security forces are targeted in a wave of deadly attacks across egypt in just a day often wall and fifty people died in violent clashes. and the olympic torch towards moscow carried by athletes and celebrities before it heads off on it's unique really across russia and soldier twenty four team. that is russian of syria's once chemical arsenal begins on time and according to plan already in damascus praise from russia and even the united states although challenges await. long from moscow this is archie here with me tongue would say let's take

a look at our top story this hour. a series of a deadly attacks have struck security forces across egypt where violence has continued into a second day gunmen killed four soldiers then an officer in a drive by shooting in a city one hundred kilometers east of cairo a massive truck bomb hit a security headquarters and saw the ruined sinai peninsula leaving five people dead and more than fifty injured here's our egypt correspondent. the families have gathered in front of cut the capital's main morgues and him to basically pick up the dead after a very bloody night in cairo and across the country leaving dozens dead and hundreds arrested this all kicked off on sunday afternoon on the anniversary of the fortieth the fortieth anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy three arab israeli war this is largely regarded as an armed forces day a day that people celebrate the military victory. of the interim president had called for egyptians to come to the streets in particular in tahrir square right behind me on the presidential palace to basically congratulate the military and

what is regarded as one of the most proud moments in egyptian history however supporters of mohamed morsy had other ideas they wanted to protest against the military not the institution itself they said but the generals they attempted to march into the square as well which was being heavily guarded by security forces security forces stopped them pretty sharply firing tear gas and bullets into the crowds there was reports of light on the mission i was there on the ground these chaotic street battles spilled over into the side downey's it was extremely bloody indeed however this is not an unusual sight snaps out of egypt this is one of. that is no longer top news here in fact local news stations were actually more focused on the celebrations and they were on the bloody assault on the missing brotherhood and morsy supporters this comes up to today are to use it to mock turmoil after the two thousand levon uprising which has seen the country really become very divided between very support to side with the military and those who want to go with them is a brotherhood another side effect of this is unfortunately

a number of terrorist attacks already this morning we've heard of a massive explosion of security directorate in sinai in south sinai editions of five police officers shot dead in its malaya which is in the series canal so we're seeing here is a massive massive turmoil security crisis for meanwhile the supporters of mohamed morsi refused to back down specially if they've lost so many of their relatives and friends those tend to come back the streets so expect to see further clashes on the horizon. political activists supporters of the muslim brotherhood and the interim government just trying to stay each other down it's a knuckle breaking situation it's a bottleneck both sides are trying to put a lot of pressure on the other until the other reaches a certain point of concessions that more or less puts the other party in a much stronger position now the muslim brotherhood are giving more and more into

the scenario of victimizing themselves they're going on this street although they haven't recently used violence but violence has been. imposed on them and they have a lot of victims in the past couple of days and in the past month or two they want to gain more sympathy locally and abroad. give more on the recent developments in egypt as well as the history of the violent revolution at r.t. dot com. the world's largest and oldest oil cartel has taken sides in the british scottish independence rao saying it can't imagine edinburgh as a future without london the organization has extensive ties with the u.k. and its biggest exporters a big fans of british weapons our london correspondent ali boy called told me why opec's our way in. the british government's got tight links to opec and in fact the british government sells arms export licenses to a number of its member states including saudi arabia so for critics it's hardly

a surprise that opec is chime in along with westminster in dismissing the idea for scottish independence and the opec secretary general general abdalla saleem el badri who happens to be a former minister and a colonel gadhafi he's firmly rejected the notion for scottish independence the head of the oil cartel said that there isn't much oil left in scotland anyway and he's dismissed the idea of an independent edge imbra ever coming under the umbrella of opec which controls one third of the world's oil supply he said that the interests of both london and edinburgh are both under the umbrella of the united kingdom which is all likely to be a blow for the pro independence camp in scotland a big part of discussion nationalist independence campaign hinges on the notion that oil reserves above the scottish border are going to be what makes the scottish independence campaign viable the idea of scottish independence viable the scottish national party has even estimated that oil reserves could account for up to three

hundred thousand pounds per every squat according to some estimates ninety percent of the u.k.'s oil is actually located in the north sea in scotland we've had the pro independence campaign in scotland really queues in westminster of waging a campaign called project fear to scare scots off taking the yes box when it comes to the scottish independence referendum even the newspaper where the interview with mr badgery appeared it's the telegraph which is closely aligned to the conservative party i spoke to a scot in london recently who told me that regardless of where you weigh in on which side of the independents camp you weigh in on the lengths to which westminster has been going to over the past six months even to fear. or to scare scots into thinking about the consequences if they vote for independence it's almost humorous politicians in westminster saying that scotland would have to

