a free blog video for your media project free video gargi dot com. mass protests against the military rulers in egypt and in deadly clashes fueling fears violence will escalate further ahead of the landmark presidential election. also 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 these terrorist groups in different parts of the world and so the response has also to be global than traces of international terrorism and drug it stands between law says the russian republic mourns the victims of that time which killed thirteen people and injured dozens more.

here so russia and around the world this is us here with 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 our correspondent in the region policy and our reports. friday's violence a city have been triggered when protesters ignored warnings not to approach the defense ministry building they started throwing stones at security forces who responded with tear gas and water cannons and according to a number of eyewitnesses they were rounds of live ammunition that were fired what is particularly significant there is it for the first time we witnessing hard line islamic at the forefront of these what has become a weekly demonstration is with the ruling military and when we talk about islam as we're talking here about the powerful muslim brotherhood as well as the ultra conservative still laugh as party the islamize joined the confrontations when two

heavyweight islamised candidates who had been put forward for the presidential polls that are taking place later this month who are disqualified now all of this comes hot on the heels of did he catch it's only when the week on wednesday in front of the defense ministry building and here we see allegations go forward and backwards between the security forces and the protesters in terms of who started it was according to the protesters they were attacked by thugs and plain clothed police and troops but according to activists as well as residents they say that the protesters began the violence by provoking the forces and that many of the protesters themselves were armed what is particularly significant is that we're witnessing cracks in the opposition to the ruling military whereas once they seem united more and more we're hearing of these splinter groups beginning to form soviet eastern violence is affecting the election campaign in what we witnessing is that these his street battles are raising fears of a new cycle of violence ahead of these presidential elections on the twenty third

and twenty fourth of may we violence has also raised the campaigning in turmoil already two weeks trying to run as well as several other candidates the candidates have an ounce of where they are temporarily suspending their campaigns in protest against the heavy handedness in which the ruling military has been dealing with protesters him. hearing from the generals it's coming twenty four that maybe if there is one affluent winner from one of the thirteen candidates who is standing in these presidential elections then they will hand over power but increasingly egyptians on the street don't believe the word of the ruling military the u.n. peace plan for syria is working despite reports of cease fire violations so says the office of international envoy kofi annan and his spokesman defended and as mission saying violence has reduced that despite the u.s. renewing its calls for another approach a meeting at the plant's defeat but as our furth reports from damascus many syrians hope the upcoming parliamentary vote will also bring some stability to the conflict

torn country. syria's 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 in the country during around different areas toss with verifying the implementation u.n. envoy k. financed peace plan now casey and. that i mean he's planned despite reports of it into violations from both sides is back on track now that statement came against the backdrop of the 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 because it applies the sanctions on syria now really the message the u.n. envoy spokes person with this is a trifle does not mean going on more than

a year is not going to be solved in a day it's not going to be solved overnight it's going to take time and say 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 will be now 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 in the capital much color within twenty minutes of each other

archies maria financial reports. 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 for thursday's tragedy has already become the most devastating. two massive car blasts in the outskirts of the capital markets and woke up the entire city. at home watching t.v. then we heard an explosion. 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 duck down it is a metal being still here which my brother almost. would say overall nuclear were among the lucky ones as the attack 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 into intake roland and it claimed the most victims investigators have already identified the owners of both exploded cars. the double attack one home after another as 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 it 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 a security expert danny it sounded believes the tactics used in their tanks point to links with international terrorist groups which must be tackled globally. there are very obvious similarities in the tactics that we are seeing in the north caucasus these days and tactics used by. similar forces in iraq and afghanistan this is a particularly poor type of terrorist attack and it seems now we 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 the stores 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 with tackling these issues look silly head for you and i'll see focusing their attention all the wrong places. 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 out three pirates. critics make their case against the pirate crackdown as another attempt to center to censor the web back five. plus school's out same

protest in the u.s. congress teachers and children stage a rally of a devastating budget cuts later find out more about that it's to teach the offshore system that. the two french presidential candidates have made their last appeals to voters ahead of sunday's run off poll that crisis has been central to their campaigns with france so our land promising to challenge the e.u. fiscal pact and agreement championed by his rival nicolas sarkozy. 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 it that's president now it's down to two men incumbent nicolas sarkozy of a socialist challenger ponce or log into the polls is still actually behind the law but there is still that question mark as to who the voters of but the plan of the national front and center is france will by whom who are they going to choose for the site that crowd already will suddenly be choosing between

