more violent andras in egypt as the opposition rejects calls from the president for national dialogue and cairo approves a law that allows we all need to arrest civilians. and despite the growing turmoil us president barack obama heals egypt and libya as success stories for american foreign policy this in a t.v. interview way also praise outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton for helping him out with region change. and later we were told from behind where doctors say they face the same brutal treatment as the antigovernment protesters they're trying to say.

it's time pm here in moscow you're live with us on r.t. it's good to have you with us egypt's opposition has refused to attend talks call for my president to try and stop the terminal gripping the country when all the government has pushed through a law giving the army the poa all the rest of course want to be true has the latest from cairo. the opposition forces in that in the form of the national salvation front released a statement saying they refused and ok with the president asking i'm going to fiscal responsibility for the violence problem and treat the bloodshed they say they will only again only and to dialogue with him if he takes it seriously well then said say if they want a national salvation government they want the cabinet to resign and the constitution to be revoked at the moment the clashes continue just after her scrat between anti-government protesters and security forces take us bills in the

downtown hundreds a gathering of the free right now with marches expected from across the capital into central to her square against the president's main one of course i eve there has been a funeral today for those killed during the clashes yesterday during another funeral which was for protesters killed the day before so looks like the violence isn't going to end anytime soon particularly as the have been called for protests breaking the curfew president mohamed morsi announced a safer version see cross three cities in suicide it's been a year and a curfew these protesters in these areas have said they will break that curfew will come to the streets to express their dissent against the president who are likely to see this evening is several arrests and quite a lot more violence. dr saeed sadak political social a just said the american university in cairo says there's little immediate prospect of stability in his country. experience of their logging was

a president what what was called national dialogue has been a failure and so they don't want to give the president. any piece of photo opportunity that they are all sitting and nothing happens there were many experiences in which opposition would suppose the government and the president agree on something and then after a while you'll find that there is no agreement and that is why the decided not to join also they feel that the president and the government the current government is in top end and so they don't want to give it any lease of life or any support so that the government becomes stronger again so the future this is a time to persia as far as we can tell that we are using is going to be on syrian for some time before all parties realize that the cost of keeping this conflict is going to be too damaging for everybody once you all realize nobody is going to be

winnowed if this conflict continues then you will have the moccasins but as long as everybody some people believe that we will be winning if we keep that perjury and decision the government and the government believes that if they keep persia in the opposition there would be women there would be no stability in the country a great collaboration over the last four yes that's how u.s. president barack obama described his first term in office with hillary clinton is now leaving the post of secretary of state but appeared in a joint televised interview as america's top diplomat prepares to step down my colleague and it's an hour brings us a review of her time in office. responding to calls for decisive action in the region obama cited egypt as one of the examples of where his administration play a leading role in aiding regime change specifically he said that i think it had if it had not been for the leadership we showed you might have seen

a different outcome there we do nobody a service when we leap before we look sounds fair enough but as we've just heard from bell true continuing on dress and mass protests are happening in egypt and the president has declared a state of emergency and nightly curfew so violence there reigns president obama who in fact of course like he upheld in this interview promoted change in the country and he used to enjoy quite high approval ratings across the muslim world but if we look at some numbers a recent poll has suggested that there's been a sharp drop in popularity in the region take a look at these numbers in terms of foreign policy international policy so to say thirty four percent back in two thousand and nine now at a mere fifteen percent in twenty twelve well another legacy of obama's first term in office was his handling of the revolt in libya again the president saying washington's foreign policy made a difference well it certainly made

a difference but despite criticisms the administration hasn't been proactive enough in the region obama quite wittily it seems saying that moammar gadhafi probably would not agree with that assessment let's remember those violent pictures of him being brutally murdered after eight months of nato intervention let's take also the september attack on the u.s. embassy in benghazi that was a top rebel stronghold it left four top american officials dead including the ambassador and raise questions that hillary is still in fact answering about about the handling of the situation post gadhafi that obama says we are not going to be able to control every aspect of every. transition and transformation sometimes they're going to go sideways so a little bit of taking credit for what he sees as plus is saying well we can't control everything when he's answering to criticism now both obama and clinton admit that the conflict in syria should be handled carefully perhaps because of

what we saw in libya the aftermath i should say in libya well the president has written clearly on whether or not intervention would help resolve the crisis there . and responding to the obama clinton talk on c.b.s. asia times correspondent deborah escobar says the destabilization of north africa will only get worse. i think it was to go to bowen and hillary said you know we have to call george all roll for the holy spirit mule speak linda that is a stable country about ok it's a country owned by militias basically we do very weak central government with this outfit jihad this cross crisscrossing the country and linking good salafi jihad this in syria and all over the site hell just like we saw him get back at it you know i mean it's gas field. so libya was an absolute disaster and obama and he really could not see the keyboard blowback interesting that he's having the north

