egypt's new leader against the cold shoulder in the united states as he vows to lessen america's influence through its predecessors and decades of being washington friendly. a brazen syrian rebel attack on a border post sons the lebanese army out for adventure with violence between pro and anti assad factions spilling across the middle east. and the hundreds of millions of pounds spent by the british government on foreign countries that fairly need aid are pushing further cuts and to plan if it counts at home.

thank you for joining r t this monday at six o'clock here in the russian capital on charon tara well the growing anti-american chorus in the muslim world sees more salt being rammed into wounded relations between the united states and egypt it's a concern that critics say is highlighted by the fact that no meeting is expected between the leaders during president morsi is visit to the u.s. for the u.n. general assembly artie's paula slayer has more on whether egypt's new leader will be able to show more independence from washington than his predecessor. mohamed morsi came to power on promises to make could the capital of palestine and open up egypt's corridor with gaza his presidency promised his supporters

a chance to reclaim egypt some pride especially on the international stage one of the curious things is that the americans have been to egypt since morsi was elected and they congratulated him but morsi didn't rush off to united states he went to china instead and also to iran which was a diplomatic snub to you know it it states but the snub it seems more of a token gesture because when angry egyptians took to the streets to protest against the united states the muslim brotherhood kept in the background and president morsi criticism of the u.s. was muted dr saeed sadik a longtime observer of egyptian foreign policy says morsi cannot replace the united states with another world superpower but godless of how much you might want to change your foreign policy or restructure that it's a big process and you need the alternative and the alternative is not i don't think china is the need for. being a policeman the fact is that for egypt to prosper and solve its economic problems

it still needs washington cairo receives close to two billion u.s. dollars a year in economic and military aid and so two and a half months into his presidency the new muslim brotherhood president is having to maintain an increasingly delicate balancing act his hardline supporters on the one hand the west and washington on the other prompting many observers to ask what if anything has changed since mubarak's era in egypt today is not very different than it had been under mubarak egypt u.s. relations during the mubarak era were quite strong they are is an important partner in economic partner for egypt and it would be very difficult for us to any president coming in during konami crisis to rock the boat but the recent finding demonstrations do a. talks of a proposed one billion american dollars in debt relief to egypt and although washington stresses this is merely temporary and there's no major shift in u.s.

aid to egypt and the relationship between the two countries remains strained this war was erected several days ago to prevent protesters for meeting the american embassy on the other side but there is no sign of anyone wanting to take it down a physical reminder of the growing barrier that now exists between cairo and washington but it's a barrier that neither side wants to make permanent because while morsi might be poles apart politically from his predecessor on the international front he's trading remarkably close. in his latest interview ahead of his u.s. trip the egyptian leader said washington should make the first steps to restore its image in the arab world and men ties with carol. lin morsi explicitly says america's unconditional support for israel and its meddling into some arab states farrah's has brought only hatred from its people there and he insists that egypt will no longer live bind us rules watch

a president has to say to the american public get our t.v. dot com. lebanon has ordered its security forces to hunt down a contingent of rebels from the free serin army after a firefight at a border checkpoint the militants had launched an attack on a lebanese border post from syria before escaping further inland and as artie's lucy confidant reports for love and it's a bitter reminder of the past. lebanon fought its own civil war on to terry and lines for fifteen years and now the syrian conflict is literally spilling across its border syrian troops have carried out incursions into lebanese territory while rebels take shelter in lebanese towns it is aggravated i'm healed wounds from the past storing fears of a new civil war it is polarized the politics of lebanon. it is resulted in conflicts that have taken place in tripoli it is resulted. that have

happened in beirut lebanon of course vulnerable to this type of sectarian conflict lebanon sunni's mainly support syria's rebels including the powerful militant group hezbollah tend to back president bashar al assad a member of the alawite sect was divided in half between the groups that support that the syrian syrian regime and those people were actually. hoping and cup the lies and on the for what they scold the free syrian army nowhere is that divide more violently visible than in tripoli on the streets of lebanon's second largest city and sunni gunmen have been battling it out we spoke to fighters on both sides who showed no willingness to disarm. ok. you know this is the leader of a sunni militia here in tripoli is be able to ban islam i asked him what

