lol. marty third of seats in the egyptian parliament are declared void today by the country's highest court which is also allowed hosni mubarak's former premier to stay in the presidential race. also a suicide car bomb explosion in just ten in damascus with syrian officials saying terror tactics are being stepped up to pave the way for foreign military intervention. and the russian opposition journalist claims he was threatened with death by the country's top investigative but the officials dismissed the accusations as the ravings of a man. hello

there every good afternoon for me kevin owen here in moscow this is r.t. it's now six pm moscow time we're starting with more breaking news this hour we're hearing that the u.k. supreme court has rejected a request to reopen the extradition case of wiki leaks founder julian assange now earlier songes lawyers have challenged the validity of the court's judgment to send him to sweden you may recall where he's wanted over sex crime allegations while a son just last hope now than to avoid extradition is to appeal to the european court of human rights the world's best no whistleblower denies all the allegations against him he claims the case against him is a political one he fears his extradition to sweden will eventually see him handed over to the united states rees being investigated on the charges of espionage so he just joined us the the islam we're getting from now on the a.p. news agency breaking news u.k. supreme court has rejected a request to reopen the extradition case of wiki leaks founder julian assange she could therefore be one step closer to extradition. now the first developing news

story is one of the last hour to egypt's political future looking increasingly uncertain the country's supreme court has declared a third of parliamentary seats the void just a few days before the second round of the presidential election it's believed the parliament which is dominated by islamists may now be facing suspension another ruling too has allowed the last prime minister of the ousted mubarak regime to stay in the presidential race despite thousands demanding a ban on the eve of the court session egypt's government restored the army's power to arrest civilians as well that's something which usually only allowed in the state of emergency has put a car a based journalist and blogger while i ask and you believe the move may mean a return to the revolution mubarak regime. the military would do everything in its power to get your feet to presidency and the point they would take every measure to every oppressive measure to crackdown on dissent and things would be it would

reproduce the mubarak regime once again this is an expansion of the military presence presence in egypt and. direct contradiction to the promise of the military to hand over power because at this moment they seem to want to grab on to power by extending the power of the police what has happened is that they've given the police a boost by adding in military officers and personnel that have the same role as the police but this time without any kind of supervision because they only respond to a military prosecution and military judiciary and this gives the military impunity to act as they wish without questioning from the civilian parties. but ahead of the presidential runoff the muslim brotherhood warning that the military could effectively take control of the country even after the election but it isn't most of the nation that some fear most specially the women of the country are his paula slayer picks up that side of the story. she's young and in vicious and planning to

become egypt's next president but she needs to wait ten years until she turned forty so she can run not for the sake of you know winnings a seat or so but for the sake of proving that egyptian women can deal with but they're not doing it at the moment this woman trying to run for president this time around and couldn't even get the fifty thousand signatures to qualify oh it would usually is for the it quite least for the freedom for the dignity and when this value those values when it's excess we can see a woman president but with radical islam on the whys and the muslim brotherhood's candidate making it to the presidential runoff the fact that women played an important role in the demonstrations that brought down mubarak doesn't mean much the number of women in the egyptian parliament has fallen from twelve percent before the revolution to just two percent now and that's despite the fact that some

fifty one percent of egypt is female noticeably absent from the presidential election campaign trails was the issue of women rights and women equality leaving many egyptian women to fear that in the post mubarak period their lives will get worse and fast other cream has been trying for five years to divorce her husband but divorce is tough to achieve and with an islamic influence it will only get tougher i don't want to go out of a deep i don't mind giving up all my financial rights even the money left to me by my father who recently died my husband doesn't give me any money and he treats me very badly. and have a bit ill cream is hoping the courts rule in her favor even if it means she'll be out on the street with nothing but she wants the judge to decide soon. before hardcore islam escaped into power and human rights activists like dr side i brought him a worried the future of in the country. to the role of women. the full equality of women. living in that.

