new leader gets the cold shoulder in the united states as he vows to lessen america's influence prita says 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 at all. the storm and see if china unveils drone surveillance plans for disputes with japan with fears that the asian giants could be surging towards a regional war latest live comment on that coming up to.

live from moscow to levon pm you're watching r.t. with me kevin no in our first story this hour the growing anti-american chorus of the muslim world sees more soul being rubbed into wounded relations between the united states and egypt it's a concern the critics say is highlighted by the fact that no meetings expected between the leaders during president morsi visit to the u.s. for the u.n. general assembly. has got more on whether egypt's new leader will be able to show more independence from washington that his previous. 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 it's a big process and you need the alternative and the alternative is not i don't think china is. being placement 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 waist 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 finding demonstrations during. 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 these peter sr 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 their border states temporarily shelved some parts of the treaty back in august allowing egypt to boost its military presence in the area in order to root out extremists but there's been speculation that caro could seek a more permanent move york of lublin from the jerusalem post told me israel my eventually yield. well i think there certainly is an expectation in israel for the egyptians to continue the initiative and 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 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 the 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. now in there with me but earlier and while israel looks to stamp the threat to its south the situation is little short of desperate to the north but later we report on how lebanon's of merging is a new front line now as the chaos of syria seeps across the borders and sweeps the region. british households are feeling the squeeze from government cuts that are

giving their income a pounding but a fair chunk of the tax money is still being spent on foreign projects and it's not all about good charity as artie's polyploid carrick's planes not 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 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 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 time has money should be spent on what they call questionable foreign aid the department for international. but that 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 given the 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 critical contracts the so-called poll that baron's 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 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 at home. china plans to use unmanned drones to increase its presence around the islands that are currently the center of a volatile dispute with japan set to conduct marine surveillance of the area three chinese patrol vessels also still remain very close to the uninhabited but strategic archipelago and they've briefly entered waters which japan considers its territory the conflict seen large scale protests in both countries turn ugly this route could be further complicated to was taiwanese boats and heading to the islands to reassert their fishing rights in the area while all this the u.s. is increasing its military activity and the reason is because my thoughts about what's happening here then get some analysis from dr joseph gerson he's the program's director of the american friends service committee an expert in the and

asia pacific affairs were very pleased to have you on the program to go and why these islands drawing so much focus from so many countries even the u.s. now there are two principal reasons one is that didn't the seabed surrounding the there's considerable there's lots because of what was so and mineral wealth. is where obviously something that both japan and china want a book perhaps more important is the strategic relationship to taiwan chinese military strategy calls for attempting to bottle up japanese and u.s. naval and to a degree there are forces in the event of a possible war between china and taiwan ok and all we any closer to a possible war between china and japan with this kicking off is it is it likely to extend any further this military muscle flexing or is it. well my sense is that the situation is calm day after being very dangerous last week but that doesn't mean that it can't flare up it any time that it beats the interest of political leaders

seeking to manipulate the situation. china has essentially halted most of its demonstrations they sent a high level communist party delegation to japan for negotiations and the japanese prime minister has. admitted to having miscalculated in the situation though so one of the articles you call the pacific and american late in terms of its military presence in the region you touched on it just now do you think the u.s. could use this to speak to gaining more influence than well i think it already has been i think with its reinforcing of the u.s. japan alliance the statements by. kurt campbell to the fact that while while the united states doesn't take a position on who really owes us our homes the u.s. japan why it's requires us to intervene on spanish behalf if there's a war they've used this is cover to. make

a decision to deploy more missile defenses in so the japan and the japanese government uses a cover to give authorization to move the new osprey dangerous osprey appliance to okinawa also clearly the united states has demonstrated to both other allies in the region and to us here on nations that it is the balancer and part of the ongoing effort to contain his goals to engage china could sort of japan and china have long had economic rivalries and we say the regime is too big but can japan really afford to take on it be competitive over this well they're both competitors and important is in trade japan certainly is going to pay for this. there's boycotts going on now of japanese products a number of japanese factories in china had to close at least temporarily during

the last crisis over these islands the chinese at least for a period of time in the sale the trade of rare earths which are essential to japan's high tech economy at the same time china needs japanese investment so. the war would cost both characters one reason why it didn't happen appreciate the program. thank you thank you. so have funa few minutes on r.t. europe's lasting tator under fire the president the ruling elite of bella once again accused of vote rigging after opposition members fail entirely. parliamentary seat we report and the euro bank is stumble on an extra twenty billion euros in the greek budget deficit to making the current growth recovery all but obsolete.

