creational why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only on the orgy dot com. egyptians head back to the polls for the second round of the presidential vote with many angry at the choice they've been left with between is a list of the remnants of the old regime. it's make or break time for the european single currency as one member state rolls the dice that could determine its future . with one day left until a crucial greek election voters are choosing back austerity or take a different option which may lead to an exit from the euro zone. first chance of thousands hit the streets of the capital of the eurozone. largest economy to protest what they're calling the failing policies of a technocrat government we have a live report coming up from there for you. welcome

this is r.t. it's now three pm here in moscow my name is kevin go in and our top story thousands of angry gyptian 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 morsi faces ousted mubarak's last prime minister ahmed shafik but whoever wins will step in without the islamist dominated parliament which has now been dissolved by the supreme court the mubarak era judges ruled that the recent parliamentary elections were unlawful also the ruling military council therefore has now assumed law making authority and even the new president's powers have yet to be determined by a constitution which is still in the pipeline carol based human rights activist no no believes neither name on the ballot is a viable option. there's a very very big chance that mass protests arise in the case that i. pacifi order

morsi win because they many people see that both of them do not represent the revolution. which 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 egypt's neighbor israel is smaller where other developments across the border relations between the two countries have been sinking since the toppling of last year a war mongering rhetoric is being stepped up as paula slayer reports set a corner ask these words the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi is campaigning has launched with

a vow that the capital of the arab world will be jerusalem. to liberate it 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 governor as in. egypt is committed to international agreements that were signed recording the treaty with israel to egypt and should have the right to amend all that is not in their interest to go and make sure the other very limits 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 has been even more bold in the canes and how 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 anti 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 bike's time. the top

floor of this building used to house this week the embassy in cairo but it's now are closed up and became a sign is rabies fear of what's to come. for egyptians it is really see public enemy number one the next president will be strong and change the status quo i refuse to continue the relationship never had the israel in macedonia to fight. the user it was the first for us extras it intricate boulder when we shot it. it's a three to israelis can no longer ignore thing that. anybody should close ones and ignore such rhetoric that's 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 islamist dominated parliament and gave morsi is contender majestic the green light to stay in the race but it's done little to calm israeli fears of an islamist government on its border boyish and so 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 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 it will do to make some trouble here but. 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 to move. policy r.t. . barrett r.t. will continue to bring you the latest from egypt across the weekend we got updates

analysis of the first post mubarak presidential runoff from our correspondents there. champion hard line islamists. pay to ground a tyrannical image. grapple to control it. by eating some straw. but it's time to come. on. now the big story this week candid territory versus pro bailout that upcoming greek election which will establish the future of the debt stricken country all eyes are on whether voters will favor the left has said it's a party opposed to the restrictive financial measures or the conservative new democracy which is devoted to keeping greece part of the agreement jacob graves has the latest from athens this is really become a two horse race about two differing schools of thought one of them is backing the

waves of austerity we've already seen which have been growing increasingly popular means job cuts means cuts to salaries and also means cuts the spending from the government all part of this bailout provided by the e.u. i.m.f. and the euro zone now that has proven increasingly unpopular but still being defended by new democracy now on the other side the fence has to reason out beforehand before the previous elections in may be seen as an outside left radical group now although they're really garnering much more middle ground when it comes to that sentiment of opposing this yes there are two measures being put in place of opposing what's come before them they say there's been too costly for the greek people in their eyes and in many greek voters eyes austerity simply isn't working to dealing with a mixed bag but one fact remains that present that people in greece are still

suffering prosperity and a crippled economy. rocketing unemployment and a crumbling economy of the. more widely known as symptoms of greece's austerity plan but there are some who have lost something far more time to give up caring for their children simply because they can no longer afford to do so by their i care for six children we've been through some struggles i'm not only concerned about the future of my kids i'm concerned about everyone myself included in the law if he is part of a charitable program named s.o.'s children this is one of its branches a village of foster homes but now it's finding itself overwhelmed his family seek their help and desperate times our major. source of. income. from the private sector not from the greek state. and we had to significantly reduce all money just what kind of greece

these children grow up in may about to be decided as people pair to head to the polls the most to come in you know it's very important for greece to stay in the euro zone and you know you were lost without much there though a party's exist on the ballot paper for most this is a choice of two competing thoughts the pro bailout vote has been embodied by a new democracy a party which is overseeing the country's recent spending and job cuts they view us their tea as a bitter yet necessary pill to swallow but not everyone agrees with the cost of marsh leaving the euro zone is estimated to be three trillion euros and this isn't the cost the eurozone can bear. emerging only during may's undecided first election as a reason has continued to hold ground with this radical rejection of a u. i.m.f. and euro zone impose austerity rightly so for i guess the whole.

