a chinese dissident leave. us nato fails to move forward on missile defense dialogue with russia as moscow says it reserves the right to strike back if the system breaches its security. and business starts the russian markets post losses for a second consecutive day with the odds on my six declining around half a percent in first a session more on this twenty. seven

pm moscow time welcome this is our names kevin zero in on our top story few days two of egypt's leading presidential candidates are suspending their campaigning 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 seen as one of the front runners before he was banned various political forces accuse the ruling military of locusts trading with large party sarah first looks into the chaos religious tensions have created in post revolution. taking phone in middle east and. this is

a leading critic and the man and his film the leader is just one of a number in which it is learned as an imprisoned. ending islam is a ruling at the same region with the public but this revolution. was a gathering. pace of i got really mad about the right the process. was undemocratic if i could raise that i don't think the rest of the country and the. right that freedom of expression. such convictions accosting a cloud a very artistic plans actions which the great and the good as the arab movie industry a quick to condemn after being banned the years until the barracks hardline parties like the muslim brotherhood and the newly created nor p.r.c. have gained serious political clout having won the lion's share of seats in parliament and people here in egypt. has hope.

to build a new egypt. which is what will that new egypt look like for groups like al no it means imposing much stricter missile incurring aides who have no problem with. this system who have our culture our business our culture of content and out of a club and. as we live in egypt so. i think that system. has to come from this culture and this culture means. 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 sowing changes 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 the same time there's an undercurrent like for instance we're going to change that equation curriculums likely we're not going to make schools but we're going to preach religion better at schools. so that differences may be at the moment egypt's eric cheek restraint in letting it each and the results of what happens right now could be felt for generations certainly. on the other side of the mediterranean spain spares no expense to keep protests there in check as we report since fallacies of some secret police keeping guard over a european central bank meeting in barcelona in the border checks of back to the hold up would be got the latest on that developing story this afternoon also it can trigger tremors and even poison water supplies but british leaders insist they will plan on regardless of the controversial method to extract underground gas and despite the cost to residents here what some of them have to say that makes when

the program. but next america's chief diplomat is urging china to help rein in tensions over iran and north korea's nuclear activities hillary clinton is in beijing right now in fact 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 at an extremely delicate time in their relations beijing is accusing the u.s. of meddling in its internal affairs the u.s. and. briefly sheltered a chinese dissident activist is also irritated too over washington's military build . something chinese experts say is a bit distracting beijing it's a policy in the region. the u.s. strategy is really to try to encircle china from ordering from japan to. india three quarters of the u.s.

is calling china an expression. is south china sea. so that these two smaller countries can dare to challenge china so yes strategy is to give enough backing to distant neighboring countries to keep china occupied so a dead child there would not have. to deal with the geopolitical feelings more common john a spirit said of his own institute in china to study social economic development he for sees a new kind of cold war on the horizon here's some of what we'll hear in full from next hour. we've heard a lot of talk about multi polar world but last century it was the soviet union in the us this is free to be very simple minded about this is the us and china that bipolar that 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 us and or china that there will be a bipolar world replacing a soviet union the us but on a very different basis so no more no i guess a cold war but sort of a cold war but with the soviet union on a largely a logical basis with china on the economic. russia will it 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 about missile defense here in moscow as artie's missile now now explains. 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 bad 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 in detail 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 matt 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 comp. it's still very unclear what is innocent now

a nato says the missile shield poses no threat to russia because moscow's internat intercontinental ballistic missiles are quote too fast and too sophisticated for the planned system to intercept but space political analyst john laughlin told me it's not convincing enough to say that i find it pretty rich actually that the american should be saying this about their missile systems when they refuse to listen to the iranians who say that their civil civilian nuclear program poses no threat whatsoever to anybody birthrates are a matter of perception but also a reality and the fact is that as far as we know iran has no nuclear. weapons capability and doesn't plan one while the americans are planning a missile shield which although it may not they may be telling the truth when they say it's not directed against russia the fact is it's a new weapon system and it can be presumably directed against russia in

