fresh protests on the eve of the egyptian presidential runoff as the country's highest court dissolved parliament allows mubarak's x. prime minister to continue his controversial election challenge. the u.s. steps up deadly drone attacks on pakistani territory leading to calls for an investigation into the galatea amid claims innocent civilians are being killed in strikes officially targeting terrorists. and syria's government says there may be more suicide bomb attacks in the country's capital the warning follows the arrest of a man with ties to an al qaeda linked group. hello welcome it's five pm here in moscow you're watching with me kevin when he gypsy

election transition is sliding deeper into turmoil as the country's left without a parliament ahead of this weekend's presidential runoff the supreme court's rulings affectively dissolved the islam is dominated body and allowed mubarak's last prime minister now to stay in the presidential race and as artie's pulis leader reports from cairo more protests are on their way. certainly the mood here in cairo is volatile left wing activists as well as liberals the youth secular egyptians 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 op wage 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 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 after which a fig who 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 the decision also reverts to 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 the official line from the muslim brotherhood is to respect the decision of the court we heard as much from the candidate dr mohamed morsi although 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 and 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 right to arrest and detain civilians and that in addition has sent out alarm. belle's to many it seems as if the emergency nor 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 underway tomorrow 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 unlimited paula slayer middle east

correspondent a current base activists believes in the wake of the supreme court ruling the muslim brotherhood will have to change its tactics now from street protests to preparing for parliamentary reelection as the muslim brotherhood and other islamic forces. are looking into the situation from a very worrying the positions of the think as to what has been happening today after the solving the parliament which is the overwhelming majority and so that may be moving is that. getting a list in and upcoming election which will be a few a few months later and the think is that if. this is likely actually in egyptians if you wish or they now maybe it will crack down on them or seem very restrictive atmosphere they experienced during mubarak

regime elements or was all the regime really groupings themselves in a new political party as we hear now and they will compete in the upcoming elections a political change a definitely. will decide not to with the. resisting shift. them selves for the parliamentary election. and to see how the second round of the story presidential election egypt's going to unfold i hope you can catch our special coverage across the weekend here on this channel r.t. from moscow. lines of. the to run the. rabble to. subscribe. to.

reports of fresh u.s. drone strikes in pakistan keep pouring in despite the country's officials to mother to hold to the attacks which they say are against international law at least three people believe three militants have been killed in the latest incident and as washington continues to defend its tactics more and more civilians are falling victim to america's drone attacks are to has got to come explains. 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 man yeah yeah levy was posted online with titles which are generally reserved for the living they're all qaeda leaders have not confirmed or denied levy's death the video could have been taped before he's that 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 under fire but judging by the intensity of the u.s. strikes there one may think that only terrorists lived there that's not the case of course the long and based bureau of investigation says more than eight hundred civilians died in those bombings. among them almost two hundred children what's interesting four 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 at the aerial strike which killed two dozen pakistani soldiers last year by mistake diplomatic haven't followed 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 accused this bureau of investigative journalism which works to shed light on civilian deaths in those drone strikes of 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 when 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 guys 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 on. still ahead the program truth seeker or high tech terrorist julius sounds good to reopen the case has been rejected it's said his fight for freedom as far as the european court of human rights next then also to no unity in the discord over immigration is mounting within the block his critics accuse governments of using hardline tactics with deadly consequences. the syrian government's warning of possible suicide bomb attacks in mosques in damascus after it arrested a man with ties to an al qaeda linked group the suspect said to have confessed that he was going to blow himself up in the center of the capital meantime u.n. observers have visited the town of phone now after intense battles between government and opposition forces they found government buildings gutted from the inside with dead bodies believed to have been removed or buried before the u.n.

mission arrived parallels are already being drawn with past massacres in syria but there's growing doubt in the western media of the government's involvement in the atrocities across the country with reports also implicating rebel militia in the bloodshed some journalists went as far as claiming the opposition deliberately set them up to be shot by the syrian army david gibbs is a history professor at the university of arizona he told us media spin this left its mark on this conflict. it was a general point in these types of conflicts the propaganda aspect is critically important and there's an effort in the west portray rebels in a kind of almost purely positive light and syrian regime in a purely negative light and you know get the facts on the ground very hard to ascertain who massacre did for a long time for a while look like it was clearly done by the government but there was a report in the german across from particularly the front for it to. indicate that

there is some indications it might have been some element of the rebels that might have committed at least part of the massacre the german report with regard to cool underscores the fact that it's very difficult to get at the truth in these types of conflicts where you know both sides are trying to use propaganda and spin to advance their positions and so this is being presented as is typically the case in these types of conflicts as a good versus evil conflict with all the blame on one side even if the reality is more complicated. bit of all cross talk program later today discusses the syrian crisis with experts focusing on why western powers never reveal the real agenda for intervention. in every case when the united states or britain or france the former colonizers of the middle east decide to intervene to overthrow a government they assigned their mission a noble cause to defend democracy defend freedom to protect civilians they never say we're coming in to brutally exploit dominate and take your land labor and resources and use you as a bargaining chip in the world will struggle against others they never say it like

