protests against the military rulers in egypt and in deadly clashes fueling fears violence will escalate further ahead of the landmark presidential election. campaigning ends in france ahead of sunday's presidential runoff vote which many see as decisive for the troubled european view. we are seeing links between these terrorist groups in different parts of the world and so the response has also to be global. traces of international terrorism in dugit stance twin blasts a big russian republic mourns the victims of the attacks which killed thirteen people and injured dozens more.

twenty four hour news live from moscow this is all she was me 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 and 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 the square but things turned agley when they started to make their way to the defense ministry building now the building was secured by a 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 ensued 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 in 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 this wednesday a group of and known gunmen attacked a group that was holding a peaceful sittin 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 supreme 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 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 activists say even if the military hands of a power that will do little to help the revolutionary cause and bring in reforms the military wants to crush the service 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 scare for transfer of power the civilian government will. that won't change anything because in the end of the day i believe that gaffe 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 that 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 reason is grow larger in cairo's tahrir square their message is also being heard on the streets of germany later the program we take a look at a controversial can paid by one of the most radical muslim movements carried out in the european powerhouse. but first the u.n.

peace plan for syria is working despite reports of cease fire violations so says the office of international envoy kofi annan the spokesman defended an arms mission saying violence has reduced despite the u.s. renewing its calls for another approach hinting at the plans defeat but as our first now reports from damascus many syrians hope the upcoming parliamentary vote will also bring some stability to the conflict torn 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 of the u.n. envoy kofi annan peace plan now casey and spokes person has come out and 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 countries to apply the sanctions also in a really the message. voice spokes person was this is a choice that does not mean 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 or what the outcome. 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 it's simply not the right time

to be holding these parliamentary elections but of course we've heard a lot of people calling for this. 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 to a powerful blast rocked a police checkpoint in the capital much allowed within twenty minutes of each other party's maria financial reports it's a sad fact that the recent attacks on police and authorities in darkest and i'm really the latest incident in a long running history of violence in russia's volatile caucasus region with thursday's tragedy has already become the most devastating in months to massive car blasts he asked codes of the capital markets and woke up the entire city. at home watching t.v. then we heard an explosion fell down i'm 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. spread for hundreds of meters around. my brother and me doctor this metal piece fell here my brother almost died. but they were among the lucky ones as their tech claimed more than a dozen lives policemen 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 blast occurred it was much more powerful you can see the crater is huge one some reports say the second blast had a force of one hundred kilos in t.n.t. equivalent and it claimed the most victims the investigators have already

identified the owners of both exploded cars. the double attack one born after 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 darkest on 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. hour to report in from in russia's biggest un security accidentals samad believes the tactics used in their targets 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 and 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 ok that works like a franchise organization. it has a template and it encourages groups with domestic agendas 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 aimed at dealing and tackling these issues so that if you're with are still ahead for you

this hour conservatives are taking over the iranian parliament should the international see worried that the outcome of the islamic state election could impact on the country's nuclear standoff with the west. also later this hour schools are not even while testing the u.s. parents teachers aren't sure on stage a rally of a devastating budget cuts later find out more about their efforts to teach the authorities and. the two french presidential candidates have made their last appeal to voters ahead of sunday's runoff paul the debt crisis has been central to their campaign is what francois hollande promising to challenge the e.u. fiscal pact and agreement championed by his rival nicolas sarkozy. airports. 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 rid there that's president now it's down to two men incumbent nicolas sarkozy of his socialist challenger afonso along cording

to the polls is still a trailing behind the law but there is still that question mark as to who the voters of that in the pen of the national front and center is france will by rule who are they going to choose a for the second route the french will essentially be choosing between a man or lawton claims that 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 france on the other hand you have a man a son who is even claims that he is the only one who can prevent france from going down the path of greece italy spain and all the trouble do result nations have gone down but there is a group of french people who believe that they don't really have a choice when it comes to the program be presented to them and therefore the personality of these two men has become just as important as the proposals they put for it boils down to which man is more presidential can take on the better from the beginning of the campaign there hasn't been much enthusiasm from the people saying

that they don't really see any of the candidates present to that with a real solution that could bring france out of the quagmire that it's there nevertheless eighty percent of voters have said that they have already made up their minds to be at the stuff they see or dogs or neither of the two. and they say we've signed into the european debt crisis with max and stacey lifting the lid on the debt secrets behind the financial headlines that's on the kinds of report. early results in friday parliamentary runoff elections in iran put the conservative rivals of president ahmadinejad ahead of his more moderate supporters the outcome cements the position of iran's supreme leader i get to live in the ne whose allies already won an outright majority in the parliament after the first round of voting in march such a political landscape in the country well that's the radical clerical elite pull