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and apparent protest against president assad of syria's aleppo university matter bloody end today leaving four dead and two hundred arrested and verified video from the clashes show troops and students together attacking the demonstrators let's talk about this with no money shelby's a senior economist at the newspaper in neighboring lebanon mr shelby thanks for taking the time to be with us only yesterday of course syrian rebels attacked and killed more than a dozen government troops in aleppo is what we saw there and what we're seeing today related. well we're not sure actually i can tell you that it's very difficult to get accurate information from from syria at this time the situation is very chaotic and the tension is rising and this comes as a as a shock because with the with the presence of the monitors according to the coffee and plan of the violence had decreased a bit and they have been. setback in the in the level of tension however today

detention is a rising again they have been some clashes as we can see. in the images that you're showing the students in a leper university when it took to the streets and there were some violent clashes now it's not very clear who is who started the violence who actually used weapons who shot at them who they were they armed some of them or so are they were not this would require more a closer look by independent journalists and by independent monitors and that's not that's not their monitors are you know there are only thirty one monitors today in syria from the united nations and that's not sufficient and i don't think they were there in at that point at the time when this these clashes this violent clashes of arrests continue now there were some arrests also today in syria and on the other hand there were some people who gave themselves to do your story it is there were reports about that there were reports from officially parts of syria that one thirty thirty one one hundred thirty three gunmen had given up their weapons and

handed them over to the authorities however there is no confirmation of this information the monitors were in homs today a city that actually went through severe clashes in the past we. wanted to took notes and they actually went all over the city and asking people about what what is actually happening there there is a big hole kofi annan plan despite what happened today can continue because it's the last. it's perceived by many as the last. four. years i'm sort of out there i would say what is the bigger picture what you know where are we here at the moment now the u.n. observer mission is chief saying that the governments displayed a willingness to commit to a proper ceasefire do you still have confidence that can happen. i'm sorry i didn't hear the questions there was a problem with the un observer chief saying that the government has expressed a willingness to cease fire

a proper ceasefire do you have confidence that yes yes. yes well the it's very difficult i mean let's let's let's look at the situation a realistic way there are many tanks that are all around syrian cities major syrian cities there are gunmen you know and it's very difficult they're not very well organized so there are different groups of armed men on the streets and it's very difficult for the army the syrian official army to withdraw from the cities and leave the ground for the government so that's also making things more complicated what is required is that there is that the government would actually back down and the syrian army would withdraw the tanks from the cities and that's very difficult to implement a large number of you and observers are required specially were a number of these rebels are being being paid. well that's the problem and there are weapons being smuggled into syria last week there was a shipment of weapons that were stopped by the lebanese army on the lebanese coast

and there was a huge shipment of some some heavy some some high caliber. weapons and this could create a lot of damage and i think that the countries surrounding cities should actually make put more pressure on stopping the smuggling of weapons to syria because this smuggling weapons to syria will only increase the violence and violence will lead to more violence and this is a vicious circle so i think the the right way forward is that the syrians find a way to actually sit on the table and discuss the political plan for a plan for a political solution there is no violence solution in syria and in order to do that there is a chance and the chances with the kofi annan plan and the kofi annan plan it has six points one of the points is is to have a ceasefire and it's very difficult to implement this at the kind time and it's very difficult to blame one side for violating the cease fire instead of another because there are no monitors on the ground and the monitors are insufficient the numbers of martha is very limited and even if they are three hundred monitors i

think there should be a will by the syrian people to actually. sit on the table and resolve things politically. of the future of syria can be very sad i would say and it will be a lot of misery for the syrian people taking what you say in the comment political analyst and senior columnist of the newspaper thanks for your time. protesters gathered in barcelona today chanting slogans in protest to european central bank chiefs meeting their security precautions ahead of the meeting where heavily ramped up speed even going as far as to reinstate checkpoints along its border with france in a bid to try to limit the number of demonstrators possibly arriving from within europe now the fear was that a potentially massive protest could turn violent thousands of police were deployed there with reinforcements on standby the z.b. chiefs meantime resisted calls to begin buying up spanish bonds as investors

abandon the country's debt auctions instead they're urging patience over austerity saying it needs time to work all this is spain reeling from those disastrous unemployment figures twenty five percent a million strong austerity demonstrations economist yanis varoufakis says he sees glaring double standard. while the easing be spent over the last few months one trillion you financing bankrupt banks. including the loan because great of. it is you using to come to this. state like spain like portugal like ireland like greece and to come to this european union the whole requires misanthropy conditions to be imposed upon the population suppose. so you can. be more if it is a new one is the world bank or