a peace with his opponents is possible. as long as assad remains in power there won't be peace in syria lebanon or iraq or power stone through be no peace while he is in force and neighboring general must send an alawite fighter shows me the destroyed remains of his home when asked to explain the recent fighting with his sunni neighbors this was his response not the dollars just we are defending ourselves against machines of terror and mercenaries who are being brought in from abroad. even the. to defend islam as most unifying figure the prophet muhammad wasn't enough to bridge lebanon's divide in beirut separate protests against an anti islam video has turned tens of thousands of she is to the streets days leader a hardline sunni cleric who gathered his own supporters in the capital he may have been united in their outrage but protesters carried flags that left no doubt which side of the syrian divide their own for now lebanon is holding together but some residents here wonder whether this is just the calm before the storm or syrian

cities as you guys are going to go. to get their start start evolution in the streets here and then. they're going to fight it's not so it's never going to get this shelled out building stands in beirut green line which for nearly two decades divided this city during lebanon's bitter civil war christian communities lived over here to the east muslim communities lived across the street to the west but as the armed conflict in syria continues to escalate just across the border many here in lebanon fear that the fragile peace could yet again be shattered and that sectarian tensions could once again plunge this nation of nearly four million into another civil war for r t i'm lucy catherine else in beirut. international anger over the you tube film mocking islam is still a blaze with new protests flaring up world wide in sri lanka some twenty thousand muslims marched on a log down and heavily barricaded u.s.

embassy carrying anti-american banners protestors demanded a mass boycott of u.s. made goods and companies similar sentiment was seen in greece for a crowd attempted to store the u.s. embassy in athens it follows on rust in france sparked by the publication of caricature is of the prophet muhammad in a french newspaper several demonstrators were arrested in suing rallies for defying a government ban on protests france based journalist robert harness says paris only houses. self to blame for falling out of favor with followers of islam. the government is in a very difficult position because of their policy in syria and because of their various inconsistency. is alarming there's that aspect of it and also they want to appear to be punching above their weight to use a british expression in international politics because they want to keep their veto in the united nations so there is no difficulty on the other hand there is a growing feeling in left wing circles that says the government's policy is

nonsense you cannot support it terrorism on monday and condemn it on tuesday and then support it again or when the stick they're playing it both ways they don't want to be enraged that the people the alleged five million people of muslim backgrounds in france are a lot of people on the other hand think they've got to stick to their line that they allow free speech which of course is only allowed in france on certain subjects. my less and other stories lock onto our teen dot com here's what else is there for you including all the king's horses to catch the founder of mega bloat even new zealand it's my agency was involved in the arrest of kim dotcom at our website to find out why their methods have attracted condemnation. class after israel ramped up its rhetoric over iran's nuclear program now its tough problems turn to saber rattle saying its rattle is not the only one which can strike first blow to learn more at r.t.

dot com. british households are feeling the squeeze from government cuts that aren't giving their income a pounding but a fair chunk of their tax money is still being spent on foreign projects and it's not all about good charity as art has probably book explains from london. i'm standing in front of the london headquarters of adam smith international according to their website they provide consultancy on economic and government reform well the website doesn't say is that one of the number of firms to have profited heavily from the british government's foreign aid budget last year alone the u.k.'s department for international development spent over five hundred million pounds on international projects abroad that's allowed the executives in the company behind me to pocket six figure salaries and million pound bonuses britain's hefty foreign aid budget includes an annual spend of two hundred eighty million pounds that goes to india that's despite the fact that india's economy is so successful that they

themselves provide two billion pounds worth of international aid each year at a time when the coalition government is considering freezing benefits for the most vulnerable in the u.k. society some m.p.'s wondering whether all this time pay is money should be spent they call questionable foreign aid the department for international. hasn't stopped building a new office in the going to be quite shortly spending four hundred thousand pounds of money. now this isn't the kind of spending that's given the have pressure on their own budgets for critics of the u.k.'s substantial foreign aid budget there's more bad news on the way prime minister david cameron is planning on increasing it that's going to mean contracts the so-called pull the team barons that run consultancy firm is like the one behind me now in recent days the bank of england has one struggling british households to brace themselves for the price hikes in

food and fuel with poverty here in the u.k. predicted to increase over the next eight years many struggling households are going to be left wondering whether all that money spent abroad on what many call questionable foreign aid might be better used to home. and still ahead in a few minutes turning up the heat in the oriental conflict the storm at sea china unveils drone surveillance plans for islands disputes with to perth with fears that the asian giants could be searching towards a regional war. and the president and ruling a lead of bello's all once again accused of dictator life both breaking after opposition members failed entirely to win a single parliamentary seat stay with us for that.