a man or laws be claims that he will bring back all of you to the country also want to go head to head with german chancellor angela merkel to challenge the fiscal pact that he says is bad for us on the other hand you have a man of substance you claim that he is the only one who can prevent france from going down the path but at least they had all the trouble to resort 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 to do that and therefore the personality of these two men has become just as important as the proposal stay put for boils down to which man is more presidential to take on that's all better now for the beginning of the campaign there hasn't been much of his yes and for the people saying that they don't really see any of the candidates was up to that with a real solution that could bring france out of the wild card that it's nevertheless eighty percent of voters have said that they have already made up their minds be it cycles or daunte or either of the two. fronts as politics and

how the outcome of the runoff will affect the country's foreign policy i'm now joined live by robert thomas an independent journalist specializing in france mr han is welcome to the program in the first round of the elections nicolas sarkozy received the lowest number of votes as a sitting president in the history of france what would they say is that led to such a poor result. and i should correct. number of votes. coming out of all. in two thousand and two good he was the first president coming out of office not to head the poll so it's slightly different but the reason the reason is first and foremost it's very difficult for anybody running a modern democracy through a recession with rising unemployment to do well and there is the second factor which is. slightly abrasive and traditional personality when you look at

nicolas sarkozy and he's he's very active behavior on the political scene it doesn't remind you much injection of what president de gaulle or even the fossil media on. the front saw downs results in the first round well one of the left and best ever are people just desperate for some alternative to drastic cuts and economic stagnation. the best of it for the socialists in fact in the first round of the last election sarkozy did better than that but yeah i mean obviously they're going to turn to the main alternative party but i think one has to say that there are a big question marks but far smaller and he's never been a minister of any sort i mean this is i would say probably almost unique in a major western country that someone's got this far in the electoral process and they've never served in any sort of for public office at a national level so of course there is the other factor that at least half of the

country have a big question mark about whether they really want a socialist government because they always suspect fairly or unfairly the socialists will tax and spend and maybe that's not appropriate for the present circumstances and meanwhile some world leaders including angela merkel and david cameron have openly voiced their support for the candidacy of sarkozy and what will change in terms of france's friends and foes alarmed when. well if you're talking about foreign policy of course today i won't bore you with all the domestic stuff. the biggest change we have to say it will be one of style so cozy this is it's very dramatic he leaps into a plane and flies to georgia he intervenes dramatically in libya very vocal in his hostility to syria or iran i think if all of these elected don't leave his by no means certain yet he will be much more in the car and we've drawn partly because he

doesn't carry the experience to credibly leap into that into the forefront if you like but also by temperament lose much more of a synthesizer as the saying goes than than psychos he's much less a dramatic personality and i think because he thinks that france needs a change from the slightly energetic style of leadership of nicolas sarkozy rightly or wrongly circles these foreign policy was rather aggressive and he returned france to nato as military command increased its military presence in afghanistan and took a major role in a says air campaign in libya how does that sit with the french people and will our lines policy be different from your point you mentioned earlier but please a bit more yeah i mean i think the french people we have to be totally honest in most western democracies and in france as well most people are indifferent to foreign policy if you look at france far as a book about plans for the future hundred sixty nine pages of what he's going to do

in their eight pages about foreign policy. in the west we term struck by how much we care about people in third world countries that actually. ross is talking about the disastrous results of psychos do intervention in libya and i have to say so because he didn't support nato he was the instigator of that war. because he's rhetoric on immigration has been getting more and more tough recently. resulting in his pre-election promise to withdraw europe's open borders unless illegal immigration is tackled in the e.u. how do these measures fit in to europe's demographic premise principled. well democratic i should say i'm sorry. yes i mean it's. it's not i'm democratic to suggest that europe's borders are like a soup which is what you say. it's the tone perhaps of those remarks that you could object to but fundamentally say that everybody agreed. he's been criticized by the

socialists for saying beastly things but the fact is fast while on has had to say the same thing he's been forced to change used to to follow the public feeling that we cannot in france or any other european country allow a situation where because of the greeks don't control the front suddenly finds itself receiving all sorts of people from all over the world that when you have rising unemployment in france i mean it's less dramatic losing greece but it's never the less a problem and psychos the know that if you used to win he has to attract the votes of the national front and he says it is not it is not wrong to discuss these issues . thank you so much for a bit harness independent journalist pressurizing on france. the speed at which is the most radicalism has filled the void created by the arab spring has alarmed many in the west and now it's a riot in their own backyards one of the most extreme branches of islam is making