a bank is where essential in holding this crisis and they are being treated with. the way the state explained it being treated europe does not have the. should be there in order to get the kind of escape of insolvencies of spades that we have been experiencing over the last couple of years. here in about ten minutes time tonight the cause report goes gunning for the u.s. treasury secretary america's chief banker said in a statement that the human errors that led to the two thousand and eight crash can't be cured by lawmakers but of course max and stacey beg to differ. 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 here is our 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. our next story from moscow the cvs ning goes deep beneath the rolling english countryside where there are large pockets of gas suitable for energy trouble is though getting it can be destructive and very toxic to those living above the process of fracking is banned in some countries but nonetheless the british government says it intends to drill away anyway your respective of public fears all the environmental consequences of a bennett reports. it triggers earthquakes and could poison water supplies but fracking so 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 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 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 so ultimately is the point 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 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 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. 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 in 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 campaign is far from convinced we really need to be looking at no 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 nuclear and fracking that 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 current corners of england's countryside people's fears are no match for the energy giants either bennett r.t. sussex is a story we're following a lot on this channel if you want to touch it was more as well you can on our website r.t. dot com couple news stories in brief the trial of a fugitive vice president's been perspire own while his lawyers appeal for

a special court to hear the case now hashimi denies running death squads targeting government officials security forces and shiite pilgrims he's currently seeking refuge in turkey and calls the trial politically motivated hearing set to resume next thursday. there's been an attack on a cattle market in northeastern nigeria it's left least fifty six people dead witnesses say a gunman armed with explosives began shooting before setting the market alight nigeria's enjoyed a spate of violence just a few days ago gunfire and explosions rocked the northern city of kerno following clashes between the army and militants. it twenty four half minutes past seven o'clock pm moscow time thursday evening business alive and now with dmitri medvedev high they're all prices seeing a dramatic drop. bring us up to date if you would well what's happening is that after mariel druggies comments in barcelona when he said that the outlook for the european zone looked more uncertain and that it is facing downside risks

a lot of investors started selling their stocks in oil and therefore light swedes now declining more than two dollars brant almost two dollars per barrel same applies to the us markets we are also seeing a negative trend here with the dow jones and nasdaq declining within the half a percent it's still counterbalanced by a better than expected jobless claims reports when jobless claims have gone down for the first time in one month down by twenty seven thousand to a little over a four year low so that's a good sign on the other hand europe is also trading in the red the footsie however maintaining a slight gain of just within a point one percent the dax there feeling a bit worse this is also counterbalanced by the positive news from spain that the government managed to sell they formed so well for two and a half billion euros successfully. in the car and these markets we are seeing

a bit of a yo yo in the comes to the euro dollar but at the same time right now it's not really had changed much whereas the ruble at the end of the session last within a third of a percent against the parents is now on the russian market the second day of losses as i mentioned earlier in the hour down half a percent to my six holding off a bit better than that take a look at what's moving the mice a gazprom bucking the trend ending the day positively we're up one percent despite those lower oil prices and increased taxes there's something to look into florida was up in just a notch at the end of the session as it's a second first quarter net profit decline by almost a hand after versus the big loser of the day is thinking about story in more detail . no need is getting one step closer to taking control over the company and setting up a joint venture with a corporation russian technology through which it will increase its stake to the to

just over fifty percent will be investing seven hundred fifty million dollars to essentially double its year head about the partnership with international majors will help the company to diversify its production. here is the year off. launching new cars and. after was it we launched a new. zealand together with the alliance during the last six months as will launch two new cars by the end of the year we are going to produce this. and. then a fracture and in one year we're going to launch. cars as well on the same physical way. also u.s. energy giants are going gas production due to low fuel prices the wall street journal says exxon mobil's output declined around two percent in the first quarter the five percent us to see gas prices dropped almost ten years due to warm weather and shale gas production and that's all i have for you this i'll be back of course

in around fifty five minutes of being you the latest business update all right thanks to me trying now we've got more insight into the world of big money in just a few minutes on this channel the kaiser report on veils all the latest dirty tricks in the financial giants so it's a good watch after i brought you up to date with a round of our top stories just a bit of under two minutes time from now.

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