it's today 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 to call for eighteen 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 they 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 have the wives 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 disposing 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 elected as president will have powers that at this stage seemingly are unlimited. cairo based human rights activist nor nor told r.t. the current situation resembles mubarak era egypt and that the military council and muslim brotherhood's political ambitions are to blame the court's 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 mubarak 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 the 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 historic presidential election in egypt unfolds don't miss our special coverage right here on our t.v. throughout we kept. trying. to grab the to run the. rubble to. subscribe.

to. 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 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. levy was posted online with titles which are generally

reserved for the living there 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 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 plea 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 in the program here in our acts of desperation. palestinian villagers lie 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 how far 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 rather agnes mariam mother superior of a christian monastery in syria claims 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. probably trying to defer this in the world and to where the flow on to the scene. in the narrative would end the people they have seen mediations carrying out a nationalist bitterly indicted oh could upset arms of blankets off the meanies to be going then to assemble then in months and the second day we have seen a do you observe what is coming to these very. mas' to be able to see these laws could it's not was said to. me. those people are international it was only then carried them into blankets and to give them to the opposition why men have all under you showed them we see they're all in the story you end up sort of the. men we don't know who they are the island of position

they have many threats each one of those factions and working independently it's why it's very difficult to then you would say odd but peter the valor 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 but never say we're coming in to brutally exploit dominating take your land labor and resources and use you as a bargaining chip in the oval struggle against others who never say it like that because nobody would support. 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 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 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 kahneman 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 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. 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. buzzing 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 a mine that our team. 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 and danger in the lives of asylum seekers there are now increasing calls from critics to hold government accountable for the treatment of immigrants and as our tells our affiliate reports those who do manage to reach europe face increasing discrimination. it may be called the european humor. 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. this is in our story this is a rate this is

a molester 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 would have built. go into any shop and buy anything she wants but it cannot work in this shop. is the discrimination. people are facing. because they don't trust the police so every time on the street or in. 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 disability religion or

belief and sexual orientation in all areas including social protection and advantages as well us access to goods and services 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 of two far as i know it's all 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 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 eurozone 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 bagus says the greek exit may spark a europe wide chain reaction well now it looks like that spain with needs their own bailout one this has happened probably italy will need one and then we have succession of greece if this actually exits the year all this person legal and minister to the president so markets investors within that mark underscored leaves and what most of the rest of the presidents for countries like finland or

germany to say well we may actually leave if you don't get you out 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 will end but i fear that in the end these. two political pressure and start running the printing press. 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 to mark 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

average 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 trying to plans another man flight to the to the space module possibly later this year or early next year the shinzo tend to follow up on this one you may see longer points this one may last up to two weeks you could see a longer mission just to really push the edges of the art of love to show what these spacecraft can do what 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. 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 it

really looked 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 chinese 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 . money managing editor of space dot com on china's. flight into

space thanks. look now elsewhere around the world of some headlines around one thousand protesters took to the streets the malaysian capital calling for an end to the violence between muslim and buddhist communities in western meon maher many of the demonstrators were muslims forced to flee the unrest they tried 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 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 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 and cars and stabbed one onlooker to death but he's arrested three people and seized several homemade bombs and weapons officers in the province have been dealing with armed insurgents and a growing violence in recent months. i mean he now joins us from the business to ask an inverted optimism is ruling on markets what exactly does that mean well basically it's optimism the bad things will happen notably when speaking about the greek elections because central banks over your all over all over europe have a problem most 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 it would go up in value so what we saw in russia for example in this very short

trading week the. three days two of them very good years gaining two and a half percent myself getting more than two percent at the close now among the movers on the my six that we saw financial shares gaining metals myna m.k. was also up on the good quarterly results and ros never was up over two hundred roubles pushchair as the company promised it would pay not eleven and a half percent in their dividends of their net profits but twenty five percent on requests from president putin also rose never to sign a deal with exxon mobil to join to develop difficult fields in west side b. area analysts say the potential annual output of the deposits could be about fifteen million tons of crude already 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 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 first seize up point two percent of the axle one out of the south on these hopes of additional stimulus as seen from monday. and in commodities. boil price of fish closing with yesterday's closing levels would like to be friends and now mixed this out after production poses remain 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 carries 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 investors 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 a risky currencies could bounce if greek policy supporting the european bailout when the vote but if they down 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 today from the business bring us up to date from the financial world now in a few minutes will be delving even deeper into business but moralist capital account from washington so stay with us i'll be back with the headlines in just a moment.

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a run you know never go back to the know anything else. protests on the eve of the egyptian presidential runoff as the country's highest court dissolved parliament and allows mubarak's prime minister to continue his election challenge rulings have sparked fears the country is sliding back to dictatorship. the u.s. steps up deadly drone attacks on pakistani territory leading to calls for an investigation into their the galaxy that's 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 next to washington for a capital account with lauren lyster. good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm lauren lyster here in washington

d.c. these are your headlines for thursday june fourteenth two thousand and twelve brandt and w t i crude oil prices have been close to an eight month low as opec met today to talk about production quotas now according to media reports the group will not cut output amidst distressed like this oh. wow that was just italy but i'm talking about the broader weakening of the global economy now this decision is despite some calls for supply cuts to curb the price slide but it is excess supply the reason prices have come down not according to energy expert byron king he says the world's largest oil fields are depleting and global discovery rates are not keeping up we will speak to him and along those lines the question becomes what is the future of energy are green energy players and losers without subsidies.