egyptians choosing a replacement for i was good president mubarak amid concerns the revolution is being directed by stagnant candidates and hardline military rulers. break through or break down iran's nuclear program in progress and under pressure again with a new round of negotiations between tehran and the west. you leaders gather in brussels to dine in discuss salvation for the euro zone with many thinking it's time austerity came off that made. six pm in moscow i met très a good to have you with us here on r t our top story two days of voting underway

for in gyptian says 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 represents the revolution as artie's policy or 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 chanters 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 the big square how can they really support the east and 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 include a moose or insider for major to foreign minister and hit of the arab league abdel more name of the four top former brotherhood leader 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 islamised 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 relation bookmark 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 far from. simple surveys of picked up the so. that said the state is challenging to. many of the thirteen candidates is expected to top fifty six making a run for. 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 with least pull the strings from a far but dr hassan the far disagrees a military coup has to be executed and if it is done they thought it would be very very violent and there will be other thought of bloodshed and i think there 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 and 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. egyptian voters worried over the transparency of the poll they want guarantees that the military rulers will respect the results one kyra based observer says some candidates have been playing dirty to get more votes . this election. was feel some people are scared of the islamists and so they vote for anybody who will be able to stand again this is the real problem is what happens outside the polling stations like you know some . especially islamic. trying to use and 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 the islamic. 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 police. in lebanon conflict in neighboring syria is increasing violence in tension between supporters and opponents of president assad clashes left a dozen dead there in the past week alone were if you know she has the latest from the lebanese capital. and overnight of street protests in beirut. it 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 and 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 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 local observers like spanish journalist thomas archive editor says they are a symptom of a deep divide that's long bubbled under the surface but it's not it does there were

many unresolved issues after the one nine hundred seventy five one hundred ninety seven war like religious division and the authorities didn't sort it out 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 it and the bad news is the resplendent of power in the cag the recent history of warfare hand makes sure that and means the political and religious refits i remain more dangerous bowler more left out of my libyan or no there are so many factions now sunni shia salafi what's really bad everybody has weapons not only has belarus 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 the syria effect 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 it's just but then you support the against violence and level of this some of the people have to leave but that would be cool if it was still happening and how mud is seventy he remembers all the major conflicts more than lebanon has gone through and has 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 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. i don't know what was that there was there's a real threat for the syrian conflict could spill into lebanon where due to its history ethnic and religious makeup could turn out badly it's a pity the divisions are being artificially stirred up between the shia and sunni populations the aim of the syrian opposition and those financing and arming it from abroad is obvious to me to disrupt kofi annan peace plan or with grossly violates un security council resolutions those behind it must honestly say what they want whether they're ready to assist in ending the violence and start a national dialogue or if there's a hidden agenda they're following aimed at regime change in syria. still to come in the program the students in canada detained for demonstrating protesters continue filling the streets despite heavy handed policing which led to more than three hundred arrests we were bored on the mass student fight back over fees just ahead.

but first iran is hoping to convince world powers its nuclear program serves a peaceful purpose and isn't about making bombs a new round of talks has started in baghdad with more pressure on terror and to stop the higher grade uranium enrichment which it's feared could be put to military use iran's already tried to ease worsening relations by tentatively agreeing to new un inspections of sites suspected of involvement in atomic weapons development washington says they'll be no easing on the heat into iran fresh american sanctions are expected to hit in just over a month targeting the country's oil nuclear sectors as well as international trade links independent photojournalist niall bowie says iran is a long way from developing nuclear weapons. it's not a weapons program there is the individual and anything to bastion he's the former are you going to nuclear weapons program director earlier this year he sent a letter to bravo obama basically explained the fact that the iranians use gas

space center if you do still build your products of your sea futures would be of gas taxes going forward to make a weapon out of that you have to convert our gas to metal doing so it's very it's very dangerous takes years it's never been done here on it will do when you get it from that procedure with yield about a chill a tonne of condition with explosives so it's entirely impractical for the iranians to work with and that is their program it is and i think if they are open about the fact that they are developing getting medical isotopes for research and things like their own i think if they're open with the i.a.e.a. and the un is you know just an issue for. pressure and these economic sanctions that are really hurting people. right now in iran conditions are ripe for a kind of a color revolution with a degree revolution reviving that if you will and believe me you'll have the us

civil society groups a lot of the national endowment for democracy soros open society institute all over it. later on r t we talk with us congressman dennis because senator 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. we are opinion matters to us and we really like to know your take on the stories we're covering today we ask what does the nuclear deal between iran and the red and the west really boil down to more than half think it means nothing as it would prevent a strike against iran nearly a quarter saying it's the last chance to stop war the middle east eleven percent think it means iran desperately needs the sanctions lifted and if you consider this to be a trip by to run to proceed with building obama dot com and have your say. anger at candidates plan college fee hikes has brought tens of thousands out in protest again. montreal demonstrations mark a hundred days since the rallies first started quebec's government passed an emergency law to try curbing the protests making it tougher to organize gatherings and impose strict punishments but the move further in

a range of the students leading to violent clashes with police and more than three hundred arrests sunday alone students representative martini to shut down thinks the government may be making things worse. they're sad ways the government going far this balance that. restraint a lot of hilarity the ability of expression leader with manifestation to be ready to i see asian so it's very difficult and i was it isn't are opposed now because they know what's where and this bill so they are opposed to this new bill that the government passes and i actually didn't step back from all of this a demonstration that has been going on the government is trying to make the social piece back in the city of montreal but actually we see. several demonstrations going on since a year since friday so i think it's not working for the government and we'll be

