pressure protests on the eve of view gyptian presidential runoff as the country's highest court dissolved parliament and allows mubarak's x. prime minister to continue his controversal election challenge. us steps up dead the drone attacks on pakistani territory leading to calls for an investigation into their legality amid claims innocent civilians are being killed in strikes officially targeting terrorists. 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. it's

nine pm in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live from new sanaa way with our top story egypt's election transition is sliding deeper into turmoil as the country is left without a part of the mint head of this weekend's presidential runoff the supreme court's ruling affectively dissolved the islamist dominated body and allowed mubarak's last prime minister to stay in the presidential race as artie's policy or reports 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 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 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 their 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 intelligence services half of whites to a racist 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 pursue 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 unlimited. cover both human rights activists nor nor told our to the current situation resembles mubarak or egypt and that the military council and muslim brotherhood political ambitions are to blame the court ruling that we saw yesterday from the supreme constitutional court. was a very strong reminder to the egyptian population that all of egypt's institutions are still followers of new blood and there are still these still belong to the mubarak regime the verdict from your city was a mere reminder that we are now back to square one let us not forget that for the last year and a half the supreme council of armed forces had designed the transitional phase in

such a way to eliminate any form of opposition or any form of alternative to the supreme council of armed forces and it was because of the behavior of the muslim brotherhood over the last eighteen months their behavior of completely abandoning the revolution and running after seats either in parliament for the presidency that campaigns such as this which means boycotting boycotting campaigns were established several weeks ago in order to encourage people not to give legitimacy to these elections simply because they were placed by the supreme council of armed forces. well see how the second round of the store of presidential election in egypt unfolds don't miss our special coverage right here on r t throughout the week out. to grab a to run. around. like

subscribe. to. your. reports of fresh u.s. drone strikes in pakistan keep pouring in that's despite the country's officials demanding a halt to the attacks which they say are against international law at least three people believed to be militants have been killed in the latest incident as washington continues to defend its tactics more and more civilians are falling victim to america's drone attacks are going to cam explains. reports about you as drone strikes in pakistan come in 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 yeah yeah he was posted online with titles which are generally reserved for the living they're all qaeda leaders have not confirmed or denied on levy's death the video could have been taped before he's dead 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 may think that only terrorists live 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 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 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 on. still ahead in the program here an artsy act of desperation palestinian villagers tried to make it into the guinness book of records saying their settlements have been destroyed by israeli authorities thirty eight times. also no unity in the e.u. discord over immigration is mounting within the bloc as critics accuse governments of using hardline tactics with deadly consequences.

the syrian government is warning of possible suicide bomb attacks in mosques in damascus after the it arrested a man with ties to an al qaeda linked group the suspect is said to have can fast he was going to blow himself up in the center of the capital meanwhile u.n. observers have visited the town of halfa after intense battles between government and opposition forces they found government buildings got it 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 is growing doubt in the western media over the government's involvement in the atrocities across the country reports also implicating rebel militia in the bloodshed some journalists went as far as claiming the opposition deliberately sat them up to be shot by the syrian army whether agnes mariam mother superior of a christian monastery in syria claimed she received one of the first accounts of

a recent slaughter in the country she says portraying the conflict in black and white terms is unacceptable. to defer to the word and to where the phone was a scene. in the net it would end the people they have seen and getting out of the nationalist bitterly so could upset arms of dealing kids off to be a very scary thing then to assemble then in. and the second day we have seen the you observe birds coming to these very modest to be able to see you. could. meet. those people or even do national horse return then that he'd them into blankets and give them to the opposition. or under you showed

them we stagger all the story doors or you end up sort of the. men we don't know whom they had i'm told they have many strengths each one of those sections and working independently it's why it's very difficult to then you would say i had but peter the valet and cross talk later today discussed the syrian crisis with experts focusing on why western powers never reveal their real agenda for intervention. every case when the united states or britain or france the former colonizers of the middle east decide to intervene to overthrow a government bay a sign their mission a noble cause to defend democracy to 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 global struggle against others they never say it like that because nobody would support that.

president 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 just how per co-founder and executive director of the israeli committee against house demolitions 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 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 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 it's 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 news 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. don't forget all the stories we cover here in our two can also be found online there is much more for you today at our two dot com including sideline stories come to life the spider-man suit that could climb its way into the future of the u.s. military. but down the drain with the brain a million a billion i should say dollar highway in russia's far east gets washed away find out what high profile event the road was built for that's mine at our t.v. dot com.

the e.u. cares more about enforcing its borders then 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 its shores in danger in the lives of asylum seekers there are now increasing calls from critics to hold government accountable for the treatment of immigrants as artie's tells our affiliate reports those who do manage to reach europe face increasing discrimination. it may be called the european 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. in our street. lives molested and insulted by gangs of the most. recent elections in france agree 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 built. 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 trust the police so every time on the street or issue in this. 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 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 afraid. i never knew that if there is a policy it's not. the fall over too far as i know of those who make the policy over the europe's economic troubles which are preoccupied 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 are to brussels. well the problems of extremism and intolerance in the e.u. are widely over saddled by the blocks current economic headaches governments across the world are preparing for market panic ahead of the greek vote this weekend the outcome of which could determine the country's euro zone future in case athens does exit britain announced some hundred billion pounds will be pumped into its own banks to defend against any backlash author and commentator professor philip baguettes says the greek exit may spark a europe wide chain reaction well now it looks like that spain with. their own bailout once this has happened probably italy will need one then we have sufficient . actually exits the euro this. legal and ministry of president so markets investors within the squad leave and well most of

