good evening and watching r t with me lucy catherine of one on to our top story right now egypt has beenplunged into a fresh outbreak of street violence as protesters vent their firy against president morsy clouds of tear gas have been fired by the police and golfing the demonstrators who had pelted the presidential palace with petrol bombs now amid the deepening crisis the authorities have now decided to ban the you tube video service in the country for an entire month saying that this is because of the anti islamic content on that site and the decision has sparked outrage among many egyptians questioning the need to shut down the whole service true as the latest from cairo. at the moment there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movements who see you tube as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation all egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces to

good evening we've got world news and analysis live from our moscow headquarters i'm lucy catherine of and you're watching our t.v. well the election that was meant to dig a debt ridden italy out of the crisis is now adding political deadlock to economic distress no party or coalition has managed to secure a clear majority in either house of parliament for the country now stock but to stock pardon me between options on the right and the left there's also a new major force emerging with a party led by a former comedian winning a quarter of all the votes. has more. back with a vengeance. a man of. a political force just a couple of months ago has. actually seems to be holding a really good. seats in the senate but again he is tied with. number one position in the senate now if we look at the lower house however parliament does seem like the majority of the. claimed victory there but you have to understand that this is not because so many people have voted for him it is because. a lot. to the party. even by the tiniest margin and that is exactly the situation in this case. as well as a ne

welcome back i'm lucy catherine of the afghan president hamid karzai has ordered u.s. special forces to leave the key battleground province of wardak troops there were accused of torture as well as the murder of civilians earlier i spoke to brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition who told me that it's not just security kabul will now have to worry about. well you know the problem with the afghan army and the afghan police is that it's the creation the proxy the client of a foreign occupying force which is despised really by the people of afghanistan including many who may hate the taliban but who realize that the foreign occupation forces especially these special operation commandos commit any kind of atrocity kill the people torture the people set afghan against afghan without any accountability and so of course that leaves the afghan military in the police even if they were doing pristine work which of course they're not they have many they've committed many crimes on their own but that would leave them in a position of having no credibility with the local pop

welcome back lucy catherine of here. or well egypt's new president mohamed morsi has brought forward parliamentary elections to april twenty second this as the opposition leader is calling for a boycott of the vote accusing him of retreating from his promise for reform meanwhile there's further turmoil in egypt where the government is struggling to contain street violence the unrest has been shaking the nation for weeks now and authorities tell true reports the protests have often been accompanied by claims of a widespread police abuse and torture. in his hometown of tanta nobel al-kindi points out where local youth have renamed a street after his son mohammed a twenty eight year old activist allegedly tortured to death by security forces two weeks ago after protesting on to her a square deal with a hold on the first time i went to see mohammed in hospital i didn't recognize him seriously his face was covered with his skull fractured when i asked the doctors they told me this is mohamed odeh in the pool and the other one

good evening and watching r t with me lucy catherine of one on to our top story right now egypt has beenplunged into a fresh outbreak of street violence as protesters vent their firy against president morsy clouds of tear gas have been fired by the police and golfing the demonstrators who had pelted the presidential palace with petrol bombs now amid the deepening crisis the authorities have now decided to ban the you tube video service in the country for an entire month saying that this is because of the anti islamic content on that site and the decision has sparked outrage among many egyptians questioning the need to shut down the whole service true as the latest from cairo. at the moment there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movements who see you tube as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation of egypt there's been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces

good evening you're watching r t with me lucy catherine over to our compilation of the top stories from the week and today. well it's been revealed to that this week about another russian child died after being adopted by an american family if the twentieth such death since the mid one nine hundred ninety s. the news that three year old maxim cruz mean was found bruised and dead at the home of a texan a couple caused outrage here in russia the boy's adoptive mother claims it was an accident but there are suspicions that maxim could have been abused and killed or to his honesty takes up the story twenty russian children in the last seventeen years died in their adoptive american families most recently here in texas mark simkin meehan known to locals as max shadow just what i heard on the news was just the kid had some scratches. that's all i know three year old mark sam and his younger brother keel lived in this house with their adoptive parents in a rather secluded neighborhood it was from here that on the afternoon of january twenty first the boy was taken away by an ambulance never to