experiment the bad there's the. good measures is going to. the fear of that. the perspectives are going to be guarded by their lives and others have been far from languishing on the sidelines of far right golden dawn courting controversy for racial and an anti immigration stance they've continued to hold on to a marginal but symbolic percentage of support for their views remain drowned out by the anxiety and challenges that face this weary nation whoever clinches victory to greece assy athens. where bit of brighter news despite all the troubles at home greece will be open to celebrating the football at least tonight as they face russia in less than twelve hours time it's their final group game of euro twenty twelve take up because men only need one point now in order to make the totem it's quarterfinals while the two thousand and four champs greece are aiming for nothing

but a win in order to stand a chance of making the knockout round you can find out the latest in roman sport bulleted in the next hour. you're watching r.t. from moscow now the euro zone's third largest economy all too well italy next it's also seen tension with public theory a deepening austerity cuts by an elected leaders a mass demonstrations underway right now in rome from where we're joined by our correspondent sara firth we might not have a very good connection to are going to try to chat to anyway sarah hi there now i can see you this all looking good now we've seen protests across italy before time and time again what's different about this one today where you are. well thousands of people turning out it was a work his union marchin say the people joining the protest were complaining about the high taxes high unemployment especially youth unemployment and of course the timing of this very interesting is you're seeing now the discussions of the very

real possibility of some of these countries actually accepting the year you know we were speaking to some of the people he turned out to this large march and they were just saying that these austerity measures that have been crippling the country just on easing up when you cast your mind back to last year and we saw a technocrat a month elected as the new prime minister he was tasked with fixing the country's finances unfortunately they the tough economic medicine that he's prescribed has really angered a lot of italians anything that evidence by the large numbers. today to join that march and as we said you know where it's a couple of years ago the possible exit from the year it was something that would have been lost that well no one's laughing anymore and it really is something that's being discussed as a very real possibility the year. is a cool greece tomorrow. with this tidal wave of economic down. across the e.u. how far can see things go to the center of the street how far can things go before

rescue maybe turns into recovery what are people saying. well there's a lot of people who will now say that it's not an issue about recovery it's more of a when and not if there is an exit from the year i say no as we said that would have been lost that a couple of years ago and year it's got to. do with a huge amount of cynicism but this is a very real possibility now and i think a lot of people we've been speaking to realize that there's a sense that you know this problem is being kicked down the right time and again and now it is really coming home and and these issues now have to be addressed of course as you said it's the third largest economy and it's least really been struggling with soaring borrowing costs and of course it looks to some of its neighbors it looks to countries like greece and to spain and it can very much empathize with the types of problems that they're experiencing fake to some of the italians here you have a bit of a take about the fact that with the euro twenty twelve people at the moment they're not sure how prestigious the wind would actually be given the policy where it is

with greece and spain and of course i think the trouble is that those countries are going to they're experiencing a very very similar thing and it could be a wealthy time a lot if you think this isn't years now that you're talking about it could be months it could be days where we could actually be saying good bye to the euro all together you have these very interesting times on there thanks very much for you europe from rome. still to come for you this hour as well when journalism becomes a jail sentence. suiting a video camera is a lot more dangerous to the stuff in shooting a gun fire and why a growing number of reporters in america father themselves behind bars just for doing their jobs. did him do the last fall china sent its first female to go into orbit prompting a surge of national pride for the entire space program across the nation we've got the latest pictures for you. u.n.

observers say the mission in syria is becoming riskier by the day now as the front should they should fails to holds more than. of raging violence the country is currently saying one of the most serious escalations of bloodshed since an international truce was brokered two months ago submitted reports the u.s. military has completed its own planning for how american troops would conduct operations against the syrian regime. russia has resisted western pressure to condemn present. government and continues to call for both sides to stop fighting and to sit down for talks now r.t. yesterday spoke to agnes miriam from a christian ministry in syria who says the militants are playing games with the un observers it's interesting this isn't for sure to say. the word of deferred is in the word and to follow on to the scene or to tell you in the narrative world would end the people as they have seen. carrying out a national hospital in corpses arms of blankets after ministry of

very scathing them to assemble then in a mosque and the second day we have seen the un observers come into these very modest to be able to see these laws because it's not possible is said to. me. those people are international who was then carried them under. and to give them to the opposition doesn't exist why i'm here for all and a possibility to show them we sit there on the story or you end up sort of elysia men we don't know who they are i am dog 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. did not his state says it's trucking a russian military cargo ship carrying weapons i mean nation and troops is reportedly on its way to syria pentagon officials told to sit unused yesterday and

the u.s. intelligence believes russia is sending the ship to help fortified naval base of the port of tartus no moscow's denied those claims but said several ships are ready to head to the base if the situation worsens because of the story today cough and off. just days after the u.s. state department was forced to back away from secretary of state hillary clinton's controversial remarks alleging that attack helicopters were on their way to syria from russia new comments from u.s. military officials reported and american and news outlets saying that moscow has sent a small contingent of armed forces in order to protect its deep water port and military base in the syrian city of tartous now according to sources here in moscow russian forces are ready and are on standby if needed in order to protect russian assess and personnel there but have not been deployed as of yet now the base in tartus was