the mighty volga that runs deep through the russian soul it has provided inspiration for songs and poems and is the country's main north south. and decades ago schumann ingenuity connected to the don't revert to the west evoke the dawn canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirteen blocks ten million tons of shipping does so every year. another concrete giant is this finished fifty years ago it's the biggest hydroelectric plant in europe it powers the local city of volgograd and sends lots more electricity to moscow the hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing the river like this isn't without its cost. fishermen have been watching fish stocks for years they see the slow damage the downing of the river has done especially to russia's

prized sturgeon the source of caviar. plant has done significant damage because it stocked fish swimming up river to the spawning grounds. within a year all these houses would have gone fallen into the river depending on how many of the hydroelectric plants turbines. on the water level can change suddenly and dramatically too suddenly for the banks to absorb. control of the river flow by the plant has made building the bogus flood plain more attractive serious floods are less likely but the water that is put into the drains is taken away from the fish that need it now but last the voice of the voters ecology might start being heard. the first time in fifty years the rules will contain a point on maintaining biodiversity in the river we still have a chance to bring the volga back to life. meaning that the mighty volga is treated

with the respect it deserves. you think you understand it and then. you hear part of it and realize everything in . the big picture. welcome back this is our team and i'm karen tara china plans to use on man drones to increase its presence around the islands that are at the center of a volatile dispute with japan they will conduct marine surveillance of the area three chinese patrol vessels still remain very close to the on inhabited but strategic archipelago and have briefly entered waters which japan considers its territory the conflict seen large scale protests in both countries turn ugly and

could be further complicated as time went on are now heading to the islands to reassert their fishing rights in the area while all around the u.s. is increasing its military activity in the region for an expert's opinion on the story i'm now joined by james corbett editor of the corbett report website from japan thank you james for joining us today that's also why is there so much deep rooted interest in these tiny uninhabited islands. well stenson believe this is about the potential oil and gas reserves that have been estimated to be in that area so this is what the what the geo political calculus is about but i think we have to understand this entire dispute not in terms of the islands themselves which most average japanese and average chinese people i think don't don't really care about i think this is being played up as a as a nationalist sentiment nationalist fervor and there's a couple of reasons for this i think one of them is the political calculus that both countries are making right now in fact china is going through its once every

ten years leadership change so we'll see who jintao replaced by xi jinping later this year and japan was also going through an election cycle of sorts here with the ruling democratic party of japan having an internal leadership election and i think both sides of that dispute just like in any election cycle us are in russia or anywhere else in the world and the leaders like to play up their international prestige and talk tough to a perceived enemy or threat during an election season or cycle and i think that's that's part of what's been going on here and i think also this entire conflict gives both sides room to put out more of their pieces on the chessboard as it were so that china for example can use this as a cover to announce the deployment of drones in two thousand and fifteen and japan can use this as a chance to increase their military ties with the u.s. now there's a third party that's also directly and volved in the island wral and that's taiwan where is it all had a all other countries get dragged in as well. it is potentially i suppose it is

possible depending on how this unfolds and i think part of the the the underlying political calculus is that both sides wants this to be a big dispute in diplomatic terms but i don't think either side is really looking for a military confrontation of this point so i think that would be a brake on anything the sort of larger development going on here but having said that i think if there was to be one side that overreact overacted i think the other side would be more likely to overreact because of this kind of tense time that's going on politically so it has the potential to get bigger and right now australia is being proposed as a third party to arbitrate as in a trilateral security talk between camber of beijing and tokyo over this this feud so we'll see if it does broaden out into the region but right now japanese prime minister yoshihiko noda is in new york to attend the u.n. general assembly meeting and he will likely raise this dispute while he's there so

that this is becoming a bit of an international issue that james very briefly i do want to delve a little more into taiwan do you think the conflict will trigger a surgeon separatist sentiment there. i suppose there is that possibility and in a strange way it almost unites it with with china in that they're both disputing japan's claims so i suppose it has the potential to go either way and i wouldn't pronounce on the on the time we need to vision on this but i think that certainly at this moment both sides see japan as the as the enemy more than they see each other as the enemy so i think there might be strategic alliances it's natural but in terms of really changing the balance of power in that relationship i don't think it will have a huge effect in and of itself all right and finally the protests in china could certainly cost japanese businesses billions of dollars how will the dispute play out for the country's economy as well that i think part of this is calculus the political calculus that's going on i think there's also an economic price to pay

