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 two 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 let's go to cairo based journalist and blogger while 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. and ahead of a presidential runoff the muslim brotherhood warning that the military could effectively take control of the country even after the election but it is almost domination that some fear most specially the women in the country are to pull a slew of picks up that side of the story. she's young and ambitious 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 will show is for the equality states or the freedom for the dignity and when this value those values when success we can see a woman president but with radical islam on the rise 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 afaf crème 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. after a brutal cream is hoping the courts rule in her favor even if there means she'll be on the street with nothing but she wants the judge to decide soon before hardcore islamised get into power and human rights activists like dr side i bring him are worried the future over the recent three. pool for. the full equality of women. moving to. the floor. and that is the hand that has.

in the road to progress to develop and so why don't we and might be inspiring her generation on and she's received awards from around the globe for her fearlessness in tweeting and blogging about the revolution more and 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 its policy r.t. . another developments 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 straight some alarming trend will bring you more about that 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. elections were completely transparent you have some questions to ask because approximately four

hundred five to fifty percent of the jupiters are still supporting the already of 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 they removed him and they kept your feet someone who is really a 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. 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 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 also denied that moscow supplying the assad regime with attack helicopters allegations earlier also refuted by the russian foreign minister. looks at where the claims come from on the road best robust response that followed it. while the top 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

seem 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 his 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 painful contract one of these contracts are related to defense only and exclusively we do not export to syria or anywhere else anything that could be used against peaceful demonstrators because you believe that's markedly different to the united states which regularly ships such weapons to the region just recently when such shipment arrived in a certain persian gulf state to put up with for some reason the u.s.

considers this normal when you're now russian attack helicopters are in hot demand right now 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. 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 to me to have a dent because at the business desk with a preview for us. of this field the stock market the reaction has been quite moderate so far but on the bond market we did see a jump to a new a euro era high of more than seven percent seven point zero one percent in yields for ten year bonds and spades 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 urgency reflects a growing consensus that spanish class 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 artist because they're talking they wear suits they have nice hands you know they come in there and they target good game and they want maybe we're wrong maybe we're the ones that need to really

examine what our position and they're very polite and they can artist walk out the door with their money step get their pockets picked but to big to fail banks don't waste your time i get lonely as a dental. 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 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 tony gagan runs a needle exchange and rehab program where he sees marginalized people who take

a cocktail of drugs leading often to cry and recessions making it worst he's seeing eleven new people a week. on account. of people. no know his real name is recovering from years of drug addiction he's a story of economic privation and boredom leading to drugs and the breakdown of relationships with family friends and community. we live on social. knoll 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 adding death threats against a drug and rehab center to seeing that government funding for every year state drug program contributions are being slashed by ten percent a year and for them. 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 how they get 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 the 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 this 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 had claimed the official it's taken one of his journalist to a forestry threat to kill him while investigated for his part the other side deny 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 stories over but remind our viewers who just joined us what this was all about . if you could hear me i don't know you can

now we can hear me i generally get some peace or later i won't go into the whole story no it's too complicated we will come back to it later i'll tell you but there's a bit of good news in the air. now if you missed any of the stories we're covering on air and in catching that one anyway online at 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 are taking bets on when and where lenin might be buried also most americans agree that the best way to elect a thorough. it is a direct democratic vote but seems no one in one texan city it seems there are throw the dice might be enough find out 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 in the sense if you're watching 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 train russia's top investigator and a leading opposition paper that's come to an amicable end they have shaken hands we're in the last the matter it's a gentleman's agreement the matter is over how why didn't 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 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. and 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 a guy of his yes where he said that one of his journalists to flee the country after being taken into the woods 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 through a little while following it and article 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 invest. in russia and this investigative journalist passion certainly flaring up there and what we heard from alexander streak in the head the chairman of the investigative committee denying out write 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 certainly as i say it times was unclear where we were going to end up with it but it seems to have reached should on a couple end which i guess is happy news for everybody all concerned and once told me never let the sun go down or an argument i'm not making little of the story but i'm glad at least they've sorted out the differences are all of a service about. 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 islanders while 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 is always argentineans call them last move in this wish to stay part of britain and don't 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 the security of the falkland islands the falklands. or claimed by britain france and even the dutch and the educated. very soon one but argentina is concerned about. it's going to be all of. which lie under the water that the i do to discover the. possible extent right through to the falklands. british companies or prospecting

for years. so if they find. that strategically economically very very important and. of course very very wealthy briefing you know 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 cameron's 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 the cameras also being criticised for the way he handled murdoch's bid to take over sky broadcasting it's 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 evolve to house all the people who've been displaced by the flooding villages also worked to save one man who was trapped in the raging waters

these are the pictures not too clear we just see him there thanks to the successfully pulled him ashore after an hour of rescue urgency repairs are under way with several highways being destroyed by landslides and cave ins the bad picture. right dimitris got the business news a picture of the weather is bad picture with the finances today is coming in from every which way isn't it day two in the u.s. keep coming in with more signs of economic weakness yet the markets started positive. bit of a paradox indeed a bit of a controversy but indeed the fact that we're seeing jobs. jobless claims coming in with the rise will 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 despite 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 pop to mistake it's 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 oil close at eight month lows in the previous sessions come back up to some lightly after that the opec meeting in vienna is right now underway there

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 zone crisis takes the worst scenario in an 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 to remind you back then the price of brant fell from one hundred forty five dollars to below forty dollars just six months. but we've also talked earlier to two relations capital in london they say that this scenario is. in the unlikely. we have seen oil at fifty dollar level it's not the broadway all of the possibilities but i find it difficult imagining that anyone in there you know was and they exist in supply demand environment would be taking fifty dollars a barrel as their base case. you know that's the spare capacity is still very limited it is it is at the end of the day is going to be given 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 cool old broad based economic collapse and i might not be an economist them you know i'm just i'm just a loyal analyst but they don't think we're anywhere close to that yet 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 we gets. over on the russian markets at the close basically of the session we got another fifteen minutes to go your fears 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 per cent can we take a look at those stocks on the russian markets thank you very much thank you very much gazprom is declining three percent and lukoil is also down despite 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 oil and. russia has a very long vested interest to make sure that cyprus. used to function most russian but it's of course their investments inside the us very many complaints of shells in cyprus but tumbled most of the finance and russia from it is a very much in russia's interests that that the economy of cyprus most remain stable cry at the top of the i'll be back with

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hello live from r.t. h.q. in central moscow it's kevin owen here this with breaking news on our headlines the u.k. supreme court rejects a request from wiki leaks founder julian assange to reopen the case about his extradition his last chance then to escape being handed over to sweden is now appealing direct to the european court of human rights more on that in the coming hours. egypt's highest court this afternoon ordering the dissolution of the country's islamist dominated parliament after a ruling a third of m.p.'s were elected illegally and another court decision meantime allowing hosni mubarak's former premier to stay in the presidential race despite massive protests against it in the run off to take place this weekend. and a showdown between russia's top investigator and opposition journalists involving

death threat accusations a bit of good news for a change is resolved peacefully the vote shaking hands the matter is closed. with egypt at the crossroads for its future now talks to a renowned middle east academic about how the arab spring saga. tariq ramadan you're a professor at the contemporary slummy studies in the oxford university and also you are a professor at the faculty of peace love and studies in qatar and it's great to have you with us today sir so i don't know the situation in north africa and the middle east it's very complex and there are a lot of players involved in it. there's one trend that seems.