march protest against the military rule is in egypt and in deadly clashes fueling fears violence will escalate further ahead old a landmark presidential election. so this hour campaigning ends in france ahead of sunday's presidential runoff vote which many see as decisive for the troubled european union. we are seeing links between the stores groups in different parts of the world and so the response has also to be global. traces of international terrorism and darkest hours twin blasts as the russian republic mourns the victims of their times which killed thirteen people and injured dozens more.

russia and around the world this is ass he was me our thanks for joining us less than three weeks before egypt's landmark presidential election and the country's plunging deeper into turmoil mass protests against the interim military rulers have turned deadly leaving at least one person reported dead and scores injured this time it was hard line islamists not pro-democracy secular parties who were at the forefront of the protests our correspondent in the region policy and now reports. friday's violence was sparked by a mass rally that was called for by the muslim brotherhood in cairo's central tuffy a square it was the latest in a series of demonstrations by protesters calling on the ruling military to step down and hand over power to civilian rule thousands of people responded to the pool and turned out into his square but things turned ugly when they started to make their way to the defense ministry building now the body was secured by barbed wire and protesters attempted to cut that barbed wire they also threw stones at security

forces who responded in turn with will to cannons and tear gas the fighting that was sued lasted several hours eventually the security forces managed to push the protesters back to several side streets but not before resting some two hundred of them the latest violence comes just three weeks before these crucial presidential elections the first of a kind of the post mubarak egypt what we have witnessed ahead of these elections which are slated to happen on the twenty third and twenty fourth of this month is an escalation in tensions and clashes on the ground just those wins day a group of and known gunmen attacked a group that was holding a peaceful sitting in front of the defense ministry building and in the clashes that ensued at least twenty people were killed and more than one hundred injured and now scaff the supremes council of the armed forces has pledged that it will hand over power on the twenty fourth of may if one of the thirteen presidential

candidates who is running in these elections wins in the first round but increasingly in light of the hippie handedness in which the military has been responding to these recent demonstrations more people are saying it is not in the interest of the military to hand over power that in fact despite what they might be saying they are very reluctant to do so what we do know is that increasingly ordinary egyptians are disappointed him skaf the supreme council of the armed forces. they say that the commanders and the rulers have been tainted with the same brush that tainted the mubarak regime at the same time they say that the revolution that little more than a year ago held out so much promise increasingly seems to have achieved very little . and many egyptians say even of the military hands of a power that will do little to help the revolutionary cause and bringing reforms the military wants to crush this revolution every way possible and they're using

every tool they have including the government which is not adhering to any of the demands that have been put forth since the first day of the revolution many believe that even if. the scouts transferred power to civilian government. that won't change anything because in the end of the day i believe that staff wants to hand power today before to morrow but the thing is that they want to hand over power without being prosecuted for any of the crimes that they have been committed for the they have that they have committed in the past year and a half any outcome that will come out of this presidential process order that even the any election process will only favor scout. and as the voices of islam is grow louder in cairo's tahrir square that message is also being heard on the streets of germany and in the program take a look at a controversial conveyed by one of the most radical muslim movements carried out in the european powerhouse. the u.n.

peace plan for syria is working despite reports of cease fire violations the office of international envoy kofi annan his spokesman defended an arms mission saying violence has reduced that's despite the u.s. renewing its calls for another approach hinting at the plans defeat at a sign a five reports from damascus many syrians hope the upcoming parliamentary vote will also bring some stability to the conflict one country syria is gearing up for parliamentary elections next week and all across the capital damascus right now you can see these campaign posters that have been put up around the city now this comes as the u.n. observers are in the country touring around different areas tasked with verifying the implementation the u.n. envoy kofi annan peace plan now casey and spokes person has said that he's planned despite reported violations from both sides is back on track now that statement

came against the backdrop of pressure we've seen being increased by some of the international countries we've seen the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton was in china this week urging the country to apply further sanctions on syria now really the message from the u.n. envoy spokes person was that this crisis that has now been going on for more than a year is not going to be solved in a day is not going to be solved overnight is going to take time and so now really what you're seeing is a focus on these observers on their task in hand and of situations such as the parliamentary elections what the outcome of these. the parliamentary elections have come under a lot of criticism certainly from the opposition for taking place at the wrong time people feel that against the backdrop of a lack of security and of continuing violence that is simply not the right time to