welcome back i'm lucy catherine of let's get to some other international news in brief right now. along supreme leader ayatollah khamenei has rejected a u.s. offer of direct talks over its nuclear program saying the two countries cannot negotiate when tehran has a gun pointed at it this comes just a day after washington tightened economic sanctions on iran aimed at restricting tash from oil production u.s. vice president joe biden made the offer of one to one discussions last saturday. now the leader of hamas says that he's in talks with palestinian president mahmoud abbas about forging a coalition government colleagues may sell mentions that both parties are getting ready ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections hamas have pushed the fatah movement headed by abbas out of the gaza strip in two thousand and seven sparking a conflict between the two sides. up ahead for you with the kaiser report don't go away. she good leverage or it. was easy to believe in these most sophisticated read books which on the lead doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach religion why

thanks for tuning in world news live from our moscow headquarters i'm lucy catherine of and of course you're watching our team well on to our top story it's now exactly one year until the opening of the twenty fourteen winter olympic games right here in russia a special giant clocks have been installed in the country's largest cities and they've begun the countdown for the event which will be held in the black sea resort city of sochi now of course when we're talking about sochi the main celebrations to mark the countdown have taken place in the city itself now rounding off with a spectacular gala show as you can see in the screen there behind me really exciting images there now our team is andrew farmer is actually in the city of for us to see how the preparations for the games have been going and to gauge the mood on the grounds let's take a look. but if she can save you the spirit has what intrigues some cheap food which launched the city sky to see particularly if it was a spectacular skating show but it's not going. to be beach going to the deep stuff in the east time for several

good evening i'm lucy catherine of thanks for tuning in to our team for our weekly show . egypt's opposition groups are gearing up for more mass rallies against president morsy and with some threatening to storm the presidential palace the protesters are demanding that morsi uphold the goals of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak two years ago meanwhile an egyptian court has ordered the government to block access to the video sharing web site you tube citing and content because r.t.s. build true reports the decision is only likely to inflame tensions as the unaddressed continues. there's been enough to calm the nation of the by protest movements who see you cheap as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation all egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to gyptian. justifying insects mob attacks on e

good evening i'm lucy catherine of thanks for tuning in to our team for our weekly show . egypt's opposition groups are gearing up for more mass rallies against president morsy and with some threatening to storm the presidential palace the protesters are demanding that morsi uphold the goals of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak two years ago meanwhile an egyptian court has ordered the government to block access to the video sharing web site you tube citing anti islamic content those are true reports the decision is only likely to inflame tensions as the unaddressed continues. there's been a lot of condemnation of the band by protest movements who see you cheap as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation all egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to an egyptian channel justifying insects mob at

twenty summit this year and to talk more on that are now joined live by aussies lucy catherine of who's here in moscow so very nice to see lucy good morning so all we're hearing now is concerns about the prospects of the so-called currency wars so what's behind this and not any decisions on the cards. good morning well of course when central bankers and top finance leaders meet here today in moscow the only topic at the top of the agenda is really probably going to be the currency war scandal now what's really prompted this japan has seen various fluctuations in its economy as a result the yen has slid quite drastically over the past few months that this is prompted some countries to accuse it of essentially protectionist policies of deflating artificially the value of the yen and what does that really mean well when a country isn't doing so well economically what it can do one of the options that it has is to make its currency for example the twenty dollar bill worth a little bit less what that does is that makes the goods of the country manufacturers cheaper making them more competiti

and i'm lucy catherine of will here at r.t. we sometimes like to show you some of the wacky crazy with videos are making their way online now this one is actually been posted by a russian couple when they decided to show off their daughter's driving skills unfortunately put them into the spotlight that's because the clip created outrage on the web calling authorities to launch an investigation because the girl driving in this clip is eight years old take a look. go to at least one hundred your mother is filming. an eight year old drive in a car my friend nice to what have fainted if she saw this. posted on social networks well and post the video they did sparking fieri across russia if the reckless decision to let a child drive a car wasn't enough in the audio you can actually hear the father encouraging us daughter to hit the gas pedal and to go faster but the child couldn't seem to keep a steady grip on the wheel swinging the car dangerously from side to side frankly it's a miracle that nobody was injured in this dangerous ex

