it seems choosing a replacement for ousted president mubarak and it concerns the revolution is being directed by stagnant candidates and hard line military rulers. break through or break down iran's nuclear program in focus and under pressure again with a new round of negotiations between tehran and the west. you leaders get together in brussels to dine and discuss starvation for the eurozone with many thinking it's time austerity came off the menu. for pm in moscow i met good to have you with us here on r t our top story two days

of voting underway for a gyptian as they desired on a president to replace hosni mubarak toppled from power last year but it's already been marred by bloodshed with a policeman shot dead outside a polling station in the capital cairo as for the vote itself some who took to talk earlier square to bring change say none of the candidates represent the revolution as are his policy reports. they staged down the police and the military and they won but now they stand internet uncertain future and it's far from egypt's revolution evie's unfolding the trump card i'm sure to the marches where life they would think that this is all it is just no one shot this point in actions they wanted to feed them now monthly must secure that takes place when people who don't even have the right to be listened in the big square how can they be sometimes we say in the conflict. it took my m. and other b. gyptian youth just eighteen days to talk to the dictator heating oil and for nearly fifty six years. but they haven't been able to come up with

a single compelling candidate in the country's first post mubarak presidential elections since the front runners included i'm a looser insider former egyptian foreign minister and hit of the arab league abdel moneim of doom for top former brotherhood leader current physician and long time and to 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 islamist candidates means the islamist voters split although on foreign policy issues they're united. in constant believe that the two of them. try to improve the relations but on the expense of egypt's relations was the last of. them are going to try to improve the relations was israel. i believe it's going to get more. chances are high that egyptians will vote in an

islamist president but they support his no we near what it was in recent parliamentary elections. was egypt tough on. civil servants have picked up a suit. that said the state is challenging. many of the thirteen candidates it's expected to top fifty six making it one of. the 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 hassan the far disagrees i mean i think. they thought it would be very very violent and there would be other bloodshed i think that is very much aware that there's been little about this election it's been predictable and no matter who wins the new egypt is likely to look and not my. 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 fish protests. team. egyptian voters concerned over the transparency of the poll they want guarantees the military rulers will respect the results when cairo based observer says some candidates have been playing dirty to secure more votes this election. was fear some people are scared of the islamists and so they vote for anybody who will be able to stand again is that is the real problem is what happens outside the polling stations like you know some groups especially. trying to use exploit those ignore those you know i have forty percent of the egyptian population below poverty line i have some people who. are sent to and sometimes you

will find especially. in egypt trying to. mobilize people to vote in a particular way in return for some food some money. if you don't vote. candidate you will go to hell so this is the real fear that we have here is the many policeman. in lebanon the conflicting in the conflict in neighboring syria is increasing violence and tension between supporters and opponents of president assad clashes left a dozen people dead in lebanon in the past week alone. has the latest. i an overnight of street protests in beirut i was sparked when thirteen lebanese pilgrims were kidnapped in syria apparently by groups linked to the syrian rebels the lebanese capital witnessed what it hadn't seen in years is who i am not about

here but i'm moving to a real war between sunni and shia muslims it is at least what i see in the last day of. the reason the spillover from the chaos in neighboring syria shia muslims here generally support syria's president assad while most sunni's favor the rebels likewise lebanon's ruling coalition led by the powerful share his bola is process while the opposition backs the uprising the situation is getting worse obviously in the region and this is having a spillover effect here in lebanon and where we're having to cope with the consequences of that there's also internal tension that's increasing there's a large flow of refugees and there's a lot of instability all around us. some though believe the problems in lebanon and tony down to the crisis in syria. will observers like spanish journalist thomas alcove editor says they are a symptom of a deep divide that's long bubbled under the surface but there's not