reapply for its new membership if it broke away from the united kingdom that they might not afford to have a postal service so that they wouldn't have enough money to create a proper armed forces so both camps are engaged in a real propaganda battle at the moment we're seeing more some different facts and figures and statistics it's very about from both sides and at the moment it's difficult to tell where the truth lies. california have come out in force the demanding words people my grand fathers of want to get a pathway to citizenship for eleven million immigrants with the message that no human is illegal to tell you about that online. and switzerland's operates watermarked postal service dot com explains why the country's recent d.v.d. these have been sent and welcome to your new home cards online. the destruction of syria's chemical arsenal has begun it's been confirmed by

international inspectors posted to the country under the plan brokered by russia and the u.s. warheads chemical mixing equipment and rockets will be destroyed first so fall is going to plan our middle east correspondent policy a report from damascus. the united nations has come for them to that chemical weapons experts inside syria have begun the process of destroying the estimated one thousand chemical weapons stockpile inside this country there is a team of some thirteen international experts who have been inside syria since last tuesday they come from the organization for the purpose of chemical weapons in the hague as well as the united nations and they all overseen the whole purses they role is to verify reports as well as of zero to what is happening but the actual destruction itself is taking place by syrian forces in a statement that was released by the international experts they said that on sunday these forces had begun destroying the warheads as well as aerial bombs and chemical

mixing equipment the syrian forces are using cutting torches as well as angle the wind is to destroy missions the whole process is taking place at an undisclosed location but it will last until at least the mother of all makes sure this one of those binding u.n. resolution that came in to face off to the involvement of russian diplomacy we're still hearing though from the united states that if both sides being damascus and the rebels don't adhere to their commitment and actually destroy these stockpiles of chemical weapons force could still be an option the important point to make is that the observers have said that the syrian president bashar assad is at hearing to his commitments but as appears it has been no indication no kind of comment confirmation from the rebel side that they will be doing the same and this is important because a number of these chemical weapons stockpiles are actually on the frontlines are

they changing hands sometimes they're in the sides also sometimes they're not in the poses a number of problems firstly how will these international experts actually reach the frontline where they can observe the destruction of these chemical weapons and a lot of problems. a lot of possible. encounters further down the line that the international experts will have to deal with but certainly the process at least on the damascus side has begun. the international inspectors have a colossal task ahead or they have to oversee the dismantling of hundreds of tons of chemical agents and rockets within a tight time frame while in the middle of a war zone that was an intelligence estimate there are forty five a chemical weapons depots around the country there damascus disputes that it says there are hof that number and that the confusion stems from an operation to hide the weapons from a u.s. strike seven of them according to the government are located in combat zones and that makes access difficult as for the production facilities there are believed to

be four of them in the country now there is a science of course homs hama aleppo and latakia now inspectors are and orders to verify the destruction of these cities and sites by november the first all in all serious estimated to have about a thousand tons of chemical agents they include mustard gas a blister agent sarin v.x. and is sir and of course there was allegedly used in a deadly assault near damascus in august syria's cooperation and giving up its chemical arms has earned it praise and not just from russia but even the tacit applause from the united states the foreign ministers of the two world powers met on the sidelines of the asia pacific economic cooperation summit in bali post what is a forty. confirmation that came that disarmament of syria's chemical weapons stockpile has already begun it was only ten days ago that the united nations as you know

mostly passed a resolution on syria's chemical weapons stockpiles and u.s. secretary of state john kerry says that it's a record breaking process to get to this stage so soon and russian's foreign minister lavrov says that damascus is fully complying with the international community. in all these weeks after syria joined the chemical weapons convention your mask is has been working jointly with the international inspectors we hope this will continue on in the future. process now it had been hoped that u.s. president. president vladimir putin would have been able to have a one on one meeting on the fringes of this economic summit but of course president obama was forced to cancel his trip to asia because of the ongoing financial problems in the united states and the continuing shutdown there his place has been taken by secretary of state john kerry who says that washington now believes there is no military solution to the conflict in syria. we agree.