and africa now is blowback all of this stuff but ization of syria and it will be much worse in mali and algeria kneejerk did everybody use phone calls and know won't there be and shall want to pull out and no wonder the salafi jihadists are threatening westernized this is evident because that there are days where there are actual fighting force that you know even be end the war on the war all the ground that you leave supported by nagel's horse a train by the qataris all or some other state ending in terms of egypt which obama and hillary also said it's not a second best story for all of these we have the military in place in egypt the muslim brotherhood but in the presence and see supported by salafi jihad these words old it by its twenty percent at least and there are people who actually learned the area square and the real spirit after you square of democrats is a shift workers students that are left in general in that egypt difficult

politically marginalized so what kind of success stories that prime minister dmitry medvedev says that russia may come sit a slumping. as an ally currencies as if bets against the euro saying weakening in the future will bring you the full story later this hour in our business program but here's a preview. russia's gold and currency reserves are asked to meet it at around five hundred billion u.s. dollars that's quite a lot of money which needs protection especially in the times of global economic turbulence right now around forty two percent of the reserves are kept in europe's most of the rest are kept in a u.s. security but according to russia's prime minister this may seem change as russia is working at other currencies and apparently the euro is losing find out more from me is going off in our business bulletin. watch our business bulletin just ahead for you here on our team also coming in the program fighting to stay afloat we take

a look at one of britain's oldest local shops that's found a way to fight against superstore expansion and a struggling economy. also could you expect a tanker to cut in front of you at a highway they tales of this road incident in rural russia just a hint. here the reindeer isn't everything for the herders. and when the choppers. people do their best to help go out. the distances are. on the roads are. predictable. will be remedied be on time.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today. i. know you're watching r.t. bahraini authorities are searching for a new round of talks with the opposition later this week amid the continuing crackdown of end to regime rallies across the nation the saudi monarchy has been

widely accused by rights groups of using tear gas and torture against protesters and as art is alessio schatzker reports even those who try and treat the injured demonstrators say they've been victimized not to dive 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 patient and protesters. the doctors did not obey the orders for such do jean 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. there was

a member of the royal family who directly was responsible of my thought she she was beating me and she looked at me almost two dozen doctors were arrested like this for the few the anger of the protesters and turned the hospital grounds into the scene of the rally the sound 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 activist so 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 protest they cannot go to the hospital because they will be arrested interrogated 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 of 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 and 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 r.q. zation 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. of ski r.t. reporting from the kingdom of bahrain. on our t. dot com right now after a failed run for president seemed russia's a billionaire businessman turned politician and high alcohol office is eyeing a seat in the state duma to find out more online. does fancy a free pass to the theater well in american the voting on center is offering just

that all you have to do things like coverage of the performance on twitter i'm not wrong on our website. now if you're interested in the russian military we can get a closer look at it by taking a drive around the country as rains that's already aircraft and heavily armored machinery comes within meters of those driving on russia's highways and early on my colleague and it's on our spirituality is tom botton about what sort of military hardware you could end up see. you can't say anything of the moment is this driver making his way along the road and suddenly screaming out of the distance comes this fighter jet just fifty meters above the road this helicopter doing the same thing coming in very very low over a driver who was just changing lanes at the time he was apparently training for search and rescue missions himself and then later on in the city of new gill in the

urals we'll see just mind their own business driving along and suddenly a tank comes across the road someone hasn't worked out how to use the brakes yet i think he was the tank was on his way on the way from the tank factory nearby over to a test range of the side of the road the drivers of that car a little bit shocked to see it emerge at that sort of pace there were some bits investigations but in each of the cases the aviation authority here found that that was all with procedures low flying trainings quite important we also find for that for the helicopter training that is also very necessary and as the as the local aviation authority said all the investigators looking into it said people like seeing helicopters swooping about to know that there are forces is there so i suppose the argument as well and that as far as the tank goes the tank fracture himself said this is totally normal the tanks have to drive across there is actually a red light that is you can't just see it's just off screen showing drivers perhaps

not very well they should have stopped and the tank factory saying people should watch out their tanks about. the search for survivors of sunday's russian fishing boat accident in the sea of japan is still ongoing with at least a crew members confirmed did the vessel to name chance one of the one encounters of inclement weather but didn't send an s.o.s. signal prior to capsizing there were thirty crewmembers on board including one thousand russians fifteen people have been rescued so far emergency services are looking for the seven people who remain missing it is not known what caused the accident and some other international news in a brief ride now reports say militants have attacked an oil pipeline in algeria leaving two people did meanwhile in neighboring mali french led troops have entered deal. with some scene there and now in control of the key city this comes days

after the military sees the rebel stronghold of the offensive has caused a number of civilian deaths as reports are emerging of a french helicopter attack in qana that killed at least twelve villages including children french president francois launch that the intervention in mali will continue for as long as necessary. brazil has three days of national mourning for the two hundred thirty three people killed in a nightclub fire in the southern city of santa maria police have arrested the club's owner and members of a band whose fireworks show allegedly cost the tragedy they accidentally set fire to insulation foam in the ceiling the fumes are spreading in a matter of minutes through the packed venue it was only one exit and panic spread as people tried to get out from witnesses claim that security guards attempted to keep the club's only exit shut until they were overpowered.