the strings in foreign policy and most importantly tehran's controversial nuclear program and while the international community gauges the possible consequences of this election experts trance the necessity of settling the nuclear issue before it's too late. u.s. and israeli intelligence have both said 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. 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. meanwhile an outright conservative muslim group is now broadening its appeal to europeans all the. movement one of the most radical branches of islam is permitted by the freedom of religion and a lot there are growing concerns about the message being spread can offer reports

now from. afternoon bruner inserted from moon and once the words are being ended the. qur'an continued. over three hundred thousand copies in over one hundred across most parts of germany but no mr any material here if the bible can be distributed 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 draw so much attention but who is behind the distribution. that the southeast movement is one of the most radical wings of islam known for its truth interpretations of the koran 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. we're going to mine the local ses community the campaign's long term goal was to put twenty five million copies of the koran into german forms but it's not clear which interpretation is being used but. there are passages about violence especially against women who are not protected by the law as men would be also about violet 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 which is ok they're trying to draw the us into a specific interpretation which promotes violence. the disabuse you of religious

literature is productive where the constitution 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 solidest so for now the only legal option for the german authorities is to stand aside and watch you walk this golf ball in and there's always a wealth of stories news and common can be found at our website dot com and has was lined up for you right now that. last almost one hundred fifty people were wounded in this explosion during a political rally in armenia find out what caused a terrible incident online. and a young man in a world chair has been denied entry to a club in russia's urals on his birthday despite arranging the party in advance discuss the details that article.

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 material but the moves backfired with the pirate bay welcoming twelve million more you pay a visit to science last week and journalist david seaman says governments across the globe need to focus on more serious crimes the 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 the secret society can grant you and then have a good sense of state isn't power but can members of these the wild and resident hillary hoffman is on the streets of new york to find out the opinions of people

there. 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 they talk about 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're rich people 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 in iraq but according to his military contributed getting her show off the road has now left wide open for the permanent presence of u.s.

troops in the region. the strategic partnership agreement signed by the us 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 afghanistan if this bizarre alliance between american democracy and. narco state could qualify for partnership from the washington viewpoint then it means that all other stakeholders in afghan and pakistani security and stability have a lot of homework to do to recalibrate their new air protarchus to the open ended and infect permanent u.s. military presence in afghanistan. take

a look at some other world news in brief this hour twenty three bodies have found a north east mexico border police say as part of the region's ongoing drug war between while cartels several of the bodies were discovered hanging from a bridge while another fourteen days numbered corpses were hidden in ice boxes and garbage bags the graves of three journalists were also uncovered by. china was allowed to fly and out of it's to leave the country along with his family as he has been offered a velo ship at a us university chango on china has overshadowed high level u.s. china talks currently taking place in beijing the self-taught law became an inspiration for many chinese people after campaigning against the government one child policy. and a french court has sentenced an old syrian born scientist to five years in prison for plotting terrorist attacks he sure was arrested in two thousand and nine after police intercepted his e-mails to an alleged al qaeda member the communications

suggested his show was unwilling to be part of an active terrorist unit for scholz became suspicious thousand and eight one of threatening messages from al qaeda to president nicolas sarkozy. that's just two days love before russia gets its new leader as dimitri medvedev hands over to vladimir putin as president you know gratian ceremony will take place in the magnificent halls of the kremlin from which will be broadcasting live and our coverage is coming your way after seven thirty am g.m.t. on monday. don't

miss it on monday that sandra's has seen parents teachers and children taken to the streets and protest over severe cuts to schooling they blame the government for failing standards that's after the education budget slashed by half in recent years he's made in a question and listens to that light. parents who join forces can be a powerful voice for change. i think if you drink socially or actually it was ok this is the third year that this has been observed if the governor is caught you would go into a place that from the air from two thousand and three told today people of experience of forty six percent but you can't know eleven year old vanessa had to repeat her grade and was well behind just reading ability she lives with her mother

to remain in the port town in south in california there remains frustration over what she sees as the school's fame things led her to use the state's pioneering 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 at a school with consistently poor results to file a petition to reform this court although rejected by the local authority this in 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 out of the kitchen of my son's three or four he's going to be going to never i mean if he starts in this school might as well keep all 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 x. 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 would slash a thirty five point two billion dollars from public school funding unless voters can be persuaded to have income and sales taxes but for now some schools here are moving to four day weeks counseling field trips and charging students to play sports while mothers like since you do read 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. care to date and hour back with a quick recap of the headlines in just a few moments i'm going.