egyptians head back to the polls for the second round of the presidential vote as the ruling generals take over as lawmakers of the parliament is axed by mubarak era judges. unwanted developments european crisis scars our island rating goes neighborhoods number of cities after construction bubble bursts in spectacular style. as you say rising violence in syria is putting an end cannot risk party speaks to a christian man in the country who says militants are staging murders to make them look like government killings. and one day left him to have a two greek election which could decide if the country stays in the eurozone party assesses the feeling amongst voters and the choices they're faced with.

this is r.t. international news twenty four hours a day welcome. now thousands of angry egyptians say their country's democracy is going nowhere even as the nation heads to the polls for a runoff presidential vote the muslim brotherhoods mohamed mursi a faces ousted with the last prime minister mention feek but whoever wins will take over without the islamist dominated parliament which has been dissolved the supreme court. judges ruled that you see plenty of actions were unlawful ruling military council has now assumed and on making authority even the president's powers have yet to be determined by a constitution which is still in the pipeline based human rights activists no news even name on the ballot is a. one of an option. there's

a very very big chance that mass protests arise in the case that either pasha order morsi win because many people see that both of them do not represent. obviously he is a worse candidate simply because he represents the mubarak regime that the destroyed egypt for decades but the muslim brotherhood are also losing huge amounts of popularity with every day because of their political decisions what is next yes many people will return to the streets and lots of alternatives will be formed especially in this upcoming period in response to the horrible situation that we are in which is to choose between a member of the mubarak regime and a member of the muslim brotherhood. for egypt's neighbor israel is more than the where the developments across the border relations between the two countries have been sinking since the toppling of about last year and war mongering rhetoric has been stepped up a policy in airports set

a corner with these words the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi campaign was launched with a vow that the capital of the arab world will be jerusalem which morsi wanted to liberated six weeks on the contest is as tight as ever with morsi a strong contender to be egypt's next president and his promise is as governessing as ever egypt is committed to international agreements that were signed including the treaty with israel or egypt and should have the right to amend all that is not in their interest to go and make sure the other party commits to what it is signed as if it's not warming enough for israel what will happen to the one nine hundred seventy nine peace treaty with egypt big players who've put their weight behind most his presidential bid have been even more bold in the claims of how but the war with israel is in no way something that can be ruled out the clock was always ticking the egyptian street no stranger to empty israel sentiment and despite the worries about stability in the revolution the elections simmering below the surface

is hostility towards israel but that hostility was kept in check during the bikes time the top floor of this building used to house the israeli embassy in cairo but it's now closed up and became a sign is rabies fear of what's to come. for egyptians is really split and i mean number one the next president will be strong and change the status quo i refuse to continue the relationship never had with israel in the last continue to fight. he's a realist the first you know for us next president should cut all the relations between us it's a threat israelis can no longer ignore thing that. anybody should close ones and ignore such rhetoric that. not only very negative but it is alarming but a muslim brotherhood victory is not a done deal on thursday egypt's constitutional court dissolved the islamize dominated parliament and gave morsi is contender. the green light to stay in the

race but it's done little to calm israeli fears of an islamist government on its border correlations will be reduced to zero but the real problem is to what extent will the brotherhood purse its goal of trying to destroy israel and kill all of us i don't sell i way i would actually say that the main security danger to israel today and for the next two years is not iran but the situation in egypt a concern the islamists at least in public and at least for now are trying to downplay i think is entitled to some trouble here but not trouble. you know but maybe israelis are worried because in the ruthless business of politicking easy points are scored by using the jewish state as a punchbag and what israelis fear is that what see today is only a step away from being implemented tomorrow. policy r.t.

visa. stay with our tafe the latest from egypt but have updates and analysis of the first posting about presidential run off throughout the weekend. this is. a to grammont of a tyrannical. rabble to. bite. but it's time to. get. on. during the boom years allen's construction industry reached new heights but it seems they were building a house of cards that would come crashing down when the economy tumbled it's left whole neighborhoods in a number of the country cities with few a sure way anyone can breathe new life into them what is there a smith reports. there's

a new word in ireland no armored it's when properties repossessed by the national asset management agency as it owners go bankrupt during the celtic tiger boom banks handed out cash to property developers like monopoly money now islands littered with ghost estates homes and shopping centers that nobody wants this is a classic example of the death of the celtic tiger in this small town north of dublin the plan was to move the entire town center to this location shops and apartments were starting to be constructed and then four years ago the crash and the site has been like this unfinished on lived in ever since jimmy gilmore has seen the boom and bust first hand a pub owner in les town outside dublin his sleepy hamlet exploded from three thousand residents ten years ago to eighteen thousand now but the housing stock

