would free broadcast video for your media projects and free video down to r.t. dot com. fresh protests on the eve of the egyptian presidential runoff as the country's highest court dissolved parliament allows mubarak's ex prime minister to continue his controversial election challenge. the u.s. steps of deadly drone attacks on pakistani territory leading to calls for investigation into the legality and made 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 a warning follows the arrest of a man with ties to an al qaeda linked group. welcome

it's now six pm here in moscow my name's kevin zero in this is our top story egypt's 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 now dissolved the islam is dominated body and allowed mubarak's last prime minister to stay in the presidential race and as artie's paulus leah reports now from cairo more protests are on the way. mood here in cairo is volatile 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 off 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 islamicist 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 the decision also reverts just a simple forty 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 half of whites to arrest and detain civilians and that in addition has sent out alarm. belle's 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 to toil and the other concern is that

whichever candidate is elected as president will have powers that at this stage seemingly are unlimited. believes in the wake of the supreme court ruling the muslim brotherhood will have to change its tactics from street protests to preparing for parliamentary reelection. as a muslim brotherhood and other islamic forces. looking into the situation from very worrying the positions of the think is what have been happening today after the sort of brings up parliament which is a haves overwhelming majority and say that may be behaving as a way of getting in and upcoming election which will be a few a few months later. and think is that if. this is likely actually an egyptian city which are they now maybe it will crack down on them all. seem very distinctive atmosphere experience to them or barack

regime elements orbs all the regime regrouping themselves in a new political party as we hear now and they will compete in the upcoming elections a political map will change it differently and. will decide not to waste of time or if there is this thing. them selves for the parliamentary election and to follow how the second read of the story presidential election. don't miss our special report if you get the time to watch throughout the weekend it's coming up across the weekend here on r.t. . champion a hardline islamist. hated remnant of a tyrannical. rabble to control and by. what is the altar call. on.

reports of fresh u.s. drone strikes in pakistan keep pouring in despite the country's officials demanding a hold to the attacks which they say are against international law at least three people believe the militants have been killed in the latest incident and as washington continues to defend its tactics more more civilians are falling victim to america's drone attacks nazis garniture can reports. 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. it was posted online with titles which are generally reserved for the living other al qaeda leaders have not confirmed or denied levy's

death the video could have been taped before his death 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 the 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 altogether 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 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 rightly 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 journalists and 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 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 and. see that in the program true seeker or high tech terrorist you're in a surge is big three zero put his case has been rejected sending his fight for freedom now that as far as the european court of human rights we've got the latest and no unity in the e.u. discord over immigration is mounting within the block as critics accuse governments of using hardline tactics with deadly consequences. the syrian government's warning of possible suicide bomber targeted mosques in damascus after it arrested a man with ties to al qaeda linked group the suspect said to have confessed he was going to blow himself up in the center of the capital meanwhile u.n. observers visited the town of half an hour after intense battles between government

and opposition forces they found government buildings got it from the inside with dead bodies believe had been removed or buried before the u.n. mission arrived parallels of being drawn with past sukkahs in syria now but there's growing too in the western media over the government's involvement in the atrocities across the country with reports also implicating rebel militia or the bloodshed some journalist went as far as close the opposite. deliberately set them up to be shot by the syrian army david gibbs history professor at the university of arizona says media spins left its mark on this conflict. was a general point in these types of conflicts the propaganda aspect is critically important and there is an effort in the west portray the rebels in a kind of purely positive light and syrian regime in a purely negative light and you know you have the facts on the ground are 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 particularly from. indicate that there is some indications that might have been some element of the rebels that might have committed at least part of the massacre the german report with regard to pull the 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. cross talk show next hour here on r.t. discusses the syrian crisis with experts focusing on why western powers never revealed their real agenda for intervention. in every case when the united states or britain or france the former colonizers of the middle east decided 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 said it's a julian assange will be imprisoned when he's handed over to the swedish authorities while a court decides if he should remain in custody so says sweden where the world's best known whistleblowers wanted for questioning over sex crime allegations. the u.k. supreme court decided not to reopen assigned his appeal case and held his extradition to stockholm says the move is politically motivated to do that sweeten may have a secret agreement with the u.s. the country's 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 sides as wanted for 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 been rumors that there is a c. all the words a secret indictment already against julius honest but there may now 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. jews are just going out have shown that from the lowest levels the highest levels of our military and our state department are there crimes being committed. hillary clinton signing a memo ordering our diplomats to spy on different nations which is illegal and so it's a real shame that the transparency of their science has brought to the world is

