not egypt's new leader gets the cold shoulder of the united states as he vows to lessen america's influence after his predecessors decades of being washington friendly. also the hundreds of millions of pounds spent by the british government on foreign countries that barely need aid while pushing further cuts and benefit caps. on the storm at sea is china drone surveillance planes for islands it disputes with japan with fears that the asian giants could be surging towards a regional.

ally from moscow this is our war welcome to my name's kevin owen first this hour the growing anti american chorus in the muslim world sees more soul being rubbed into the wounded relations between the united states needs hip it's a concern the critics say is highlighted by the fact that no meeting is expected between the leaders during president morsi visit to the u.s. for the un general assembly. 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 went to china instead and also to iran which was a diplomatic snub to united 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 is 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 he might want to change your foreign policy or restructure it it's a big process and you need i'll turn it on and the alternative is not i don't think china is for. being a policeman the fact is there 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 egypt today is not very different than it had been under mubarak egypt u.s. relations during the mubarak era were quite strong the u.s. 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 violent demonstrations the rain. 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 the relationship between the two countries remains strained this wall was erected several days ago to prevent protesters from reaching 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 policy r.t. . israel says its peace deal with egypt will stay on touch despite simmering violence on the border the state temporarily shelved some parts of the treaty back in august alone needed to send every weaponry into the area in order to root out extremists but there's been speculation that caro could seek a more permanent move to where this was but he's from the jerusalem post is joining us by phone from tel aviv bring to you now egypt says that amending the treaty will be by popular demand an important strategic and security move so what are israel's concerns why is it so reluctant to revise this twenty year old agreement do you

think. well first of all i think we have to remember a vet in the past couple of months when egypt has asked israel to allow extra gyptian forces into sinai for counterterrorism missions israel has accepted those requests allowed cairo to move those forces and then we're talking about several battalions armored vehicles and helicopters things that were really important for the egyptian army at that time and to character the threat the problem is when it comes to reopening this peace deal and looking at the security provisions there are concerns within the government circles in jerusalem of what will be down the line word of. unstable phase in the middle east and we don't exactly know who. will be operating in sinai what effect this will have on future israeli gyptian forces and all of these question marks mean that the government in jerusalem is reluctant at this stage to open up the treaty and committed itself to. a

significant increase of egyptian forces in the sinai peninsula ok well israel thinks of egypt to tell us that cycle islam is on the border of failed so so in your view do you think a tougher military presence in the area would make egypt set foot again more or less successful than. well i think there certainly is an expectation in israel for the gypsies to continue. to continue with the counterterrorism missions that they've begun last month following that attack which killed sixteen gyptian soldiers at the same time i have to say that i've spoken to defense sources here in israel people who are no longer serving in official capabilities these are former senior officials and they've told me that perhaps israel should examine the egyptian requests to open up this peace treaty perhaps there is room for renegotiations and even i've heard one idea proposed perhaps. israel could ask

egypt to sign the peace treaty a new and this would be able vice treaty which would both allow egypt to move more more forces in and which would commit egypt to the peace in a new way i'm under the new government so i wouldn't say that there is a consensus here there is a debate in israel about what to do course the issue on the big quandary is that on one out israel wants to prevent the rise of extremism near its border on the other it doesn't want egypt to drag its weapons into the area so what is this and. well as i've said one idea that i've heard floated from a former senior defense official is to open up this peace treaty again to how it's restart negotiations with cairo to allow them to move more forces in but at the same time to get them to resign to re approve all of the old peace treaty and this would be a very symbolic gesture by the government in cairo which is now led by the muslim brotherhood that it accepts all of the old provisions of the peace treaty and that it is not using this situation to try and

a varied its commitment to the peace treaty so there are ways if we think outside the box that perhaps a solution can be found i would also add that we've seen reports here in israel that the head of the gyptian security forces have signed a temporary cease fire agreements with some of the so. the jihadi elements inside i and i think that that is the wrong approach there is no way that these jihadi elements could be expected to keep up with troops it's obvious they're interested in continuing their attacks so that kind of approach would be frowned upon in israel for a couple up in journalist for the jerusalem post thanks ever so much appreciated. now while israel looks to stamp out the threat to its southie a situation that was short of desperate to the north late to the fall and how leverage in the emerging as a new front line as the chaos of syria seeps across borders and sweeps the region. but next the british households are feeling the squeeze from government cuts that

