the bronx grow wider in egypt's troubled election violence swells over and religious candidates with the ruling military seeming to be the only ones to benefit. hillary clinton pitches for china support on north korea and iran but the u.s. military's asia pacific build up and the support for chinese dissidents believes beijing a wary. police crackdown on anton austerity a rally in barcelona as major european central bank heads meeting there to discuss the state of spain's spiraling debt. while small scale says it reserves the right to strike back if nato as planned missile defense system in europe breaches its security and the alliance fails to move forward on dialogue with russia.

thanks for joining our teeth this thursday with me karen. 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 protests. the rally was supporting a disqualified otro conservative islamised candidate seen as one of the frontrunners before he was banned farias political forces accuse the ruling military for orchestrating the bloodshed sarah firth looks into the chaos religious tensions have created in post-revolutionary egypt.

taking phone in middle east and. this is the leading comic actor as a man and his satirical film the leader is just one of a number in which he stirs the flanders him in prison for offending islam it's a ruling at the same region with the public but this revolution. was a gathering that ignites a case of i got really mad about this right across the night that it was this i was bad i don't think the rest of the country and everywhere else was her freedom of expression and. such convictions accosting occur now day for 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 york i see have gained serious

political clout having won the lion's share of seats in parliament and people here in egypt. has hope. to. be. just what will that new egypt look like for groups like oh no it means imposing much strict muslim kinds 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 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 signs that change is taking place

a lot of people who are currently governmental come to this for president are being very cautious about the statements that they make with the growth of 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 no matter how subtle the differences may be at the moment egypt's eric cheek restraint in looking at each other and there is still so what happens right now keep the ferals generation serious. military council condemned wednesday's attacks at a news conference and reaffirmed its willingness to step down after the presidential election but political activist ackman believes the latest violence is actually the generals as latest attempt to destabilize egypt with 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've been used instead. of. militias all the army itself so they're doing the dirty work for the military council they've tried already they're out 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 against they've 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. elsewhere in the arab world another protest ands with blood being spilled the city of aleppo largely untouched by the conflict that's tearing syria apart becomes the site of the latest bloody the so between the pro and anti assad factions. and it can trigger tremors and even poison water supplies but british leaders insist they'll allow on with a controversial method to extract underground gas despite the costs to residents. america's chief diplomat is origin 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 at an extremely delicate time in their relations beijing accuses the u.s. of meddling in its internal affairs after the u.s. embassy briefly sheltered a chinese dissident activists it's also irritated over washington's military buildup in the asia pacific something trying these experts say is aimed at distracting beijing from its own policy in the region. the u.s. through other g. is really trying to encircle china from order. to. india three quarters so. clearly china and explosion in the south china sea there you is just so. used to smaller countries india to challenge china so the u.s. strategy is to. give enough. leverage in countries to keep china

occupied so a dead child never would not have the. hard to do with our the geopolitical fleece john they spit host set up his own institute in china to study social and economic developments there foresees a new kind of cold war on the horizon here's some of what we'll hear later on in today's program. we've heard him talk about malta all the world but last century it was it's over us this to be very simple minded about this 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 with an insurgency 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 replace a. u.s.

but very different basis so no more no i guess a cold war but sort of a cold war but with the soviet union on an ideological bent basis with china on economic. nine minutes past the hour here at our team and russia warns 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 on missile defense in moscow that says an isa now explains the missile defense has been in a deadlock for some time now that's 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 responsive 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. 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 today's 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 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 let's now talk to bruce going on from the global network against weapons and nuclear power in space think tank in the us bruce the u.s. isn't ruling out giving moscow a legal binding guarantees that its missile defense shield won't be directed against russia but it says

a cooperation agreement should be signed first does it look like the impasse will be broken soon. i don't think so i think the u.s. intends to continue surrounding russia and china with these so-called missile defense systems claiming that they're really aimed at iran but we know that iran has no nuclear weapons today and they have no missiles capable of hitting the united states so indeed this system is aimed at russia i believe it has a lot to do with russia has the world's largest supply of natural gas and don't we know by now that the pentagon's primary job today is to serve as a resource extraction sort of us on behalf of corporate globalization why do you think washington is so slow and giving rush of these guarantees. because i don't think they intend to give russia those guarantees in fact what i see happening now

