demonstrators across egypt ignore president morsi as curfew after he implements a state of emergency in areas affected by fatal riots. medical workers in bahrain claim they're constantly targeted by the authorities for treating protesters in the kingdom rife with anti-government sentiment. and the posthumous trial of deceased russian lawyer serbian magnitsky has been postponed until next month his death in a detention cell more than three years ago strained relations between moscow and washington.

from our studios in moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's good to have you with us two pm now here in the russian capital and twelve noon in cairo our top story this hour protesters in egypt are out on the streets again let's just spite a curfew imposed by president mohamed morsi as part of a state of emergency now the measures followed deadly demonstrations against the government and unrest following the handing down of death sentences to some participants of last year's football riots a local reporter bel true has the latest from the capital. president obama issued the state of emergency yesterday in three cities susan is the lead that seen the worst violence in the last three days he will say and carries a curfew between nine pm and six am to have already been called for protests to break this curfew starting at eight pm tonight they say in defiance of the

president what this will mean on the ground is likely to be several street battles between security forces and protesters as they remain on the streets also according to egyptian emergency law security forces are now able to rest citizens and detain them for up to thirty days without charges to like he did see a wave of arrests across those three cities as people have violate the curfew and clash with police but the violence continues here in the capital as well as security forces are firing tear gas and government protesters they have been all night quite dramatic scenes takeouts is taking over the whole of downtime kyra leaving many to question whether the president may see to carry a curfew here in the capital as well some have welcomed the move by the president to impose this state of emergency as he had been criticized for sitting on the fence how the opposition coalition the national salvation front assume untamed stance against the president they are demanding that the cabinets of resign to the

constitution be revoked and the national salvation government take over so it's unlikely that they will actually have dialogue with the president this point there's also protests planned today across the country in particular in the capital against the president who they see as illegitimate this is also marking the second anniversary of january twenty eighth one of the bloodiest days of the eight hundred they are praising we saw the protesters take to create for the first time really in this growing crisis is going to be a lot of pressure on the president to make this these dialogues work with the opposition and sort of the crisis across the country. so president morsi is looking for an end to violence and has asked the opposition to sit down for peace talks but political activists i'm a founding he says the muslim brotherhood led government will look to maintain the status quo and that's factions from the entire political spectrum put pressure on. a list they fear that people in the street. it challenges them challenge

it or thirty particularly in terms of going to to spell amendment we are hearing all the times that people in muslim brotherhood do not want to change the situation and seize as a constitution is the best all over the globe. saw i think is that the more people exercise pressure on them the more reacted positively the try to accommodate all political trends and all political factions within. new political system i'm afraid that the muslim brotherhood would like to manipulate the state operators for the sake of people speaking about this issue and we have to build a new democratic system build on. this in egypt and other. state operator serving one political party. is still in that initial period. well with bahrain beset by violent anti-government protests those in the medical

field seem to be increasingly targeted by authorities doctors say they're suffering severe retribution for treating injured protesters but the government investigating some of those allegations alexy yourselves skin looks at whether those helping others in the kingdom are the ones at risk. nada dhaif was among a group of doctors who were trying to help the injured during a protest in bahrain she claims that after violently crushing the dissent the or forty stirred their attention to her and her colleagues who were providing first aid they denied. health care to the patients and protesters. the doctors did not obey the orders for such. decided to punish those doctors i was taken to a place for ten days that i didn't know where it was. all that time i was blindfolded and handcuffed i was in

a solitary confinement for back to twenty one days. and they would just open the door of the cell and beat me up and leave it there was a member of the royal family who directly was responsible of my torture she was beating me and she looked at me almost two dozen doctors were arrested back then this for the fuel the anger of the protesters and turned the hospitals grounds into the scene of the rally the some money hospital is bahrain's leading medical institution and that's where most of the arrests have been made after those events it now looks like a fortress guarded heavily by the right police and not everybody can get a human rights activists or if you had suffered for speaking out against the regime and decided to come here for treatment you could make matters even worse for yourself anyone who was injured from the protests they cannot go to the hospital because they will be arrested beaten and taken to the jail last year many protester