grew even more creating a situation jimmy says epitomizes what's gone wrong in ireland. that sort of sums up where we are in this country at the moment we're all suspended we're waiting for something to happen we don't know but can we move forward or when we're going to move forward i think. these empty units. those states are finished the states just believe it's a picture of where we are psychologically people around here tell stories of being offered millions of euros by banks for development projects building houses and shopping centers but which there was no market problem was that banks here and financial institutions believe they were doing the right thing so they were basically shoveling money at people who cared and saw that people were chasing it and building housing that nobody needed between one nine hundred ninety one and two thousand and ten ireland nearly a mill. new houses unsurprisingly

a recent report says more than three hundred thousand of them now live vacant and that's just the ones that are finished another highway another housing development this is what field mother and inside that there are around thirty houses about a third of which remain on occupied to this day on the other side of the road the developer had planning permission for a further three hundred houses in the end he built the gate post and then nothing more this developer didn't go bankrupt and a representative told us they still plan to finish the estate at some point but locals can't imagine that happening i cannot see any construction taking place in this country with next ten years we have an oversupply of everything between houses and retail units. but i honestly do believe that we have at the bottom if we can get over this you crisis start start stations where i think you can start to. we have people who show that over the years. it's survival of the fittest meanwhile

someone has to pay for all those bad loans incurred mostly by french and german banks and the buck stopped with the irish taxpayer on the hook the ninety billion euro bailout. r.t. . well still ahead for you this hour journalists in jail. shouldn't have video cameras a lot more dangerous to the establishment than shooting a gun find out why a growing number of reporters in america are finding themselves behind bars just doing their jobs. u.n. observers say their mission in syria is becoming riskier by the day as a fractured nation fails to hold more than a year of raging violence countries are currently seeing one of the most serious escalations in bloodshed since an international truce was brokered two months ago that's amid reports the u.s. military has completed its own planning for how american troops would conduct

operations against the syrian government russia has resisted western pressure to condemn present regime continues to call for both sides to stop fighting and sit down for talks but he spoke to them from a christian ministry in syria who says laying blame only on government troops is wrong. we were the first in the world to phone to the scene or to tell in the net of war would end the people told us they have seen the militia and varying out of round the national hospital intel though corpses arms of blankets of ministry of health scurrying them to assemble them in a mosque and the second day we have seen the un observers come into these very modest to be able to see the cooks it's not possible to. me would kill those people international hospital then carry them in the

blankets and give them to the opposition closer disease swine have all and a possibility to show them we see there on the story the un observers elysia men we don't know who they are the armed opposition they have many say that each one of those factions are working in the independently zits why it's very difficult to tell you they are. find out more about any story we're covering today by heading to our website r.t. dot com here's a taste israel's years long blockade of gaza becomes a health hazard as new reports reveal water in the air is really contaminated. also arrived today pakistan resorted to google to track down militants in the country's volatile borders and details on that story and much more at r.t. dot com. well all eyes are on

china today as a country gears up to launch its first female astronaut into space one with two male colleagues they'll have to hook up with beijing's more your prototype space station that's been in orbit since last september but our economic managing editor of space dot com says china is literally trying to push the envelope with its ambitious program. this is their big test to show that they can do it with people on board they can do it with a mixed crew a mix of veterans and new space flyers for them it's a major milestone this one may last up to two weeks you can see a longer mission just to really push the edges of the article 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 trying to plans in other manned flight to the space module possibly later this year or early next year and 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 and what we saw last last year was the first unmanned docking at this space module the chinese 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 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 but some other news making headlines around the world at least seven people have been injured in northern spain due in clashes between striking home and nice offices with thought upon the sky rockets bearings. burning tires police

responded with rubber bullets and tear gas thousands of miners have been on strike for weeks protesting against plans to cut government subsidies. paraguayan has deployed an army to resolve a land dispute in the eastern part of the country the nation's interior minister and chief of police have resigned after clashes between officers and landless farmers left seventeen people dead the fighting began after police tried to have big protests from a forest reserve pharma saying the land was illegally taken by the country's former military rulers. position leader and sang suu kyi has arrived in norway to deliver the nobel peace prize speech since she won the award two decades ago could not accept an evening blocked from entering the country it's the first trip to europe since being released from fifty years of house arrest discovering a seat in parliament. a bit later in the program as serbia moves closer to

e.u. membership r.t. talks to the country's ambassador to the u.k. as a preview of what's ahead. i don't see why true and serbia. become a member of the european union provided all the conditional disarm at. the same time. with major economic partner as russia is anyhow you with russia are partners not de force serbia's national assembly had adopted five six years ago. declaring the military neutrality of serbia. within the present constellation is politically determined not to become the member of nato on the other hand. to tuition costs of war as a part of the country so no politician. disobey

