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egyptians vote for a second day with the state of the dark over what powers the ruling military will ground a new president and whether the winner will respect the people's revolution. both to blame the u.n. slams the syrian regime and the rebels in its latest report on the violence warning that the conflict is getting increasingly militarized and. this is a grenade if you pull this line just like a party popper at christmas latvia's nursery nightmare is nazi sympathizers a film showing off a real wall weapons in a lesson the kindergarten kids. there
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for a good evening from moscow if you just joined us it's nine pm here now you're watching r.t. with me kevin now in our top story the second and final day of voting is underway in egypt to fill the presidential seat there's been vacancies hosni mubarak was forced out over a year ago thirteen candidates are vying for the job but without a new constitution it's not clear how much power the new leader will have or whether the military is even prepared to relinquish any policy. election fever has gripped egypt with a record number of voter turnout expected in these the first properly contested presidential elections in the post-war barak period i'm standing at one of the schools which has been transformed into a voting station and although there is a large number of people arriving here to cast their ballot they numbers have been warped by the number of security personnel one hundred and fifty thousand troops have been deployed with regular and military police patrolling the streets and also
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the entrances to these voting stations now this comes on the back of growing concern that the military will not from a true to its would to hand over power once a new president is announced the other concerns are also the role that these lamas will play in defining egypt's future and here interesting enough the islamists have not fade as well in these elections as they did in the parliamentary elections several months ago this is partly because of poor management of the parliament and also because the islamists went back home they would not to field a candidate for these presidential elections but by and large most egyptians do believe that these polls will be fair and this is despite reports of some election irregularities we're looking at some fourteen thousand judges who have been deployed at just under fourteen thousand polling stations now the voting will continue until late tuesday with the counting expected to finish sometime saturday or sunday at this stage though it seems highly unlikely that any of the candidates
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will receive a fifty percent majority which means that they will need to be a runoff come the middle of next month with a final announcement expected on the twenty first of june in terms of who egypt's next president will be that president will have his hands full he will need to deal with the rampant corruption poverty and unemployment here r t cairo plus. co-founder of the council of trustees of the revolution in egypt it was very good evening thank you for being on the program your organization's being fighting for continued change is the presidential vote a continuation of what began in tahrir square which which names on the ballot represent the revolution as far as you're concerned tonight. kevin owner of moscow i don't know you heard any of that question we have to say
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that the people who wanted to change the regime today is a witness to that carrier missing the good we've got a big sound delay that's all the problem so i'll let you continue when you hear this now. people wanted to change the regime what we see the turn or the turnout is not so bad it's quite decent of course the weather conditions are too hot a lot of people did not want to go in the morning most people go in the evening people feel that this process is credible and i think what happened yesterday everything run smooth more people are going out to cast a vote today. this change is critical to the future of not just egypt but the whole arab nation and the arab world and perhaps if this change of heart and will of this nation will inspire a lot of countries all around the world all right but are you happy with the number of movements i take and what you saying there whether you're just takes over you're coming across pretty positive about it if that is your view are you happy with the
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names that are on those ballot sheets are you happy with the people that are being represented. for. almost everyone yes except for shafi all the state court ruled. not him not running under the new political isolation law which the chief committee of the electoral commission did not take into consideration which is a violation of the ruling he should not be running and he should not be on the ballot but are you happy that the enough choice to small about a choice is being criticized by a number of people in your country do not agree with. what the fact that there are so many candidates that's heart warming because people are at least now not of islam is a former mubarak official of them are war regardless i mean i think the
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fact that the diversity of backgrounds of candidates islamists liberals leftists i think we should celebrate that the problem is not with the candidacy or the process right now let's see how the counting of the ballots will go and that is the most important and critical point right now do you think it will be a fair election or a free election. everything is possible this year and a half i've learned not to predict or project but to try to understand what goes on the counting of the ballots will give us a very good indicator of how each judge is managing his commission and committee if it is going well and if there aren't any wide range violations then this should be a free elections by all means if we see wide range of ballots changing
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or casting of new ballots through the committees after the ballots should have been cast tonight then we will have a problem. however a lot of the revolutionary movements decided that if he wins whether by rigging the elections or not his candidacy is a false one and hence should not become president what about the role of the military here the people want the military to give up power but will create isn't there a danger that that could create a vacuum saying of the generals and of course a major influence on politics in egypt for decades who's going to fill that gap. that's not really a problem the problem is that this they have created a they've mismanaged the country this is the militarized state every head of municipality may get a government is a tired army general who is totally incompetent so i believe anyone can do
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a much better job than they are not to mention that they were cronies of mubarak so they have long moral ground nor skillful competencies so i think we would be better off without them we wish you all the very best thank you for being on the program from cairo been a good co-founder of the council for trustees of the revolution in egypt thank you . we offer the world to your fingertips on our website r.t. dot com some stories there right now you may be interested to check out. why a movie on the assassination of al-qaeda leader is the new vote capturing weapon for the u.s. president's election marketing machine more about that online i love you saw these pictures yesterday but the city with a look again if you haven't meet the real batman there he goes he jumped out of a plane with a camera one above him as well without a parachute and landed in the record books on a public box is none the worse for it though the freefall footage is it r t dot com .