and in jail where torture and certain money are we have a story and the similar people and protest are being tortured and the jail but in my country protests there were tortured inside. britain not who was charged with treason and sentenced to fifteen years in prison before being acquitted because of what she believed to be international pressure on bahrain's government the fate of many other doctors remains unclear the person who allegedly tortured not and others princes. has been officially charged by police she denies all allegations against her meanwhile the guy. woman stands resumed that the action it took against the hospital was the right thing to do. these doctors managed to control the emergency unit in the first floor of the hospital and started to perform political acts when a hospital is turned into a base for political ethic work this is a real disaster we had an unbiased committee investigating the hospital eight

condemn the acts of these doctors. the case against one of the members of the world family may seem as an indication that bahrain's government has bowed to the negative global reaction with the doctor scandal being far from the only torture accusation c.c.t.v. cameras have been installed at all prisons in a move to become more transparent according to the authorities but with protests in the gulf states still continuing and accusations of human rights violations intensifying the opposition is still wondering what happens in the places where the cameras cannot see. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. still ahead for you here on our t.v. u.s. defends its record in the middle east outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton gets praise from president obama who says washington played a leading role in regime change in egypt and libya maines has a ten on syria. and

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started it's been postponed why. well sort of emergencies mother has been calling on the warriors not to take part in this meeting and. not nobody actually showed up to dethrone to give money to his former boss. the former head of the russian office of the hermitage capital foundation this is actually the first post. trial in the history of russia but it seems that it's not about to be magnitsky anymore so much since he did the way but it's really more about william browder his former boss since when he headed the russian office of the investment fund authorities suspect that it was around twenty million dollars short give or take in tax payments as its accountant was in charge of taxes and it suspected that he

submitted feek receipts under the supervision of his boss if he was detained while his boss managed to leave russia to the united kingdom he's a british citizen a lot of them has been refusing to extradite him and that's why these hearings are being held without him taking part without him there but as that we saw today this one couldn't be held properly since none of the words also came so this state appointed public defendants and rescheduled the meeting to february eighteenth it's interesting because around the globe the magnitsky case is actually not that well known for being over tax evasion and it is viewed by critics as being politically motivated take us through that criticism why do people see it that way. well one of

the main reasons for that is that severe magnitsky himself claimed that he had revealed a massive corruption scheme largely involving a senior russian officials he couldn't prove it since he passed away while in while being held in the pretrial detention center so neither him nor the prosecution which accused him of tax evasion could prove those statements but also the circumstances of the game against his death are they caused a lot of criticism both from human rights activists in russia and especially in the west officially he died of heart problems there was an investigation looking into his death which didn't find any of it anyway lesions from the authorities or specifically for the prison staff when he was held in this pretrial detention center but still magnitsky is widely viewed in the west as

a victim to various human rights way lesions and just recently american law made makers past of the so-called magnitsky act which gives the green light to sanctioning russian official suspected beer of violating human rights in moscow it's seen as an end to russian war since it's not really clear on what grounds this black list of names of people before of different sanctions of travel and financial restrictions how it's put together and actually put into russia's prime minister dmitry medvedev of the act is not only politicized but also goes against most international laws. but i want that each country has the right to deny any country citizen an entry visa to his territory this is something normal but it's something that corresponds with international conventions without having to explain the reasons for it the united states could and still can bring any russian officials entrance to america the same way they can

examine their accounts or whatever else they have in america but this is exactly what russia can do as well but when it becomes a public campaign with congress saying it will draw up a list of individuals who have been involved in a crime what do you think it is if not an extra judicial execution of the convicts these individuals without any trial or prosecution but each. obviously the migrants character became a major problem in the lesions between moscow and washington russia passed its response to it putting together its own blacklist for of sanctions against american citizens and different categories that which includes also travel and financial sanctions and one of the things that what happened also after that was the introduction of the general ban for adoption for all american citizens to adopt russian children and actually now according to the prime minister this general adoption ban even though it was on the emotional week caused by the migrants he