its voice increasingly heard and all under the protection of the west cherished laws. afternoon brewer in central moon. and once the worshipping ended the free distribution of qur'an continued. three hundred thousand copies in over one hundred six across most parts of germany. is certainly pretty 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 do so much attention but who is behind the distribution. that's 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. we're going to find the locals of this community the campaign's 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 against women good not protected by the law is made would be also about violence against the other faithful. in 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 inciting the public to commit illegal acts. i do believe these people are dangerous they don't just teach you slam which is ok

they're trying to draw the youth into a specific interpretation which promotes violence. the distribution of religious literature is protected by the constitution being part of the right to the freedom of opinion. as long as it doesn't promote violence or he tricked you it's not yet been officially established if that's the case with all the qur'an is being given out by the salafist so for now the only legal option for the german authorities is to stand aside and watch you walk r.t. rolling. a wealth of stories news and comment can also find on our website as he dot com for you and here's what's lined up on line right now. just almost a hundred and fifty people were wounded and this explosion during a political rally in armenia find out what caused the terrible incident on mine. and the young man in a will chat has been denied entry to

a club in russia's euro zone his birthday despite arranging the party in advance discover the details that are to. the high court has recently called for the country's internet providers to block access to massive file sharing website claiming it was distributing copyrighted material but the movie spock fine with the pirate bay welcoming twelve million more u.k. visits in states like last week china's david seaman says governments across the globe need to focus on the most serious internet crimes the fight against quote unquote piracy is global we have these powerful but. 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. and let's now take a look at some other international stories making headlines this hour so a claimed nine eleven mastermind khalid shaikh mohammed and four other men accused

of planning the atrocities in the words will be charged today at gun time of day there are new rules for trials held at gun time tomorrow including a bible evidence obtained under torture a previous attempts to charge muhammad will stop three years ago when president barack obama tried to close the prison relatives of the some of the victims of nine eleven our military complex to attend the arraignment. a u.s. drone strike has killed at least a night aspect of interns in northwest pakistan the region is thought to be a lifeline of time about of course border insurgent activity pakistan had previously complained about that time saying they violated sovereignty the rate of u.s. let's try exe has increased since president obama took office in two thousand and eight. the french court has sentenced an old juror and born scientist to five years in prison for plotting terrorist attacks. who shot was arrested in two thousand and nine after police intercepted his e-mails to alleged archived remember the

communications suggested his shop 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. all right there's just two days left before russia gets its new leaders dimitri medvedev hands over to vladimir putin as president the inauguration ceremony will take place in the magnificent halls of the kremlin from which will be broadcasting live and our special coverage is coming your way after seven thirty am on monday. i.

have seen parents teachers and children taken to the streets in protest of the severe cuts to schooling they blame the government for failing standards that's out of the education budget shop slashed by half in recent years out is merida imagine a coach and listens to that plight. parents who join forces can be a powerful voice for change. i think i think i think sharon actually was ok this is the third year that this is being served if the governor is caught you would go into a plane from ny from two thousand and three told to gay 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. to with her mother to remain in the port town in south in california. frustration over what she sees as the school's paintings led her to use the state's pioneering parent trigger long we were outraged disappointed and felt that we had to do something find a way to make a positive change her children though allow spare into the school with consistently poor results to file a petition to reform this court although rejected by the local authority this and 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 portion of myself three or four he's going to be going to university and if you start 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 i have to be become somebody in my adelanto

doesn't stand alone when it comes to dating standards imported by the state coffers running on empty x. turkey regular programs and even the number of teachers have all been cut and the axe is in a step swing gania. the proposed twenty twelve budget which slashed thirty five point two billion dollars from public school funding unless a bold truce can be reached we need it to have income conceals taxes. for you now some schools here are moving to four day weeks counseling field trips and charging students to play sports while mother is like since you do read a train take the law into their own hands and show their stories that their children deserve the right to a decent education i do not question marty reporting from california. and a couple of minutes salacious side to the world of business for stacy dig deep for the scandal behind the financial headlines but before that her mind our top stories

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