inside the united states using the mainstream media i see russia and china being demonized over and over again by the us i think the strategy is to make the american people feel that russia and china are the aggressors now we find that it's virtually impossible to get any mainstream media coverage over this u.s. and sort of russia and china i just finished a thirty day speaking tour from san diego in california all the way to seattle in washington twenty four cities where i spoke about this very u.s. encircled by with missile defense systems of russia and china and the mainstream media would not touch this issue in the speaking tour that i did so the american people really know very little about it but instead we hear a lot about how russia and china are expanding their military which of course is happening largely because the u.s. is militarily circling both those countries today now office says it will develop

brand new weapons to counter the myth out over concerns the shield could intercept current technology is that's not the hallmarks of a new arms race here sadly i think it does i am against any country developing more weapons these days but we don't need a new arms race we have a big problem on this planet called climate change that we need all the countries of the world to help deal with it but in fact when you're being surrounded as russia and china is today one begins to understand why they feel the need to increase their military especially when the united states basically come in and is wargaming a first strike attack on china every year and now for the past several years said in the year two thousand and sixteen so in fact when they're working. first at the same time that russia and china are being surrounded you can understand why those

two countries feel like they have to respond. oh i'm sorry to interrupt you i just wanted to ask you very briefly if the election here in the u.s. president obama wants moscow to sort of cut him some slack until reelection but what happened to their missile defense dialogue if he's not re-elected. well i think it's going to continue whether he's reelected or not i don't really believe that statement that obama made in south korea that you know give me some time let me get reelected i don't believe for a moment that obama was really serious about that i think he's just trying to get russia to back off a little bit stop implying so much pressure about this i think the u.s. is clearly committed all the way back to two thousand and one the washington post reported that the u.s. was going to pivot its foreign and military policy into the asia pacific ahead i think it has much to do with circling russia and china trying to control access to

resources particularly in central asia around the caspian sea trying to control the direction that pipelines go to move the oil and natural gas from the caspian sea so this is a long term project that the united states is undertaking to really control the declining resources around the earth i don't think it's going to be slowed down by any president any new president that gets elected oh all right i'm afraid that from a time we have birth daniel for space for peace or thank you for your time thank you. and you can have all mine to our t. dot com where right now we're literally bringing you the widest of you. how's this for a few shocking shots thrill seekers in russia's far east a show of their head for heights with these dizzying pictures posted online although the local police they weren't too thrilled. plus hunting fox the

phone hacking scandal plaguing rupert murdoch's news corp sees high level calls for many of his american t.v. broadcasting licenses to be pulled. spanish police have made a number of arrests at a protest in barcelona where you the european central bank chiefs are meeting now security precautions ahead of the talks have been heavily ramped up spain's even going so far as to reinstate checkpoints along its border with france to try and limit the number of demonstrators arriving from within europe the fear was that a potentially massive protests could turn violent thousands of riot police were deployed with reinforcements on standby the e.c.b.

chiefs resisted calls to begin in 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 that as spain real from disastrous unemployment levels and million strong all staring the demonstrations economists janish of the real fokus says he sees glaring double standards. while they seem to be spent over the last few months one trillion euros financing bankrupt banks. the incredibly low interest rate of one percent. it is if using to come to the assistance of states like spain like portugal like ireland like greece and to come to their assistance the european union as a whole requires misanthropy conditions to be imposed upon the population suppose. so you have two completely different attitudes the more that it is of your one is

the world the bank a bank is where essential in holding this crisis and they are being treated with a glove. and then you have the way the states like spain are being treated europe does not have the fusion should be there in order to have the kind of gets kade of insolvencies of states that we have been experiencing over the last couple of years and apparent protest against president assad and syria's aleppo university met bloody end today leaving four dead and two hundred arrested and verified video from the clashes show troops and students together attacking the demonstrators. a senior columnist at the all akbar newspaper in neighboring lebanon blames much of the violence on arms proliferation. let's look at the situation in a realistic way there are some many that are all around the city and cities major