the press and presidents for countries like sweden and germany to say well we may actually if you don't get your i was this in order so then they would have a more credible threat. to push other countries to do the necessary stuff so it's very open how this all him but i fear that in in the end the d.c.b. leads to political pressure and start running the printing press but. china is preparing to send three astronauts including its first ever female crew member into space this weekend their mission is to join up with beijing's laboratory module a prototype space station which has been in orbit since last september and marked the nation's first attempt at a docking mission for more on this we're now joined by the managing editor of space dot com with us on the line from new york this upcoming mission is full of

milestones for china how quickly has beijing been able to develop the necessary technologies for space exploration. well what china has done in just the last decade has taken a stepping stone approach to human spaceflight so they went with unmanned launches first and in two thousand and three the first manned launch. what we saw last last year was the first unmanned docking at this space module so they've been very methodical if not. quickly in approaching these these these milestones but what they've been doing is trying to assure success we saw a near flawless flight last year and of course to the space lab this is their big test to show that they can do it with people on board so they can do it with a mixed crew a mix of veterans and new space flyers for them it's a major milestone this is just china's fourth manned space mission that it hopes to

complete its own space station in coming years can we expect to see an increase in adverts or do you think it's operating right on schedule. well i think that what you can see in the next few years are possibly more flights in fact china plans a nother manned flight to the. space module possibly later this year or in early next year the shans zero ten to follow up on this one you may see longer points this one may last up to two weeks you can see a longer mission just to really push the edges of the art of love to show what these spacecraft can do with the astronauts can do and how long they can stay up there based on the technology that china has has built today. how does beijing space program differ from russia to us. one of the big differences between china's space program and those of the united states and russia has been just the approach to into its program but china is the third

country after russia and the united states to develop human spaceflight and really look at the success of russia's program the experience that nasa had to to shape its own independent program. spacecraft are three module vehicles that were originally developed based on the russian soyuz vehicles they have been tailored and updated and enhanced to suit china's needs they have a special module that can stay in orbit long after the crew capsule comes on it's very unique to china and then they've also just learned from the errors and the successes of those two programs so well you see where you see a long decades long legacy of russia and the united states trying is really relatively new but they're trying to focus on what they can do. successfully and that will be really unique and tailored to what china hopes to accomplish in space

. mostly managing editor of space dot com on china's. flight into space this weekend thanks. a look now elsewhere around the world are some headlines around one thousand protesters took to the streets a malaysian capital calling for an end to the violence between muslim and buddhist communities in western mar many of the demonstrators were muslims forced to flee the rest trying to march on myanmar's embassy where they were met by police the ongoing sectarian violence has already seen dozens killed and thousands of homes torched. japanese police have arrested the last fugitive suspect linked to the deadly gas attack on tokyo subway seventeen years ago and 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 its members have criminal records thirteen people were killed and thousands more

injured in the one nine hundred ninety five. security forces have regained control over a large crowd of rioters and indonesia's popular province a mob furious after police killed an independent activists set fire to shops in cars and stabbed one onlooker to death police arrested three people and seized several homemade bombs and weapons officers in the province have been dealing with armed insurgents and the growing violence in recent months. to me three now joins us from the business task an inverted optimism is ruling the markets what exactly does that mean well basically it's optimism that bad things will happen notably when speaking about the greek elections because central banks over your all over all over europe have promised basically to act together to provide stimulus in case things that we had turned over in greece and we see market volatility so right now

market players are really hoping for this additional stimulus because that would mean that assets would go up in value so what we saw in russia for example in this very short trading week just three days two of them a very good idea is gaining two and a half percent it's gaining more than two percent at the close now among the movers on the my six that we saw financial shares gaining metals mind kerry was also up on the good quarterly results and ross nab was up over two hundred rubles pushchair as the company promised it would pay not eleven and a half percent dividends of the net profits about twenty five percent on requests from president putin also to sign a deal with exxon mobil to jointly develop difficult views in west siberia analysts say the potential annual output of the. deposits could be about fifteen million tonnes of crude now this year two companies agreed to work together in the russian arctic shelf and for decades they've been working in russia's far east. on the

american markets we've had again a disappointing day but that has not hampered the mood of investors we're seeing the dow jones up a half a percent nasdaq point eight and despite the fact that consumer confidence was down to the lowest since november in europe the yields are pretty much where they are borrowing costs did not increase and the footsies up point two percent of the actual one i have the sound on these hopes of additional stimulus as seen from monday. and in commodities. boil price of british closing with yesterday's closing levels with allies with friends and now mixed this hour after production poses remained the same in currencies we're seeing the euro barely moved against the dollar down by just a notch well the russian ruble managed to strengthen against both parents and. it was also supported by oil and the u.b.s. recommends its clients actually buy into rubles against the dollar the bank says

this could provide investor with a potential four and a half percent gain if they do it before the elections in greece which as you mentioned will take place on sunday lenders analysts believe risky currencies could bounce if greek parties supporting the european bailout when voting but if they don't high yielding assets can still rise the central banks may be forced to support the market so for u.b.s. this is a kind of a win win situation. so that's what inverted optimism means thank you broke it down quite clearly for us part unary people to meet in front of business bring us up to date from the financial world now in a few minutes we'll be delving even deeper into business but more a listers capital account from washington to stay with us i'll be back with the headlines in just a moment. comfort

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