egyptians choosing a replacement for the ousted president mubarak in mid concerns the revolutions being derailed by stagnant candidates and hardline 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. the leaders gather in brussels to diet and discuss salvation for the eurozone with many believing it's time austerity came off the menu. in business we hear from the man who coined the term the brakes and he says forget about europe the imagine markets all the. time a couple of the details and that's at.

five pm in moscow i'm at a good to have you with us here on r t our top story two days of voting under way for egyptians as they decide on a president to replace hosni mubarak who was ousted from power last year but it's already been marred by bloodshed with one policeman shot dead outside a polling station in cairo as for the vote itself some who took to tahrir square to bring change say none of the candidates represent the resolution as artie's paulus leader reports. they stayed down the police and the military and they won but now they're staring into an answer in 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 all it is just no one chanted for elections they wanted to free them now there's a monthly massacre that takes place when people protest we don't even have the right to be listened in

a big square how can they really surprise in the fall of what. it took my arm and other egyptian youth just eighteen days to topple a dictator who'd been in power for nearly thirty 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 head of the arab league abdel moneim of doing four to form a brotherhood major cairo 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 islamized candidates means the islamist vote is split although on foreign policy issues they're united. in constant believe that the two of them. try to improve the relation bookmarked on the expense of egypt's relations was the

us and. 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 this support is no we near what it was in recent parliamentary elections because egypt are for. example surveys of picked up the surge. that said the strongest challenger to. many of the thirteen candidates is expected to top fifty six making it one of the. highly likely but the delays are making egyptians time and again the ruling generals if don't 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 it has to be excluded and if it is then they thought it would be very very violent and there would be other thought of

bloodshed and i think there is very much a way out 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 not 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 here our team. gyptian voters worried over the transparency of the poll they want guarantees the military rulers will respect the results one cairo based observer says some candidates have been playing dirty to secure more votes. this election again was feel some people are scared of the islamists and so they vote for anybody who would be able to stand again is that was the real problem is what happens outside the polling stations like you know some groups especially islamic. 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. percent illiterate and sometimes you will find especially the islamic. called the veiled light in egypt trying to. mobilize people to vote in a particular way in return for some foodstuff 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 completion of. meanwhile in lebanon the kind of the conflict in neighboring syria is increasing violence and tension between supporters and opponents of president assad clashes have left a dozen dead there in the last week alone artie's maria has the latest from beirut . 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 as who i am not about here but are moving to a real war between sunni and shia muslims this is at least what i see in the last day. 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 calling led by the powerful share hezbollah is process while the opposition backs the uprising 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 focal observers like spanish journalist thomas alcove etal 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 nine hundred seventy five one thousand nine hundred seventy war like religious division and the authorities didn't sort it out and now they're discovering it again and they kept this 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 it 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 refits i remain more dangerous though or more the start of our liberal know there are so many factions now sunni or shia salafi what's really bad everybody has weapons not only hezbollah 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 in recent years it's been

a stable peaceful arrangement but this syria in fact means here has now groups 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 my sisters but then you support the against the violence in lebanon to some of the people you have to leave but 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 sure there are 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 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 in the region with the country's foreign minister giving a clear call to foreign forces to stop fueling the violence and come clean about their motives. there knew that there was this 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 financing you know make it from abroad is obvious to me to disrupt kofi annan peace plan grossly violates un security council resolutions those behind it must almost leave see what they want whether they are ready to assist in ending the violence and starts a national dialogue or if there's a hidden agenda they're following and aimed at regime change in syria. let's stay

with us here on our team still to come students in canada detained for demonstrating protesters continue filling the streets despite heavy handed policing that led to more than three hundred arrests we report on the mass shooting right back over fees still to come. but first iran hoping to convince world powers its nuclear program serves a peaceful purpose and isn't about building bombs a new round of talks started in baghdad with more pressure on tehran to stop the higher grade enrichment uranium enrichment it's feared could be put to military use iran has already tried to ease worsening relations by agreeing in principle to meet me un inspections of sites suspected of involvement with atomic weapons development washington says they'll be you know an easing of the heat on terror ran with fresh american sanctions at just over a month targeting the country's oil and nuclear sectors and international trade links independent photojournalists niall bowie says iran is

