yes 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 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 but 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 then he would support people going back to the

streets there but 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 coom 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 right 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 is emitted as president will have powers that at this stage seemingly are unlimited. now cairo based human rights activist nora nor has told r.t. the current situation resembles the mubarak era 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 the world 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 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. and to see how the second round of the historic presidential election in egypt unfolds delmas our special coverage here in r.t. throughout this week at. lines. to grant to run the. rabble to. subscribe.

to. reports of fresh u.s. drone strikes in pakistan keep pouring in 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 and as washington continues to defend its tactics more and more civilians are falling victim to america's drone attacks are going to camp explains. reports about you as 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 yeah yeah he was posted online with titles which are

generally reserved for the living other al qaeda leaders have not confirmed or denied all 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 and based bureau for 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 at 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 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 j. 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 the world should keep quiet about the execution of innocent people in washington i'm going to check out. still ahead on r g act of desperation any of villagers try to make it into the guinness book of records saying their settlements have been destroyed by israeli authorities thirty eight times. so 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 is warning of possible suicide bomb attacks in mosques in damascus after

the arrest of 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 of serious currently saying one of the most serious escalation in violence since an international truce was brokered two months ago but there's now growing doubt in the western media over the government's involvement in atrocities with reports also implicating rebels in the bloodshed some journalists went as far as claiming the opposition deliberately set them up to be shot by the syrian army mother agnes mariam a christian monastery in syria claims she received one of the first accounts of the recently. and also says portraying the conflict in black and white terms is unacceptable. the word of deferred is in the word to where a follow on to is a scene or to tell. the narrative would the end the people they have seen and getting out of from the national hospital in toledo could upset arms and

blankets off the ministry of health screening then to assemble then in a mosque and the second day we have seen a do you an observer just coming to this very modest to be able to see you could see it's not what is said to. me. those people are nationalists only then carry them into blankets and give them to the opposition to said i'm in heaven all under you showed them we see they're all in the story do you end up sort of goods elysia man we don't know who they are out of the island of position they have many strengths each one of those factions are working independently it's why it's very difficult to then you would say i had. peter the valves crosstalk debates later this hour of the syrian crisis with

experts focusing on why western powers never reveal their 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 and i will struggle against others i never say it like that because nobody would support. residents of a palestinian village contacted the guinness book of world records to register that their village has been demolished by israel thirty eight times and jeff how co-founder and executive director of these really 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 comment 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 of 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 team can also be accessed online and there's much more for you at our team dot com including five stories come to life but spider-man suit it could climb its way into the future of the u.s. military. bust down the drain with the rain a billion dollar highway in russia's far east gets washed away by that one high profile event the road was built for. the who cares more about enforcing 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 its

shores and danger in the lives asylum seekers there are now increasing calls from critics to holding new governments accountable for the treatment of immigrants and its artie's tests are sillier 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 street is a rate this is a molester and 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 people. in all of europe a woman with a bill can go into any shop and buy anything she wants but have build women.

so every time. a two thousand and ten report by the european network against racism and discrimination found the 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. 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 arguing that implementation would be too costly this activists say is one of the

many failures of policy makers and while immigrants are blamed by politicians on the right for failure to integrate others say it's the authorities which have not done enough. it was a. i never knew that if there is a policy it's not the full of too far as i know it's 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 the 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 why they overshadowed by the blocs 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

something 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 will need the road bailout once this has happened probably italy will need one and then we have suppression of greece if greece actually exits the euro this. legal and ministering to the president so markets investors within the congress could leave and will also be pressing presidents for countries like finland or germany to say well we may actually leave if you don't get your i was in more so than they would have a more credible threat. to other countries to do the necessary stuff so it's a very open how this all the end but i fear that in in the end the e.c.b.

relates to political pressure and start running the printing press but. look now elsewhere around the world some headlines around one thousand protesters took to the streets of the malaysian capital calling for an end to violence between muslim and buddhist communities western yan maher many of the demonstrators were muslims forced to flee the rest tried to march on myanmar's embassy where they were met by police going sectarian violence has already seen dozens killed and thousands of homes. 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 belong to a cult group which have access to chemical and biological weapons nearly two hundred of 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 the mob furious after police. ok killed an independent activist set fire to shops and cars and stabbed one onlooker to death police arrested three people and see several homemade bombs and weapons officers in the province have been dealing with armed insurgents and growing violence in recent months. of russians going outside their nation's borders for medical help may become a thing of the past patients can mail look closer to home with treatment and procedures for serious heart conditions making great strides since the fall of the soviet union. has a story home is where the heart is but for many russians their country is not where they choose to get their medical care especially those with heart problems as many assisting thousand russians here choose 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 that only. we have thousands of cases which can be very successfully treated here at home i say with all responsibility ninety percent of all treatment is done a broader can be done here. but many remain unconvinced even though centers like moskos of institute have perfected some of the most complicated procedures which can give the old or young taker and new life. after the break up of the years of the state had to be created and in the process the situation with medicine was led to go to the point where people have unfortunately lost the trust and russian healthcare steamy it's not so for two time hard bypass survivor knife the former diplomat underwent extensive treatment both abroad and at the buckley center most