be holding these parliamentary elections but of course we've heard a lot of people calling for this push for democracy in the country to be implemented through the ballot box and not three bullets. russia's republic of dagestan is mourning the victims of twin terror attacks which claimed the lives of thirteen people and injured more than one hundred two powerful blast rocked a police checkpoint and the capital within twenty minutes of each other. paul. it's a sad fact that the recent attacks on police and authorities in darkest town a merely the latest incident in a long running history of violence in russia's volatile caucasus region thursday's tragedy has already become the most devastating in months two massive car blasts hit the outskirts of the capital markets and woke up the entire city. at home watching t.v. then we heard an explosion little t.v. set down and broke. around twenty cars were destroyed and the scene was littered

with human body parts some even thrown as far as nearby trees and rooftops. de vry was spread for hundreds of meters around. my brother and me ducked down this metal being still here my brother almost died. but we were among the lucky ones as their tech claimed more than a dozen lives policeman rescuers local residents the first explosion took off here when officers from this police post stopped the car for documents check apparently the driver was a suicide bomber minutes later as many police cars and ambulances teams and emergency crews and fire brigades reach the area the second last occurred it was much more powerful you can see the crater is huge one some reports say the second last had a force of one hundred kilos in t.n.t. coolant and it claimed the most victims the investigators have already identified

the owners of both exploded cars. the double attack one more mortar another is a tactic commonly used by international terrorist organizations such as and qaeda in places like iraq and afghanistan is designed to kill as many people as possible the president of biggest town was away when the blasts happened in a bitter irony he was at a congress in moscow highlighting a counterterrorism complains. recent success. the caucasus region has been suffering attacks by islamist terrorists for years this recent one the deadliest militants strike is part of this and go in battle between russia's federal forces and militants and it's unlikely to be the last. reported from in russia's biggest town and security acts the den is some of it believes the tactics used in their tonks point to links with international terrorist groups. there are very

obvious similarities in the tactics that we are seeing in the north caucasus these days and tactics used by al-qaeda and other. similar forces in iraq and afghanistan this is a particularly cool type of terrorist attack it seems now to have reached the north caucasus and this is a sign of contacts that exist between these terrorist groups in different parts of the world works like a franchise organization. it has a template and it encourages groups. to copy it this is a global problem we are seeing links between these terrorist groups in different parts of the world and so the response has also to be global and i welcome very much cooperation. between russia and western countries and dealing with tackling these issues. here with r.c.

are still ahead for you this hour conservatives are taking over the brain in parliament the international community worry that we are scum of the islamic states election could impact on the country's nuclear standoff with the west. plus school's out in protest in the us parents teachers and children staging a rally of the devastating cuts they took find out more about efforts to teach their sources a lesson. the two french presidential candidates have made their last appeals to voters ahead of sunday's runoff paul the debt crisis has been central to their campaign is what france saw or land promising to challenge the fiscal pact and agreement championed by his rival nicolas sarkozy . and now reports. well one day to go before the french at the polls and make that decisive vote and even the city itself is preparing to usher in their next president now it's down to two men incumbent nicolas sarkozy of

a socialist challenger afonso a lot so courting to the polls is still trailing behind a lot but there is still that question mark as to pull the voters of but in the pen of the national front and centrist as well by room before they go to choose up for the second round the french will suddenly be choosing between a man or a lot of flames but he will bring back a quality to the country also want to go head to head with german chancellor angela merkel to challenge a fiscal pact that he says is bad for us on the other hand you have a man asuka's even claims that he is the only one who can prevent france from going down the path that greece italy spain and all the trouble do result nations have gone down but there is a group of people who believe that they don't really have a choice when it comes to the program presented to them and therefore the personality of these two men has become just as important as the proposals they put forth it boils down to which man is more presidential could take on the job better for the beginning of the campaign there hasn't been much of two zero zero zero for

the people saying that they don't really see any of the candidates perceptive there with a real solution that could bring france out of the wild card that it's there nevertheless eighty percent of voters have said that they have already made up their minds be it a supposition or dogs or neither of the two. in about fifteen minutes ago millions signed on the european debt crisis with moxon stacey lifting to meet the secrets behind the headlines that's the kind of report. early results in friday's parliamentary runoff elections in iran put the conservative rivals of president ahmadinejad ahead of his nor moderate supporters the outcome cements the position of iran's supreme leader ayatollah khamenei whose allies already won an outright majority in the parliament after the first round of voting in march and such