good evening i'm lucy catherine of you're watching r t well let's get on to our top story right now in egypt which has been plunged into a fresh outbreak of street violence as protesters vent their fury against president mohamed morsi now clouds of tear gas fired by the police and gulf demonstrators who had pelted the presidential palace with petrol bombs now amid this deepening crisis egyptian authorities have decided to block the video sharing web site you tube for a month this after a declined to remove an american made a video clip that was deemed insulting to islam the decision sparked outrage among many egyptians are true has the latest from cairo. at the moment there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movements who see you tube as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the security forces it's also an indication of an islam mind zation of egypt there's been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling proposition forces to be killed and a

around the globe for you broadcasting live twenty four seven from our moscow headquarters i'm lucy catherine of and you're watching r.t. . well into our top story sochi in fact it's now exactly one year until the opening of the twenty fourteen winter olympic games in russia now the special giant clocks in the country's largest city is the one you can see behind me have begun the countdown for the event that's actually going to be held at the beautiful black sea resort city of sochi now this specific look behind me that you can see is actually the one that's in the center of moscow and it's taking in real time so as you can see three hundred sixty four days twenty one hours and a bunch of other minutes left before the winter and the olympics kick off this is also the pictures of the gala the main celebrations to mark the countdown which have taken place in sochi itself around going off with a spectacular show as you can see on the screen behind me and now our very own i under farmer was in the city for us to see how these preparations for the games are actually going and to gauge the mood the

welcome back you're watching r t with me lucy catherine of well this week saw days of strikes in spain as tens of thousands of teachers and students voiced their anger over education cuts but the government seems on moved by the crowds saying it's committed to belt tightening measures as it struggles to do the country out of its debt hope that the message from the people of spain was echoed on the streets of ireland where thousands united in a massive show anger against severe austerity measures tough cuts were implemented to please ireland's creditors as been relying on a joint e.u. international monetary a fun. and loan since two thousand and ten now angry crowds have been spoiling the mood of e.u. leaders as they celebrate a historic budget deal cutting the block spending for the first time ever now it was sealed after hours of debate and bickering over the deal left the european parliament unimpressed with its m.p. is now planning to block it in a private vote well economist james medway way is that constitutionally the well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back

welcome back i'm lucy catherine of let's get to some other international news in brief right now. along supreme leader ayatollah khamenei has rejected a u.s. offer of direct talks over its nuclear program saying the two countries cannot negotiate when tehran has a gun pointed at it this comes just a day after washington tightened economic sanctions on iran and that was strict in cash from oil production u.s. vice president joe biden made the offer of one to one discussions last saturday. now the leader of hamas says that he is in talks with palestinian president mahmoud abbas about forging a coalition government khaled mashal mentioned that both parties are getting ready ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections hamas have pushed the fatah movement headed by abbas out of the gaza strip in two thousand and seven sparking a conflict between the two sides. i have for you with the kaiser report don't go away. she did leverage sure it. was easy to believe in each most sophisticated radar which doesn't give a.

around the globe for you broadcasting live twenty four seven from our moscow headquarters i'm lucy catherine of and you're watching r.t. . welcome to our top story sochi in fact it's now exactly one year until the opening of the twenty fourteen winter olympic games in russia now the special giant clocks in the country's largest cities the one you can see behind me have begun the countdown for the event that's actually going to be held at the beautiful black sea resort city of sochi now this specific clock behind me that you can see. is actually the one that's in the center of moscow and it's ticking in real time so as you can see three hundred sixty four days twenty one hours and a bunch of other minutes left before the winter and the olympics kick off this is also the pictures of the gala the main celebrations to mark the countdown which have taken place in sochi itself around being off with a spectacular show as you can see on the screen behind me and now our very own eye under former was in the city for us to see how these preparations for the games are actually going and to gauge the moo

good evening thanks for tuning in this evening i'm lucy catherine of and you're watching our t.v. well the new u.s. secretary of state has reaffirmed a partnership of the heart between the u.k. and america on his visit to london john kerry has been testing the ground for u.s. foreign policy on the first leg of his tour of kerry has chosen to meet with traditional american allies in europe such as the leaders of britain germany and france before heading on to the middle east well let's talk now to jeremy corbyn he is a british labor party politician and a member of parliament sir thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us here it looks like john kerry's visit hasn't been too taxing so far i do want to play you a short soundbite of how he described ties between the u.s. and the u k. there is a reason why we call this special relationship or as. prime minister cameron wrote really a partnership of the heart what do you think this alliance is based on a partnership of the heart when i think historically it's based on u.s. support for britain in the first world war in very

