twists and turns of egypt's politics become ever more winding off the constitutional court dismisses the country's parliament in a move likely to bring protesters throwing back onto the streets. with deadly strings attached to america's use of unmanned drones worldwide the weapon is being seen more as an aerial serial killer tool to aid anti terror ops. rushed to the syrian town of fighting it shattered by a week of bloody fighting with initial reports suggesting rebels scorched the air before abandoning it. latest news twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t.

calls for an uprising are growing louder yet again in cairo egypt's supreme constitutional court dissolved the country's newly elected parliament and up held the right to mubarak's last prime minister to continue running for president and join the live from cairo by our correspondent paula slayer i think more details on the surprise turnaround. paula did the people of cairo wake up in a different egypt today what happened. well certainly the mood here in cairo is volatile and left wing activists as well as liberals the youth sick and many in the muslim brotherhood are outraged earlier there were demonstrations in front of the constitutional court and now as we speak crowds are starting to gather in tahrir square the upgrade is really because many egyptians feel that what has developed here is a carefully maneuvered plan by the supreme council of the armed forces scaf to remain in power we're looking at a decision that was announced yesterday just two days before an important

presidential runoff and according to that decision the islamist dominated parliament has been dissolved in addition to that which i think is backed by the army and was also a prime minister in the mubarak era has been given the green light to remain in the presidential race now the ruling does take away the muslim brotherhoods strong base it also boosts in this important race and already the muslim brotherhood has been facing increasing opposition not only from the military and for many in the political spectrum but also from some of its own supporters who criticize it for not doing enough while it did have the parliament with its hands the decision also reverts legislative authority back to the ruling military and the military really holds executive authority in this country and to a new president is elected so you have this very worrying situation where a president will be elected in the absence of

a constitution and also in the absence of a parliament so at this stage there are more questions than answers there is chaos there is confusion and this certainly is a lot of anger on the streets of egypt when indeed yes so what has been the reaction to the new so far as far as you can gather. while the official line from the muslim brotherhood is to respect the decision of the court we heard as much from their candidate dr mohamed morsi or though he did warn. that there could be more dangerous consequences and he did say in fact that if there were any kind of mishaps in the elections then he would support people going back to the streets there there have however been leading voices within the muslim brotherhood that have denounced the decision of the court and the phrase being used is that this is a fully fledged coup and we're hearing that kind of criticism from across the political spectrum on wednesday the justice ministry decreed that the military police and the intelligence services have the whites to arrest and detain civilians

and that in addition has sent out alarm bells to me it seems as if the emergency law that was only recently lifted could very well be reintroduced so you have these political developments that are causing people like mohamed el baradei who is the former head of the united nations atomic energy agency to call on the military and the court to perspire only elections that were scheduled to get under great the concern is that these elections will be overshadowed by violence the concern is also that the country will slide back into dictatorial rule and the other concern is that whichever candidate is elected as president will have powers that at this stage seemingly are you name it with some analysts here actually saying that those powers could extend beyond the pilots of traditional dictators. ok r.t. correspondent thanks for that. kyra based activists summary for those who believe the muslim brotherhood now being deprived of its official tool of

influence it could be left with no choice but to change its political strategy. as a muslim brotherhood and those of islamic forces. looking into the situation from a very worrying that positions of the think is what has been happening today after this all brings up parliament which is the haves overwhelming majority and side that may be leaving is that we. are getting in coming election which will be a few a few months later and the think is that if. this is likely actually an egyptian situation maybe it will crack down on them all. seem very restrictive atmosphere experience to the mubarak regime elements of the all the regime regrouping themselves in a new political party as we hear now they will compete in the upcoming elections

that will change it differently. and will decide not to waste their time or. resisting. to prepare themselves for the parliamentary elections. coming up in just a little later in the program one step forward now way back we sound may find himself in sweden by the end of june after british judges refused to reopen his extradition case all that and it concerns the trial is just paving his way to the u.s. . and human rights group criticizes the new policy makers for their treatment of immigrants calling it inhumane says the economic crisis test the standoff between eighty europeans and outsiders to the limit. now despite pakistan's repeated demands for an immediate end to u.s. led drone strikes in the country reports of fresh attacks are continuing and these three people believed to be militants have been killed in the latest incident but