city and cities there are gunmen you know and it's very difficult and they're not very well organized so there are different groups of men on the streets and it's very difficult for the army to syrian official army to withdraw from the cities and leave the ground for the gunmen so that's also in making things more complicated what is required is that is that the gunman would actually back down and the syrian army would withdraw the tanks from the cities and that's very difficult to implement 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 high caliber. weapons and this could create a lot of damage and i think. the countries surrounding city are actually make put more pressure on the smuggling of weapons to syria because smuggling weapons to syria will only increase the violence and violence will lead to more violence and this is a vicious circle. all right let's take a look at more of the world's news for you now israel is building

a large security wall along its border with lebanon it's intended to protect the israeli town of metula from lebanese sniper fire but two countries are still formally on the war though their officers meet regularly under u.n. supervision to avoid clashes on the troubled border as well waged a devastating military campaign against lebanon's hezbollah movement in two thousand and six that claimed some thirteen hundred lives all of which were mainly civilians. the trial of iraq's fugitive vice president has been postponed while his lawyers appeal for a special court to hear the case to recall me denies running death squads targeting government officials security forces and shiite pilgrims he is currently seeking refuge in turkey and calls the trial politically motivated the hearing resumes next thursday. deep beneath the rolling english countryside live pockets of gas suitable

for energy the trouble is getting it can be destructive and talk to those living above the process of fracking is banned in some countries but the british government intends to drill away era specht of public fears or the environmental consequences here's our benefit. 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 is safe despite causing two tremors in the popular coastal resort of blackpool last year environmentalist sphere a smokescreen hiding the far more dangerous side effect of large scale deadly pollution what it fails to address is the earthquakes 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 it is 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 is 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 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 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. beast 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 how we 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 fracking 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 quaint corners of england's countryside people's fears are no match for the energy giants might have been it r t sussex. and dmitri joins us with the business news and it seems all prices are going deeper and deeper every hour what's going on well a lot of action is going on mainly fears about what's going on in europe as mario draghi says the situation is becoming more uncertain and downside risks are increasing therefore indeed we are seeing oil prices red with with thinking of the . two and a half dollars per barrel of brant is declining two dollars per barrel also we've heard statements from the oh that. prices are too high and that supplies should be loose. in the united states we are seeing also

a negative picture with the nasdaq plunging even deeper now more than a one percent decline in. the dow half a percent this is on mix that we've got the housing market seems to be reviving with thirty year mortgage rates at their lowest level ever but. same time the service sector is slowing down its growth and therefore the reaction we're seeing right now. over in europe for the session ended on a mixed and flat picture because on the other hand all those statements from mario draghi we've had spain placing two and a half billion euros worth of bonds successfully on the currency market the euro is pretty much even though with the dollar declining slightly as you can see there but the ruble lost against both currencies not getting any support from low oil prices and the markets also saw in russia decline a second day of declines with the r.t.s.

declining one quarter of a percent the obvious point six percent moving my say well basically those were after shares a look at them in just a second half of what was a bit better than the market despite its net profits decreasing around fifty percent in the first quarter gazprom was up even one percent one of the best performing stocks of the day after hours is down seven percent as a read only sand is getting its grip on the company it's so close to take you controlling stake now it's setting up a joint venture with the state corporation russian technologies for which it will increase its stake in after vast rain and he said it will invest seven hundred fifty million dollars and essentially double its share to just over fifty percent head of after versus partnership with international majors will help the company diversify its production. here is the year off for. launching new cars and modernization of half the us we have launched a new line and it will be easier to line together with their lines during the last

six months as we want to new cars by the end of the year we are going to produce. and move more to brand manufacture and in one year we're going to launch. our cars as well on the same visit all the. headlines are next to marty. an.