welcome back you're watching r t with me lucy catherine of well this week saw days of strikes in spain as tens of thousands of teachers and students voiced their anger over education cuts but the government seems unmoved by the crowds saying it's committed to belt tightening measures as it struggles to dig the country out of its debt hope now the message from the people of spain it was at code on the streets of ireland where thousands united in a massive show anger against severe austerity measures tough cuts were implemented to please ireland's creditors as been relying on a joint e.u. international monetary of. and loan since two thousand and ten now angry crowds have been spoiling the mood of e.u. leaders as they celebrate a historic budget deal cutting the block spending for the first time ever now it was sealed after hours of debate and bickering over the deal of the european parliament unimpressed with that m.p. is now planning to block it in a private vote well economists james matter way way is that constitutionally the well within their rights to reject the thing and send it b

unless the monarchies show themselves willing to listen their stability may prove to be a mirage lucy catherine of r.t.e. kuwait. u.k. is looking at ways to curb the wave of eastern european immigrants expected at its doors when remain and bog area a given unrestricted access to the e.u. and twenty fourteen the government's not considering a negative advertising campaign about the country to make it less appealing to potential movers. reports we have so many things going for our country the english language testing times brilliant history very creative people some of the best universities in the world a great place to do business we need to stand up and shout about how great britain is and get people to come and invest and visit but that's not the message for everyone the u.k. government is reportedly brainstorming ways to dissuade eastern european immigrants from coming to britain come january twenty fourth team twenty nine million romanians and bulgarians will be able to live and work anywhere in europe including the u.k. one idea being considered a negative advertising campaign about broken

world news analysis live from our moscow headquarters are watching our team with me lucy catherine of. well in tunisia clashes between mourners and the police have more of the funeral of a secular opposition leader who was assassination has led to chaos on the streets and a crisis in the parliament now violence erupted near the cemetery as demonstrators threw stones and set cars a blaze while police have responded with tear gas according to the turmoil the country has been adding to the turmoil the country has been paralyzed by a general strike or to his very own area for notion is following the developments in tunisia for us as you can see many people have gathered here today for the funeral so chokri belaid one of the most prominent opposition leaders who was killed on wednesday and seen standing situation here on the ground comings very tense and very valid tile and that is definitely struck me in that relative stability that we've seen here although in two thousand and eleven revolution we see more of people here it's quite a small square but it's packed with people with. all of t

twenty summit later this year artie's lucy catherine of reports. japan is actually at the center of this crisis because of its aggressive monetary and fiscal policies that have led to a weakening of the yen a basically in tough economic times one option that a country house is to artificially make the value of its currency worth a little bit less so for example making something like this twenty dollar bill worth less you can do that by a variety of means like printing money why would you want to do that because when you do you value your currency your many factor good your goods your exports become cheaper and that gives you a short term economic boost which is something that a lot of these countries europe the united states japan certainly desperately need in these tough economic times there are many problems with this approach but of course the biggest one is that when you start to do something your trading partners will say hey your stuff is cheaper i want to follow suit and do the same thing and that results in a tit for tat economic clash that

welcome back i'm lucy catherine ave watching our team syria's main opposition group the syrian national coalition says that it is pulling out of a series of international gatherings looking to resolve the deadly civil conflict there the group will skip the friends of syria meeting in a role as well as schedule talks in russia and the u.s. over what it sees as a lack of international condemnation of the all saudi government the rebels accused umask us of multiple civilian killings although some have pill and similar accusations on them opposition militias are widely suspected of being behind a devastating bomb blast in damascus on thursday that is thought to have killed about one hundred people syrian problem form activist al maher walk off says the western powers will be losing their grip on the rebels and the opposition isn't interested in talks. we are being told now is that they should have a sort of contribute to a political solution rather than they are going to be heavily armed in order to defeat the syrian government and they do not want to have any dialogue with the syrian gover