undermine their floor. and that it is the endurance. in the road to progress to develop and so why don't we and might be inspiring her generation and she's received awards from around the globe for her fearlessness in tweeting and blogging about the revolution more people are asking if it's possible because evolution it was supposed to liberate its people might just land up in slaving at least a part of it policy r.t. . another development in egypt in the last couple of minutes in fact that we're into the voices news agency again reports that the country's entire parliament might now be dissolved following the latest high court rulings there but earlier this afternoon this is experts say gypsy moving not towards but away from democracy in the country's past parliamentary election a straits that alarming trend will bring you more about a little bit later this hour in an interview special interview got lined up for you

coming up here's a quick taste. so you think that it's. elections were completely transparent you have some questions to ask because approximately twenty five to fifty percent of the jupiters are still supporting you already have all this to come to this result is strange and then you see how the candidates were put you know almost being inside and then the removed him and they kept your feet someone who is a growing sense of all this is that we are not dealing with a transparent process we are dealing with calculation and calculation means that i think that never from behind the scenes the army lost control of the situation so this is made sense and it might be that even the muslim brotherhood way used to be visible legitimacy to something which is happening from behind the scenes so they

were the instruments of the coming back of the regime. the syrian capital has been rocked by a powerful blast has left ten people. suicide bomber set of a car bomb near one of the holy shia shrines which attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims from around the world it's believed the blast was targeting a security police department office located nearby the explosion came just days after the release of a video which al qaeda second in command called an islamist to help rebel groups fight syrian government forces now syria's ambassador to moscow says the opposition is using increasingly violent tactics to pave the way for foreign interference. because syria is now under an organized terrorist attack some of the world's mean powers are behind those acts and they also fun terror the syrian government strives to stay committed to the non peace plan but we are constantly provoked by terror groups and we have to respond to those provocations just as the little syrian government has absolutely no interest in murdering defenseless people that it's

armed terrorist groups who are responsible for human rights violations and bloodbath some serious that is being done to justify foreign intervention in the creation of buffer zones. the syrian ambassador is all to deny that moscow supplying the assad regime with attack helicopters allegations earlier also refuted by the russian foreign minister. look where the claims come from on their own best robust response that followed it. while the top u.n. official may have labeled the syrian conflict a full fledged civil war according to the u.s. secretary of state russia could actually be to blame for the escalating crisis secretary of state hillary clinton to raise some eyebrows and stirred some diplomatic controversy on tuesday when she insisted that russian attack helicopters were on their way to syria take a look we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to to syria and we are concerned about the latest information we have

that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria now washington seemed to be caught off guard by a secretary of state hillary clinton's remarks which stumped even the pentagon's own spokesman can you provide any details as to what kind of helicopters where they live or how are they being delivered. i have not seen reporting that indicates. that the russians are providing attack helicopters to the syrians i have just not seen that now while washington was left to sort out its confusion over the comments russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov was very clear in his denial of those allegations and we see it yes we are currently fulfilling a preexisting and paid for contracts for one of these contracts related to defense only and exclusively we do not export to syria or anywhere else anything that could be used to get into the civil demonstration because you believe that's markedly

different to the united states which regularly ships such weapons to the region just recently one such shipment arrived in a certain persian gulf state for some reason the u.s. considers this normal and we knew it was over now russian attack helicopters are in hot demand right now and that's because the u.s. pentagon spends millions to buy russian made seventeen's on behalf of the afghan air force. moody's a slush by his credit rating. near junk status today in the latest blow to a struggling eurozone that suffer e.u. leaders agreed to provide spanish banks without a bailout is the country's unable to rescue the banking sector on its own well more on what that means than that for madrid still to come this hour ots to me to have a ten because at the business desk with a preview for us. the stock market the reaction has been quite moderate so far but on the bond market we did see a jump to a new era high of more than seven percent seven point zero one percent in yields

for ten year bonds and spain and any value above seven percent means a much higher risk of danger zone of a nation defaulting on its debt but it has since come down to around six point nine percent the yields and this is all because not only moody's downgraded the rating by three notches but is also put the rating on further review so that in the end in the future we could see further downgrades i'll tell you more about that around twenty minutes time a lot more of the issues well in our two with max and stacy herbert as well coming up later the late edition the kaiser report they say it's for all dressed up as rescue measures. spain bailout to be agreed within a week or urgency reflects a growing consensus that spanish clouts might start chain reaction that could topple italy and destroy the euro well you know it's pretty much all the game and some are more well known than others the greeks or the spanish or the irish

they are the instinct they're too polite to question the current artists because they're some of the talking they wear suits they have nice hands you know they come in there and they target good game and they thought well maybe we're wrong maybe we're the ones that need to really examine what our position and they're very polite and the con artist walk out the door with their money step get their pockets picked but do big banks don't waste your time i get lonely as a downer. so a recession raging and social problems soaring the two go hand in hand sadly and in ireland a growing drug addiction is among the many difficulties particularly dublin as artist laura smith explains a government struggling to keep the country's economy afloat is also struggling to foot the bill for people trying to get off drugs. it's a tale of two cities a happy go lucky dublin where locals and tourists shop drink and make mary rubbing shoulders with a seedy underbelly telamon blocks where the poor struggle to make ends meet and

drug workers estimate one person in sixty takes heroin to me gagin runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take a cocktail of drugs leading often to crime and recessions making it worst he's seeing new people a week. when people have less disposable income and can't find work or can't find you know. more recourse. you know turned. on people. between drugs and crime and knoll not his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction his is a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community the single more. we live on social welfare. my father would have been to.

