one percent lower than the beginning of the year more than twenty minutes. hello malkovich is r t it's now seven pm here in moscow i'm kevin now in our top story than friday mass rallies in egypt's capital have descended into violent clashes with security forces using water cannons to disperse crowds of thousands of the last few hours the violence is taking place in front of the country's defense ministry headquarters these are the latest pictures in fact just a clarification whether he's alive or not no they're not their governments are the latest but this is basically the way it's been looking over the last couple of hours he's a very recent pictures reports suggest at least four people have been injured in clashes so far these are now live clashes well what we're seeing actually there is that things are looking a bit quieter but there are the protesters are demanding the country's ruling

generals immediately resign and give power to civil authorities the army for its part saying that's only going to happen after a new president elected later this month earlier on we were seeing pictures of angry crowds hailing rocks at police riot offices responding with water cannon protests it is waving placards saying down with military rule and most demonstrates is supporters of the years there is parties there on the streets today many protesters believing the violence is being stoked by the military hired thugs again these recent pictures over the last couple of hours we'll switch back to him again . for a good flavor of what's been going on in in cairo the souter noone i spoke to revolution recolored he said egyptians disillusioned with what their uprising is achieved so far. i'm not seeing any civil government coming the government with. guns already. is

just the same as the government from the beginning of the revolution till now and the coming government is just will be like them. i can and i cannot see any evidence of that cap will handed the power to a civilian. aid to civilians anytime soon cause. as i said before they are afraid of anyone who is not giving them the safe exit was just checked back in with those live pictures we got a couple of cameras trained on you see smoke going up in the air there in. tahrir square you can see on the left hand side the crowds it's looking pretty quiet compared to the pictures that we saw a little bit earlier on where he threw his music water cannon on those crowds and that is the latest flavor of what's happening there were of course very much across this throughout the course of the afternoon friday a rally turning as you can see there on the screen into violence as the water

cannon used to disperse the angry crowd and they were recent pictures when it was at its height just an hour or so ago. suicide bombers a sort of carried out the two blasts that killed at least eleven and wounded scores of others in russia's southern doug stan republic the terror attacks took place within twenty minutes of each other at a police checkpoint. in the north caucasus. so continuing with what happened in the republican thursday has already been classified by local authorities as a terror attack so five at least eleven people have been killed and eighteen more injured there were two explosions the first occurred when police stopped the car at one of the checkpoints in the capital city of the driver was a suicide bomber police important later minutely after the fire began and emergency teams and real and says doctors five brigades have started coming to the scene as well as look at people trying to help those injured and this is when the second

blast happens killing and injuring even more people than the first one and the scenario of the attack designed to kill as many people as possible is known in the war as the iraqi one it's not new even to denniston last year two similar attacks in september then mark score the caucasus region in russia self have been suffering attacks by islamist terrorist groups for years and russian officials have linked many of them to international cells like and qaida and this is actually at and go in fact on the robertsons from both sides and discussion is continued it's too early to say who is behind this particular attack here and dug a star no one has so far claimed any responsibility for that when north caucasus terrorism is more than just a battle for russia with the country's key militants know watched by the world community but the wall of fire as a counterterrorism advisor to congress in washington explains why a wider approach is vital. first of all more information is coming both to congress

and good restriction about the connections between those you hardly networks in chechnya dagestan on the one hand and those present in north africa and in the middle east and i would go because the evidence we're getting from captured individuals in afghanistan for example places where by the do it needs to be have to work with the caucus base to harness on the one hand and with what we see on the web site this information is available for all these reasons together been at the state decided forget if you want to get to the bits which is a good thing because the point of between russia and united states we do not see eye to eye on many things but at least on that one it's in the interest of everybody the great powers come together against terrorists this is r.t. coming up old terror camps for a new generation syrian rebels to be training of what the u.n. recognizes as a form of terrorist camp we'll look at just what it is and what they're planning to