a does there were many unresolved issues after the one nine hundred seventy five one hundred ninety seven war like religious division in the authorities didn't support it and now they're discovering it again and they kept the situation of instability for many years and that's a good ground for a new conflict like a spark in a powder keg get out of order and the bad news is the resplendent of power during the cag for the recent history of warfare hand makes sure that and means the political and religious reefed i remain more dangerous bowler more the state of our libyan or no there are so many factions now sunni or shia salafi what's really bad everybody has weapons not only has they may think but everybody in every house and they use them or thought about the shia. sunni neighborhoods exist side by side in central beirut and recent years it's been a stable peaceful arrangement but the syria in fact means fear has now greet them feel over it turn into a deadly bloody past which residents here desperately hope to avoid but doing it is

nothing that there's nothing to do but it takes all what's happening in the region at the moment it's just but then you said earlier against violence and level of this summit to feed her the whole active part that would be cool if it was still happening and how much as seventy remembers all the major conflicts more than lebanon has gone through and as a chilling full cost of all the latest trouble surely you back what i see no reminds me of the nineteen eighty two in two thousand and six israeli wars and the one nine hundred seventy five civil war and the two thousand and eight political uprising here but that i didn't think i'd witnessed yet another conflict in my life . but it seems a worse case scenario could be getting more and more likely this neighborhood in beirut where the violence started is known as the to consider the deep meaning new roads many fear this road may lead the country to civil war. marry for

nationality beirut lebanon. russia's been trying to mediate a peaceful solution to the regional crisis and wants foreign forces to stop fueling the flames of violence and come clean about their motives. there knew was that there was there's a real threat that the syrian conflict could spill into lebanon when due to its history ethnic and religious makeup could turn out badly it's a pity the divisions are being artificially stood up between the shia and sunni populations the aim of the syrian opposition and loose fine and so you know make it from abroad is obvious to me to disrupt peace plan grossly violates un security council resolutions those behind it all mostly see what they want whether they're ready to assist in ending the violence and stop the national or if there's a hidden agenda they're following a good regime change in syria. but that's coming up later in the program students in canada detained for demonstrating the protesters keep filling the streets despite heavy handed policing which led to more than three hundred arrests we report on the mass student right back over still ahead. but first

iran hoping to get minced the world powers its nuclear program serves a peaceful purpose and isn't about making bombs a new round of talks started in baghdad with more pressure on terror and to stop higher grade uranium enrichment which it's feared it could put to military use iran has already tried to ease worsening relations by agreeing in principle to new u.n. inspections of the sites that are in suspected of possible involvement in any atomic weapons program washington says they'll be no easing of the heat on terror on though with fresh u.s. sanctions in just over a month targeting their country's oil and nuclear sectors and international trade links meanwhile the russian built nuclear power plant in bush era of course for operation at full capacity up till now the facility aimed exclusively at generating electricity has been working at about seventy five percent output for more on this we go to nile bowie and independent writer and phone photo journalist based in kuala lumpur malaysia so with iran tentatively agreeing to allow a new u.n.

inspections do you think the west should make reciprocal gestures towards terrine and ease its tough stance. thanks for having me on the ship thirdly certainly thinks so given the fact that there is no factual basis for crosswinds action sanctions on iran and that's if you important to recognize as well that there is a shadow war being waged against iran a couple weeks ago seymour hersh's leaves an article in the new yorker we're talking about the iranian dissident group the mujahideen college of which were u.s. state department was a terrorist organization constrained in. trained by the us trained by mistah and so it was been implicated in things like the nations of the iranian nuclear scientists the virus of intolerance visibility computers back so i think i think there is certainly no basis for these sanctions to be applied and look at

look at this exploded iran if iran is any it's surrounded by u.s. military installations i mean who is threatening who here honestly i think is a sure of good will of the five plus one ought to drop these economic sanctions because they're they're affecting a lot of the iranian people and iranian nationals abroad i see it every day. do you think that outside pressure can be effective against iran in resolving this crisis. well perhaps perhaps i think i think the ayatollah was ruling iran and i think they're afraid of the the social unrest that comes with economic sanctions and inflation and things like that and i think right now in iran conditions are ripe for kind of a color revolution. a green revolution reviving that if you will and believe me you'll have the us civil society groups the national endowment for democracy you'll