a political landscape in the country will let the radical clerical elite pull the strings and foreign policy and most importantly tehran's controversial nuclear program and while the international community gauges the possible consequences of this election that's the strength of the necessity of settling the new place before it's too late. u.s. and israeli intelligence have both iran hasn't made the decision to actually build a nuclear weapon we need to keep them there and the way to do that the way to prevent them from making that decision is to actually have serious negotiations were each side can make concessions can reduce the nations put caps on the nuclear program and then we can get out of this potential where iran does decide as a deterrent against the military build up you know we need to build a new. and also conservative muslim group it's now bordering its appeal to europeans and all the. movement one of the most radical branches of islam is permitted by the freedom of religion law there are growing concerns about the

message behind being spread. reports not from that. afternoon brewer in central maryland and once the worshipping ended the free distribution of qur'an continued. three hundred thousand copies in over one hundred across most parts of germany known as funny critters in here if the bible can be just to be church why not the qur'an. there's nothing illegal about handing out the koran the campaign may be provocative since it kicked off during easter but it's not even the timing which could do so much attention but who is behind the distribution. in the southeast movement is one of the most radical wings of islam known for its truth interpretations of the qur'an and in association with jihad the holy war against nonbelievers and punishments that can include amputation and stoning not exactly the most constitutional penalties this man sums up the credo

don't mention who gives men the right to create laws that right belongs to. organized by the local ses community the campaigns long term goal is to put twenty five million copies of the koran into german forms but it's not clear which interpretation is being used but we. know there are passages about violet's especially gets with it protected by the law as men would be also about violet's it gates the other faithful. india it says here this is only an approximate translation. one of germany's most influential service leaders has already been charged in cologne with inserting the public to commit illegal acts. i do believe these people are dangerous they don't just use lamb which is ok but they're trying to draw the us into a specific interpretation which promotes violence. the distribution of religious

literature is productive where the constitution being part of the right to the freedom of opinion and religion as long as it doesn't promote violence or he tricked. it's not officially established if that's the case with all the grounds being given out by the scientists so for now the only legal option for the german authorities is to stand aside and watch you want this guy or girl in. there's always a wealth of stories these aren't comments can also be found at our website dot com and here's what's lined up for you right now that. last almost one hundred fifty people were wounded in this explosion during a political rally in america in armenia rather find out what caused the terrible incident online. with the young man in a wiltshire has been denied entry to club in russia's urals on his past day despite of arranging the party advance discover the details that are.

the u.k. high court has recently called for the country's internet providers to block access to a massive file sharing website claiming it was distributing corporate material but the moves backfired with the pirate bay welcoming twelve million more u.k. visitors to its site last week and china's day it see what it says governments across the globe need to focus on more serious internet crimes. fight against quote unquote piracy is global we have these powerful but dying entertainment corporations that are putting tremendous pressure on legislators and on law enforcement on our government to crack down on what they see as piracy but piracy

is not the same thing is that when you distribute a piece of music or you know a comedy show or anything like that and other people see it it's not as if the original creator has lost anything in fact there is a lot of evidence that those artists who receive a lot of play over the so-called piracy networks. and doing quite well because they reach millions of people who would not have even known about them otherwise they have these laws in place to attack piracy and i think ten years from now it's going to seem laughable and sad that our government went after pirates when there are legitimate digital crimes happening online there's identity theft there's credit card fraud there are very serious things happening there's online harassment all these things are happening and i think that's what our law enforcement agencies should be focused on. being a member of a secret society and then of a tit sense of status and power that members of these compounds of will the won't rest until we all face is on the streets of new york to find that pain hears of

people that. do you believe a secret elite is running the world this week let's talk about that there doesn't seem to be any compelling evidence the world has too many. disparate and independently acting things and functions in it for there to be sort of a single. ball of individuals instructing them where to go it just doesn't seem credible to me what about groups like the bills or bridge group or the bohemian club those kinds of things and i think a lot of that is just sort of overblown and just rhetorical but there are groups of people that are powerful men that get together once a year and no one knows what they're talking about but we know they get together what do you think they're talking about. i get together with my friends couples homes here nobody knows who are talking about either so i don't really care about what these are you don't think that they're making decisions that influence your