being met with the fear and repercussions as being for and against because what he has done merely has been getting out the truth and all the details about the son's case for a beginning are available on our website r.t. dot com also as well take a listen great pictures here sipho stories come to life this is real the spider man city could climb its way into the future of the u.s. military part of the no sand there a bit of worry going on so that probably like a vacuum cleaner but it's clever plus down the drain it with the rain look at this as well this billion dollar highway in russia's far east is washed away by the rain find out what high profile event that road was built for two on our website. next today residents of a palestinian village have contacted the guinness book of world records to register

that their village has been demolished by israel thirty eight times jeff helper co-founder and executive director of the israeli committee against house demolitions told me thinks it's a last ditch attempt to attract attention to their plight. i think this is an act of desperation they've turned to the israeli courts for years and years and years israeli activists have gone down to try to resist the demolitions there's been international campaigns against a jewish national fund which is behind the demolitions of these homes and nothing has helped israel comes back common time and time again to demolish the homes of this small bedouin community that's been there since for hundreds of years and i think this is simply this kind of a gimmick in a way to say to the world look we have no more redress 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 moves and let the u.n. and the international community start to deal with this 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. the e.u. cares more about in forcing its borders than people's lives that is the dumbing conclusion reached in the latest report by amnesty international human rights groups claim that europe actively aims to prevent africans from reaching and shows endangering the lives of asylum seekers and they are now increasing calls from critics to holding governments accountable for the treatment of immigrants. the reports those who do manage to reach europe face increasing discrimination. it may be called the european human but discord is right and a 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 story is a report of a man listed and insulted by gangs of. 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 a build woman cannot work in this shop but what is in the report is the discrimination and the racism in the everyday life that people are facing because they don't report because they don't trust the police so every time you get into that on the street or if you are a muslim woman that you have got it sticking out of you have all whatever you don't report 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. that's 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 policymakers 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 of. it was a policy in the policy to the moment i never knew that if there is a policy it's not the full of too 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've left are solved could prove just as big a political time bomb tests are cilia r.t. brussels and the problems of extremism and intolerance in the e.u. are widely overshadowed now of course as well but the blogs current economic eggs governments across the world indeed preparing for market panic may be ahead of the greek vote this weekend the outcome of which could determine the country's eurozone future now in case south as does britain has already announced some one hundred billion pounds is said to be pumped into its own banks to defend against any backlash author and commentator professor philip berger says the greek exit my spark a europe wide chain reaction. well now it looks like that spain with needs. one and probably italy will need one then we have suppression orders or greece if greece actually exits the euro this. legal and administrative precedence

so market indices within that mark underscored leaves and most of the rest of the precedents for countries like finland and germany to say well we may actually leave if you don't get your hours this in more of those so than they would have them are credible threat. to other countries to do the necessary stuff so it's very open how this all in but i fear that in in the end these these would be really used to political pressure and start running the printing press but . also around the world this japanese police have arrested the last fugitive suspect linked to the deadly gas attack on tokyo subway seventeen years ago an employee in a city cafe recognized him and called the police the man belonged to a cult group which had access to chemical and biological weapons nearly two hundred of its members have criminal records thirteen people were killed and thousands more