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the syrian regime has come under fire from a new u.n. report claiming both the government and opposition are committing gross human rights violations he claims damascus is responsible for the largest share of violence while rebels are accused of kidnapping civilians and torturing captured soldiers meanwhile amnesty international has slammed the u.n. security council is increasingly fit for purpose and too slow to act on syria will probably dispatched an observer mission to the country where it's estimated around ten thousand people have been killed since march last year author william angle says however that syria must be left alone to determine its own future. significance of the new u.n. report is that for the first time it's a knowledge that there is atrocities on the side of the so-called opposition the
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rebel groups of the jihadists and so forth al-qaeda and the muslim brotherhood forces that are trying to create regime change so to that extent i think it's a step forward that it's not simply a one sided genocide by the assad regime washington is playing a double game on syria i think they are trying at this point damage control they failed massively in the operator. i. had thought they would succeed in about a year ago the momentum of the so-called arab spring has screeched to a halt it's really turned into a sunni versus shia. kind of war throughout the muslim world with saudi and qatari money financing the sunni side of it iranian financing much of the shiite side of it but. the point is it's failed obama doesn't want another military conflict before the november election so he's evidently given the order to backtrack significantly on that as well as around washington has backed off of the libya
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style regime change operation in syria it's time to just let the syrians sort out for themselves what they want for a government in their country coming up on our face disgruntle facebook best snatched up the company's shares in record time and filling a law suit filing rather a lawsuit alleging flotation. but next a kindergartner levy has been dragged into a row over teaching tyranny after toddlers were given a lesson by nazi sympathizers including getting hands on with real war weapons for some it's vital schooling about the country's history but as artie's found out the fear is of nursery age indoctrination. this was described as a lesson of patcher it is in a kindergarten in. fact the man who wore the uniform of a lot of years as sas legion which fought on the nazi german side in the second
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world war one of the outfits even boosts the notorious thunder like symbol moreover they let the three year olds play with real nazi weapons oh this is a grenade if you pull this buying just like a party popper at christmas. despite nazi symbols being outlawed in law to be along with soviet emblems no legal consequences have followed so far the owner of this kindergarden who is also a right wing nationalist party member sees nothing wrong. but it is our history and no way to tell our children who the legionnaires were we see in this kindergarten and i will decide how we'll teach our children our we will make them proud of their country and its warning it won't get it but the incident has sent shock waves across the land this woman asked us to hide her face fearing nationalists could abuse her after the interview she says her family will now have to consider a four year old daughter's future education steps that are teeming with normal it's
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unthinkable things like that must never happen close to children and i'm strongly against it i'm scared if things like that become frequent i'll have to take my daughter from the kindergarten and keep her. on the head of a lot of his anti nazi movement says the incident is not a one off such lessons he claims occur on a regular basis in schools national wide. they usually happen on sixteenth of march known as the country's legion day when former assets fighters marched the streets of riga along with right wing politicians and supporters similar gatherings happen am usually in another baltic state with a difficult history as. a parliament i remember speaking at the european parliament trying to convince deputies not la pierre is a nazi fleet country now i have to admit a great change due to the action of some movement of neo nazi ism grows stronger here from within the youth don't understand the horrors of naziism and easily fall
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into this propaganda. since gaining independence the baltic states have been vocally critical of the soviet period of their history calling it an occupation those who fought against the u.s.s.r. are called freedom fighters by some here even despite the fact they were allied with the genocide. all nazi regime the most murderous in history what concerns many here now is that such lessons of graduate ism in the long run will not teach history but simply breed a future generation of new nazis in the heart of free europe this latest incident has once again shown how divided the large against the side is about its past and while the people here are still trying to determine whether these men were right or wrong many still agree that bringing real weapons to three year old was a major offense at least from a moral point of view. r.t. reporting from reader in latvia world news tonight over five hundred students have been arrested overnight in canada in the latest protest in quebec over higher