know did everything except heroin finding his brother dead from an overdose as a teenager saw to that he's in a four month rehab program partly funded at least for now by the state isn't getting any easier for the people who run vital drug programs in drop incenses needle exchanges seventeen week residential course it's none of that is cheap to run and despite increasing numbers of addicts desperate to get a drug and rehab center to seeing their government funding for every year state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for the. varies drop in center for the homeless waiting lists a growing from a few days to weeks or months he says addicts need immediate attention something they're less than less likely to get the become tomorrow's to say no point in even

trying i'm never going to do it so having access to treatment programs to my mind is fatal if in this fight against drugs the treatment programs in ireland or hopelessly inadequate and as the recession bites even harder they won't get any better with disastrous consequences for addicts communities and for society laura smith r.t. . next the scandal between russia's top investigator and a leading opposition paper has come to an amicable end we're hearing now with the two sides apologizing to each other if you've been listening in on the deal no been talking about it earlier the newspaper claimed the official it's taken one of his journalist to a forest referred to kill him while investigated for his part the other side in ny the allegations calling him the ravings of a madman it's been heated peter oliver is across this story for us as a st pete it looks like at the end of the day thankfully haven't shaken hands of

the story's over but remind our viewers of just joined us what this was all about. if you could hear me i don't know you can't know we can't hear me i generally get some pizza later i won't go into the whole story no it's too complicated we will come back to it later but there's a bit of good news in the air all right now if you missed any of the stories we're covering on i wouldn't catch that one anyway online r.t. dot com you can always log on there for all the latest including these two gambling on red his body is currently in barnes and open to the public at a more severe more moscow's red square but now bookmakers a taking bets on when and where he may land in might be buried also most americans agree that the best way to elect authorities is a direct democratic vote but seems no one texan city it seems there are throw the dice might be enough find more r.t. dot com.

this is r.t. from moscow peter all over are you there our correspondent let's catch up with him he's in the sense if you're watching your hi there peter i told our viewers all about this story we've been reporting about today a lot of harsh words about it around all over the place a scandal between russia's top investigator and a leading opposition paper that's come to an amicable and they have shaken hands we're in the last the matter it's a gentlemen's agreement the matter is over how winding the story back for us tell us how this all started. well we've been following this since the early hours of this morning and at times throughout the day it seemed like this could have been a potentially harmful scandal but a problem for the newspaper perhaps for the investigative committee perhaps for

both it seems now that it has been sorted out with a handshake between the. editor of the opposition newspaper. the chairman of the investigation committee now this all came about following an editorial that was posted by the editor of the. published by the editor of nova guy is yes the way he said that one of his journalists it had to flee the country after being taken into the woods by on the orders of the head of the investigative committee where his life had been threatened now this has been something that had been going on for a little while and following and at article that impassioned personal piece written by this journalist where he quite severely slammed the investigative committee the result in a very heated argument between the head of the investigative committee the most senior investigator in russia and this investigative journalist passion certainly flaring up there and what we heard from alexander must be can the head the say the chairman of the investigative committee denying outright all of these allegations

the newspaper was saying that they just wanted to protect their journalist well finally they met here in moscow that the two people who could put an end to this seem to have done so with both sides apologizing to the other for whatever part they played in this story it was certainly as i say it times was unclear where we were going to end up with it but it seems to have reached an amicable end which i guess is happy hit with news for everybody concerned about my grandmothers told me never let the sun go down on an argument i'm not making little of the story but i'm glad at least that they've sorted out the differences played all of a thanks ever so much yes. the ongoing dispute over the falkland islands between britain and argentina it will be discussed by un committee later today in new york it's thirty years to the day since the war over the british territory ended around nine hundred people died in the one nine hundred eighty two conflict before argentinean troops are ended argentina says the british illegally occupied the