learn there about five minutes or so of the program. also japan's appears to fix the off switch on its final atomic reactor a year after the fukushima disaster to the country to the brink devastation. but next germany's foreign ministers label to rand's nuclear energy program as an enormous danger adding that an atomic the rand will never be accepted despite that berlin's just sold israel a fourth nuclear missile capable submarine this count the key concern now is whether that submarine could be used in a strike on iran an attack that the pentagon claims would be one in three weeks as artie's garniture can reports. the pentagon says they're just doing some contingency planning in case you ran attempts to close the strait of hormuz or attacks u.s. ships in the persian gulf but analysts say it's the kind of planning that drives the tensions to a whole new level now it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that iran is encircled militarily here is the iran

and here are the countries in red where the u.s. has military presence we've tried to put on the map those u.s. bases which have been reported about flashing blue here here you have the friendly arab countries right next to qatar bahrain which hosts the u.s. fifth fleet that's forty ships sixteen thousand personnel two huge aircraft carriers kuwait which right after the drawdown in iraq the u.s. there has increased the size of standby combat force america's air force army navy and marines are boldly position oman and the united arab emirates he sounds. in turkey and israel to the west and afghanistan and pakistan in the east most recently the u.s. air force has this batch the number of f. twenty two raptor strike fighters to a base in the united arab emirates and here it is the brand new penetrating strike

fighter the move has caused backlash from tehran in addition to the hardware u.s. central command says there are about one hundred twenty five thousand u.s. troops in close proximity to iran not to mention new drone bases in undisclosed locations also in the region u.s. officials say an enhanced presence in the gulf is meant to serve as a quote quick reaction contingency force not simply as a prelude to war but the buildup seems to exacerbate the hostile talk which may one point turn into an all out confrontation the iranian military is of course no match to the american military might after all the talk. about the country that spends on its military more than the next ten top defense spending countries combined so crushing iran is in america's power but analysts analysts agree what's also in its power is producing the kind of instability in the region that would be far worse than what came out of iraq and afghanistan so washington correspondent iran also

featured heavily in hillary clinton's visit to china and the secretary of state urged the reluctant beijing to help pressure on to iran as well as north korea she called the current sign of american relations the strongest they've ever been but their claims of really been put to the test the aging accusing the u.s. of meddling in its internal affairs also feeding tension is america's growing military presence in asia and attempt to could take china's regional influence as a professor of international politics the spirit of the first person says the u.s. is making up for lost time yes i think we need to probably produce the. sense that obviously the united states leaves in the last three years also after the eleven it isn't in the leg to. stand and therefore its interest probably has been. affected in some way therefore it wants to come back and play a leadership role in the region one of the key problems that both sides are where

else is of course deeply. distrusts and that's why we have seen this kind of. military maneuver in the chinese navy in particular has been developed and discarded. aerial didn't. believe he had weapons systems that's for real it's not just posturing. and trying to overcome this terrible. distrust and this is the most probably formidable challenge. syrian rebels are reportedly going to undergo guerrilla warfare training in kosovo the village to be using the same training camps built for the kosovo liberation army a group previously designated as a terrorist organization by the united states and even the un has put a surge a terrific of it she's a foreign affairs editor for the u.s. based chronicles magazine he said he sees little good coming from this. well first of all i don't think they can learn much from the care only about through. the

christians because the charolais was singularly unsuccessful in its rebellion against the serbian security forces until the meter bombing and even then they were not engaging in combat they were acting as marauders quickly cleansing normal beenie so the first point is that there is nothing to learn in terms of conduct official see and in terms of actually organizing a successful guerilla war i understand that our martyr i mean. one of the syrian opposition leaders who came to push the united actually spoke to an a.p. reporter said we are here now this should be a huge wake up call for those syrians who are not supportive of the opposition especially in the minorities the syrian rebels learn from the jail that means there will be a bloodbath product at the end of the fall of assad and there will be no room for

anyone but the majority group which subscribes to its extremist credo whether it is there to greet or old brainier in kosovo or. muslim brotherhood offshoot in syria let's check out a few stories online at r.t. dot com that you may well be interested in the harrowing tale of a young man thrown an american cell and forgot the fourth drink his own urine to survive who got his story after it was left without food or water for five days and called. and russia's anti-gay propaganda law gets his first conviction a fine for a problem to gay activists and says this sentence will help him now to get that controversial legislation cancelled and find out more of our team.