the basic principle was as stated in the constitution of the country. america's first amendment guarantees freedom of the press but many journalists covering some of the country's major events are being hounded rather than protected an increasing number of reported being arrested just for doing their jobs message has the story. dramatic scenes unfolding in the u.s. a must cover vent for journalists that the idea i showed them and apparently that wasn't enough for the new york police his press pass feeling to pass the test this reporter got arrested while covering the occupy wall street protests no muss no fuss officer just books. and i just. tried to tell him that i'm a journalist. people out my state department grief asian asked whether i have your

policeman unfortunately that's one expired keil writes for daily russian newspaper and has worked in the us for the last three years i don't prove you have they don't really care that it's just you just business and you credentials can't really protect you sent through a whirlpool like legal system the seasoned journalist was treated as a protest participant under arrest twenty four hours behind bars a quickie trial six hundred dollars in fines were his punishment for doing his job covering the news of the day and then there were the two days of community service the what unit and bring right away here was an efficient station give you brooms trash cans and child and you basically walking around sweeping the streets because of the debris paper cigarette about whatever keep you is now on probation for six months it is an outrage and i treat that professes to have a undying respect for the free press to be you know throwing throwing reporters in

jail. but this case is not unique rather it's part of a dangerous trend in the u.s. when you let the state control who is a journalist that's just propaganda team pool is an independent journalist who has witnessed police reject press passes on a state by state basis throughout occupy wall street protests in new york they don't care even if you have a press pass i've watched i. watch the cop grab a journalist with his press pass on the ground i've seen supervisors call out to grab a journalist press pass and take it from him at d.c. for the processes going on in oakland they require local oakland press. in new york they've been rejecting trespassers from other jurisdictions to have a first amendment which guarantees the freedom of the press i mean there is no nothing in the law which must at least agencies to determine which press are

legitimate press and which are not requiring a press pass it's also been sending journalists through a vicious circle not of just people work with guessing games of which state might be next to cover story near impossibility in the past these worlds obviously you have to prove that you've covered breaking news but it's hard to cover breaking news in the police won't let you so creates this catch twenty two take several months finally if they like the news you're making they'll let you get a pass. arbitrary or unattainable press passes demanded journalists arrested for covering the news the constitutional concept of media freedom under siege i think we're slowly coming into a state of affairs where. doing a video camera is a lot more dangerous to the stablish myth and shooting a gun choosing to view his arrest as an invaluable cultural experience he treats it with humor i got two articles out of my experience so it's pretty good outcome for me freedom of the press in america

a first hand account is the situation our fourteen new york. but i've been there for more than ten years now the content of the bay detention camp appears to be in limbo the deadline set by president obama to close it came and went two years ago but now detainees has left in the yeah right next to our very own new york resident is out and about seeking opinion on the streets. even though president obama promised to close the prison at guantanamo bay or get him out it remains open why this week let's talk about that and i think the logistics of closing it of prevented president obama from making it happen do you think it was a mistake for him to make such a promise no i don't i think. i think he's i think you still committed to the policy he's trying to roll the rock and it's a tough rock to roll i say that i'm ready to be fed up of both the us. you should

deal your own issues first and then you will deal we ve issue of the world after a get is one time obey just an example of our imperialism of course it is an example you know because you want to impose democracy even though some countries and you're not even able to impose democracy in your own country i think it's an issue i think it's hard for us to you know portray as being this sort of promoter of human rights while also keeping people in prison for as long as they have without any trials or any any chance that u.s. justice applied to them so yes i think it's an issue do you think it's fair for us to hold them indefinitely absolutely not so what does that say about the u.s. . says we're in a difficult position right now that make it ok to hold people without knowing if they're guilty of anything probably not it says this you guys want to control the world actually. and you shouldn't. and that's i don't know going to know what you're going to turn away shouldn't exist actually some of them are very guilty and

how do you know that. they released some of them and apparently they turned committed more outrageous so is the issue then what to do with these people if the prison is close yes where would you say that none of the states wants to take them so we send them to yemen saudi arabia and they will escape and join the forces again so i don't think. president of the united states really has the power to close guantanamo i mean what would you have do with the people who are there yeah i have no idea which is why i'm not in politics but that is the question right a lot easier just that way i'm going to close that bet actually go through with that whatever you think is the reason that get my remains open the bottom line is it probably won't be closed for a very long time. i

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a gun only effective social changes can be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe are going to stun them not to have to cross paths without the fish on its chemical position and at a construction 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. most of the. money it's technology innovation all the news developments from around russia we've dumped a few jerks covered. the

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