egypt decides to head to the polls in the country's first presidential election since hosni mubarak's three decade rule was overthrown and many say they don't have much of a choice. as it tells members to tighten their belts a sturdy capitol is under fire for slipping up on its own targets for budget cuts. and a hundred days of unrest tens of thousands of students march across montreal against right situation. suppose protest restrictions and response.

this is r.t. with world news and much more twenty four hours a day egypt is set for its first presidential election since the fall of longtime leader hosni mubarak last year polls are set to open an hour's time with thirteen names on the ballots including islamists and a number of barack officials. reports that he gyptian feel frustrated with the choice they have. they stayed down the police and the military and they won but now they're staring internet uncertain future and it's far from clear egypt's revolutionaries are holding the trump card i'm sure of the martyrs where life they would think that this is or is just no one chanted for elections they wanted to free them now years and monthly massacre that takes place when people feel that we don't even have the right to be listened in a big square how can they really surprised. it took my arm and other egyptian youth just eighteen days to topple

a dictator who'd been in power for maybe fifty six years but they haven't been able to come up with a single compelling candidate in the country's first post the presidential election is. to meet. change quickly so we have. political. support and some of the. subtleties. and after ten of them were disqualified thirteen remain in the race for egypt's top job the front runners include a moose or mubarak insider former egyptian foreign minister and head of the arab league abdul more name of good for top former brotherhood leader kyra physician and long time auntie mubarak dissident and mohamed morsi the muslim brotherhood's choice who has a respected party and well financed campaign behind him the fact that there are two strong islamic candidates means the islamist vote is split although on foreign

policy issues they're united. comes to believe that the two of them. try to improve the relation of the expanse of egypt through the motions was the last of. them are going to try to improve the relations was. believe it's going to get more. chances are high that egyptians will vote in an islamized president but this support is no way near what it was in recent parliamentary elections was in egypt. several surveys a picture of the soon to consider the status challenge to. many of these candidates is expected to top fifty six making it was. highly likely but the delays are making egyptians edgy time and again the ruling generals lift out as to whether the elections would even happen and concern is right that the

army plans to stay in power or at least pull the strings from a far but dr has some a far disagrees a military coup has to be executed and it is than i thought it would be very very violent and there will be a lot of bloodshed and i think the army is very much aware of this there's been little about this election that's been predictable and no matter who wins the new egypt is likely to look a lot like the last few months of the old at least for some time the problems in the country run deep and economic and political frustrations are not that far from spilling over into fresh protests police here are teen kyra. but egypt's ruling military council is reportedly planning to publish a new interim constitution which will set limits the government's influence over the army professor of middle east history at west chester university or it's davidson says the military is hoping to keep its grip on the country after the election. the fear is i imagine just like you know some twenty years ago

that if the islamists in charge don't never give up power but then if you ask yourself what the military actually does here and its history once it's in charge it doesn't give up power either i think what they're trying to do is create a sort of turkish model where in fact the military stands independent and autonomous outside of the government and essentially holds for itself a veto power over the government and so at any particular time if the government does things that the army does and why the officer corps doesn't like they come back in and essentially create. a military to. bring about growth than solving escalating problem of greece are dominating the minds of the leaders and don't make has a head of an informal get together in brussels germany continues to advocate belt

tightening and is opposed to joint borrowing but as artie's petone of a has been finding out it looks like the policy but it is foisted upon others isn't one it's too keen to perceive itself. the merkel message to europe is clear that storm going to grow by structural reform is important and necessary but a debt ridden growth would only revive a crisis were one that it will not do that. so all around however don't expect german belts to be getting much tighter. according to the influential cologne institute for economic research while berlin bangs the drum for spending cuts in countries like spain greece and italy the federal government has made good on less than half of its planned savings of the boomers were young the federal government promised in twenty town that they would cut over ten billion euro or year in spending from the budget two years later