a massive liberal drive a reset in russia u.s. relations and a push for internal reforms but also some of the largest protests in russia's modern history as president of better prepares to leave the kremlin before vladimir putin takes over and this is now it takes a look back at his term at the top but easy it really sees. the meet the. need to get you. one term in the kremlin was it too little time to make a dent in mr medvedev is going to be remembered as someone who had genuine reform intentions and who was impeded on achieving all of those reforms through the political process through the structure of the political system. at the dawn of his presidency georgia attacked south or said here the media and much of the world community blamed russia. that only but even the actions on the

georgian side led to deaths among them a russian peacekeepers children women the elderly are dying in south setting it most of them are citizens of the russian federation those responsible for the deaths of our citizens will be punished mr. wright the misconception that russia attacked georgia put serious strain on international ties into an independent council of europe report up out that georgia launched the attack for months madrid of foreign policy was overshadowed by the war but it wasn't long before a warming in u.s. relations something many argue is his foreign policy legacy the words the russian president the reset. press u.s. and russian relations devalue over the next few years by twenty ten medvedev and

obama signed a new start and cut both country's nuclear arsenals by a third. as a result of hard work we've created a treaty that fully complies with the interests of both russia and the us back home medvedev wants reforms focusing on the justice system and rule of law you want the people behind bars. this persecution. businesspeople. just justified persecution. less corruption and i think that he has managed to start some cases jump start the process. but little changed on high profile cases like me. precious former richest man still serving his sentence for economic crimes madrid has pushed for modernization and diversification could have been a highlight of his presidency and he still has

a chance to if he presses on as prime minister and we can be sure that without modernization the russian economy has no future it may be based on vast natural resources but we cannot rely only on them the job swap with putin was the last straw for medvedev supporters who hoped he would run for a second term the secrecy and surprise of the smart added to the negative sentiment prior to the biggest protests russia has seen in years. in december after claims of vote fraud in the parliamentary election medvedev came back on line and laid out changes but his response was too little too late yet but if i propose complex reforms to our political system. i don't discuss that i hear the people who are demanding changes and i understand. he

outlined a series of measures including the easy registration for political parties and direct polls for regional leaders maybe it is administration continues to strasse how much work is left as he prepares to step aside as president and take over as prime minister i have. all initiatives. discussed. hume here you proved all the things the government was key mikal to implement all the initiatives put forth by the by present need to be but could explore aren't convinced debates are buzzing over what made it to play good could be and how his policies might be implemented with blue chip back in the camera but made it tedious moved as president would have only seen real results during or even after a second term in office even the press should not be troubled by between what they

did as president what he might. use now a heart attack. and has followed him approach and returns to russia's top job in three days we will bring your special coverage of his inauguration we can join us at some point for the live broadcast from the spread of the kremlin holes or starts at seven thirty am g.m.t. or monday with me and the rest of the take.

japan is said to turn off its last working nuclear reactor leaving one of the world's largest industrial powers without atomic energy for the first time in over forty years it heavily relied on the sauce but their government bowed to immense public protests in the wake of the fukushima disaster physics professor dr howard hayden think this is just a matter of time before tokyo goes nuclear again. they have fifty four reactors and they have one of them operating but it will be down for refueling as it is what they're doing is burning a lot of residual oil and the the m pact on the price of residual oil has been felt awful as far away as whole y. e where the price for electricity now is very very high because of that that decision to shut the nukes and but it's costing them very dearly they have gotten

