i am. i am. the only. 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 a while pushing further cuts and benefit caps. on the storm at sea as china unveils drone surveillance plans for islands it disputes with japan with fears that the asian giants could pursue him towards a regional. life

from moscow at nine pm you're watching r.t. is could have your company my name is kevin first the growing anti american course in the muslim world sees more soul being rubbed into the wounded relations between the united states needs it it's a concern that critics say is highlighted by the fact that no meetings are expected between the leaders during president morsi visit to the u.s. for the un general assembly on his policy has more on whether egypt's new leader will be able to show more independence from washington that his previous us. 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 in state 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's a big process and you need to own it and the alternative is not i don't think. for 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 is hard line 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. 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 do. 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 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 touched despite simmering violence on the border the state's temporarily shelved some parts of the treaty back in august alone egypt to boost its military presence in the area in order to rooted extremist but there's been speculation that cairo could seek a more permanent move in from the jerusalem post told me israel may eventually yield. well i think there certainly is an expectation in israel for the 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 or 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 negotiations and even i've heard one idea proposed perhaps. israel could ask egypt to sign the peace treaty a new and this would be a revised treaty which would both allow egypt to move more and more forces in and which would commit egypt to the peace in a new way of a new government so i wouldn't say that there is a consensus here there is a debate. in israel about what to do. while israel looks to. situations little short of desperate to the north but it's not reform. from blindness the chaos of syria seeps across borders and sweeps the region. british soldier feeling the squeeze from government cuts right now the giving their

income a pounding chunk of the tax money still being spent on foreign projects and it's not all about good charity. 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 while the website doesn't say is that they're one of a 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 biggest salaries and million pound bonuses britain's hefty foreign aid budget includes an annual spend of two hundred eighteen million pounds that goes to india that's despite the fact that india's economy is so successful that they themselves provide over 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 here are wondering whether all this taxpayers' money should be spent on what 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 india this is going to be quite shortly spending four hundred thousand pounds of u.k. taxpayers' money. now this isn't the kind of spending the taxpayers want to see given the pressure on their own budgets for critics of the u.k. substantial foreign aid budget there's more by. good news on the way prime minister david cameron is planning on increasing it that's going to mean lucrative contracts the so-called poverty barons that run consultancy found is 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 at home. coming up for europe's last dictator in the fire the president could lead to better once again accuse the vote rigging of the opposition members failed entirely to win a single argument you see. the parliamentary vote still ahead for georgia there's no end to the anger over that footage of prisoner abuse despite the arrest and the staff shake up in the detention system. lebanon has ordered its security forces to hunt down a contingent of rebels from the free syrian 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 to get. reports from lebanon it's a bitter reminder of the past. lebanon fought its own civil war on sectarian 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 unshielded wounds from the past string fears of a new civil war. polarize the politics of lebanon. it is resulted in conflicts that have taken place in tripoli it is resulting. skirmishes that have happened in beirut. of course vulnerable to this type of sectarian conflict. lebannon sunni's mainly supports 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 who actually. hoping and corrupt

allies in going 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 be able 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 powerless done through be no peace while he is in force in 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 that we are defending ourselves against machines of terror and mercenaries who are being brought in from abroad.

even the push to defend islam is most unifying figure the prophet muhammad wasn't enough to bridge lebanon's sick tarion divide in beirut separate protests against an anti islam video has turned tens of thousands of shias 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 this is actually as are going to go if. they're going to have their start they can start their careers in the streets here and that. numbers are right it's not so it's sort of. this shelled out building stands in beirut green line which for nearly two decades divided this city journey 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. i'm lucy california in beirut. thanks for being with us much more. of this. the ride that takes your breath away to eating across the sky as it was a mohnish could you know the biggest salt lake in europe and more than two hundred species of birds but also it is them are on the verge of extinction on these islands in the south of russia they find shelter before my brain to other parts of

the world much of. here we see the great white pelican and several species of the domination pelican which are both in the red dates of birth but there are only forty to fifty couples left in the region your palate can use as well as other species at the monish gugino feed these birds are waiting for their parents to bring them food the best cash for them is in a small area is a lake where the war is relatively fresh a fish cannot survive in the salty a part of the month and the lakes getting salty every year they manage to do lows and all to fish oil reservoir which has failed in the nineteen fifties in the areas hot climate the evaporates quickly and the local saw is natural salton its takes over just for the post reported storm and there are relatively few water sources here some water comes from the dawn river and some from the cuban during the last three to four years we've had a very severe drought drought we are practically standing on the bottom of this

like it's been falling every year the majority of birds have been retreating as well or they nestle in new orleans. apart from birds so the drying out of the lake also threaten one of the world's biggest populations of mustangs. they live on one of the monic on island next destination. there are more than four hundred is the animals here theories are protected wildlife preserve it's a place of serene peace and calm in recent decades dozens of canals have been dug around here to cultivate the local staps broad grassy plains this may be useful for humans but it does badly hit many species as the animals here for instance saia enter lopes which are extremely shy was scared away only to be killed in the hundreds of thousands by poachers focal here believes the substance found in their

horse can cure impotence just so forty years ago there were more than two million so i gained living in asia and they lead nowhere else in the world but now people brought the species to the brink of extinction this region is be reaching life for thousands of years but now i know relatively short space of time it's my been diversity of creatures is second and all fronts by man and nature itself. wealthy british style it's a spot on. the. market find. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two guys a report on. china plans to use unmanned drones to increase its presence around the