injured in that nine hundred ninety five plot. dozens of feared dead and thirty thousand more displaced as sectarian violence continues near the eastern coast of myanmar it's unclear what caused the ongoing rioting an arson attacks but police are telling the muslim community to stay oh and avoid central locations soldiers and police are forcing a state of emergency right now including an overnight curfew and ban on public meetings of more than five people. the argentinean president cristina fernandez de kirchner is urging britain to come to the negotiating table for talks about the disputed falkland islands she made the play in front of a un decolonization committee in new york the two sides fought over the british territory in one thousand eighty two. a war in which more than nine hundred people died ireland is planned to hold a referendum next year to decide their future. russians going outside their nation's borders for medical help may become a thing of the past treatment of procedures for serious heart conditions are made

great strides since the fall of the soviet union is really good has got the story. home is where the hardest but for many russians their country is not where the chance to get their medical care especially those with heart problems is many is just saying thousand russians are here just to go abroad to get treatment because they say health care at home leaves much to be desired for the country's leading cardiologists it's a great concern but the only thing is that we have thousands of cases which can be very successfully treated here at home so i say with all the responsibility ninety percent of full treatment is done in broader can be done here. but many remain unconvinced even though centers like most goes back will of institute have perfected some of the most complicated procedures which can give the old or young taker and new life that's a bus that after the break up of the u.s.s.r. the state had to be created in you and in the process the situation with medicine

was let go to the point where people have unfortunately lost the trust in russian health care to me it's not so for two time hard bypass survivor the tally me knife the former diplomat underwent extensive treatment both abroad and at the buckley of center most of. our health care is far stronger and kinder than western especially now when many medical centers have the technology we're used to seeing in the west so it's most importantly our doctors have so it's sort of this that along with well trained hands is something which allows russian doctors to save lives daily with operations on heard of just a few years ago thousands of such procedures have already been performed at the center on patients as young as just a few weeks old to those whose lives are in full bloom like twenty four year old man tyler who suffered from a heritage terry heart condition it's just the feeling right now is that i

understand and feel like a completely healthy person. a priceless feeling of inner health a cheat. without heeding outside russia's borders in moscow it is. the business to be trees that the business news sent to russian markets on the role of the final major trade bring us up to date well we've got the r.t.s. in the my six gaining two and a half percent in the final minutes that were everything can change in the fifteen final minutes of trading session that's what we have on the clock left because. in several occasions we see on a friday evening investors choosing to cash out two to secure profits rather than and actually you risk see what's happening on monday and this is logical especially for this weekend because we have the greek elections coming up on sunday which are crucial for the euro zone secular what's going on in russia basically investors are hopeful that the government will not be formed and therefore there will be

volatility on the markets and therefore central banks in the euro zone will coordinate actions to provide stimulus to the economies of this kind of perverted sense of the word optimism really is what we're seeing the r.t.s. gaining two and a half percent you can see there now among the main movers on the mice that financials are quite uneasy burbank behind the market up around one percent metals mine amec a is up zero point seven percent after quarterly results and rosneft is up more than two percent it's leading the gains on the back of dividends increased from eleven percent to twenty five percent of net profits also it has signed to the rosneft has signed a deal with america's exxon no those driving a developer difficult. period now the say bieber trench you and your output of the deposits could be about fifteen million tons of recruit early this year two

companies agreed to work together we shelved in russia and they've also been working on the exactly one project. all right elsewhere in the markets the dow jones and nasdaq corrupted more than half a percent pretty much on the same optimism about stimulus in europe that's the spite consumer confidence falling to the lowest level since november and in europe the first seize up point three percent the dax is up more than one percent again head of these elections in greece which might prove well a turning point in the euro zone's fate if something goes wrong basically and eventually if greece should. come out of the of the euro zone and go back to the dark. now also on the currency markets the euro is falling slightly versus the dollar not much of a movement this is really waiting for some kind of outcome before they make any kind of long term movement into one or the other currency and the russian ruble is

losing its the basket. and commodities providing support to the russian market prices which are high after opec decided to leave production processes as is without increasing them to ease the price pressure. that's the way the markets like this out of course at the top of the i'll be back with closing bell figures for the rush not already and a couple of minutes we meet a group of men who hunt for a criminals is upsetting law abiding locals in the protest great story you're not seeing this report today before that a reminder of all our top stories make heaven owing to an hour when it's time.

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