early ill enough electricity and they have actually called on some factories to cut back their operations quite a bit they will probably go back to nuclear in due time it's because money talks it's. world news in brief twenty one minutes past seven o'clock moscow time crowds of protesters in jordan's capital are calling on the government to end an eighteen year history with well they're demanding the new prime minister expel israel's ambassador to jordan the new leader was sworn in this week after the country's former prime minister resigned but his appointment has stirred controversy because of his involvement in negotiating the original peace treaty back in one thousand nine hundred four. a suicide attack on a pakistani market has left at least twenty people dead including one who received the bravery of the world for fighting islam this militant boasts the other victims of bystanders as the bomber blew himself up while heading where. people were

heading to work or on the school run on thursday the u.s. released letters. which showed he fretted about the level of civilian deaths at the hands of al qaeda. the big clashes in the west bank injuring four palestinians and four israeli soldiers dozens of gathered in support jailed palestinians who are current hunger strike in a prison six miles north of jerusalem some of the demonstrators threw stones at israeli forces them responded with tear gas rubber bullets more than thirteen hundred palestinian prisoners recently went on hunger strike over israel's policy of indefinite detention without trial. and keep abreast of all the latest news on one of course twenty four seventh's r t the good place for the business as well but not we've got it live right now dimitri's there are prisoners there dmitri looking bad on the stock exchanges today today about how you look at it. tell us more. the russian market is doing a very very badly it's back to square one pretty much even lower than the beginning

of the year and this is all because of what's happening in the united states the secular to what's going on there. and nasdaq also least one percent in the red on a slowing the jobs market of course we've had the non the fall. payrolls add just one hundred fifteen thousand jobs while one hundred sixty three thousand are expected and therefore despite the fact that the unemployment rate has gone down the again to eight point one percent over in europe same jitters but also coupled with caution ahead of the elections in france and greece so we're seeing the sea of attacks occurring on the two percent that's out there well market is showing a dramatic jump look at the dramatic look at that in just a second post currencies the euro is once again losing versus the dollar with the traders now cashing out mainly into the greenback we're seeing the latter grow the ruble is on a three week low against the basket of both currencies commodities as promised you

can see that four dollars a barrel last week for fourteen one even of course worries about global demand with the slowdown of recovery in the united states and the debt problems in europe this is causing investors to to dump stock and over in russia with these declining oil prices i'm afraid that this bearish trend might continue into next week although next week will only start on thursday the tenth of may. one of the worst sessions this year they went down as i said point eight percent since the beginning of the year right now. among the stocks because energy shares are losing on those low oil prices and is burbank was actually better than the rest if you can say that about a loss so almost two percent. now the new governments will take office next

week after the inauguration of putin and business caught up with the current president. and i asked him about the challenges that the new government is facing and how to keep up the economy growth rates. the main challenge is to continue diversification and modernization of the russian economy so this challenge is under threat given unstable demographic station we were able to achieve our goal to stabilize relation last year we need to continue same pace also we'll have to reform health sector education sector. pension i system and finally computing and protection of property rights creating a comfortable investment climate. or the top of the german. presidential a because you've got a core which then you can catch is full interview on monday on artsy kevin that's all i have for you absolutely thanks brings of dimitri appreciate it now looking

ahead in just a few minutes time facebook fury people of ellen is guest debate the new timeline that's been introduced by the social network the public outraged about it and the risks it may entail what do you think about it it's an interesting program coming up just for the round up our top stories of the day you are watching are from moscow.

culture is that so much in a moment taxpayers' money mandating ization a significant amount of people at area many people are turning to facebook's timeline to share all kinds of experiences and moments others are concerned about the security and safety of this new. download the official ante up location on the phone the i pod touch from the top story. john t. life on the go. video on demand on tease my old

costs and r.s.s. feeds now in the palm of your. question on the dot com joining me on a journey to the heart of the problem to a place is hidden from the. you going to meet some real credible insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. . you.

mission to teach.

me. security.