we should. radical extremists on either side of. assuming a greater. status or position in syria and that is why we recommitted with very specific efforts to move the geneva process as rapidly as possible now it was undoubtedly a productive meeting between the two sides with kerry saying it's been the most productive meeting in recent months between lavrov and himself and attention now turns to the possibility of the geneva two peace conference where it's hoped that the syrian government representatives of the syrian government on the syrian opposition will sit around the table for peace talks. says that he can get a delegation from the syrian government from damascus around the table in november that's the anticipation date for these talks and kerry says he's hopeful that he

can do likewise with the syrian opposition. have gathered. much for a democratic transition off. to war. for the presidency the taliban could get ahead stop that story coming up. holding their own homes hostage we'll tell you about the desperate measures being taken by. stay with us. right. first. and i think.

you know. pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i roll researcher. welcome back you're watching r t the national torch relay for next year so she went to olympics is in moscow before he goes on an incredible journey across the world's

largest country. and of course the first day of the moscow leg of the olympic torch relay is wrapping up it's been brought to the moscow state university campus where spectacular show is expected. is there for us alexei so what's happening where you are right now. well right now i'm at moscow sparrow hills near the moscow state university and it's certainly exciting here this is the culmination of the first day of moscow's leg of the olympic torch relay i can see the olympic flame standing over there on the stage just metres from where i'm standing right now it was just carried on the stage after whole day of torch bearers running across the city handing the flame to each other and this was the very fact first day they started off from the beside the red brick walls of the moscow kremlin at midday the torch

relay was officially kick started by a five time a live picture ambien and synchronized swimming anastasio that were the one who was the very first torch bearer ever since it was handed over from one person to another in fact it's still continuing it's going to finish in a minutes and several minutes from from now the torch bearers are still running across the moscow state university area and this has been indeed a very exciting day for most all apart from of course traffic jams which of paralyze the city in many ways but this is quite understandable for the next two days this will be the situation in moscow because the olympic flame is here before moving further inland i like say we were all very excited yesterday of course when that flame arrived here in russia in moscow for a stop now what's the relay how was the relay in moscow. yes yes indeed on sunday were witnessed how the olympic flame was brought to russia for the first time in more than three decades ever since the 1980's limp again for

the first time it was brought here. now it's officially a very long and unique journey for the olympic flame across russia it will visit almost three thousand cities towns and villages across the country and it will become the longest olympic torch relay in the history of winter olympics covering more than sixty five thousand kilometers we also know that it's a very peculiar thing about the. particular torch realize that at some stages the flame will find itself in a very interesting place as for the first time in history it will be taken outside the international space station for a space walk that is before descending to the bottom of world's deepest lake baikal and going to the north pole and later to the top of europe's highest mountain the bruce the mountain in russia the whole relay will take a hundred and twenty two days from now and of course will be covering every step of the olympic flame how it travels through russia before it culminates at the grand

opening ceremony of the winter olympic games in sochi on february the seventh next year for select the everybody will just be a few meters away from that olympic torch around the country excitement brewing no doubt. reporting for us in moscow. to live with george is on an epic journey to such a. one hundred and twenty three days. through to some nine hundred cities of russia. relayed by fourteen thousand people or sixty five thousand gallons. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others face. olympic torch relay. on r t r. libya is demanding an explanation from the us alliance forces kidnapped one of their citizens that's how tripoli describes sunday's kept off the suspect in the

nineteen ninety eight american embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania the libyan government says they see the operation as a clear violation of sylvan team defense a consultant. told us that to the u.s. things it has the right to meddle in other countries a famous. it's extremely dangerous policy that a a one governments in the world can intervene in any other country sovereign state invaded afghanistan without a un resolution they invaded iraq without a un resolution they attempted to carry out air strikes against syria recently without un resolution so it's an extremely dangerous policy and it makes the whole world a dangerous place or with their with their policy in place for his part secular state kerry has defended capturing a libya as quote legal and appropriate target what puts them in that category well they claim that under a two thousand and one u.s.