a long way from developing news. there's not a weapons program there is the individual one infant in bastion was the former if you are its nuclear weapons program director earlier this year he sent a open letter to bravo obama basically he explained the fact that the iranians use gas based center view to steeples your products of their centrifuges would be of gas hexafluoride going forward to make a weapon out of that you have to convert that gas to 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 back a procedure with about a chill a ton of conventional explosives so it's entirely impractical for the iranians to weaponize their program at this point and i think if they are open about the fact that they're developing you know medical isotopes for research and things like them i think if they're open with the i.a.e.a. and the u.n. there's absolutely no justification for continual pressure and these economic

sanctions that are really heard what people right now in iran conditions are ripe for a kind of a color revolution to give the green revolution reviving that if you will and believe me you'll have the u.s. civil society groups a lot of the national endowment for democracy soros open society institute all over it. later on our team we talk to u.s. congressman dennis kucinich who says that to resolve the iranian issue washington needs to change its approach. sanctions are another form of warfare 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 all of that is wrong what we need to do is to have direct negotiations we need to be talking with iran and we need to stop this

vainglorious notion that somehow we can settle our differences with 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 of war a self-fulfilling prophecy so you get war we wonder why do we have war because people think in terms of war. when your opinion really matters to us and we'd like to know what you're thinking today we're asking our online poll what does the nuclear deal between iran and the west really boil down to more than half of you think it means nothing as it will prevent a strike against iran nearly a quarter say it's the last chance to stop a war in the middle east ten percent think it means iran desperately needs oil sanctions to be lifted just if you think it's a trick by tehran to proceed with making a bomb log on to. your city. anger at canada's

plan college fee hikes has brought tens of thousands out in protest again the mass montreal demonstration marking one hundred days since the rallies first started quebec's government passed an emergency law to try and curb the protests making it tougher to organize gatherings and imposing strict punishments but the moves further in a range students leading to violent clashes with police and more than three hundred arrested sunday alone quebec students representative martine days are down thinks the government is making things worse. trying to understand ways the government's going far dispell it actually. restraint a lot of liberty the via video the expression the manifestation in the gravy if you have a suggestion so it's very difficult i was isn't our opponents now because they know what's where and this bill so they are of service to 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 my shelf and actually see. several of the inspiration going on since. since friday so i think it's not working for the government and we know the trying to go back to eighty about leadership to make sure that this conflict as they. can get the latest updates on the ongoing canadian protests on our web site r t dot com and while you're there you can check out these other stories on the dangers of the afghan conflict extending beyond the battlefield find out how disposing of war waste is triggering lifelong health problems plus. the ferrari crackdown austerity behind the wheel is it leaves struggling to make ends meet shakes up luxury car owners all the details that argue that.

you leaders will have an informal dinner later in brussels but the main course will undoubtedly be the euro zone's crippling debt crisis there is growing belief that austerity drive or heralded by france and germany has backfired sending weaker countries into a spiral of decline europe's appetite is moving away from austerity with greece on the brink of leaving the eurozone while spain is rocked by protests against more cuts. french president hollande wants the strategy to shift to growth something germany is where grow reluctant to agree to both sides have to reach a compromise ahead of what could be a decisive second greek election in june belgian m.e.p. dirk yapping thinks the eurozone needs to learn to balance cuts with growth prospects. growth is going to love everybody's in favor of love everybody in favor of growth but how to bring it about and 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 then that the economy starts growing again but we need and to put into a ship we need lower taxation we need competitiveness and all these things these things we have to do only in a few years time because you know now we're in a process of internal devaluation we're not developed waiting a currency but we are developing countries and it'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 eurozone 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 in the heart of the

eurozone if if germany and france do not agree on the line to take then do you is really in trouble. practice what you preach or golden rule that germany is somehow failing to follow as artie's peter all of our reports we look at how berlin is applying its own belt tightening policies. the merkel message here it is clear vox to grow by structural reform is important and necessary but a debt ridden growth would on the revive a crisis were the 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 as the

