r.s.s. feeds now with the palm of your. machine on the dot com. revolution hung over latest clashes in egypt between protesters and great military rule and security forces leave one dead and hundreds injured in the run up to the landmark presidential election. a bitter campaign dominated by the rise of the far right there zigzagged in france is the country decides on who its next leader will be and whether the dump or stick with sarkozy. and russia's republic of dagestan mourns the victims of a deadly twin bombing which killed thirteen and injured over a hundred in an attack suspected to have international terrorism links.

hello this is r.t. from moscow it's five pm here now my name's kevin though in our top story egypt's political transition has been marked by intensifying violence less than three weeks before the country's first presidential elections after last year's revolution a rally on friday ended up in fierce clashes between protesters and security forces in cairo it's left at least one person dead and scores injured his correspondent in the region paula slayer scott the latest details for you well friday's violence is said to 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 though is it for the first time we're witnessing hard line islamists at the forefront of these what has become a weekly demonstration is with the ruling military and when we talk about islamists we're talking here about the powerful muslim brotherhood. as well as the ultra

conservative still laugh as party now all of this comes hot on the heels of diddy caches earlier in 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 so these surging violence is affecting the election campaign in what we're witnessing is that these fears 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 the violence has also lived the campaigning in turmoil already two frontrunners as well as several other candidates the candidates have an ounce there they are temporarily suspending their campaigns in protest against the heavy handedness in which the ruling military has been dealing with protesters there is also anger increasing across the political spectrum against skeff the supreme council of the armed forces they also say that the generals are not sincere about really wanting to hand over all the power come the twenty fourth of may and

that they're trying to maneuver a way that they can still maintain some kind of control over the reins of authority what we've been hearing from the generals effect coming twenty fourth of may if there is one hour flight when or from one of the thirteen candidates who is standing in these presidential elections then they will hand over power but as i say increasingly egyptians on the street don't believe the word of the ruling military policy or our correspondent in jerusalem there was the voices of islam is growing louder in cairo's tahrir square the qur'an is being handed out the numbers in the heart of europe. recovery may be provocative sense of during but if not even the timing was drawn from much attention but who is behind the distribution find out about concerns over links to growing with an extremism in europe that's coming up later in the program. but next a bitter and deeply divisive presidential election will be decided on sunday in france with nicolas sarkozy battling for his political life against socialist charger cross. pushed by the center right french leader deeply unpopular with his

leftist opponent now promising to undo much of. it instead. of bring us up today from paris one day to go before the french at the polls and make that decisive vote and even the city itself is preparing their president now it's down to two men incumbent nicolas sarkozy and his socialist challenger. cording to the polls is still trailing behind a lot but there is still that question mark as to who the voters of the national front and center. who are they going to choose for the second the french will essentially be choosing between a man or lawn 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 who claims that he is the only one who can prevent france from going down the path that greece italy spain and all the trouble you 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. and therefore the personality of these two men has become just as important as the proposal stay put for it boils down to which man is more presidential can take on better now 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 perceptive 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 be it the cyclizine. or neither of the two. perspectives on the candidates and their financial problems. is an economist and author of the paris with universities on the line from paris welcome to take. a mist explain to us briefly if you would the big differences in the economic policies between these both. what you think the outlook is for france depending on who wins. ok i think

it will we all would be good if you could work with. the people who all game rises and. we all know all the street before we. go on and it's all it's been. installed for. the course in the last year or so easy by getting the ball you need the small business so he can be a good option for me. but mostly serve a good a few sound problems we're going to try and press on with this interview nonetheless i ask another question hopefully the skype line will clear a little bit sarkozy's suffered politically in the election from the european economic crisis has been well documented which of course he sought to play the lead role with germany's angela merkel he says he's done his best of all times to

economically safeguard france has he do you think. more serious for somebody here because if he's not so noisy we can say we really think he is the face of people like so with the responsibility that says it isn't worth the price is the very last thing the function and speech influences book itself if both of you eat and this is exactly what these of all benefit if it is why for the people we all see all of it all day long if you believe the police if you go up. the hill. as i said before he left the city. ok i'm awfully sorry it's pretty good to have you on the program unfortunately couldn't hear a lot of what you're saying it sounds like you talk to the mill of a thunderstorm never going to try and catch it later and get

a clearer line see if you're out there were nearly economist and author of the paris west university with a pretty bad skype line but it's a big number on the program at least. modern technology well as france holds its collective breath wondering where the country's future president is going to pay russia is preparing for the inauguration of its next leader in just two days in fact dimitri medvedev hands i would have let him uprooted at the ceremony in the magnificent also the kremlin we've got live coverage starting at seven thirty g.m.t. monday morning. full

coverage monday morning at least five people reported dead in serious psychological city of aleppo after an explosion at a car wash there it follows a blast the ripped through the capital damascus to that instant there were no casualties the bomb was a touch of army very often for the military institute. confirmed reports of a second blast in the city two on saturday that saw as the country prepares for its first parliamentary elections of the new constitution as well to serve for six. series 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 kay finance peace plan now casey and spokes person has come out and said that