they've cut less than half of this amount some of this is down to changes in policy making a promise to cots and possible but most of the promise savings just weren't made. this will make interesting reading for the heads of the twenty five year a peon union member states who signed up to a fiscal pact in march obliging them to show greater fiscal discipline pact championed by the chief cheerleader of austerity chancellor angela merkel as these are missin out it looks as if the german government has relaxed a bit while at the same time telling orders to work harder our deficit goals were reached because of higher than expected tax revenue but the cots were not followed through. so after the government made good on only four point seven billion euro of the eleven point two billion savings that it promised the association of taxpayers came up with a list of areas they suggest should be cut from the budget as part of a spring cleaning plan which could save an extra one hundred and fifty six million

euro these include scrapping a quarter of a million euros subsidy for growing organic carrots as well as a similar initiative and more juice all the way through to. reevaluating civil servant pensions and the driver service for former presidents of the german parliament. are thirty examples are meant to inspire ideas about how and where the budget can be cut even with a large spending blocks the government should take the good spring cleaning tradition then applied to the budget and start saving. there are those who argue that the recent growth posted by the german economy means that they are under no obligation to cut the rest of the proposed eleven billion euro that it's only those countries posting negative growth that need to trim their spending and the reason why the cuts are not as periphery countries that are suffering the most from the financial crisis is simply the fact that we have

a higher tax revenue right now and that leaves room for maneuver so the german economy is showing growth but as the country's debt rises by the second even europe's dominant economy isn't out of the woods yet at home or merkel's christian democrats have suffered some major political setbacks most recently a crushing defeat in regional elections in north rhine-westphalia a state seen as a bellwether of opinion in germany the because the theme of the christian democratic party has a tradition of celebrating its victories together it is the same for the defeats this is a common defeat we have discussed this defeat today and looked at land and they do this we have. despite mrs merkel putting on a brave front as a party loses support from the electorate the question has to be asked how can the german chancellor preach austerity to the people of athens madrid in rome where her party's policies can't even win over the people who sold off peter all of a r.t.

germany. teachers and students in spain are returning to work after the nationwide strike action on tuesday schools and universities shut their doors angry at the proposed cuts to education the plans include putting more students in one class slashing the number of teachers and imposing. their jobs another concern the test. hikes could leave many without hired cation government says the cuts are needed to see a spending targets the prime minister is a promising further reforms as the country battles a crippling crisis unemployment of almost twenty five percent belgian m.e.p. i think says the eurozone needs to learn to balance cuts growth prospects. growth is like love everybody's in favor of love everybody's in favor of growth but how to bring it about in the one hand you need austerity because our budgets are bloated already for a long time many countries have too much debt on the other hand we have to be store

competitive first i make sure that and. set up companies again and the economy starts growing again but when it enters a ship we need lower taxation we need competitiveness and all these things these things we have to do are really in a few years time because you know now we're in a process of internal devaluation we're not develop waiting a currency but we are developing countries and it's a very hard process that may take years but the political the social system are not able to cope with that and that is part of the problem there is no time for the things we have to do the problem here is that nobody is coming up with a plan b. everybody says we have to stick with plan a greece has to stay in the euro zone and that is the official line of the european commission of the european council but nobody is really looking beyond what's going to happen and that is part of the crisis and part of the uncertainty but we also see is a disagreement between paris and berlin and that is really at the heart of the euro

if if if germany and france do not agree on the line to take then to you is really in trouble. we're watching our tehsil ahead for you this hour heightened tensions syria's unrest spills into neighboring lebanon the clashes between pro and anti asset supporters are raising growing conflict that. the major demonstrations to mark a hundred day of student rallies have shaken canada terms of thousands filled the streets of montreal to protest against the huge upin the rise in tuition fees an attempt to quell the movement local authorities adopted new laws restricting protests but instead of pacifying students the controversial matters many feel their anger over three hundred people were detained and twenty injured of the demonstrations spiraled into bond clashes with police on sunday night team this child and their quebec federation of university students thinks the government's

actions have only made matters worse. trying to understand why he is the guy. going far despite all that. restraint a lot of the ability of expression manifestation everybody has to see ition so it's very difficult and i was this in our pose now because think you know what where is this film study on this new bill that the government passes and i actually didn't step back from all of this demonstration that has been going out of the government trying to make social peace by in the city of montreal but actually we see. several demonstrations going on this is. since friday so i think it's not working for the government and we'll be trying to go back to the leadership to make sure that this conflict as they say. and then the group of well powers are due to begin today talks in baghdad there were tyrone's nuclear activities now that the