with their identities hard to verify their concerns that america's war drones could be causing civilian deaths in the process. so-called collateral damage is going to come experience. reports about u.s. drone strikes in pakistan coming more and more often we're getting used to hearing in the media such and such number of terrorists was killed with no way to verify really there are no names attached to those numbers usually but earlier this month american officials proudly announced that a drone strike in pakistan killed one of his top commanders almost two weeks later a video with the same men. was posted online with titles which are generally reserved for the living leaders have not confirmed or denied this the video could have been taped before he's that's true so he might as well be dead but the confusion has once again raised the question of who's really dying in those bombings and how much do we actually know because it's all very murky what we do know is that the obama administration has dramatically ramped up drone strikes in

pakistan around story hundred strikes since he took office it's this area bordering afghanistan which is on the fire but judging by the intensity of the u.s. strikes there one thing that only terrorists leave there that's not the case of course the long investigative journalism says more than eight hundred civilians died in those bombings among them almost two hundred children what's interesting for a year u.s. officials are all together denied civilian deaths in drone strikes but reports on the ground told the opposite and thousands of people protesting furiously in pakistan told the opposite then that was the last straw of the aerial strike which killed two dozen pakistani soldiers last year by mistake diplomatic have a follow up between the u.s. and pakistan pakistan blocked supply routes to afghanistan and they still remain closed by the way a new wave of extremism has been steered by those strikes but it's also interesting u.s. officials have in direct lead accused this bureau of investigative journalism which

works to shed light on civilian deaths in those drone strikes. helping terrorists one might argue that this label terrorist helper is becoming an all too convenient tool for the government to brush off investigative journalism then there was this yemeni journalist who reported about the drone strike in yemen in two thousand and nine twenty one woman and fourteen children died there the journalist is now in jail reportedly at the personal request of president obama himself. there's this line of thought in washington it's all perfectly fine as long as we're fighting the bad guy the president approves the list of those bad guys by the way the kill list on secret evidence with no review but does the argument we're fighting the bad guys mean that the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in

washington i'm going to check and. after eight days of vicious combat against armed rebels syrian government forces are finally open the turn of a half or two universe and with memories of massacres still strong looking for the telltale signs of slaughter will be high on their agenda so far they found vast amounts of abandoned weapons and destruction so most all government buildings looted and burned turned also appears to be deserted the suspicion that bodies have either been buried or removed before the un observers arrived particles are already being drawn with past massacres is going down to the government's culpability with reports also indicating that rebel forces let's now get more on these latest accounts from the hermit editor in chief of the syria tribune thanks for joining us here on r.t. today a mainstream german newspaper recently published a report or explicitly naming the rebels as responsible for the who massacre in syria do you think those kinds of reports are more widespread than perhaps is suggested in the western media. yes. the problem with the western media

is that no media outlets actually instigate what happened if they just jumped. to concluding that the syrian. regime was are responsible for that and it was. only deals and claims to arm the opposition to support their claims so. yes i think that this is a step towards the position was and i think more institutions like this are telling that couple of weeks ago assad was made out to be the only guilty party by default today many news outlets seem to be backtracking somewhat was that. you know it's very difficult to hide the source whatever and. many stories are leaking out some areas of her struggle. and the. story

is. that the opposition fighters are responsible for a lot of its models i think the media is trying to have a more balanced coverage on syria at the moment integration for something for some kind of. hopefully some kind of. a better approach will it or it's the license when indeed you say politically that i mean what hope is there of united international call for peace in syria when the world really centers are locked in a media war really. yes so the we have two wars to look we have nuclear war and we have war on the ground and. it's just. looked at the moment. the i think what will mark the next step is the progress on the ground and as it seems the syrian forces syrian armed forces are doing

a lot of this progress and. i think with the. advance of the military operation that there is evidently against armed militia and. not anything else i think this will force the need. and can kofi annan peace plan really survive all of this in your opinion. i think some some sort of a political agreement is what will survive if this political agreement is called the enhanced now and then why not also are we. have done nothing to support the enhance. the promises of countries that support them that they would pressure them to support the now unfortunately that it has been a lot of pressure from the syrian government allies on syria and the syrian government. and the syrian government did