in peace plan 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 see in the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton was in china this week urging the country to see apply further sanctions on syria now really the message the u.n. envoy spokes person with this is a crisis that has not been going on for more than a year is not going to be solved in a day is not going to be solved even night is 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 and what the outcome of these will be 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 can too. in ewing 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 person democracy in the country to be implemented through the ballot box and not three bullets. it's a warning of russia's republic of dagestan after twin turbo tax killed thirteen and injured more than one hundred two successive powerful blasts of a police checkpoint with time to cause maximum devastation security to say the bombers have been identified in the search is no one for the masterminds artie's roof national reports. it's a sad fact that the recent attacks on police and authorities in this town a merely the latest incidents in a long running history of violence in russia's volatile caucasus region thursday's tragedy has already become the most devastating in months to mess of 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 or t.v. set fell 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 . spread for hundreds of meters around. my brother and me ducked down 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 teens 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 last had a force of one hundred kilos in t.n.t. equivalent and it claimed the most victims 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 dagestan 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 expert dennis some would believe the tactics used in the attacks 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 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 works like a franchise organization. it has a template and 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 and dealing and tackling these issues that are taking over the program with me kevin i mean this afternoon a move by the british courts to crack down on internet piracy fact fires the power sharing website pirate bay claims twelve million more u.k. users despite internet service providers being asked to block it. also reporting that parents and teachers are taking to the streets of america saying u.s. government cuts or put education beyond the reach of many of these days they just simply can't afford it. islamic radicals to be distributing free copies of the qur'an in downtown berlin sparking concerns about the spread of them extremists of in europe there's nothing illegal however by the move which those behind it say is prayed with expression piskun off investigate.

afternoon prayer in central moon and once the worshipping ended the free distribution off durant's continued. three hundred thousand copies in over one hundred across most parts of germany. oh mr richard if the bible can be distributed why not the koran 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 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

mention who gives men the right to create laws that right belongs to. we're going to the local salafist 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 violence especially gets women protected by the law as men would be also about violet's it gets the other faithful. india it says here this is only an approximate translation . one of germany's most influential 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 lamb which is ok but 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 and religion as long as it doesn't promote violence or he tricked you and it's not yet been officially established if that's the case with all the korans 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 the. berlin. steps today twenty four seven with r.t. dot com our web site said take a close look at some stories we've got lined up for you there right now online no smoking place find out how horrendous polluted last pictures of which you got there in armenia was caused by someone lighting up a cigarette nearby gas attacks also while robots and automation may be the future for many industries they could be coming to what some say is the oldest profession of them all find out about your research suggesting how the ladies of the night could be replaced by androids in just

a few decades. the british court clamped down on the file sharing website pirate bay appears to about fired a judicial request by internet service providers to block the site's instead seen a massive surge of twelve million more visitors to the portal journalist david seaman told us governments globally a focus of the things on the wrong internet crimes. fight against quote unquote piracy is global we have these powerful but dying and detainment 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 and 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 this online harassment all these things are happening and i think that's what our law enforcement agencies should be focused on. house around the world right now making headlines five men accused of planning the nine eleven attacks will be charged today at a military tribunal at guantanamo bay among them is khalid shaikh mohammed the suspect mastermind behind the outrages of which almost three thousand people died

new rules forbid the use of evidence going from torture with prisoners now having access to defense attorneys to some family members of mine eleven victims in the temples hearing that was watching prior video. thousands of marched through tokyo to mark japan switching off its last working nuclear reactor for the first time in over forty years the country will be without atomic energy them after intense public opposition following the fukushima plant meltdown paroles by the huge earthquake and tsunami the governments had been eager to restart some reactors fearing blackouts and rising emissions though as they turned they were pencils. free public schools available to walla been the color scope stone of the u.s. education system but savage government cuts slashing budgets in half brought teachers parents and pupils out onto the streets saying that learning is now beyond the reach of many but in a culture never listen to their plight. parents who join forces can be

a powerful voice for change. i think i am very thankful for that she was ok. but this is being served if the governor is caught you would go into a plane from ny from two thousand and three told today we would love 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 poor town in south in california. restriction over what she sees as the school's paintings 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 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 out of the kitchen of my son's three or four he's going to be getting thinner and if he starts in this school might as well keep my home because he's not going to be learning there we need to get the best for him and for both on because i wanted to grow up to have opportunities and not to be become somebody and i had to learn to doesn't stand alone when it comes to dating standards imported by the state coffers are running on empty x. turkey regular programs and even in number of teachers have all been cut and the axe is in a step swinging. the proposed twenty twelve budget with slashing thirty five point two billion dollars from public school funding now unless more troops can be rescreened it to have income and sales taxes but for now some schools here are moving to four day weeks canceling field trips and charging students to play sports

while mother was like since you do remember trying to take the law into their own hands and show the authorities that their children deserve the right to decent i do cation i do not question marty reporting from california. next spring a member of a secret society can apparently grant you an elevated sense of status and power but how much influence can to give you on the world stage that's the question try to find the answer a resident for most is at the boat on the streets of new york with the latest questions to find out the opinions of people were. 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 not at all. do exist in their own 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 with me this really bother me but money influences the world's right true but many of these people probably are employing us right kind of goes both ways so 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. so now we know now a few minutes marxist ac look at the latest shady workings behind the big business headlines of the week the kaiser report on air after a short break in a roundup of the day's news in brief coming up in just under four minutes.

to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe. and the shadow is an approaching of the for. the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the world forms legal 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 or 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 fine the noise is our noise of those of all the us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for these people a day since the into world war two the spaces i've been. working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions you know thing else you get everything you need to join me on a journey to the heart of the kremlin to a place is hidden from the terrorists you going to meet some real crime insiders although they may not be the usual news makers you see on t.v. .

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