trying to go back to the table leadership to make sure that this conflict as and then. if you can get the latest updates on the ongoing protests and catch it on our web site. plenty more there for you right now including this the dangers of the afghan conflict extending beyond the battlefield find out how getting rid of the waste of war could trigger a lifelong health problems plus a crackdown on the luxury austerity behind the wheel as cash strapped elite investigates the owners of top range sports cars seemed to see where their money came from tells. you leaders will gather for an informal dinner later in brussels but the main course was undoubtedly be the euro zone's crippling debt crisis

a growing belief that the austerity driver heralded by france and germany has backfired sending weaker countries into a spiral of decline europe's appetite is moving away from austerity though with greece on the brink of leaving the eurozone and spain iraq by protests against more cuts reports a single currency member states are preparing to back up plans for the consequences of a greek exit france's president francois hollande wants the strategy to shift to growth something germany's reluctant to agree with so far both sides have to reach a compromise ahead of what could be a second and decisive greek election in june the belgian m.e.p. durkin epping thinks the eurozone needs to learn to balance cuts with gross profit 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 on the one hand you need those terribly because our budgets are blow to that already for a long time many countries have too much debt on the other hand we have to be still competitiveness to make sure that and. set up companies again then that the economy

starts growing again but we need to put in a ship we need to know what to. 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 develop 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 and part of the uncertainty that 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 to you is

really in trouble practice what you preach is a golden rule that germany could be failing to follow artie's peter all of our reports on how berlin is applying its own belt tightening policies the merkel message to your is clear that girls by structural reform is important and necessary but a debt ridden growth would only revive a crisis with one doubt it 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 ten that they would cut over ten billion euro 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 the promised 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 i'm with him 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 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 for apple 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 goods bring cleaning tradition in 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 length at 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 in 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 engine of thirty plane with twenty three people aboard as crash landed in the czech republic injuring six people the military aircraft caught fire at an air base near prague according to the russian defense ministry the plane's nose wheel collapsed on the landing all of the injured thought to be russian military personnel with one in serious condition the craft was on an inspection flight under an agreement between nato and former warsaw pact countries allowing the surveillance of military facilities and other territories as a confidence building measure. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe five 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 faizabad a search and rescue operation 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 was found at a future in buenos aires

a day before colombia's former president alviro rebate was scheduled to speak there argentine authorities say the explosives were designed to be triggered by a mobile phone rebate 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 a gunman opened fire on a political rally in the city tuesday also wounding thirty it remains unclear who is responsible for the attack on the demonstration organized by nationalists home to several rival political factions and armed violence between them has become commonplace. he joins us now from the business desk so store sharp losses for global equity yeah we're still looking at global. the concerns about greece are really taking that toll if we look at the russian markets now see how they're

trading in the last hour here in moscow and declining all price is also playing that part we've also got on top of that the russian government has decided not to privatizing state and a number of the energy companies right there we've got the artist over three and a half percent down the mines it's around three percent in negative territory this is going to quick snapshot of how the movers and shakers are performing spags had a challenging day over four per cent down power generators m.r.s.a. and ross hydro posting significant losses you can see just that both the. companies that will be privatized now to discuss all this in more detail i'm not going by maxine charging calls head of. capital hello to you so can you explain the shop losses why is russia doing worse than the rest of europe. well it's. typical for also these days some in the russia is so cold but the markets meaning that you know both you with these multiply it in the case so if you look across

europe or sanctions the stocks i don't own two percent in the eastern europe to which we're more related in the way don't more than that so roughly as often happens in the case we actually is doing crew in but they swear doing better on good days and i've had it's about growth that the u.s. and china they've all made noises about producing gripe is this in any way encouraging. of course yeah definitely it's encouraging because we know russia is a major export of nature resources and the coming growth of global economic growth especially in places like china is paramount for success of the russian story. and what about a private investor what should they be doing right now but should they be taking money out of all the volatility all getting out of. the bill so probably stay way for the time being an essentially it's a very difficult market to trade even for professional experience straightest in

the bank so i think as long as this will tilt the states was us and that's probably would be the case well into the election season and greece in france draws a stay way if i were a private investor like i said let's talk about greece leaving the bad if that was to happen could that possibly be a good thing. yes i. fully support the idea that the so-called gregg's is their exit of greece from the euro would be a very positive for the markets it removes the finks which markets to fear. uncertainty and greece so as long as the european community able to prove that it has shouldered for war i think that the more kids could actually recover especially food coincide was a collective action on the taken by european central bank by us all the governments

in the role to actually address deficiencies in the economist to make sure that you know the domino effect doesn't spread from greece or europe so long as. i think you know they'll be roughly the board to move the market for no. go ahead of actually sells your capital thank you very much dave your time today we're going to check out some more markets here we're going to take a look at the us and see how they're performing and they are indeed on the downside as we can see just the down jones only one percent down the nasdaq around nine ten percent and negative territory so really feeding through all the present isn't coming from the euro zone today without further ado let's see how the european markets are performing in the second part of the day the folksy down one point eight percent the dax around the say we had some comments earlier from the greek prime minister the former one he was saying that there's already preparations in place for greece to exit the eurozone ok and very obviously have

a common currency is performing that one twenty six sixty nine so it's dropping slightly the ruble since performers in today's trading session declined to get to us and if we move forward and see those all important oil prices i did mention the fact that they are dropping a for a second day that's really taking its toll on the russian market as we can see there but lights weighs around ninety one and a half dollars. on the bread's around one hundred seven on a haul so that is the markets today next how much of the closing figures for the boston market all right thanks very much kitty we can look forward to that. well coming up shortly we'll take a look at middle eastern tension and examine ways to resolve conflicts in the region but first a recap of our top stories. for

sure is that so much money in which of course he was on a long term security of nato many critical roles that summit in chicago this military alliance decided many things in principle like ending the occupation of the. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada.