revolution last year there's also added tension around these protests because very shortly egypt will enter the second round of its presidential elections but many people here are expressing a lot of frustration they see the choice in those elections as being really no choice that's all one candidate mohammed morsi is from the muslim brotherhood he's been trying to garner support here at the protest going around the crowds saying that if he was elected president he would drag mubarak back to trial and try and how often execute it which has struck a chord with some of the protesters however he has received criticism from a wide wide number of groups as well they see the muslim brotherhood as religiously conservative and warn that they may try and hijack this revolution the other half bed shafique is mubarak's last prime minister and a former air force officer the protesters just as angry about him they say that he

could well be or should well be guard for standing in these presidential elections but his links to the old regime are simply too close and that he's going to have a lot of convincing to do to try and make people believe that he's not in with the old regime and the military council that's ruling out the moment this atmosphere has brought people out not just here in the capital but all over he gypped this was intended to be a million man march tonight we're not sure whether a million of have turned out it doesn't seem that it's that many but it certainly is a huge protest and a real re ignition of the spirit of protest against what is seen as very little change compared to what was wanted from last year's revolution.

parliament with a forty eight hour ultimatum to agree to a constitutional assembly will contend with one decided on by the generals controlling and contributing editor of foreign policy in focus dot org says it's likely that the military is working to extend the egyptian impasse and therefore extend its rule over the country if your feet is removed then of course you have no choice but that the military council stays so i do think that the military has set things up in such a way that they will continue as a major force how much of a major force i think depends on those people who are out there in the squares and what finally comes out of this election my concern is that if the military or the police decide to provoke something with the demonstrators then you might have a shift in the direction of shafeeq because people are concerned about state delivery exciter keep in mind he still did not start over the question of democracy

they started over a question of bread of unemployment poverty except for a so this is not just about roses this is about bread and that has not gone away. with it in a program in other regional hot spots syria allows humanitarian aid workers into the country in escalating violence as a fragile cease fire is that hanging by a thread from syria coming up shortly. on some of the rangers that leading powers of russia and china in the driving seat gather to thrash out security is a counterbalance to the political grandstanding of the west. where we can exporters are sending their forces on wednesday as a bradley manning one of the major contributors to the web site faces his latest hearing he's charged with twenty two separate crimes including aiding the enemy which is a capital offense but has been a cotton ever reports washington's interpretation of freedom of speech depends on who you actually are. from

a former cia officer who question waterboarding to suspected we keep small bradley manning the obama administration has waged an unprecedented war on whistleblowers prosecuting more of them under a spanish laws than old previous administrations combined but it seems one man snitch is another man's spin doctor the problem with the current situation with the current white house is they have leaked classified information circle time to what it serves to diffuse one of those with what was with the book obama's wars done by bob woodward or they played out two chapters of information about current operations and also with the catholic vehicle bigelow project regarding seal team six takedown of gun laws last year at this time the film in question which is titled as zero dark thirty covers last year's raid by u.s. commandos on the pakistani compound where some of bin laden was hiding the conservative watchdog judicial watch has obtained records revealing that hollywood

filmmakers were given access to proof the undisclosed information about the operation oscar winning director kathryn bigelow and screenwriter mark boal were even granted at tour around the fold as cia building were tactical planning for the raid took place the film is out in december but was initially due to be released just weeks before november's presidential elections sad facts so some flak fly the administration's way while the entire project has raised concerns over the way intelligence is being used it's best that this kind of information particularly as it revolves around what's surrounding this movie remains classified it absolutely has to it's very unfortunate that it's coming out to be used for political purposes for a congressional election however there is nothing unusual about the defense department collaborating with the makers of hollywood blockbuster. it's

a partnership that dates back to the middle of the twentieth century and it has proved effective the pentagon has what hollywood filmmakers won access to millions of dollars worth of military equipment to use in the movies and hollywood has what the pentagon once the endsleigh institution called its actions and attract millions of potential recruits in recent months to other movies about the navy seals long survivor and act of valor how for a shift official assistance veteran hollywood reporter david roth says the pentagon has for a long time had access to the scripts of hollywood filmmakers to show the military in a better light and the american people are seeing hundreds and hundreds of thrones and television shows that have been sanitized by the military and to make military seem more heroic than it really is and never wrong and always good but this creates a false image in the american people's mind so while for some weeks we'll get

a true walked out for others very trying to project patrick tells them and propaganda on to the silver screen my integration archie reporting for a las angeles california. where remember the world's top whistleblower julian assigns has his own t.v. show harrod out the latest edition is coming up shortly this hour. regional terrorism extremism and both are on the table at the annual summit of the races six pioneering powerhouses this time being held in china the book known as the shanghai cooperation organization but also touch upon global foreign policy the leaders of iran and afghanistan invited to join the gathering what is the next they are sixty reports now from beijing. we've got a very busy day here in beijing. the state official state visit to china now has transformed into the summit of the shanghai cooperation organization the

organization which has celebrated its tenth year anniversary last year and definitely all sides all countries involved in this organization have been noting that the corporation has been very successful especially in this security field something which has been a burning issue for the central asian states and that's where we already know that there has been very great success in the talks between the leaders of the countries we're also expecting very many important meetings on the sidelines of the summit between putin and the presidents of ghana stan and iran the something which we of course will be bringing more information on as soon as we get it and this will probably be the main focus certainly this summit comes just a day after the start of official state visit to china these sites of managed to sign very important agreements and listing economic ties and have managed to exchange their views on many different global policy issues and reported that they have been seeing eye to eye on all those issues in particular certainly the the growing military strength of the united states in the asian pacific region

something which greatly concerns china russia is agreeing with beijing on that matter and certainly the developments in the middle east even if we didn't mention did that russia and china are seeing eye to eye on the syrian conflict such a strong relations between beijing and moscow have been causing some concerns in the west primarily because china is a growing developing developing state with its economy and military being stronger every year we are following certainly all the interesting developments during the summit in the next two days here and we'll be bringing all the latest information to our viewers as soon as we get it but chicago based international affairs commentator rick rose off says the shanghai cooperation organization has the potential to become a serious force. as we know this is the twelfth summit that will the head of state meeting of the shanghai cooperation organization which created in two thousand and one to place matters in perspective we have to recall that with not only the full

six members of the c.e.o. but with the fact that in two thousand and five india pakistan iran and mongolia are well were welcomed as observers of nations some sort of course followers in sri lanka to become better called dialogue partners there's been discussion out of the summit and was to get the pounds out that afghanistan may join as early as the observer in turkey may join as a dialogue partner but even as currently constituted the shanghai cooperation organization is quite the population some stuff believe in the right of this god to lie on my house so see all members of the observer states sixty percent of the regime lying to us so this is a very important organization and it's one that still even twelve years after its foundation stone the embryo stage of money in many ways and one that once it's fully bore and comes into the world in earnest is going to be one of the most important developments in this. later in the program we look at america's pursuit for dominance the country's defense chief is up to india's leadership as

a string of bad luck names the u.s. bases ahead of its own it should move into the asia pacific. now anyone who breaches the peace train demonstrations in russia will now be hit hard and i wanted to both chambers of parliament passed a new bill dramatically hiking fines for protest by the actions and then was subjected to delay tactics by opposition m.p.'s a trick rarely seen before in russia adopted by many parliaments worldwide well it's going off as more details on this for us now but you know the bill didn't exactly slip straight through the chambers did it. well it did happen really quickly when it comes to the house of all of the federation council but when we look at the state duma and. what happened on tuesday that wasn't the case at all it actually took eleven hours for the deputies to work through the draft because we are witnessing this new tactic that you've just been talking about which is new for

russia but it's a practice which has been seen in countries like japan italy or the united states when deputies trying to prolong the work on dress they don't approval for either by walking in tiny shorts steps in japan to all the time to stall or by talking as long as possible in the united states well when it comes to the deputies off the russian duma some fractions off the official opposition within the duma they tried introducing amendments in order to stall and pull all the time that it takes for the deputies to review the draft another one never the last the draft was approved by the dea more than it was approved just today by the federation council and its goal is to significantly increase the fines for violating the rules of taking part in mass rallies to up to three hundred thousand roubles for ordinary citizens which is over nine thousand dollars and twice that amount for officials now truly before and so are still much lower that's why this draft. is still

causing huge griz's and from both the official and unofficial opposition but if we actually compare these figures to european standards for example france where violating the rules of these mass events could get you even in jail for up to three years or a twenty five thousand euro fine or in switzerland where the fine is a seventy five thousand euros then the fines that the current to draft proposals there are still much lower to us it lays the legal grounds for the creation of sort of designated areas across russia for voicing political until soft. views really similar to how it's done in hyde park in london. there's been a few approved by both chambers of the only thing is the signature of the president

earlier said that this draft has to be aimed at developing democracy but also has to protect citizens from radicals. and also he said that he has to correspond with european standards so judging by the current situation situation it's highly likely he. is going to sign this bill. ok article for supporting their from moscow thank you. remember we've got all the latest stories and videos on our website r.t. dot com here's a taste of what's there few right now an extraterrestrial phenomenon which left both astronomers and gasping at check out the spectacular images and video of the transit of venus across the sun. i moved on a later stage appearance has been around since one right but why it's not being music to marine. corps.

now the syrian government has agreed to aid workers into the country for the first time based in four cities hit hard by the violence among them in homes since the rebels said they were abandoning the u.n. cease fire and human body clashes with security forces he was syria has given the marching orders to seventeen diplomats from u.s. britain france and turkey among others mascots is accused foreign powers of funding and arming the opposition parties middle east expert. please those countries are motivated by regime change. americans vassal state slow growth some talk about transition what they're effectively mean is regime change that is what they did in libya with dire consequences as we can see

in that country today in syria the plan to bring both sides to the table and have been negotiated settlement is obviously the best way to move forward but the united states and britain and their other allies absolutely no pressure on the other side to come to the negotiate negotiating table and start it process of daws so it would appear to me that what we now have is an end game situation where the united states has decided to remove this regime and will use everything in a spot to do so. well as well as being the scene of ongoing violence syria has been locked in a so-called information war as a country as minister of information and then told r.t. in stream media coverage often clashes with reality his full interview is coming up next hour but has a pretty. free people responsible for the deaths filmed their crimes and

fruitage to the media blaming the government for the atrocities of the and a recent study shows that ninety percent of satellite coverage on syria has nothing to do with the actual situation in the country it's all lies and fabrications and this again proves that there is a real information war waged against syria with real facts being substituted with fabrications what are these lies and the only way for them to achieve their objectives in their war against syria out of houla massacre is a good example of that that as soon as the first pictures of the massacre were released everybody started accusing the syrian army and security forces but we all know who was really behind this crime to die. the people of syria are targeted by terrorists. and sponsored by regional powers like qatar saudi arabia and turkey as well as by western nations such as the us.

the white house says if present hands control to the opposition it will help bring an end to fifteen months of bloodshed but i said there's consistently maintained that his country is real war comes from the outside people of ellen guest discuss the syrian conflict in detail in the crosstalk at eleven thirty g.m.t. today. this syria case when we talk about the end of the known peace plane plane it's being told me clear that is just this stepping stone for validating setting the pretext for military intervention by the nato powers there is a lot of smuggling of arms from lebanon to syria there's a lot of smuggling of arms from iraq to syria and the longer this conflict festers the more smuggling there is going to be the more radicalized the fighters are going to be and the more outsiders are going to intervene in this conflict.

with the united states losing a string of critical bases across central asia the pentagon has apparently the wants to drive to secure organized defense secretary leon panetta is on a p.r. tour india publicly asking me to take on a greater role in afghanistan and i'm going to say there is far more at stake in washington has gone in india slated for a bigger role i think last pakistan support for his future in afghanistan threatened by a sentence on about the much time to move to the asia pacific could be unraveling. should have reports not just why america are so eager to cozy up to india. the world's got its eyes on india it's the planet's biggest arms importer and if that to spend one hundred billion dollars on beefing up its military arsenal over the next decade while many weapon makers from far and wide are lining up to cash in on

this need to modernize the united states's dash to the front of the pack is also being in. america. to strengthen its me remember. to find out america. has been selling india ships and those who are. going to soon. after the name. to many it's seen as part of the us is bigger shift towards asia one that its defense secretary leon panetta is now touring the region to actively engage it in a chair you were a report issued by the american government of china has listed along with iran as one of the us is biggest adversaries the report also specifically singled out india as the main country washington would pursue as a strategic partner in the region the united states has already been thinking better of the amount of energy strengthening military ties with india it just told them time military transport planes for four point four billion dollars india also

conducts the most military exercises with the united states than any other country many analysts say that it could be a way for washington to use new delhi to counterbalance its new enemy china i do see a long china you're not just going to go. what are you going to say is that if i use it as a major competition for this includes. wants to lose the american influence and issue while india is happy to have partners to advance their arsenals many observers are watching the american interest with caution. because creating a neighborhood. we should. remember should not for the buttons of americans there the americans are going to be grinding. i mean super bowl.

groaned. as the united states continues to buddy up to india it looks like it could be using their new found friend to bully its enemy preassure either r.t. new delhi india. now a look at some other top stories from around the world this hour two suicide bombers have blown themselves up in afghanistan's southern city of kandahar killing at least twenty two people and wounding fifty others the blast occurred in the market area several kilometers from nato run air base authorities say the bombers used a motorbike packed with explosives police believe the victims were civilians who provided supplies to the military base the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. panic over the euro crisis is no even breached germany's defenses rating agency moody's downgrading seven of its major banks among them commerzbank country's second largest banking institutions the justification

was that even europe's premier economy may not withstand potential financial shocks if matters in the eurozone deteriorate further also here two or three of austria's largest financial groups it's just a day after another agency standard and poor's said there was a one in three chance of greece leaving the single currency in the near future. but business news now and it seems that era float is no longer happy with just slowing to london strike area they want to become more of a permanent fixture on the market by less than their shares on the london stock exchange and i'll get to that story in just a second but first let's take a look at some international markets will start with the europe despite the fact that moody's downgraded some of the german banks as we've been reporting it doesn't seem to have a fact that investors in europe we see that the footsies adding over one percent of the theorem or and that's in fact adding over one and a half percent some analysts weren't expecting this to happen especially after the

news came out about that but investors are waiting for a key interest rate decision by the european central bank and some analysts say that there will be left unchanged that one percent and also not that e.c.b. staff are expected to downgrade their growth projections this in my drive the markets a little bit lower later on in the day. let's move on and also see what other news out there coming out from europe the european commission will on vale new proposals to make sure its hacks spares money isn't used to bail out failed banks they want to prevent banks from dragging down the entire system and the issue was of course highlighted with greece and spain let's not forget that spain is currently trying to find some one hundred billion dollars to strengthen its capital buffers and the fishes want to ensure the bank shareholders and creditors are the ones held accountable for losses are encouraged by banks. will continue on with the markets here in russia has been a choppy trading session which is that the r.t.s. is adding over one percent by the my six has been skipping between positive and

negative territory over the past couple of hours a second look at some individual share moves on the my sex most of the blue chips are still higher we see that russia's biggest lead this burbank is adding over one percent fertiliser overall colley is the point of five six percent i would know that it's a buyback expenses reach six hundred seventy five million dollars and also air fault is adding over old one and a half percent that we actually have some news about after all like russia is a flag carrier is consider in line then over thirteen percent of its shares in london this year we had the most the daily newspaper claims the possible move that will be discussed during the company's next board meeting and the listing could bring our fault up to two hundred forty million dollars and analysts say the share placement is likely to help the company improve its market capitalization which is currently under estimated. the news russia's second biggest lender of the t.v. has decided to cash into fast food this time though as the daily newspaper says the

bank is creating a joint venture with the current developers of burger king and russia and within three years p.c.b. will invest up to one hundred million dollars into this me for him which will then have exclusive rights to develop the fast food chain in the country for the next couple of decades. and a quick look at the current season see that the euro is out and against the dollar the ruble is extending its gains against both major currencies and over the past three trading days the central bank has been selling two hundred million dollars they only support the ruble which we can see as a working ball this is all the time we have for this edition of business and more news coming up next hour for you.

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that it's taken up now at the main stories we've been covering for you this revolution returns to egypt as hundreds of thousands rally in tahrir square. but efforts to deepen political and religious divisions an ominous warning of more trouble ahead. and to breach the peace pay the price rushes a parliament votes to target the wanted some protests this week break the no thousands of dollars in fines at stake. america's defense chief closes up to india's leadership as a string of bad luck leaves the u.s. short of the basis of its military into the engine pacific. and syria allows humanitarian aid workers into the country for the first time and made an escalation of violence an expulsion of foreign diplomats. next a naughty in the sun chinese guests pull their punches on the wells the biggest

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