have soros open society institute all over it. with washington saying they'll be no let up on prob the pressure on terror ron and the senate in the u.s. back in proposals for more sanctions against the republic do you think that the u.s. is looking for a compromise. i don't really think the if you look at what the the western powers are doing in the middle east basically attempting to restructure it i mean we generally ignore these reports of intelligence agencies forming different rebel groups in syria and i will swear so i don't really think the program here is crisis or version but for a second i just want to talk about the factual basis behind iran's nuclear program is not a weapons program there is an individual by the name and in bastion was the former u.s. nuclear weapons program director earlier this year he sent a open letter to bravo obama basically explained the fact that the iranians use gas

based a centrifuge use your product of their centrifuges would be out of gas hexafluoride now in order to make a weapon out of that you have to convert gas to a metal doing so it's very it's very dangerous takes years it's never been done here on any resulting weapon you get from that kind of procedure with yield about a kill it on a conventional explosive so it's entirely impractical for the iranians to weaponize for a grammy is and i think if they are open about the fact that they're developing you know medical isotopes for research and things like that i think if they're open with the i.a.e.a. and the u.n. is absolutely no justification for. pressure and these economic sanctions that are really hurting people the last question there are many nations dependent on iranian crude oil including some countries including greece and some of its neighbors including turkey with and big economies even like india do you think there's enough understanding among those backing the sanctions of the wider impact that they could

have. hard to say but given the situation in europe i think i think it's a pretty substantially better or a bad idea of what i think the economic sanctions on iran have were to benefit the g.c.c. . persian gulf monarchies do you have suppliers you need purchasers such as. you have leading book now who is of. clients of the saudi royal family in saudi arabian oil so basically the the new g.c.c. alliance. the wine. the extensions all right nile bow you joining us from kuala lumpur malaysia thanks for your time. anger and canada's plan college fee hikes has brought tens of thousands out in protest again the mass montreal demonstration marks one hundred days since the rallies started quebec's government passed an emergency law to try and curb the protests making it

tougher to organize gatherings and opposing strict punishments but the moves further in a range students leading to violent clashes with police with more than three hundred arrested sunday alone quebec students representative martine david and things the government may be waking things worse. try to understand why is the guy friends going far dispell it actually. restraint a lot of larry if you're pretty you know the expression the manifestation everybody have to have this so it's very difficult and i was this in our i phones now because they know what's where is this bill so they are 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 back in the city of much else and actually we see. several different situation going on. it's friday

so i think we're ok for the government and we know it's trying. to make sure it's got. here leaders will have an informal dinner later in brussels but the main chorus will undoubtedly be the euro zone's crippling debt crisis is growing believe the austerity drive or heralded by france and germany may have backfired sending weaker countries into a spiral of decline europe's appetite me of moving away from austerity with greece on the brink of leaving the euro zone while spain iraq by protest against further cuts france's president along wants a strategy to shift to growth something germany's reluctant to agree with most sides are searching for a compromise ahead of what could be a decisive second greek election in june belgian and an effing things heroes oh needs to learn to balance cuts with growth prospects. grow there's no i love everybody's in favor of love everybody in favor of growth but how to bring it about

out on the one hand you need austerity because all budgets are blow to that already for a long time many countries have too much debt on the other hand we have to be stalled competitiveness make sure that and. set up companies again and then that the economy starts growing again but we need we need lower taxation we need competitiveness and all these things these things we have to do and really in a few years time because you know now we are in a process of internal devaluation we're not developed waiting a currency but we are developing countries and that's a very hard process that may take years but the political and 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 in part of the inside. but we also see is

a disagreement between paris and berlin and that is really in the heart of the u.s.o. if if if germany and france do not agree on the line to take then do you is really in trouble. because what you're preach is a golden rule that germany could be somehow failing to follow ortiz peter all of our reports on how berlin is applying its own belt tightening policies the merkel message to europe is clear that growth by structural reform is important and necessary but a debt ridden growth would join the revive a crisis we don't want that and will not do that. so all sturdy 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 were caught over ten billion euro dollar a 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 cuts impossible but most of the promise savings just weren't made. this will make interesting reading for the heads of the twenty five year a-p. in union member states who signed up to a fiscal pact in march obliging them to show great it fiscal discipline pact championed by the chief cheerleader of austerity chancellor angela merkel as these are missing it looks as if the german government has relaxed a bit while at the same time telling others to work hard 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