that because nobody would support that. wiki leaks had to julian the surge is set to be imprisoned when he's handed over to the swedish authorities while a court decides if he should remain in custody sweden where the world's best known whistleblower is wanted for questioning over sex crime allegations on thursday the u.k. supreme court decided not to reopen aside his appeal case and held his extradition to stockholm his son says the move though was politically motivated and that sweet may have a secret agreement with the united states the country he had few related with wiki leaks revelations u.s. attorney kevin zeese thinks the outcome of the case will be decisive for the concept of free speech. i think it's a real shame all assizes wanted for is questioning he's not been charged he could've done their questioning by skype there's no need to go to sweden to be questioned there's been rumors that there is a sealed in the words

a secret indictment already against julius honors 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 a guide to 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 the some of the truth that julius side has 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 spied on demands coming here in the nations which is really illegal 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 threatened against him because what he has done merely has been getting out the truth and all the details about

his son's case was very beginning available my website much more in line as well take a look at this site by story's coming to life and this is a bit of kit i found seated about you the spider man say that could climb its way into the future of the u.s. military they're interested in it yes you can see why i hope there's no power cut that plus down the drain with the rain this is with this billion dollar highway and russia's far east when it literally got washed away so amazing pictures that you can also find it online what but high profile the road was built for. this is r t from moscow residents of a palestinian village of content to the guinness book of world records to register the village was demolished by israel thirty eight times let's talk more about this

than with jeff helper he's co-founder and director of the israeli committee against house demolitions no one better to talk about it with an i guess the jeff good to see it firstly why these villages chosen to do this. i think this is an act of desperation they've turned to these radio courts for years and years and years israeli activists have gone down to try to resist the demolitions there's been international campaigns against the jewish national fund which is behind the demolitions of these homes and nothing has helped israel comes back time and time and time again to them all of the homes of this small bedouin community that's been there since for hundreds of years and i think this is simply it's kind of a gimmick in a way to say to the world look we have no more redress let's look it got in the news right so in a sense it was successful ok but in the cold light of day but where it matters it's going to make any difference. well you know that's the problem.

you know if some of these little stories really in effect you know bring out the wider the wider realities israel defines itself as a jewish country exclusively it's for jews now are in the process not only of expelling palestinians or confining them to areas of the west bank and gaza and the bedouins inside israel but even of expelling thousands of tens of thousands of african refugees because we have to keep israel a purely jewish state in some way and so this is a war against the bedouins who are actually citizens of israel the idea is that the entire negative desert where they where they live about sixty thousand bedouins live as israeli citizens shouldn't be taking up our land they're stealing our land our jewish land they're croce on our land even though like i said they've been

there for hundreds of years and the plan is to concentrate them and most of them have been already concentrate them and in townships with no economic infrastructure no transportation just lock them into these townships they'll be casual laborers that will work in the jewish communities around and that's it just as you know that in a sense they're struggling not just for their land but for their economic rights is a bit of a delay on the line here jeff do you feel you've made any headway in the last five years while you've been battling this. i think so you know in the end the court of last resort is public opinion in other words if we can really put israel on the spot and really reveal what's going on here and to bring it into the international news and let the u.n. and the international community start to deal with this and to emphasize that the problem is one nine hundred forty eight now it isn't nine hundred sixty seven the problem is the treatment of all arabs in israel not simply those in the occupied

territories i think we we have a chance through public opinion and international law to force the israeli government to do justice even towards its own arab citizens alone to think israel can continue these actions as you see it do you see an end to the long standing conflict and when and how could that come about practically. well you know that kind of the conflict here and the bedouins are a small part of it but they're a part of it is really a global conflict it isn't just a localized conflict between israelis and palestinians and it affects the entire muslim world you know the palestinians have become the epitome of resistance to the west to neo imperialism in a sense to western colonialism the humiliation of islam and therefore i don't think you can avoid resolving this conflict if you want to try to bring about some normal

normalcy in relations between the west and the and the entire muslim world not simply this part of the muslim world so i think there are much. wave year considerations at work here this is a tiny story the better ones but it reverberates into a much larger global story and there i think israel's back is to the wall i think public opinion is changing i think the international community is starting to see that this is counterproductive to everybody's interests and hopefully at some point israel will not be allowed to continue its policies or that jeff thanks for coming on the program and making a point so succinctly that co-founder and executive director of israeli committee against house demolitions like. the e.u. cares more about inforcing its borders than people's lives that's the damning conclusion reached in the latest report by amnesty international the human rights group claims europe actively aims to prevent africans from reaching it shows endangering the lives of asylum seekers there are now increasing calls than from