islands that are at the center right now of a volatile dispute with japan will conduct marine the surveillance of the area three chinese patrol vessels still remain very close to the uninhabited but strategic archipelago of briefly and to waters which japan considers its territory the conflict seen large scale protests in both countries turn ugly the road could be further complicated too as taiwanese boats and heading to the islands. there are fishing rights in the area while all around the u.s. is increasing its military activity in the region investigative journalist james cole with the japan told us he 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 an 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 to get bigger and right now australia is being proposed as a third party to arbitrate in a trilateral security talks between canberra beijing and tokyo over this dispute so

we'll see if it does broaden out into the region we see the us 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 cetera 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. for sir james cole but you can follow a lot of the stories in r.t. dot com as well our web site there now a taste of what else we got a dot com bust for new zealand spy service reporting on the country's foreign intelligence bureau which was involved in the arrest of mega upload founder kim dotcom now coming under fire for its own private as to head to our web site to find out why. and after israel ramped up its rhetoric over iran's nuclear program now it

seems that surrounds the saber rattle saying its rival is not the only one who can strike first again that story interests you it's online take a look when if you like are. the european election watchdog a slam sunday's parliamentary vote in belarus the results show a new lower house predominantly behind longstanding president alexander lukashenko although c.i.s. observers say the election was fully democratic the result may further harm in sex relations with the west as a legacy of jet ski 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 central election commission of this parliamentary election in belarus had an unprecedented number of international observers with more than four hundred observers half 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 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 there 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 part 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 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 several prison officials have been arrested to keep ministers have quit the wave of youth protests well done and discovered from the man who exposed the videos present for these perfectly aware of what was going on in the facilities. the public is in fact school 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 foreign leaders of the school paul just mentioned that he took 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 wasn't even the crime be

wheeled off before stopped by the police early our team managed to meet the medical fraud and all this released a video of what i think to be the crimes that were used to be one of the senior staff members of the coup but he for the n.p.c. claims personally shot me off easily off the back of the georgists interior minister should if it was to the president it was just for fun for no particular reason it was like we do what we want with people one see take you to prison you are nobody you have new dignity this is why these videos cost such patriots in georgia all of this is definitely a huge blow to be a mutual theo cornice since me i'll actually talk to paul and it's coming up on the first of october at aborting to be elitist. both president saakashvili and the ruling party have already almost up to twenty percent of all supporters. igor has gone off in tbilisi there now elsewhere around the world this monday night clashes

between squatters and riot police in the philippines capital of left over two dozen people injured violence broke out after demolition crews tried to enter a barricaded building where illegal homes was being set up but angry residents responded by throwing stones place used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the angry crowd attempts to pull down the shanty town comes off the squatters ignored official request to relocate. the woman to an eight year old boy had been killed in a suicide bomb blast targeting a catholic church. in northern nigeria your turn to try to ram an explosives parked car into the building that was blocked by security barriers churches in the region recently suffered a number of similar assaults by radical islamists. hungary 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 used to european economies are in difficulty trapped between uncertainty in the global financial global we're talking about culture with you

know business department gloom gloom gloom of the markets reacting to all of it yeah that's a good word really isn't it because right now the market is all gloomy themselves we're seeing a lot of red figures kevin on the screen and it's really because of the discord there's been a lot of disagreements between euro zone leaders today on the way the best way forward to deal with the european sovereign debt crisis let's get stuck in and check out how wall street is performing because they are now in there often in session and as you can see not much is change really not much movement it's all still firmly entrenched down below the water line and as i say it's a lot to do with the father in europe he's got germany of france disagreeing all went to introduce the banking union in other words a common bank for the your area and that so taking its toll as well as that there's been some weak economic data from the likes of china and germany all adding to the

fact that this is how the european markets closed up for today's session and all of that blue means that the markets here moscow they see finished below the waterline as you can see the r.t.s. nine tenths of a percent just not only was it the international markets taking their toll but also oil prices heading south as well so that's the markets for now kevin i'll be back in fifteen minutes probably with more. talk about the good old days all worthy on the way surely are to take to eighteen twelve in the life of soldiers in russia's war against napoleon it's our next program. more news today says once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are only day.

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on september the seventh they seemed twelve a quarter of a million men stood fields waiting to decide the fate of the russian empire it was the bloodiest single day. only on it wars and now two centuries on the soldiers are back to do it all again. in just under two hours the fighting here will be over the several days now more than three thousand men women and children have left the twenty first century behind to plunge headlong into the nineteenth. they come to this small rural area just one hundred twenty kilometers from moscow to when a splendid uniforms find them muskets amongst daring cavalry charges they traveled from across the world to be part of the largest napoleonic reenactment ever seen on russian soil the bicentenary of the battle of the road you know.

and to be an effective napoleonic soldier you have to live like a napoleonic soldier the whole experience is supposed to be as authentic as possible and that means all react is really trying to live the lives of their eight hundred twelve counterparts eating the same food living in the same tents and wading through the same mud. accommodation is as basic as it comes no sleeping bags all comforts here most people making do with a bed of straw on a horse blanket. conditions are no excuse for untidiness.