u.n. nuclear watchdog said to deal with close to the inspections of the iranian military sites when you know weapons might be developed this might that's washington says it won't let up the pressure on iran as the senate needs to expand sanctions on the country u.s. congressman and he's seen it says to his own the iranian issue washington needs to change its approach. actions are another form of warfare or sanctions are just a step away from shooting we're being told we should have any contact with them we're being told that we shouldn't be negotiating with them we're being told. to get ready for war or thirty thirty thirty all of that is wrong in the chair what we need to do is to have direct negotiations thirty six we need to be talking with the union. and we need to stop this very glorious notion that somehow we can settle our differences with the. iran through war we have to

believe that peace is possible what we have is a type of thinking coming out of washington that says wars inevitable when you say wars inevitable you actually create a war a self-fulfilling prophecy so you get war we wonder why do we have war because people think in terms of war. and you can hear more from a u.s. congressman dennis kucinich in just over an hour's time here dotty. now more stories on our website at r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's there right now maybe china the u.s. congress exposes counterfeit electronic parts by age old nation corporations and i can enforce it. as a potential threat to security. and read about the controversy over the russian opponents plans to otay a bill to enforce a tough a punishment sanctions protests or other stories are going to dot com and then

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question on the dot com. the conflict in syria is continuing to ferment trouble across its border in neighboring lebanon where they've been fresh protests becomes a syrian rebels reportedly kidnapped thirteen lebanese shia muslims returning from a pilgrimage recent clashes between pro and anti i said supporters and have left a dozen dead over the past few days from the ocean as more the roster signs of the recent violence here every way as you can see. buildings behind me by a blackened walls garbage we were told that there's been some burned cars here but they've been taken away and police and the army have cordoned off the area and on patrol here twenty four hours to prevent further escalation of violence this recent round of the clashes here in lebanon was triggered by the death of a prominent lebanese and ardent opponent of president bashar al assad he and his

companion were apparently showed. by army troops at the checkpoint in the northern part of the country feel sorties here in lebanon have been very quick to react and investigation is right now and to go in more than twenty soldiers and officers have been detained for interrogation about sunni politicians happened when he called for prime minister and on the come on the to resign and they also want the death penalty for those responsible for what they see as an assisted nation similar fight interrupted earlier this month in the northern city of tripoli claiming twelve lives and they spin disturbance at the border with syria recently its heart lies just how divided the lebanese society is while the country is trying to remain neutral some accuse the lebanese army of cooperating with assad regime while all this point fingers at lebanon sunni population saying they are based in the syrian opposition by providing it with all kind of support everything they need including

weapons well levanon is actually known as one of if not the most tolerant or a punk. different fashions have point system for years but this recent incident obviously reveals just how fragile the stability is and fears are growing right now that this situation may well lebanon's own religious tensions. reporting from there where political analyst and journalist mona shopping says western powers may be providing in direct support to terrorists which could destabilize the entire region there are some serious internal divisions not necessarily about who supports against it's more internal divisions between a group that is the south how do you to group what's called the fourteenth march group that wants to overthrow the government because the government has taken a position a neutral position on the situation in syria the ironic thing is that al-qaeda and the western powers are seem to be in the same group that is defying the lebanese

authorities i mean this is this is a very peculiar situation and i think that many european and american allies are warning that this is a situation that the. western powers cannot sustain because these groups these islamic fundamentalists group some of them are affiliated to the movement or they are supporters of al qaeda openly i mean no one can actually deny that and at the same time the united states and the was impossible at the fourteenth march coalition which is really very close to. supporting al qaida and we have interviewed many of these people and they have openly supported the movement. well some other international news in brief for you now violence broke out at a political rally in pakistan after a gunman opened fire on protesters at least nine people were killed and more than thirty wounded in shootouts in the city of karachi following beans and