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universe jewish and fees the rallies been going on now for over one hundred days quebec's provincial government last week passed emergency legislation in an attempt to end canada's most sustained student demonstrations ever but the moves only further enraged protesters leading to violent clashes with police and hundreds of arrests throughout the week. a u.s. drone strike has killed ten suspected militants in northwest pakistan officials say two missiles hit an insurgent hideout in the north waziristan tribal area it's the second strike there in twenty four hours at least four people were killed on wednesday the mission took place to spike caused by pakistan for all drone strikes on its territory to stop. french president francois lyons told the press see may boycott the euro twenty twelve championship in ukraine over the case of the country's former prime minister yulia timoshenko he says he loves football but the affair of who is in jail for abuse of power could prevent him from attending several other e.u. leaders including germany's angela merkel the voice of the possibility of
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boycotting to next month's tournament to be shamed claims the case against her is politically motivated and says she suffered abuse while in prison. instead of jetting off for his honeymoon newly wed facebook founder mark zuckerberg is fighting to remain the darling of the tech bubble tonight the billionaire is company and a group of major banks all big sued by disgruntled shareholders who invested in the world's most anticipated flotation last friday a washington correspondence guy and if you can explain why. a group of investors as launched a class action suit against facebook and several banks now the u.s. securities and exchange commission as well as the financial industry regulatory authority are also looking into a possible fraud on the first day of facebook stock sales last week investors say they lost billions of dollars because the banks which prepared the initial offering price beefed up the price knowing that facebook's latest performance report showed
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we can grow so the claim is that a select group of participants in this i.p.o. which includes facebook at solvent investment banks like morgan stanley j.p. morgan and goldman sachs drummed up investors sport over the social network stock in the run up to the i.p.o. put a price tag on it of thirty eight dollars per share while withholding information from the public about facebook's weakening growth you to facebook's expansion on mobile devices which means that they get to sell less ads those are the allegations needless to say that the shares plunged in the coming days they now stabilize that around thirty two dollars those who lost are those who bought at the initial offering price price put forward by morgan stanley j.p. morgan and goldman sachs as it happens on wall street somebody made a killing certainly not the small investors who believed the assessment of those companies it looks like it's going to be a long process the law here is tricky as to what could or could not be considered as withholding information but many are sure that the excellent lawyers of those
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banks will certainly find a way out of this after all of those banks namely morgan stanley j.p. morgan and goldman sachs pulled off much more complicated schemes the ones that led to the financial crises of two thousand and eight when they played around with mortgage backed securities not only did the crisis hit the u.s. economy but it affected the whole world and nobody was prosecuted for any of that so the facebook i.p.o. was probably like a walk in the park for them analyst. several reasons why corporations can get away with a lot on wall street one of them is the complexity of the operations went on the insiders understand what's really going on and the public can be easily duped and another one the government is not very eager to regulate them. washington the first meeting over a year of the five plus one group with iran on the islamic republic's nuclear ambitions hasn't brought any breakthrough but has been agreement on
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a second round of talks in moscow here in june as talk about that to get across the latest live with our correspondent jake aggrieved by the jacob so any progress made there there's been a little bit of a chink of light isn't there or year they haven't really come to any concrete agreements here but it is very much keeping the issue alive still now these talks are taking place in baghdad they're quite talk as you mentioned there first of their kind in over a year bring these two sides back to the negotiating table that is your a security council members plus germany and they are trying to get to iran to limit and even take off the table its uranium enrichment program now one of the offers they put forward today was for toronto reduce that productivity of the program down to about twenty percent because believed at that level that iran would be able to manufacture and nuclear bomb of course that is the sum of all fears here for many people now on the reigning inside while they have offered up this u.n.