falklands which he calls them el venus almost two hundred years ago. well the referendum next year to decide their future political analyst martin mccauley says it's what lies off the island's coast though that's fueling the dispute. if you like signal to. that the focus of the argentinians call the last move in this. part of britain and the wish to become a province of argentina if you look at the language which is coming from what is are is the argentina government is using very very strong language some people might say threads about this security of the falkland islands the falklands. or claimed by. britain france and even the dutch and the i.g. do claim is a very thin one but argentina is concerned about structure. so. under the water there the idea to you to discover the. possible

extent through the falklands. british government is. prospecting for us. so we find. strategically and economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy briefing on more world news now british prime minister david cameron has been testifying in front of a u.k. media ethics inquiry saying press regulations need to improve cameras come under fire after the phone hacking scandal at rupert murdoch's now defunct news of the world tabloid british officials were accused of helping the media giant avoid investigations think cameras are also being criticised for the way he handled murdoch's takeover sky broadcasting. bad weather here to wrenshaw rain in fact swamping large areas of central china as you can see it triggered mudslides and forced hundreds of people from the homes one person is missing tonight officials to

set up shelters. involves a house or people that were displaced by the flooding villages also work to save one man who was trapped and made the raging waters these the pictures are not too clear we just see him there through the successfully pulled him ashore after an hour of rescue urgency repairs are underway with several highways being destroyed by landslides and cave ins the bad picture. right to me trees got the business news a bad picture of the weather is bad picture with the finances today is coming in from every which way isn't it data in the u.s. keep coming in with more signs of economic weakness yet the market started positive . bit of a paradox indeed a bit of a controversy but indeed the fact that we're seeing jobs market jobless claims coming in with the rise would mean the weakening of the jobs market and then the computer price in the consumer price index rather is also coming in at

a low so these are of course very bad economic signs but at the same time is giving investors hopes for more economic stimulus so therefore we're seeing this. point seven percent gain on the dow and point three percent gain on the nasdaq this spike troubles over in europe where of course moody's has downgraded spain by three notches to near junk status and this is driving the markets down point seven percent in london even more so in frankfurt at the same time we're seeing the greek market is very much bob the mystic is up around seven percent this hour and that's three days before the election which could be crucial for europe's integrity and future of the of the euro zone basically and spain's spain's bonds have come down below seven percent we've seen an all time. high of more than seven percent seven point one percent for yields of ten year bonds on the commodities markets we have

seen close at eight month lows in the previous sessions come by. lightly after that the opec meeting in vienna right now underway could affect. production quotas at the same time credit suisse has been saying that the price of bread could force around fifty dollars per barrel by the end of the year and that's only if the escalation of the year's own crisis takes the worst scenario and interview to the telegraph newspaper the bags and the said that the current global imbalances even worse than those seen in two thousand and eight just remind you back then the price of brant fell from one hundred forty five dollars to below forty dollars in just six months. but we've also talked earlier to two relations capital in london they say that this scenario is highly unlikely. we have seen oil at fifty dollar level it's not the broadway out of the possibilities but i find it difficult imagining that anyone in you know what's an existing supply demand environment would be

taking fifty dollars a barrel as their base case. you know the spare capacity is still very limited it is it is at the end of the day is going to be it they haven't but by what happens to the demand trends both in china and europe but i mean if you're talking about fifty dollars oil to your talking about global broad based economic collapse and i might not be an economist i'm you know i'm just i'm just a loyal analyst but they don't think we're anywhere close to that. all right these are the oil prices we're seeing right now of course we'll bring you more information as to the outcome of the opec meeting when he gets any info over on the russian markets at the close basically of the session got another fifteen minutes to go your peers my stocks are down around half wits and they're correcting after a very good sessions on wednesday and on saturday on the my sax the financials are leading the losses with. a look at the main movers on the my six. around one percent can we take

a look at those stocks on the russian markets thank you. it's very present and lukoil is also the. fact that oil prices have been showing some positive dynamics in the past couple of hours. also russia says it's ready to provide debt stricken cyprus with an emergency loan of five billion dollars request came after top cypriot banks were downgraded due to the high exposure to the troubled greek economy last year russia provided the republic with a two hour for a billion euros worth of loan equivalent to ten percent of cypresses g.d.p. richard haynesworth from rating agency rose rating explains why russia is so generous towards the island. russia has a very large vested interest to make sure that cyprus continues to function most russian banks have gone their vestments in cyprus very many companies have shells in cyprus to handle most of the financing of the russian it is very much in

russia's interests. that the economy of cyprus remain stable right at the top of the i'll be back with a look at the closing bell picture here in russia see that.

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