asked according to media video of these two things are not connected legally or de facto. a very difficult case indeed even more so now that it's possible you go up again of life from moscow thank you for the latest on the magnitsky case we'll continue to follow the story. now to me that is video of spoke about the conflict in syria he says unless the country stars are working silicon to reconcile atory absence a process it will face an endless civil war moscow remains neutral while maintaining that foreign intervention should be ruled out the prime minister did say time is not on present side. i think there are fewer chances for him to stay on with every new day every week and every month but let me repeat it is up to the syrian people to make a decision not up to russia the united states or any other state now the main task

is to launch a national reconciliation process we should think about the future for instance if the opposition which by the way has been formed outside of syria comes to power what is it going to do with its members will exterminate representatives of other islamic movements another confessionals they are already doing this that's why there are two options either it will be a process of national reconciliation and held under the control of the international community or and list civil war and there is no in between here and you can see that full interview with prime minister to me three minutes made it on our website r t dot com. u.s. president barack obama and secretary of state hillary clinton have defended their foreign policy record in the middle east both appeared in a joint television interview as america's top diplomat prepares to step down well responding to critics who urged decisive action in the region obama cited egypt and

libya as examples where his administration played a leading role in aiding regime change amid accusations of u.s. retreat the president said former libyan leader colonel gadhafi quote probably does not agree with that assessment well both obama and clinton admitted the conflict in syria should be handed carefully with the president has a ten whether intervention would help resolve the crisis journalist an antiwar activist don de bar says clinton's reign as secretary of state has been a failure. look at the condition of the world right now and know that hillary clinton has been active active for four years the really disheartening thing about the show which is what it was shown on sixty minutes exclusively in the states was they spent an awful lot of time trying to explain to people how these two former primary campaign two thousand and eight adversaries could work together for four years and barack obama saying if it wasn't for hillary clinton we wouldn't

have achieved success in libya the fact that this country which was bombed for eight months by nato by the us and its allies with thousands of people dying many homes and the infrastructure that was built up in the last forty years being devastated in the form of the people shouldn't surprise anyone that clinton avoided the actual testimony in so everyone else that that's the five which is what any witness wants to do because then you can't be contradicted by any subsequent testimony and at this point in time she's leaving with glasses we were reminded several times that are consequence of the brain injury she suffered that didn't allow her to testify and now she's being you know patted on the back by obama forest success in libya that she still has an account for the failure of its pretties it's it's like washington teenagers. m r r t dot com right now

iran bans oil exports to the e.u. that's despite the fact the bloc are ready for any imports from tehran find out what's behind iran's tit for tat response for details for you on our website. also on line for you today on holocaust remembrance day italy's acts prime minister silvio berlusconi caused outrage suggesting the country's former dictator mussolini did well despite his anti-semitic laws find out more at archie dot com. it's easy to do. you need. to.

download the official all to publication here so far choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television of the girl it just doesn't bode well with your mobile device so you can watch your t.v. any time anyway. it's twenty one minutes past the hour let's now take a look at some other world news in brief families in brazil are mourning one killed by a deadly nightclub fire at least two hundred thirty three people died in santa maria after a firework lit by a band performing on stage caused a massive blaze the flames swept through the crowded venue feeling there was smoke many victims reportedly choked on deadly fumes or were crushed as panicking party go were stampeded to the exit some witnesses claim that security guards attempted

to keep the only exit of the club shut until they were overpowered. french led forces in mali have secured the airport of books to one of the major northern towns occupied by islamist fighters for the last year but they are yet to fully root out what they call al qaeda linked militants from the area meanwhile the offensive is causing collateral damage claiming the lives of innocent civilians two weeks ago french helicopter attacks in qana killed at least twelve residents of a nearby village france has faced accusations the campaign is actually a return to its colonial past to secure malise natural resources. ariel sharon the former israeli prime minister has shown signs of brain activity after being in a coma for seven years the eighty four year old suffered a stroke in two thousand and six during recent scans his responses were heightened