if you're passing through rushes to veer region you really can walk on the wild side. thousands of kilometers of unspoilt countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land and enterprising local so the fruits of the forest by the side of nearly every road such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fishermen and provides a business opportunity for hunches. you know he has been hunting for more than thirty years and works for a company providing expeditions for tourists this season ducks are on the menu. the two things are successful that kind of. silence which means that i need to be very quiet i'm not going to write in the. office. but when you've been in the business as long as he has the birds don't stand much chance. there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many

animals are killed out of the allotted times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive but environmentalists are fighting back the heart of just us forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after

a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up. and this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys are going to act as pasta parents for the next generation will come here. using the old awards as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i place infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs whose parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's an important part of the world's development and a major factor in the success of a project which has seen more than twenty generations of cubs grow up here it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication mean that wolf island remains a place where visitors can truly understand the call of the wild. you

know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought . i'm tom harkin welcome to the big picture. now again now in sort of 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 scraping further inland and that is lucy calf not reports next for 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 i'm healed wounds from the past strong fears of a new civil war. polarized the politics of lebanon. it is resulted in conflicts that have taken place in tripoli it is result of. 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 and member of the alawite sect divided in half between the groups that support the syrian syrian regime and those people actually. hoping and cup the lies and go on there 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 babble 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 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 most neris who have been reading from it read. even the pope. to defend islam as most unifying figure the prophet muhammad wasn't enough to bridge lebanon's sick tarion to fight in beirut separate protests against an anti islam video has been 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 to find their own for now lebanon is holding together but some residents here wonder whether this is just the calm before the storm all the syrian cities are you guys are going to go. they're going to start to start revolution in the streets here and then. everywhere are going to fight over the streets so it's never going to get this shelled out building stands in beirut green line which for nearly two decades the bided 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 elf in beirut. you keep up to date with the latest on this story many others too and a web site out. of some others there right now a dot com bust for new zealand spy service reporting all that the country's foreign intelligence bureau which was involved in the arrest of the kim called comes under fire from its own promised to a website find out why i don't for israel ramped up its rhetoric over iran's nuclear program now the tables turn is to rattle. into the sable saber rattling saying its rival is not the only one who can strike first developing story with us . the european election watchdogs sunday's parliamentary vote in belarus the results show a new lower house predominantly behind longstanding president alexander look at all those serious observers said the election was fully democratic the result my. relations with the west as reports. there will be no members of the opposition

inside the bell or russian parliament old hundred deputies which were elected following sunday's parliamentary elections will be supporting president lukashenko current political course this is according to the belorussian central election commission and now this parliamentary election the ballot was and then preceded that 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 airtime 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 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 when 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 it still seems to be an issue and hardly the relations between minsk and the rest of europe will become any better anytime soon. elsewhere in the world he said late monday night clashes between school police and for the peace council left over two dozen people injured violence broke out after demolition crews trying to enter a barricaded building were illegal drugs was set up but angry residents responded by throwing. the ball to come to disperse the crowd attempts to cool down the shanty town come off to school says ignored official requests to relocate. the woman to nature. boy have been killed in a suicide bomb blast targeting

a catholic church in northern nigeria the attack to try to ram an explosives packed car into the building but was blocked by security barriers judges in the region of recently suffered a number of similar souls by radical islam. international debt inspectors have stumbled on a whopping twenty billion euro black hole in greece's budget creditors from the i.m.f. european central bank an e.u. are in athens evaluating the cuts and deciding whether it deserves more bailout money but economist yanis varoufakis spoke to me from athens university says greece's creditors knew all too well about the true debt burden. there is a way doesn't come to light because the story goes especially the i.m.f. decided not to reveal it months ago figure was very well know the marks for you to be incendiary device for monetary funds the problem with that they are having destroyed discovery is that they didn't want the midst of their own failures running and exit of the greek economy from its crisis because there are these are

sitting there only interested in finding a solution freezing in spain at the moment and they just don't want any news from greece to be the picture that's always this instead will be the water that can make a nine hundred thirty days in europe whereby you have two mountains competing against one another as to which one is the highest amount of debts and banking losses and then a mountain of savings but i don't know where to go i believe these to be the manifestation of a post-modern stagnation 1930's like. well let's start with the gloomy economic news now katie's in the business studio katie a gloomy monday really but so far wall street attempting a cumber gear yeah they are in the last kind of fifteen minutes or so we're actually looking at the declines being a rate on the dow jones and away our rebound in find out to shares already hoping to overshadow the concerns over the european leaders efforts to us stem the debt crisis or lack of it we've got our clothes face but continuing to pull down though

the tech heavy nasdaq so check out those figures also talk about the european situation as well because those stocks ended up a lot of our financial woes in spain and greece also hitting the spotlight yet again as well as weak data coming from china and germany as well we have the last day markets closing below the waterline really marrying the international markets and reacting to the fall and oil prices as well so that's how business that's all for this monday are we about so far with more fine to see than kevin thanks kate and i come up in a few minutes here crosstalk tries to shed light on the background and reasons for the ongoing tension between china and japan.

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and you can see. below in the welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle is it merely a squabble over a bunch of rocks in the pacific or beijing's projection of power the growing competition for sovereign control over a number of pacific islands highlights the growing instability among important trading partners what is driving this competition nationalism at home or all important geopolitical interests. and you can see.