twenty summit later this year artie's lucy catherine off has this report. japan is actually at the center of this crisis because of its aggressive monetary and fiscal policies that have led to a weakening of the yen and basically in tough economic times one option that a country house is to artificially make the value of its currency worth a little bit less so for example making something like this twenty dollar bill worth less you can do that by a variety of means like printing money why would you want to do that because when you do you value your currency your manufactured goods your goods your exports become cheaper and that gives you a short term economic boost which is something that a lot of these countries europe the united states japan certainly desperately need in these tough economic times there are many problems with this approach but of course the biggest one is that when you start to do something your trading partners will say hey your stuff is cheaper i want to follow suit and do the same thing and that results in a tit for tat economic clash

good evening i'm lucy catherine of things for tuning in this evening you're watching our t.v. well voting has ended in italy where dissolutions public has been choosing its parliament exit polls show the center left coalition is leading with the main surprise of the selection the party led by a former comedian is also showing good results well for more on the outcome let's cross live to our team. who is in rome probably slightly better weather than here in moscow arena how are the exit polls stacking up so far. well it's actually starting to snow here but that is going to really important though we are looking at this point it looks like sandy is indeed. heading these results he is coming in the first place. the good old silvio berlusconi's in the second place and then there is of course the kicker that's in the third place we have the five star party with the face of the stand up comedian of the best agree low heading to that party and of course not and one thing is troubling in the fourth place of course that is that these are just the preliminary results but you also have t

welcome back i'm lucy catherine of u.k.lawmakers seem to be in need of a quick fix and they've decided to turn to a taxpayer cash to pay for their caffeine hit or does all you poly boy go is in london and has more on what some are calling a case of cops and robbers take a look. the house of commons is looking for someone to join their team of burma reste is to basically serve hot fancy beverages to politicians now the job pays overt twenty thousand pounds per year which to put into context for our international viewers is over thirty thousand dollars per year if we compare that job to other public sector jobs we've got policeman whose style areas have recently been cut starting salaries they now start on nineteen thousand pounds a year similarly with soldiers who start on over seventeen just over seventeen thousand pounds per year so you've got frontline jobs that carry risks to your life the people who are detecting the safety of british citizens that are being paid less than somebody who's serving coffee to politicians on

welcome back i'm lucy catherine of u.k. lawmakers seem to be in need of a quick fix and they've decided to turn to a taxpayer cash to pay for their caffeine hit our polly boyko is in london and has more on what some are calling a case of cops and robbers take a look. the house of commons is looking for someone to join their team of burma reste is to basically serve hot fancy beverages to politicians now the job pays overt twenty thousand pounds per year which to put into context for our international viewers is over thirty thousand dollars per year if we compare that job to other public sector jobs we've got policeman whose style areas have recently been cut starting salaries they now start on nineteen thousand pounds a year similarly with soldiers who start on over seventeen just over seventeen thousand pounds per year so you've got frontline jobs that carry risks to your life the people who are detecting the safety of british citizens that are being paid less than somebody who's serving coffee to politicians one of the po

or tease lucy catherine off reporting for us there now what would you do if you happened to find a four thousand dollars diamond ring many would keep it but as we report online one american homeless man did not hesitate to promptly return it to its owner and as it turns out this wasn't the first time he had acted so honorably to find out more on our to dot com. plus america is known as the land of the free but online we have the story of one man who does not seem to cherish his freedom as much as others after he robbed a bank just to be sent back to jail. libya has braced for fresh on rest the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled gadhafi is being held under the threat of violence security is tight and foreigners are leaving and mass the first protests against the current government are expected in benghazi the birthplace of the revolution political analyst abraham lines where libya stands two years after the uprising and to what we have seen over the last two years in libya is that this integration of a new form of sun throw control paving the way for the fragmentation of t

with me lucy catherine of let's get straight to our top story now we're going to be looking at sochi in fact it's now exactly one year until the opening of the twenty fourteen olympic games here in russia now special giant clocks in the country's largest cities have begun the countdown for the event which is going to be held in the black sea resort city of sochi now the clock that you see right here behind me is actually the one that's in the center of moscow that's ticking in real time so you can see that we have three hundred sixty four days at least there was the clock and a bunch of hours left anyhow this. event this location is also home the home straight for organizers who say the final preparations are on track and finishing touch. as are being made to make the event forgettable now for how things look on the ground let's talk to andrew farmer who's in sochi we hope somewhere let's see if we have him andrew of course these preparations you know it's exactly a year until the opening of the games how are these preparations going are things actually ready for the opening and on t