tax payers 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. building blocks the government should take the good spring cleaning tradition and the blood 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 the rest of the proposed eleven billion euro that it's only those countries posting negative growth that need to trim their spending but the reason

why the cuts are not as deep 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 length and the d.d.s. 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 and rome when her party's policies can't even win over the people who sold off peter all of the r.t. germany. a russian antonov thirty plane with twenty three people aboard as crash landed in the czech republic injuring seven the military aircraft caught fire at an air base near prague reports citing russian defense ministry sources suggest the plane's front wheels may not have lowered fully on the landing all the injured are thought to be russian military personnel one in serious condition. know the business does kitty pilbeam with us so clearly are we still working out a sea of red across the big board we are indeed we are experiencing sharp losses from asia europe and indeed here in moscow so we'll get right to the figures now have a look at the l.c.s. on the my sites and see how they're performing at this hour and i actually can see they are indeed by now declining or prices are playing at that paul we know it's

such a massive factor here in russia for the market is that declining for a second day now on top of that the russian government has decided not to privatized its stake in a number of energy companies so all of this is playing its part got the r.t.s. that over three and a whole percent down in the mice actually behind the reapers sense let's go to the stocks and see how they're performing at this hour elspeth's is down nearly full has now russian power generators and our s.k. across hydro opposing significant losses as you can see just that now both of these funds were listed as the state companies that will now not be privatized as you can see they look at us hi john i mean we said no sent down last moving or we'll have a look at how the european markets are performing because we know the russian markets very much take the lead of the common currency right up there as we can see that is indeed dropping so many factors going on in europe at the moment one twenty six sixty starts down another day as well as not going to see on the dax just

a number of factors going on we did have the greek prime minister saying that preparations are being met you should greece leave the euro zone that's really rattled the markets today he was also talking about the cost of it as well talking about inflation rate spirals to be how it's very worrying indeed for investors today and also worth a mention that there is a meeting going on later today between the european union and leaders that's set to discuss jobs and growth as well as potential euro bonds ok i'm moving on we'll have a look at those all important oil prices. see how that playing into marcus thanks very much explain why we're looking at large losses here in moscow today there's a number of factors going on they are talking for a second day i was going to run a green access to the united nations nuclear inspections outspan is possible as well as u.s. stockpiles as well continuing to increase i came out talking about the man who coined the term the brics he is of course to describe emerging markets like even

too much emphasis is being played into the fate of grace speaking at the bt base london forum jim o'neill from goldman sachs so the growth in those markets which include brazil russia india and china is far more critical for the global economic health of. the concept of the european crisis for example. fond of saying that china creates the economic equivalent of another greece every eleven and a half weeks you could watch greece. come within eleven weeks john has created another one last year the combined g.d.p. of the four brics increase by about two point one trillion dollars so the equivalent of creating a little italy every fifteen months so it has been an every american is the single most important global economic story of our generation. let's talk about facebook because this story is continuing to intrigue of the markets and it's sort of like

a blame game at the moment as to why the stock didn't perform as many as hoped that it would do so now the financial regulator is there now in the firing line that's saying that issues surrounding the way the public offering was promoted should be reviewed and that's a report that the banks cut their revenue for calls for the social network in the days before the offering with out public disclosing this information and that's the problem now investors have already filed a lawsuit against facebook and it's on the right is for violating security laws now in addition to all this assuming the now second well finding it was negligent in the handling of all just all facebook which of course led to the losses that now says in the company hospitals almost six of them in this three trading sessions so. the u.s. markets just over an hour's time to see how face it gets on on its fourth trading day. for it i thank you very much for that update. well surely we'll look at the

middle east tension and examine ways to resolve conflicts in the region but first a recap of our top stories here with us.

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