after being shown pictures of his family and hearing recordings of his sons over the responses don't indicate sharon is likely to fully recover and he remains in a deep coma. will. be pulling. over one hundred thousand people flooded the streets of paris in support of a bill allowing gay marriage and adoption by same sex couples demonstrators wave banners proclaiming a quality is not a threat the draft of a law marriage for everyone has been high on president francois long's agenda ever since his election the issue has bitterly divided the nation the french government will start to baiting the bill on tuesday and it's predicted to easily pass the socialist dominated parliament. in the search for survivors of sunday's russian fishing boat accident in the sea of japan is still ongoing with at least eight crew members confirmed dead at the vessel named chance one

o one encountered severe in sight in incitement whether we didn't send a nasa west signal prior to capsizing there were thirty crewmembers on board including one thousand russians fifteen people have now been rescued but emergency services are now looking for the seven people who remain missing and it's not known what caused the accident. but despite recent forecast the u.k. could be sliding into another recession some small businesses are managing to weather the financial storm and it's the selfless actions of some that are helping one local shop survive in its ongoing battle against supermarket giants archies probably boycott went along to meet the volunteers and find out more. it's older than buckingham palace and tower bridge and it's been a local store in the heart of rural east england for three hundred and seventy years visitors who stumble across the it's a ring and village shop in this remote region of norfolk say that it's like an

oasis in the middle of the desert. it was faced with going out of business and till twenty five villages stepped in raise five thousand pounds to keep it open and offered to work there for free i couldn't live in this village without. the community major shock a village which is the free workforce allows it to stay open and breakeven i think people are happy in their lives by working for free it's actually quite therapeutic to come in and do something knowing that your contribution has a meaning or purpose isn't. it just heritage and we want to make sure he does continue for the next generation volunteers who run the say that there are two secrets to success the locally sourced produce means that that propping up the local economy take for example your free range eggs delivered from a nearby village there's a second recess secrets that the famous chocolate biscuits customers travel

far and wide for this homemade treat but even with volunteers staying open is hard the onslaught of major national chains has immense buying power attempts shoppers with food sold for next to nothing has killed off thousands of independent british shops leaving villages and now wait well obviously we're up against supermarkets and we all use supermarkets but to be able to have a local store which does local produce and it's something where you can chat to people you meet everybody the gossip goes on in here is amazing it would be dreadful if we lost it because once you lose something like this you can never get it back again and they're not alone in getting together to save their small shop from extinction there are three hundred other communities stores in some of the u.k.'s most rural pockets winning customers by knowing that retail means detail. phrasing in really difficult economic times but they're really punching above their weight shops are offering something. very often quite different from what

a supermarket is. offering for example they are cafes they're offering postal services they're offering somewhere to go in and talk to your neighbors and your friends and if working for free is what it takes to keep it hearing and shop open and so be it you know and you. really do it's the kind of spirit that could see this tiny store whether the was and hate the stay open for another three hundred eighty is plenty see north norfolk u.k. coming up we continue our look at the gold mining industry in colombia that's here on r.t. after the break. briefly

asco actually caused a fiasco by singing a song highly critical of president obama ironically at a concert in honor of his second inauguration according to the huffington post he was thrown off stage by security for insulting the dear leader the sounds really bad like something out of one thousand nine hundred four where thoughts come out of nowhere the second you say something out of line about the party. to the song loop it was singing had been going on for thirty minutes at that point this rant was more like a hip hop filibuster stopping the whole show and dragging on and on there and on the so i think security just wanted to silence him in general not silence as anti obama opinions so you know loopy next time when you want to bring up obama's drone usage or total disregard for the constitution then keep it under three minutes everything will be just fine but that's just my opinion.

for the past ten years colombia has welcomed foreign capital with open arms in his turn the new president juan manuel santos places mining at the center of his development model in bogota the independent expert. denounces an incestuous relationship between the multinationals and the colombian political class. but it isn't just an impression it's a reality there exists a very strong link between these companies and the political elite.