critics to hold e.u. governments accountable for the treatment of immigrants and aussies tester a sinner reports next those who do manage to reach europe thanks increasing discrimination. it may be called the european union but discord is rife 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. in our street. and in. recent elections in france and greece showed 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 it cannot work in this

shop but what is in the report is the discrimination and racism in the everyday life that people are facing because they don't report because they don't trust the police so every time on the street or. whatever simply a two thousand and ten report by the european network against racism on 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 and 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 afraid of. the migrants. i never knew that if there is a new kitchen policy it's not the fault of the too far as i know it's of those who make the policy over the europe's economic troubles which are preoccupied leader 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 cilia are to brussels. of course the problems of extremism and intolerance in the widely overshadowed right now by the blocs current economic headaches two governments across the world are preparing them for market panic ahead of the greek vote this week and the outcome of which could determine the country's eurozone future in case our friends does exit britain's now and some one hundred billion pounds is going to be pumped into its own banks to defend against any backlash author and commentator professor phillip bagus says the greek

exit may spark a europe wide chain reaction well now it looks like that spain really needs their own bailout and once this has happened probably italy will need one and then we have suppression of greece if greece actually exits the year all this. legal and ministry of presidents so market indices within that mark underscored leaves and whole host of the present precedents for countries like finland or germany to say well we may actually lead if you don't get your eye was this in more of that so than they would have them are credible as friends. to push other countries to do the necessary stuff so it's very open how this all in but i fear that in in the end the d.c.b. leads to political pressure and start running the printing press but. well news in

brief now japanese police have arrested the last fugitive suspected linked to the deadly gas attack on tokyo subway seventeen years ago and employed a city cafe recognized him called the police the man belong to a cult group which had access to chemical and biological weapons in the two hundred of its members have criminal records thirteen were killed and dozens more injured in the one thousand nine hundred five plot. dozens of feed dead and thirty thousand more displaced as sick tarion violence continues near the eastern coast of myanmar so unclear what caused the ongoing rioting and arson attacks but police are telling the muslim community to stay home and avoid central locations soldiers and police are in forcing a state of emergency including an overnight curfew and ban on public meetings of more than five people. argentinian president cristina fernandez de kirchner as britain to come to the negotiating table for talks about the disputed falkland islands she made the plea in front of a un decolonization committee in new york the two sides fought over the british

territory back in one thousand nine hundred two it was a war in which more than nine hundred people were killed or does plan to hold a referendum next year to decide the future. exactly twenty five minutes past five the afternoon moscow time let's get across the business with dmitri and it looks like a very upbeat end to the week doesn't it after all the ups and downs we've seen more downs and ups on the stock market that is true on the stock markets we're seeing optimism but i'd call that perverted because in a way traders right now are hoping for the worst out of sunday's elections in greece because if new government cannot be formed then there will be volatility on the markets and then the central banks they've promised they would intervene and they would provide stimulus so the optimism is on these hopes of a stimulus so in case we have good results of the elections and the government is formed and greece stays in the euro and everything's fine then probably the markets are going to fall this is kind of up and inside out topsy turvy situation here now what we're seeing on the european markets is the footsie is gaining point two

percent the bank of england has been pioneering these efforts to provide stimulus on the markets and the dax is up more than one percent this out over here in russia one more hour to go before the end of the session and it's a very good session of a very short trading week for the r.t.s. gating one point eight percent of my six one point three percent we've also seen a good session on wednesday and a first day of my. among the main movers on the my saying we've got financials gaining is burbank up point six percent dixie the supermarket chain is down one point five percent up to disappointing results and rosneft is up one point six percent now it has signed a deal with american exxon mobil to jointly develop or difficult oil fields in west siberia analysts say the potential annual output of the deposits could be about fifteen million tons of crude earlier this year two companies agreed to work together in the russian arctic shelf and they've been working for more than two

decades in russia's far east. all right elsewhere on the markets in currencies the euro is continuing decline against the dollar's floating around the level of one point two six versus the greenback that was of course the seat some kind of stable movement of to be elections when more or less have an understanding of what's going to happen with greece i mean while the russian ruble continues its out of minor fall versus both countries. and in commodities light sweet and brant have now moved into the red basically all this optimism kind of making way for cautiousness so investors basically trying to stay there where they are the moment and not make any long term moves that are really on the market we're not seeing that much of that much of volumes and this is all because of this cautiousness ahead of this crucial weekend for the years and years away the market looks as you

say the search a lot of printing on this coming up this weekend isn't it with greece ok thanks well we will be simulated dmitri now in a couple of minutes time we ask iran's senior politician and top nuclear negotiator about iran's controversial nuclear program the prospects for those upcoming talks here in moscow fry brought you up to date with our latest news headlines just under two minutes from now.

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