iran is a step closer to a manned space flight after successfully sending a monkey into space then safely and returning it the u.s. says tehran space program is a cover to develop its long range missile capabilities it all comes amid the ongoing dispute over iran's nuclear research which it claims is peaceful. probs about economists in the u.k. have warned that recent heavy snowfall has heightened the risk of britain heading into a triple dip recession and with the country's independent retailers under constant pressure from supermarket chains arches party boy who want to see how one small business has managed to turn the tide and even thrive it's older than buckingham palace and tower bridge and it's been a local store in the whole lot 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 you

know a cess in the middle of the desert. it was faced with going out of business until twenty five villages stepped in raise five thousand pounds to keep it open and offered to walk them for free i couldn't live in this village without. the community nature of the 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 and it's actually quite therapeutic to come in and do something knowing that your contribution has a meaning the purpose of the village isn't ours it's just heritage and we've got to make sure it does continue to the next generation volunteers who run the stop 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 so recess secret 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 it tempts shoppers with food sold for next to nothing has killed off thousands of independent british shops leaving ghost villages in their wake when 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 is something where you can chat to people you meet everybody the gossip that goes on in here is amazing it would be dreadful if we'd all stitch 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 community 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 really punching above their

weight shops are offering something. very often quite different from what a supermarket is. is offering for example they offer 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 a shop open and so be it. i really do it's the kind of spirit that could see this tiny store weather the worst and hopefully stay open for another three hundred years polly boy r t north norfolk u.k. . sean thomas will bring you the business news after the shop break stay with us.

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hello and welcome to our business program i'm sean thomas now russia's gas giant gazprom sent ukraine's state run energy company a seventy billion dollars bill for failing to import agreed to natural gas volumes last year in an echo of a conflict that twice disrupted shipments to european customers in recent years there are fears another gas war is coming to. explain. right sean animist already adopted the third gas war they say that russia's castro has all the rights to cut get supplies to ukraine if the country doesn't pay the fine if that happens get supplies to europe through creating may also be interrupted as it happened four years ago this time around castro has demanded that ukraine pays an unbearable for the ukraine's economy seven billion dollars fine the company says

here has violated their existing take home pay contracts by cutting gas imports from russia it's not the first time ukraine cut gasoline prices but is the first time castro is imposing a fine analysts say there are several reasons why gastro is playing hardball this time. first ukraine's rhetoric has changed it can take as much gas as it wants and is not going to pay any penalties second ukraine refuses to somehow solve the issue of gazprom is buying into ukraine's gas transportation system even though the talks take place almost every week so i'd say that guys from just decided to impose all legal claims to the full selling its gas transport system to gazprom is one of ukraine's options to get cheaper gas from russia and the other is participating in the customs union with russia kazakhstan

and belarus but that puts its plans for european integration under threat so ukraine is looking for ways to become less dependent on russian gas but all its attempts from building elegy plant to shall gas projects have so far proven a pipe dream. america's oil boom is now so big it is a visible from space in one time satellite images of north dakota is back in shale field which is right here the oil field that has transformed u.s. production in the past five years shines almost as brightly as the city of chicago which you can see right here and now the lights are flare stacks towers burning off natural gas from oil wells twenty four hours a day they highlight a less than sparkling side of the u.s. shale boom how development has outpaced investment in infrastructure to manage the unwanted associated gas that is released alongside oil production professor david elms from the warwick business school in london says that with the fast growth in shale gas production in the us there are

a lot of environmental concerns yet to be resolved environmental regulations in the states took a bit of time to really realize what was going on realized what the new production methods were but likewise companies were also trying to understand how they could produce this gas economically so the question then becomes is you know what are the environmental issues and it's there's a lot of documentation that there's probably a number of concerns you know one is. if you are producing this gas how do you make sure that the gas isn't released you are using these horizontal drilling techniques and hydraulic fracturing techniques and then the question comes up you know all those techniques meaning that. undesired chemicals and so on are getting into water supplies and there are those the two main concerns about the environmental side of it that we're faced with today and on to the markets and now where u.s. stocks are mixed at this hour taking a look we have the dow jones they're down just

a fraction while the nasdaq is up about a third of a percent it was a mixed session in europe as well london's footsie closed slightly in the black and the german dax finished a third of a percent lower. russian indices finished strong in today's session both the r.t.s. and the my six closed over one percent higher as you can see right here moving on to the russian ruble lower to the major currencies the ruble lost almost sixteen callbacks to both the euro and the u.s. dollar and staying with currencies russia may soon be dumping the euro the government has announced plans to review its foreign currency reserves you got a piece going off and has more russia's gold in currency reserves are estimated at around five hundred billion u.s. dollars it's quite a basket these protection especially in times of global economic turbulence right now around forty two percent of reserves are held the euro denominated assets.