law they can capture anyone anywhere in the world they can enter any sovereign territory and arrest anyone but what's what's amazing about this story really is that this individual lived in the u.k. in the ninety's he was also involved with the attempted assassination of hosni mubarak the then president of egypt but he was also aided allegedly aided by m i six britain's security services to assassinate the revolutionary guard daffyd the the then head of leader off for libya and of during all this time he was given the size of political asylum in the u.k. and he also found time to plan the bombings of the embassies in tanzania and kenya . formal wallers with a tainted pasta militia leaders and political outsiders will join

a number of the heavyweights to face each other in afghanistan's presidential race more than twenty candidates have registered to succeed him because i he's second and final term ends this next year that concerns over corruption and very dragging already costing of power over the lecture and but overshadowing it all is one major fear of the taliban making its way back into the government if you take a look now at the red zones are on the map you'll see that the regions where there is in all alarming lehi presence of other militant groups they. said baker has reported extensively from the region he said his thoughts on why people turn to the taliban people are already looking towards a born as a source of stability not that they agree with the ideology or the methodology but what they actually want to security and to be able to feel safe not having to be searched or stopped and searched by foreign troops or anyone insultingly a culture so i think we'll see more people looking towards the taliban because

that's the only option they really have their policy of not engaging and not going in for talks with the taliban as really backfired i think know they're coming to realize only after ten years they come to realise that they're going to have to actually talk with these people and maybe even accept the fact that once they leave the taliban have a lot you don't want in the future of afghanistan. more the world i mean news this hour details are emerging that a series of apparently coordinated bombings have rocked baghdad killing at least twenty two people more than sixty others have been injured it's thought other were at least seven explosions mostly in the shia areas although sunni neighborhoods were also hit iraq's status of terror and violence has killed almost a thousand people in the last month alone. powerful typhoon theater which is hammering is in china has now forced a more than a half million people to flee to safety soldiers are helping the evacuation and

building levees the strong winds and flooding have disrupted travel and brought down power lines two people have been confirmed dead so far the toll is of the twenty third typhoon to hit china this year and follows. twenty five people in the south. this is not well prizewinner is being revealed in sweden the first award was the medicine and their physiology which is shared between two americans every german scientists their work on discovering how hormones and enzymes are moved from cell to cell within human bodies have helped research in diabetes epilepsy and immune system just order. as the main tourist season comes to an end in spain record unemployment is biting once again one in four spaniards are now out of work and for many that also means they're being out in the streets over half a million people have been evicted in the past five years or further has

a story behind those numbers. the picture. but a little closer and the cracks start to appear take a look around you and want to see a nice building in a relatively affluent part of the country north of madrid you can see looking at the window boxes in the front of the building that is well kept but all the people here live here have one thing in common that's a lot of the pay rent since the crisis hit vixens have gone through the roof from two thousand and eight more than a quarter of a million spaniards have received eviction orders because they are they able to pay their mortgages. like everyone else living in this complex this family moved in to being a victim from the old. we used to live. but had to move here are all place was lovely but you know we're living in a crisis and we couldn't afford it anymore we sought help and were moved here the

family received the support of a protest movement that helps people who've lost their homes or can no longer afford to pay rent they helped place the family in a flat here the flat they live in now like the whole development is just one of many properties since spain's housing bubble burst had been standing empty. the developer of these properties is fighting a legal battle but lawyers working with the protest movement determined to fight back. of the reasons for the creation of this organization was a tsunami of addictions a wave of economic crisis society understands that this is not just a crisis but a scam we were robbed we were left without health care education and now houses and we are left with. the banks are full of money all gathered from struggling taxpayers to you in large part to the continued pressure from campaign groups the

government announced a two year moratorium all of it shins at the end of two thousand and twelve but many families here feel the emergency legislation doesn't pay far enough and that they're left fending for themselves you know we all want to get water and electricity we don't have it here. despite small signs a year raising recovery spain remains a country with one of the highest levels of unemployment and with more than one in four people in the country out of work the family spicing to remain here rent and mortgage free could well have seen a very. arty space. cross on the way looking at whether america's.

i recently read headlines all over the russian internet screaming in full paranoia mode that china has just bought five percent of ukraine now they're writing that china will lease five percent of ukraine over ukrainian officials themselves claim that china won't be getting either and that this is a deal about some drip irrigation system the situation didn't explode onto the internet to the fantasies of bloggers the south china morning post reported that one company does have a crop and pig farming plan design you like nine percent of ukraine's territory also last year the ban on foreigners buying land ukraine coincidently been lifted although i am the distrustful pro sovereignty type getting a rich foreign country to pay to develop your nation's agriculture might not be too bad of a deal it would definitely take a lot of money to restore ukraine's farming to its former glory they see that

ukraine used to be the bread basket of europe that status spec could really help the country but selling off or even just leasing nine percent of the nation's territory is absolutely unacceptable doing a large project with the chinese that is mutually beneficial is one thing but selling or leasing off your country is another and by another i mean treason but that's just my opinion. so. expect the strike.