a lot of points in that land on the other hand the. opposition fighters were getting more vicious and they're receiving more weapons and fighting more viciously and this has happened despite the promises meetings there and that the government supporting those fighters. so. land per se has a has a chance to succeed only yes lead government support in these fighters and if there were. are convinced that it should be supported. there are have editor in chief of the syria tribune thank you for joining us here live in r.t. thank you. power with uncertainty and the competing interests plaguing the conflict people of cross-talk program discusses just what's at stake in syria the full show is coming up or later this hour. if it hadn't been for the outside

interference the arming of the opposition the motion of civil war by the united states britain france and their clients in the region this would not have evolved at this point it was inevitable that there would be a sectarian conflict is joshua it seems to. be american for enter russian plans to change the regime but. should anybody say that you know how can anybody say that the government of the united states actually cares about the lives of the people they killed hundreds of thousands in iraq they just bombed libya to smithereens they're intervening in syria the whole idea that they united states care about the lives of arabs is just nonsense or about democracy they support saudi saudi dictatorship.

we could leaks founder julian assange could be sent to sweden by the end of the month but he's wanted for questioning of a sex assault allegations south of you case top court unanimously dismissed his fate to reintroduce the extradition case says the movie's politically motivated and stuck right to have a secret agreement with the u.s. where he's wanted for his activities strongly and fears the court's decision brings him one step closer to being handed over to washington u.s. attorney kevin zeese thinks the outcome of the process will be decisive for the concept of freedom of speach. i think it's a real shame all assizes wanted for is questioning he's not been charged he could have done the questioning by skype there's no need to go to sweden to be questioned there's been rumors that there is a sea org and other words a secret indictment already against julius honest but there may not be we don't really know the answer that at this point nothing has been released about that if there is an indictment and he is actually the united states they'll be

a long battle about that as well. then the charges will be very serious ones and the ones that will define press freedom and government transparency for the twenty first century are really would be a really critically important case some of the truth. julius are just gotten out have shown that from the lowest levels to the highest levels of our military and our state department there are crimes being committed. hillary clinton signing a memo ordering our diplomats to spy on demands coming the united nations which is really illegal she should be being prosecuted now during the songs and so it's a real shame that the transparency that mr assad has brought to the world is being met with the fear and repercussions that's being thrown against him because what he has done merely has been getting out the truth and the truth is what's really frightening to the united states. we've been following us on this case from the start so if you're wondering how this story began at our web site r.t.

dot com and that is a taste of what else i might catch while you're there today i see but i see it is there the longer the stuff of science fiction is this well spiderman and i were carving out for grabs the attention of the u.s. military. and the shower shame at billion dollar highway russian spy reste fails to withstand the pattern of rain as he gets away. the e.u. is enforcement of immigration control is inhumane and has gone far beyond the blocks borders according to a recent report by amnesty international western saw center explains ongoing policy failures have become a growing headache for native europeans too. it may be called the european the

union but discord is right and the swing to the extreme is becoming a little more mainstream especially when it comes to discourse on immigration and in some cases leads to outright violence from norway. to greece. to hungary. just stuck in our streets girls a rate delivery molested and insulted by gangs of in all this every year in the leader of the new solidarity alternative or and this a group in belgium was convicted on charges of racism he denies being racist but says he's against immigration because belgium can no longer cope with the economic and social demands of mass immigration that's the fault of the liberal democracy democracy in whole in old west it's economics that's nothing to do with race it's more extreme right or extreme arrest or what a lot of the bad weather it has to do with by konami. such as the argument that has

gained traction in crisis hit europe with soaring unemployment recent elections in france and greece showed a big gains for the far right and immigrants say they've increasingly been on the receiving end of prejudice in many forms. in all of europe a woman with a veil can go into any shop and buy anything she wants but a veiled woman cannot work in this shop but what is in the report it is the discrimination and racism in the everyday life the people are facing because they don't trip or because they don't trust the police so every. when you get inserted on the street or issue a muslim woman that you had gotten stricken off of you have whatever you don't report simply a two thousand and ten report by the european network against racism and discrimination found that racially discriminatory practices are widespread institutional in nature and practiced at all levels of society across europe in two thousand and eight the european commission proposed a directive that would ban discrimination on the grounds of age disability religion

or belief and sexual orientation in all areas including social protection and advantages as well us access to goods and services now the current law only applies to the workplace but it's been four years and the directive is stuck largely because some member states are blocking it arguing that implementation would be too costly this activists say is one of the many failures of policy makers and while immigrants are blamed by politicians on the right for failure to integrate others say it's the authorities which have not done enough. it was a policy. to the migrants i never knew that if there is a policy it's not the follow to far as i know of those who make the policy over the europe's economic troubles which are preoccupying leaders show no sign of ending soon but the race and immigration issues they left us solved could prove just as big a political time bomb tests are so your r.t.