boomers were young the federal government promised in twenty ten that they would cut 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 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 great it fiscal discipline pact championed by the chief cheerleader of austerity chancellor angela merkel season with him it looks as if the german government has relaxed a bit while at the same time telling orders 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. spending 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 cut 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 under merkel's christie and 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 to the people of athens madrid in rome when her party's policies even win over the people of. peace are all of a jimmy. a russian and thirty plane with twenty three people aboard as crash landed in the czech republic enduring seven military aircraft caught fire at an air base near prague reports citing russian defense ministry sources suggest the planes front wheels may not have lowered fully on the landing all those injured are thought to be russian military personnel with one in serious condition the plane was on an inspection flight in czech airspace under the open skies agreement between nato and former warsaw pact countries and allow surveillance of military facilities of member countries as a confidence building measure. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe. aid workers have been kidnapped by gunmen in northeastern afghanistan two female doctors three afghan translators abducted while traveling on horseback near the city of faisalabad

a search and rescue operation is underway the kidnapping of foreigners has become common in afghanistan since u.s. backed forces toppled the taliban government more than a decade ago. a bomb has been discovered other theater in buenos aires a day before columbia's former president alviro rebate was scheduled to speak the argentine authorities say the explosives were designed to be triggered by a mobile phone was known for taking a tough line on law and order against leftist rebels last week his former interior minister survived an assassination attempt. demonstrators in pakistan of burning vehicles and set shops ablaze in fierce rioting in karate after nine people were shot dead at a protest gunman opened fire on a political rally in the city tuesday wounding thirty yr remains unclear who is responsible for the attack on the demonstration organized by nationalists karachi is home to several rival rival political factions and armed violence between them

has become commonplace. he joins us now with all the latest from the business desk and our market still taking a beating today absolutely about we are looking at a global. concerns that greece will exit the euro zone remains at an all time high as the region's leaders meet in brussels today so let's see how they markets are performing here in moscow and see their reaction to all of this. we can say that it is a losses for the l.c.s. on the mice tech still we've got to climbing all prices while they're playing of that we know how reliable much market is all in those oil prices as well is that we've got news that the russian government has decided not to privatized its stake in a number of energy companies that news is taking its toll so let's get onto the stocks and see how that performing and i've only got just over an hour in el to really change the fortunes and it looks like there was that that is on the back so it goes back down over four percent that m.r.s. terry and ross hydro those two companies were listed as state companies that will

now not be privatized i kind of move on to the ruble with the how the russian currency is performing in today's trading session we've got it down against us on the girl on the common currency right that one twenty six sixty nine blows the sentiments going on i mentioned greece as well accepting that as a possibility and possibility is in raising and that's because the extra prime minister all story is saying that greece is already preparing for the next step which is really got the markets open so he was also talking about inflationary pressures as well taking the tolls if you look at the footsie on the dow's with the help traders in that part of the world braiding reacting to all of that uncertain and they've got to put down one point seven percent the dutch one point three percent down in negative territory this hour a move on to those or prices i did mention they are indeed dropping for a second day now when taking its toll in more go out with the wrong agreeing to let united nations nuclear inspections into the country as was the u.s. stockpiles continuing to climb as well taking its toll. ok now the man who coined

the term the brakes to describe emerging markets things to much emphasis is there in place of the fate of grace now speaking at the london a forum jim o'neill from goldman sachs says growth in those markets which include brazil india and china is follow critical for global economic growth. and the concept of the european crisis for example i'm so fond of saying that china creates the economic equivalent of another greece every eleven and a half weeks so you could wipe greece off the map and within eleven off 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 an every man is the single most important global economic story of our generation. let's talk about facebook because it sets

a dominates of the news was yet again today that about to embark on their fourth trading day now there's lots of blame being pointed so whose fault it is why the why the stock didn't pop so to speak now u.s. regulators they are now saying that there's issues around the way that the stock was promoted now that some reports that the bank cut their revenue for calls for the social network in the days before the offering without publicly disclosing this information and that's the problem this is have already filed a lawsuit against facebook and its underwriters for violating security laws now in addition they're also suing the nasdaq claiming it was negligent in its handling of orders for facebook shares which led to the losses they're saying now shares in the company have lost almost a fifth of their valleys in the region trading sessions now my i must say that the u.s. stock futures are indeed pointing to the downside to have the figures in the next hour fully all right thanks very much kitty for that. well surely we take

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