demonstrators torched dozens of vehicles and also set shops ablaze hundreds have died in politically motivated attacks in a city which is often targeted by taliban and al-qaeda militants. a bomb has been your crown about argentina's capital data for a former colombian president's visit to the country explosives were hidden in the one of the theater where. i was sure due to the speech before to say the bomb was designed to be treated remotely would be a crackdown on drug smugglers during his two terms as colombia raising suspicions that he might have been involved but. firefighters rescued around six hundred people after a blaze ravaged a high rise office building in mexico city twenty people suffered carbon monoxide poisoning with one person being treated for serious burns seven people were evacuated from the roof by helicopter initial information from the emergency

services suggests an electrical fault in the basement ran into the. south america's strained ties with the u.s. come under scrutiny and latest installment of sanjay's show here not the world's top whistleblower asks the president of ecuador korea what role wiki leaks played in the decision to expel washington some bastard from the country. kicked out the u.s. ambassador to ecuador as a result of we hear its publication of cables why did you kick her out but then i thought she was a woman totally against down government a woman of extreme right wing views that he still lived in the cold war the nineteenth sixty's where we can learn what broke the camel's back the last straw was wiki leaks where she wrote her own ecuadorian contacts told her that the chief of the national police was corrupt and that surely i had given him that post

knowing he was corrupt so that i could control him so john the lady embassador was called and asked to give an explanation loftiness insolence imperial as she puts on that she said she had nothing to account for getting silica sue me to say some months ago after almost a year of inquiry commander hurtado. accused in a wiki leaks cable by the ambassador was found not guilty of all charges in australian shows and once again intentioned u.s. officials got you to the ill will towards progressive governments that are seeking change my report on anything groundless america based purely on rumors and gossip you have provided by their contacts who are usually people in opposition to our government. and you can watch over latest episode of genocide a show in ten minutes time here r.t.

. the latest from our business desk now with marina so what you have for us the salary. hi carol well is the only one trading right now and stocks are plummeting but this shouldn't come as a surprise really after the downgrade of japan by fitch ratings in fact the agency criticize the government there for taking the so-called leisure only approach to solving the country's a spiraling debt if the government doesn't take action then further downgrades could follow let's take a look at the latest figures this hour both the nikkei and the hang seng are extending their losses this hour the losing over one and a half percent and other concerns include europe's problems as well as the spring all of the negative economic data in the region the japanese a government has said that there's been a disappointing x one in performance including a dip in shipments to time which resulted in a bigger trade deficit for the month of april also in china the world bank has now

caught the country's growth outlook for the c.s.o. not very optimistic there known to the u.s. the markets there are close and we're about to take a look at the picture from tuesday it always has a major effect on the markets over the following day as you can see there it's a flat picture and what was pretty much other than that was volatility late into the session we had most of the housing data which lifted the housing and the banking stocks bottomed weakness in materials and energy says offset that sentiment resulted in the figures that you see here on the screen there here in russia it's now an hour ahead of the opening bell on tuesday the markets ended on a high note this find it being a pretty much a trade in session as you can see both the artist and m i six had a third of the percent that they now oil which always has a severe back on the russian economy prices are headed south for a second day and that's up to briefly escaping a six day losing streak and this comes on the back of a wrong decision that the united nations as well as the allies in the u.s.

stockpiles are always sends to drive prices lower currencies figure remains apps. the on change the figures are exactly the same it's lower against the dollar and when it comes to the point gained against all my differences on tuesday of that it's a guest on the up next hour now and other news the matter of one that's on breaks for emerging nations emerging markets says that so much emphasis is placed on the fate of greece he was speaking of london forum and jim o'neill from goldman sachs said that those my growth and those of markets including brazil russia india and china of course is far more critical for global economic health. and the concept of the european crisis for example. fond of saying the china is the economic equivalent of another greece every eleven and a half weeks so you could wipe greece off the map and within weeks china's created another one last year the combined g.d.p.

of the four brics increased by about two point one trillion dollars so the equivalent of creating another italy every fifteen months so it has been and it remains the single most important global economic story of our generation. well one of those countries are also the markets full of and here they have the figures from the ok thanks that were in there with us you again next hour. about the latest edition of it you're in a sundress program harrod artie's just moments away before that underneath the headlines stating. the.

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