are giving their income a pounding but a fair chunk of their tax money is being spent on foreign projects and not all good charity stuff as artie's polly boyd explains from london. i'm standing in front of the london headquarters of adam smith international according to that 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 fix biggest 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 now at

a time when the coalition government is considering freezing benefits for the most vulnerable in the u.k. society some m.p.'s are wondering whether all this tax payers money should be spent they call questionable foreign aid the department for international development has said they're going to stop giving aid to india but that hasn't stopped them building a new office in the going to be quite shortly spending four hundred thousand pounds of money on furniture now this isn't the kind of spending that want to see given the pressure on their own budgets for critics of the u.k. 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 lucrative contracts for so-called poverty barons that run consultancy firms like the one behind me now in recent days the bank of england has one struggling british households to brace themselves for further 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. china plans to use unmanned drones to increase its presence around the islands that are at the center of the volatile dispute with japan right now they set the conduct marine surveillance of the area three chinese patrol vessel still remain very close to the uninhabited but strategic archipelago and have briefly entered waters mr patten considers its territory now the conflict seen large scale protests in both countries turn ugly the road could be further complicated as taiwanese boats are now heading to the islands to reassert their fishing rights in the area while all the u.s. is increasing its military activity in the region investigative journalist james cole but in japan believes washington has an interest in stoking tensions between the countries 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 it has the potential to get bigger and right now australia is being proposed as a third party to arbitrate in a trilateral security talks between camber of beijing and tokyo over this dispute so we'll see if it does broaden out into the region 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 protests against but now we see them renewing military joint military exercises in guam it such as so so it is increasing the japanese reliance on the american security blanket says that as it were and i think that that plays into american interests so i think they actually probably benefit from this dispute. james corbett they're still ahead few just a few minutes an hour to europe's last dictator under fire the president ruling

elite but a rooster once again accused of vote rigging after opposition members fail entirely with a single parliament we see coming up out of parliamentary vote still ahead for georgia two words no end to the anger over footage of prisoner abuse despite the arrests and the staff shakeup at the detention system. i never thought i could earn a living this way. and i tell you a show of ours alone should test small arms so there's a lot almost machine building plant natale a source count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting. the planet's history goes from making firearms during

world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the advancing germans south you're also became the heart of soviet military production closed off to foreigners for half a century it thrived on the massive roots of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the year old truck factory russia's number one truck made for girls a look at how well the workplace is organized everything's done to make sure the workers don't waste time waiting there was so production is booming the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these giants are sold around the globe here based in brand new be the way it's a big. seventy trucks like this one roll off the plants every day

look at this things that absolutely huge. well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get that. far to try. to get one of these to travel to whatever it was with the cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving my. security forces to hunt down a contingent of rebels from the free syrian army after a firefight in a border checkpoint the militants had launched an attack on a lebanese border post from syria before escaping further inland. reports from

lebanon it's a bitter reminder of the past. lebanon fought its own civil war on terror in 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 on healed wounds from the past during fears of a new civil war it is. the politics of lebanon. it is resulted in conflicts that have taken place in tripoli it is results. 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 lebanon was divided in half between the groups that

support that the syrian syrian regime and those people who actually. hoping and cup the lies and go on there for what they scald the free syrian army nowhere is that divide and 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 babble to ban islam i asked him whether 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. we are defending ourselves against machines of

terror and there are scenarios 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 six tarion divide in beirut separate protests against an anti islam video has been turned tens of thousands of she is to the streets days later a hardline sunni cleric who gathered his own supporters in the capital they may have been united in their outrage but protesters carried flags that left no doubt which side of the syrian divide they're on for now lebanon is holding together but some residents here wonder whether this is just the calm before the storm season so you guys are going to go over and over again or are they going to start to start their careers in the streets here that. some of them everywhere are going to the streets so it's going to 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 california in beirut . you follow the story as well about what is there a taste at all she can see a dot com bust for new zealand spy service before they go on the country's foreign intelligence bureau which was involved in the rest of back up love dot com now coming out of. this web site find out why. israel wrapped up its rhetoric over iran's nuclear program. to saber rattle saying its rival is not the only one who could strike first again we're reporting on. the european election watchdogs sunday's parliamentary vote in better roosts the

results show a new lower house predominately behind longstanding president alexander lukashenko although c.i.s. observers said the election was fully democratic the result may further harm relations with the west as reports. there will be no members of the opposition inside develop russian parliament old hundred and nine deputies which were elected following sunday's parliamentary elections will be supporting president lukashenko current political course this is according to the russian central election commission of this parliamentary election the belarus had an unprecedented number of international observers with more than four hundred observers of which 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 air time on television which violates all democratic norms now such