of. our health care is far stronger and kinder than westerns especially now when many medical centers have the technology that we're used to seeing in the west so it's most importantly our doctors have. that along with well trained hands is something which allows russian doctors to save lives daily with operations unheard 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 natalee 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 a new health achieved without hitting outside russia's borders in moscow it even goes cold r.t. . over now to the business destiny that he joins us and we're in the final minutes

of trading how is the weekend on the markets ahead of this greek i'll actually a lot of people worry that it's going to be panic on monday. these worries truly exist but it's been mostly cautious in the beginning of the week but then and the final days and most notably today actually we had optimism care here and this is for example how do you russian markets are the second leg of my sexy gaining more than two percent the r.t.s. even more so two and a half percent so this is what we call inverted optimism because if we have panic on monday there will be. action from central banks in europe providing stimulus and basically injecting money into assets and into the economy and therefore kind of investors are optimistic that this will happen and that's why they're buying up assets that they see them go up in value more on monday so it's kind of a perverted situation of what optimism is now on the m i six the financial stocks.

pretty much in line with the markets burbank a bit weaker gaining one half percent and i'm ok the minor reported quarterly results came in slightly weaker than the market and ross nafta was one point one percent higher as. the company said it would increase the dividends from eleven the hospice out of net profit to twenty five percent also staying with was nafta it has signed a deal with exxon mobil to join me develop a difficult it will be yours in west siberia now analysts say the potential annual output of the deposits could be about fifteen million tonnes of crude now to the c o two companies agreed to work together in the russian arctic shelf and they have been working for decades in the far east. while in the u.s. markets the dow jones and the nasdaq. will this session is high point seven and one percent higher despite consumer confidence coming in at the lowest level since november so really investors right now not paying any attention to metric and only days are we seeing the same thing happen in previous session we had

a weak jobs day and weak data so as you can see that buying still continues and in europe are pretty much the same picture at the close of it week in london the fourth you have just point two percent all the doubts gained on and off the set. now on the commodities market light sweet and brant still adding other kind of moderately gating but still this is production was maintained by the opec group at thirty million barrels a day the quota was not changed despite. incentives we've heard in initiatives from saudi arabia saying that they might introduce collective efforts to increase production and finally and currencies we see the euro now gaining against the dollar it's. a massive amount over the past two days and that's on basically hopes that. central banks will be intervening and providing stimulus and therefore the

euro will not be going to i would even in the bad case scenario for the greek elections and the russian ruble manage to get a gasp of currencies. also u.b.s. has recommended. it's clients to buy into rubles against the dollar the bank says this could provide investors with a potential for hospice and again if they do it before the elections in greece which take place as we mentioned on sunday the lenders analysts believe riskier currencies could bounce if greek parties supporting a european bailout when the voting they've laid out higher yielding hours it's can still rise because central banks may be forced to support the market so it's kind of a win win situation they're not going to service this week's business report you can join their katie bilby eight twenty am moscow time right on monday you have a good weekend imo see you next week reporting from the st petersburg economic forum and so will you see there see this. all right well the latest cross talk to bait focusing on violence raging in syria is up next after the headlines and this

quick break. in the it.

shows that so much given to you. it's an issue apparently trying to mark the violence in syria is now officially called a civil war this is probably cold comfort for the syrian people as western powers decide the fate. all. right you know. but. you can. certainly can't do it. only effective social change you can be the afghans themselves afghan men

and women. cannot. stop people in the obama administration talking about how much they care about the women of afghanistan it's not true they don't care about the women of afghanistan. wealthy british style sun it's time to go to the front. of the. markets why not. happening to the global economy because the reports.

live from moscow the headlines fresh protests on the eve of the egyptian presidential runoff as the country's highest court dissolves parliament and allows mubarak's prime minister to continue his election talent release have sparked fears the country is sliding back into a dictatorship and. the u.s. steps up deadly drone attacks on pakistani territory leading to calls for an investigation into their the galaxy amid claims innocent civilians are being killed in strikes officially targeting terrorists. also syria's government says there may be more suicide bomb attacks in the country's capital warning follows field arrest of a man with ties to a thing to prove. and the syrian conflict is now the springboard for strong debate

in cross talk with peter the about that's just ahead. good lumber tour. was to build a new it's most sophisticated robot which unfortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything mission to teach creation why it should care about human to. this is why you should care only. if you. want to. follow him and welcome to cross talk on peter lavelle violence in syria is now officially.