brussels. on this extremism and intolerance flourish across the e.u. or even further headaches coming from the economy terrified of what's happening in the euro zone that britain has announced some one hundred billion pounds we pumped into its banks in mainland europe and especially spain get worse as the eurozone author and commentator professor baucus says it's the beginning of a chain reaction. well now it looks like that spain with needs bail out and once this has happened probably italy will need one and then we have suppression of greece if greece actually exits the euro this. illegal and minister to the president so markets investors within that this could leave and hold most of the press and precedents for countries like finland and germany to say well we may actually if you don't get your hours this in more so than they would have a more credible threat. to push other countries to do the necessary.

so it's a very open how this all ends but i fear that in in the end these. two political pressure and start running the printing press. what goes around comes around as europe desperate in six a financial stimulus it may feel another blow this time coming from iran the country's oil minister has warned that the oil sanctions with a tough burden for the box economy that's ahead of a major international talks over iran's nuclear activities which according to the country's top diplomat sorry probably peaceful. that's there so firstly we are strongly against weapons of mass destruction today the republic of iran has the capacity to use to cooperate in disarmament and nuclear nonproliferation to these get better should be used by the international community is second lien that we

expect that he runs right nuclear technologies including your renaming richmond as we recognize and respect to that this is something that is clearly defined by the nuclear nonproliferation treaty and i think that addressing these two issues will help to advance negotiation is. where the full interview is coming your way at ten thirty at t.n.t. . well now it's time to join creature in the business this girl hi katie it's a big day for the markets ahead of the greek election on sunday isn't it it is a big day is also nerves around but those are actually optimism right now we've got stocks in europe at the center of it all there actually gave way and that's because there's been reports that the major central banks and governments globally are going to enforce some contingency plans ready to counter any volatility that is expected next week off to the elections that we've also got the greek course as well pointing to the upside as well as you can see the footsie nine tenths of

a cent up on the dax just shortly behind is that we also had more credit downgrades by moody's today this time it was the dutch. banks really feeling the hate they were citing the rest session believing that they're going to face difficult operating conditions throughout twenty twelve and possibly beyond so let's have a look at the russian markets here moscow to see how they're doing this friday off to noon and they're benefiting from a stronger crude prices as you can see there developing their gains there the r.t.s. are one and a half percent up in the mindset is around eight tenths of a says we also have the russian central bank meeting today they left a key interest rate unchanged eight percent they were sizing inflationary risk and also growth prospects given the current global persons who we've got right now so let's see the blue chips and see well what are we expecting some green arrows right now yep we've got gas so getting around eight heads of sun just because well the

biggest legs ahead luko benefiting from those oil prices around half a percent opposed to territory this with the ruble it's already happened much movement in the session today the exchange rates are pretty stable as for the euro dollar as well as pretty flat is well ahead of the alleged to. have a look at the asian markets and if we might see how they finished up today they really can't sold off the nikkei that i was talking about intervention by central buying. the bank of japan did disappoint because they decided not to do so so as far as the japanese boss was concerned it was swinging between gains and losses for most of the session it just managed to gain around one basis point just as the hang stag around two and a quarter of the stent are to look at the us markets i can tell you that the u.s. stock futures are still pointing north words now that's because the federal reserve the policymakers they are expected to make a decision today on injecting extra cash into the system possibly intervening with

those interest rates that's what we're holding out for as you can see those were the closing figures almost straight hours of yesterday as a look at the oil prices i was reading just now that china is apparently increasing at their oil imports the second biggest consumer of oil that's because of the recent slump in the global international prices so they're really taking advantage of right now we have got them gaining absolutely if you look at the prices they remain ok that the market's now back about fifty minutes kerry ok mary thanks for the update casey. with the latest crosstalk debates focusing on syria is coming up next hour for a look at the headlines. if

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