for this because of course it destabilizes markets and it creates volatility we see the japanese market declining on on this dispute as well as the rising and so i think that both sides have an interest in not seeing this spill over into too large a confrontation they want to keep the political rhetoric up but i don't think they want to really destabilize the markets too much so i think that also puts a brake on it and we have seen in recent days beijing starting to crack down on some of these protests that were getting quite widespread so i think that the brakes are being applied but we'll have to again see how this plays out and make sure that if if one side reacts there could be potential for much more violence in the region i want to washington's positional of this i mean they made it very clear that it will be on tokyo side in case of further escalation of the dispute how do you expect china will respond to that. well as expected that can only raise tensions in the area but i think that's all part of the long term strategy as we see the u.s. starting its asia pacific pivot so i think it actually has an interest in

increasing tensions between japan and china because that makes japan ever more eager to accept an american military presence which up until now there's been quite strong protest against but now we see them reviewing military joint military exercises in guam it cetera so so it is increasing the japanese reliance on the american security blanket as the as it were and i think that's that plays into the american interest so i think they actually probably benefit from this this be all right a live from japan with his insight and analysis james corbet editor of the corporate report website thank you for your time your welcome. european election was watched all past sunday's parliamentary vote in bello roots their results show a new lower house predominantly behind longstanding president alexander lukashenko although c.i.s. observers say the election was fully democratic they result may further harm. what the west has not except

a chef scare reports. there will be no members of the opposition inside the belorussian parliament old hundred nine deputies which were elected following sunday's parliamentary elections will be supporting president lukashenko current political course this is according to the central election commission of this parliamentary election the belarus had an unprecedented number of international observers with more than four hundred observers of which were from the european union some of the international observers criticized the election calling them undemocratic and saying that the members of the opposition were not registered in the course of the campaign and had very little time on television which violates all democratic norms now such a result of the election comes as no surprise to most of the political analyst i spoke to some of them inside brother was just last week saying that they would not expect anything different from this election mainly because the opposition in the country had been divided part of the opposition decided to boycott the election and

other parts of the opposition withdrew from the election at the very last moment this election paints a very grim picture for those relations with the european union with so much criticism coming from europe which you were actually had hoped for a proper democratic election this time but certainly given the comments coming from the international european observers about the election this seems to be still seems to be on the issue and hardly the relations between means going the rest of europe will become any better any time soon time for a look at some other headlines from around the world clashes between slaughterers and riot police in the philippines capital has left over two dozen people injured violence broke out after demolition crews tried to enter a barricaded building illegal homes for set up but angry residents responded stones police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the angry crowd tends to pull down the shanty town of commons after squatters ignored

a for. no requests to relocate. a woman and an eight year old boy have been killed in a suicide bomb blast targeting a conflict church in northern nigeria the attacker trying to ram an explosive sparked car into the building but was blocked by security barriers churches in the region have recently suffered a number of similar assaults by a radical islamic sect boko her on. could become the latest european nation to seek a bailout a senior official says the request could be made by november it's thought who could ask for up to fifteen billion euros to shore up the country's crumbling budget many eastern european economies are trapped in difficulty between uncertainty in the euro zone and the global financial gloom our business update is coming up after a short break to stay with us.

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welcome to business clashes between euro zone leaders on ways to stem the debt crisis is a having a negative impact over in the states i was up at the trading day let's have a look at the figures them out always one of the main moves and shakers sliding around one point five percent despite selling willow five million i phone five in just three days and facebook is also down around four percent all to surging twenty seven percent since august so as you can see we have got declines in the initial stages of tribes that have

a look at europe them because it jumbly and follows disagrees i went to introduce a banking union for the euro area days from china and germany is signaling the slowdown is day bring all of that is playing into those numbers you've got on your screen right now so check out the common currency then to see that it's still managing to drop a lot as investors really flock towards the u.s. dollar as the safer haven as you can see the ruble remains mixed in the last twenty minutes also of trade now one potential by all the russian currency is legendary investor jim rogers and from russia's new economic school says mr rogers a recent interest could prove to be very profitable. in the economy like russia currency is a function no david allowed to flow in a crisis things are very volatile so it's a cave it definitely is military it's much it would be much worse if central banks defended their ruble or or kept it from appreciation i think it's very good it is determined by the market.