life. do exist. in a part of the world but not the whole world so it seems there is a lot of different groups with different goals so there's a little element of it but it's not as evil as people might think yes exactly i don't really have an opinion on it i mean if you know rich people or rich people are going to have their own little country club that's fine really bother me but money influences the world's right true but many of these people probably are employing us right. so it seems like most people don't even care whether or not there's a secret elite group of people ruling the world and if they do exist that's probably just the way they like it. the recent peace agreement between the u.s. and afghanistan has confirmed washington's commitment to the country even after its soldiers leave but according to his military control retained any of the road is now left wide open for the puniness presence of u.s.

troops in the region. the strategic partnership agreement signed by the u.s. president in afghanistan of the dead of the night is neither strategic nor it could be cool in any sense as any partnership between the united states and there again is still this bizarre alliance between american democracy and the narco state who qualified for partnership from the washington viewpoint then it means that all other stakeholders in going down pakistani security and stability have a lot of homework to do to recalibrate their new air protests to the open ended and in fact permanent u.s. military presence in afghanistan. and let's now take

a look at some other international stories making headlines this hour twenty three bodies have been found in north east mexico and they say it's part of the region's ongoing drug war between rival cartels several of the bodies were discovered hanging from a bridge while another fourteen dismembered corpses were hidden in ice boxes and garbage by the graves of three journalists were also uncovered. china has allowed a blind activist to leave the country along with his family as he has been offered a fellowship at a u.s. university trying go on china's case has overshadowed high level u.s. china talks currently taking place in the aging the self taught law became an inspiration for many chinese people after campaigning against the government's one child policy. the french court has sentenced and algerian born scientist to five years in prison for plotting terrorist attacks and his show was arrested in two thousand and nine after police intercepted his e-mails to elect al

qaeda member the communications suggested his show was willing to be part of an active terrorist unit officials became suspicious of his show in two thousand and eight when threatening messages from al qaeda were sent to president nicolas sarkozy. but just two days left before russia gets its new leader as dmitry medvedev hands over to vladimir putin as president the you know we ration ceremony will take place in the magnificent halls of the club and from which will be broadcasting live for you and our special coverage is coming your way after seven thirty am g.m.t. on monday. i. am.

it should be a spectacular sit now los angeles has seen parents teachers and children taken to the streets in protest over severe cuts to schooling they blame the government for failing standards that's out of the education budget slashed by hope in the recent years on she's made in a culture now listen to their plight. parents who join forces can be a powerful voice for change. i think very well actually. actually it was. the third year that this has been observed from the governor's budget would go into place from the air from two thousand and three told today if you will of experience of forty six percent but you cannot eleven year old vanessa had to repeat her grade and was well behind

agents reading ability she lives with her mother to remain in the port town insulting california there remains frustration over what she sees as the school's failings lead her to use the state's piny rain parent trigger law we were outraged disappointed and felt that we had to do something find a way to make a positive change her children the law allows parents are to school with consistently poor results to file a petition to reform this court although rejected by the local authority to send this case parents are taking it all the way to the courts. i don't want to get upset but it's frustrating because i want my daughter to get a good education of my son's three or four he's going to be getting in a bar and if he starts in this school might as well keep my home because he's not going to be learning there when you don't get the best for him and for both on because i want to go to have opportunities and not to be become somebody in life adelanto doesn't stand alone when it comes to dating standards how imported by the

state coffers are running on empty axe turkey regular programs and even the number of teachers have all been cut and the axe has a step swing gania. the proposed twenty twelve budget which slashed three hundred five point two billion dollars from public school funding now unless a boat race can be good to have income conceals taxes. for now some schools here are moving to four day weeks cancelling field trips and charging students to play sports while mother is like since you do reno are trying to take the law into their own hands and show the authorities that their children deserve the right to decent advocation i do not question marty reporting from california all these comments can go from the wall to find out it's coming your way in a couple of minutes time and the kinds of report that's after wrap up all top stories.

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bases a network of military bases all around the forms of the empire that the united states is trying to build that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million and more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around the world. we don't have foreign 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 are five of the noises our north of those of all the us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people. since the end of world war two the spaces i've been . working here to provide safe and sick.