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inspectors could come to visit on the military sites what's reported in the fear that there may be conducting nuclear tests but so far these sides remain at loggerheads on those issues and they haven't come to any concrete deals and agreements and of course looming over all these proceedings we have those sanctions all in bargo for a round that's expected to come into force on july the fourth first if they do not reach a further deal crucially though they have managed as i mentioned to keep this issue alive and that meets that they will reconvene in moscow on the eighteenth and nineteenth of june for further talks or a jerk of things to bring it to appreciate it. united states frozen job market and debt troubles are sapping the country of high flying entrepreneurs these days fierce competition from fast growing economies as seeing the children of u.s. immigrants tempted by better employment chances in the countries their parents left behind but important it's got the story. karen asia is an american citizen pursuing
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his professional dream in a country his parents abandoned decades ago the twenty six year old relocated to one of the world's fastest emerging economies seeking the success and security that america just couldn't offer i thought that in india there was more scope to actually break through and do something that was revolutionary rather than just full of the trends the berkeley graduate has launched a health care business in new delhi providing medical services to people of all ages and asia isn't just an entrepreneur he's the face of a growing migration trend which shows highly skilled children of u.s. immigrants moving to less developed lands abroad for a better quality of life if you look at developing countries india especially. there's a very different type of entrepreneur that comes out here there's things that are tangible that you can see being fixed and i think that's one of the reasons why people are coming out here there's a different opportunity here you can do something and actually see the fruit of
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your labor today's u.s. labor market currently offers only one job for every eight applicant. night while youth unemployment remains above six percent my parents i always tell them like you know like any kind of security you think you have is completely false because anything could happen and you could lose everything armed with a degree in environmental geography and public policy. hasn't been able to land a secure job since two thousand and eight when i started applying and i just wasn't getting any response i was completely like at a loss i don't know what to do the twenty seven year old will soon be relocating to india where she plans to launch an environmental nonprofit organisation for sustainable living she says the american dream her immigrant parents chased three decades ago has become something of a nightmare one of my main reasons for. not wanting to live here is if i start a family so i don't want my kids to deal with what i had to deal with
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a. terms of like going to school paying one hundred sixty thousand dollars for an education that didn't really get me anywhere and you know god knows how much it's going to cost you know in the future rapid accidents of enterprising americans may cost the country its economic supremacy and competitive muscle if skilled innovators are chasing brighter futures outside their borders many experts say the land of opportunity stands to become the land of last labor i can assure you from countless talks i've had with big business leaders you in new york. that most large companies that are multinational corporations are referring to the united states these days as a quote unquote sure economy that's a polite way of saying no growth anymore over the decades india was dreamed of its best and brightest as millions fled for a more lucrative life in america today's trend may see that brain drain in reverse
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. archie new york that's good so with a day's business. for the russian european markets recently good but what about the u.s. markets was something of a yeah that's right kevin it was a good day for russia and europe but the u.s. it's completely different actually than i'll drop a minnow in negative territory the so many news releases coming out from stateside today so just mention a few of them otherwise i'll be here all day and one of them i read just now is that china is becoming a problem because three officials of the china's biggest banks may fall short of their loan to a great event and that's because of all the economic uncertainty that's going on at the moment it means that the demand for credit is really suffering so if we look at the dow jones in the nasdaq will be able to see that they are experiencing a loss is just now and that's despite some good news because we had jobless claims for ling we had orders for durable goods rising but we did have some bad news as well because we have business equipment falling and also the ongoing concern about
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greece as well and as i just say this whole chinese banks story as well that i thought was quite interesting indeed it just shows you domestic and international news is really playing its part on wall street today that we have to europe we see how they're faring and it's actually the end of their trading day so this was their closing figures for the first he does we have healthy gains just that despite those of negative downbeat data coming out today we had private sector output for the whole of the euro zone all across the seventeen nations falling we always had german manufacturing falling as well since. so investors seem to be showing off because there was a group called is about to die because of the sell off we had yesterday which makes so cheap ta so energy sectors of the banking sectors that we're balkans now let's talk about the fact if greece is to leave the euro zone and how this would make russia now if it did happen it could make russia's economy could drop two point one percent in the first year took in despair by its research says the so-called grex
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it will also hit inflation is almost certain from the current five percent that is because europe is responsible for whole of rushes that schools mostly energy ones which is also going to drop in price so that is what could potentially happen but right now today it was a great day for the russian markets we have to rowel so if they all see us that nearly two percent and i have a chief sent to the mines six a day and a lot of that can be accounted to the fact that oil prices are getting so we can go to the store to see who loses to the day and who when it is as you can see it go seven place stuff around third of the cent in negative territory there we suffer because of global steel prices that are taking that as a result they had a first quarter net profit creasing by eighteen percent. that was a relief for them to losses of about seven percent last week because well ninety two percent. because that because of those oil prices now let's talk about russia it's about this whole privatized nation program then
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a lot of investors are already holding out for so it's hard anticipated and it may since start with the energy sector the branch of a person is calling for energy assets. to be sold between twenty thirty and twenty fifteen euros next to gas and seventy five percent of all major rocks now it's a more than ten percent of gas as well the stakes that i have a seventy other energy company is so huge and says the state is considering selling the assets this year but it's a big it's only if there is a dramatic improvement in market conditions. and what we're seeing recently that is arguable so kevin i'll be back about two hours of a another world of information and forward to it thanks for caring and coming up the u.s. treasury prize the euro's demise and facebook lies all that in capital account right after the headlines next here on r.t. .
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