established during the cold war era in order to protect the soviet fleet in the mediterranean sea the last time that russian warships were in the area was as recently as january when they were there in order to refuel and perform routine maintenance within the port it is important to remember that as the crisis in syria unfolds so it does it seems to be the escalating tensions between the u.s. and the government of president bashar al assad there are all kinds of foreign fighters rebel groups involved in the conflict in syria and of course it is the ordinary citizens that are paying the price of course what lucy cuffing all thought of or about the story we're covering today on t.v. and online by heading to our websites plenty of the is taste of a couple stories you got lined up for you in fact israel's a years long blockade of gaza. it was a health hazard as we reported a new report suggesting water in the area is severely contaminated if you want to read more about that someone from us also use for this building huge fire and go

for you to tie a building in the east of moscow we've got dramatic footage of what went on last night online. reviews for china china should spacecraft car of the country's first ever female astronaut along with the two male colleagues set off for the stars within the last all appeared to go well it blasted off from the steps of gansu province of the northwest to cheers from a crowd of a special seeing off ceremony these are pictures of it the three astronauts will have to link up with beijing's module up in space it's been in orbit up this in september. to conduct scientific tests they're expected to return back home again in around ten days time beijing hopes to establish its permanent station in orbit by the end of the decade now we spoke to tariq malik he's managing editor of space dot called me told us china is forging ahead at a pace with it. this is their big test to show that they can do it with people on board they can do it with

a mix crew. veterans and new space flyers for them it's a major milestone this one may last up to two weeks you could see a longer mission just to really push the edges of the out of work to show what the 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 plans in other manned flight to the space module possibly later this year or in 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 in two thousand and three the first manned launch. what we saw last last year was the first unmanned docking at this space module the chinese the third country after russia in the united states to develop human spaceflight and really look at the success of russia's program. experience that nasa had its own independent program they've also just learned from the errors the successes of those two

programs so we'll use where you see a long decades long legacy of russia in the united states china 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 hope to accomplish in space. i would use a brief twenty two people have been killed by a car bomb attack at a marketplace in northwest pakistan more than eighty others were injured in the blast too which happened in the town of landy kotel near the afghan border above appeared to be aimed at members of a pro-government tribe who oppose a local warlord pakistan's tribal northwest is frequently targeted by taliban militants. at least ten people being killed by a car bomb attack in baghdad to the blast shaukat area with thousands of shia muslims were gathered to market major religious festival it comes just three days after seventeen shia pilgrims were killed in a wave of attacks across the country a sunni militant group known as the islamic state of iraq has claimed responsibility for those attacks. our boys deployed the army now to resolve

a land dispute in the eastern part of the country the nation's interior minister and a chief of police are both resigned after clashes between officers and landless farmers left seventeen people dead the fighting began after police tried to vic protesters from a forest farmers say the land was illegally taken by the country's former military rulers. saudi arabia's crown prince has died according to saudi state television prince nayef was appointed in october after the death of his elder brother. to saudi king abdullah and next in line to the throne prince now have also been the country's interior minister since one nine hundred seventy five next in line is expected to be the prince's younger brother. a courageous daredevil doing in the dark as well with lives of its. become the first person to complete a tight rope across niagara falls let's take a look at this that more than one hundred thousand people gather to watch thirty three year old nik wallenda completes the five hundred forty eight meter journey

over the roaring waters that make it worse is he mad the thrill seekers the seventh generation member of the flying wallendas if you're interested the whole six guinness world record for completing various it took two years to convince u.s. and canadian authorities that in complete this war but they made it were safe for them to agree to present his passport us almost from a bit on the other side but he did get there to present his passport all went safe as well. as over the site. america's first amendment guarantees freedom of the press but many journalists covering some of the country's major events of being hounded rather than protected an increasing number reportedly being arrested just for doing their jobs. churkin it's got the story. the. dramatic scenes unfolding in the u.s. a must cover vent for journalists the idea. apparently that wasn't enough for the

new york police his press past feeling to pass the test this reporter got arrested while covering the occupy wall street protests no muss no fuss officer just puts up something. and i just. tried to tell him that i'm a journalist. asked whether you are a policeman unfortunately that's one expired q writes for a daily russian newspaper and has worked in the us for the last three years prove you know of the don't really cure just you just business and you credentials don't really prefer to sit 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 you never bring right away here was an efficient station give you brooms

trash cans and charles and you basically walking around sweeping the streets picking up the debris paper cigarette about whatever kitty was now on probation for six months it is an outrage and i don't treat that professes to have a risk that for the freedom of the press to be you know throwing throwing reporters in jail i think it was a speech 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 that in new york they don't care even if you have a press pass i've watched i've watched a 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.

the processes in oakland require a local oakland press cabs 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 just people work with guessing games of which state might be in next to cover a story near impossibility in the past these world because 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. sitting 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'll treats it with humor i got dori gold out of my experience i would say it's pretty good our company freedom of the press in america a first hand account is that you're going to party new york. it's a twenty seven inch parser in the absolute moscow time though in a few minutes i can tell you spotlights on their hosts all going off talking to the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs valerie amos that's south of the headlines which i'll bring you have passed so what just two and a half minutes from now.

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