a result of the election is comes as no surprise to most of the political analyst i spoke to some of them inside 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 part of the opposition withdrew from the election at the very last moment this election paints a very grim picture for. relations with the european union with so much criticism coming from europe 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 it still seems to be an issue and hardly the relations between minsk and the rest of europe will become any better anytime soon. the georgian government scrambling to save face ahead of next week's election after the release of shocking footage of prisoner abuse although several prison officials have been arrested and to keep

ministers have quit the wave of youth protests. and discovered from the man who exposed the videos president was perfectly aware of what was going on in the facilities. the public is in fact still so shocked and angry that they're comparing the footage from george and for those with back from guantanamo except it contains suspected terrorists while here we're talking about georgia in me another factor irritating the public right now is the recent arrest of one of the quarter meters of the school for just you've got to take more yank he was detained on saturday by traffic police officer we are not abiding to the authorities orders he was put in prison for ten days but it is reported that he was that he would be right be wheeled off before stopped by the police early our team managed to me to the medical fraud and all the severe leaks to the videos i was even to the crowds that we used to be one of the senior staff members of the coup but he for that in b.b.c. claims first of all he shot me all these videos are going to be george's interior

minister should be fit he was to be president it was just for fun for no particular reason it was like we do what we want with people one city key to prison you are nobody you have new dignity this is why these videos cause such outreach in georgia all this is definitely a huge blow to be a major o.p.o. boney's since to be able actually to parliament is going up on the first of october at a boarding to be elitist. both president saakashvili and the ruling party have already lost up to twenty percent of supporters. rather will have brief this monday night clashes to squatters and riot police in the philippines capital's left over two dozen people injured broke out after demolition crews tried to enter a barricaded building there were illegal homes are being set up but and we residents responded by throwing stones police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd attempts to hold down the shanty town comes after school has

ignored official request to relocate. a woman on a major old boy been killed in a suicide bomb blast targeting a catholic church in northern nigeria the attacker tried to ram. packed car into the building but was blocked by security barriers churches in the region of recently suffered a number of similar assaults by radical islamists. under it could become the latest european nation to seek a bailout a senior official says the request could be made by november it's thought budapest could ask for up to fifteen billion euros to shore up the country's crumbling budget many eastern european economies are in difficult t. trapped between uncertainty in the eurozone and the global financial believe me. all right well the days of business news just ahead here on r t it's not just a bit after twenty four minutes past eight and i.

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by that welcome to business clashes between euro zone leaders on ways to stem the debt crisis are having and negative impacts on the global agassi markets we get stuck in and check out the wall street numbers because they did indeed open up in negative territory and that is where they remain as they enter that often in session as you can see the dow jones around two tenths moves that is around haul five percent for the nonce that one of the stocks as such is slipping it is that poll says are down about one and a hall to send now that's also the company so one of five million units of the i phone five that we can but that wasn't as many as what they were hoping for a paradise let's take out the european market because that frighten us passing the tell you this monday gemini affronts disagreed on a way to introduce

a banking union which in other words is a common bank pull the euro area and data as well from the rise of china and javanese all signaling. slowdown the is deepening about what investors are not about right now says check out the common current say it will be a good stay that you're probably not surprised that it is indeed dropping ready investors are heading towards the u.s. dollar the so-called safe haven in these times of economic uncertainty the global hot pose of the day it was a mixed finish what potential bio all the russian currency is legendary investor jim rogers. from russia's new economic school says mr gold just worrisome interest could prove to be very profitable indeed. in an economy like russia cutting see is a function no david allowed to flow in old price both things are variable so it's ok that profitable as well it does much work it would be much worse if central banks defended their elbow or kept it from appreciation i think it's very good it

is determined by the market russian this is sort of generally know and that of it and as i said the russian government realizes the potential russian economy will be a capital out it get built in floor and those who come to earth will make a lot of money and that i think is understood by jim rogers. with that in mind we've got the closing figures for the russian equity markets on your screen just there really global pressures to that told as well as oil as well for the energy dependent stocks here as well because oil prices are indeed declining already at a disappointing a start to the week all round so that is the market is always back in about fifteen minutes to kevin as you saw already a sea of red around here simply doesn't within an hour's time as you say i don't know exactly discusses the role of wave to american protests with almost a crook he's director of the conflicts forum in beirut.