by egypt's islamist president, mohamed morsi.hough country's rocky transition to democracy may hit a brick wall, two days of violent protest adding to the tension in what is already one of the most volatile regions of the world, mohamed morsi, the newly elected president and head of the muslim brotherhood giving himself near absolute power at the expense of egypt's courts and the country's justices firing back calling for a strike and protests until his decree is rescinded. and, there is this: a warning from a prominent opposition leader, that egypt's military may be forced to get involved against president morsi's wishes in an effort to restore order. let's begin with steve harrigan streaming live from cairo, protesters in full force in tahrir square, do you have any idea what is next for them? >> reporter: harris, what we are likely to see on sunday and tuesday, are, perhaps, massive street protests, not just by those who want to oust mohamed morsi, who think he's trying to become a dictator but those who support him, who think

most of us were thinking that mohammed morsi really very much the peacemaker, key to the cease-fire between israel and hamas. doesn't even settle with the truce and then morsi announces this decree essentially a huge power grab. what is the significance? >> reporter: well, suzanne, the significance is until a parliament is formed here in egypt, until a constitution is drafted, he is the most powerful man in egypt, and, technically, he can do whatever he wants without any apparent oversight. that's why he is being called

like power grab by the president showed no sign of ending one hundred thousand people calling on mohammed morsi to leave after he gave himself authority beyond reach of the courts true is in the egyptian capital. had to kyra's major chords with the country's major chords the constitutional court and the appeals court say they are going to strike of course the judges themselves are also still on a partial strike the journalists in the case and their own so who first strike to seeing really quite a lot of movement that a major sectors within egypt society which the president is really going to have to do with as things escalate on the street as well fish caches do continue between protesters and the police which started early last week right down below us right now police are firing excessive amounts of tear gas and bad shots at dozens of protesters who are still in the streets reporting from the seeing my colleague tom barton has more here in the streets of central cairo the sights the sounds and the smells of protest and of civil disorder very loud and very clear tucker a square is just over th

mohamed morsi has identified with them, supported them throughout this conflict.ut then again, mohamed morsi has a relationship, the president of egypt, with the united states of america, with europe, with the international financial institutions. he's the one who needs to facilitate, leverage, pressure, hamas to agree to the cease-fire. and i do agree with jamie, as well. hillary clinton is essential now. the united states is the only country that can put together either a period of calm, deescalation or a full cease-fire. and then hopefully if that is achieved, pick up the initiative and try to reinvigorate discussions between palestinians and israelis. >> one thing this has me thinking about, people complain about the middle east and the conflict and the united states having to always deal with it of the only thing worse than being needed may be being not needed. is the united states losing influence? >> there's no question, america's role in the middle east has changed. we have pulled our forces out of iraq. we have leaders in the arab world now that are not a

height people on loudspeakers chanting of their own waving flags calling for gyptian president mohamed morsi to recall to rescind that declaration that he made giving himself sweeping powers last thursday which has caused such a furious reaction right here telling us about police response to the press has has there been any reaction from the government to then best. well for his part mercy himself has tried to calm the situation he's met with egypt's top. judges he said look i'm not the same as mubarak which is what a lot of people are chanting down in the square that you've done the same as mubarak he said i'm not the same i won't compromise these powers are only temporary until egypt can get its get its constitution and parliament sorted out however that's not really convinced many egyptians from the more liberal sections of society mohamed morsi supporters in the muslim brotherhood they haven't turned out to protest that they said that they don't want to add to the tense situation but here in cairo and in other cities in egypt people from more and more liberal groups of society in the ele

gyptian oxidants calling mohamed morsi a new dictator saying has seized more power than the ousted hosnimubarak out of a hat and two political analyst eric draitser believes the current unrest the shadows the revolution has changed little in the country if anything it would simply be a continuation of the original revolution which the revolution if we're going to call it that did not succeed in the sense that it was able to oust mubarak but it did not actually seize power instead it created a power vacuum and one that was filled by the political machine of the muslim brotherhood the muslim brotherhood who they were able to win the elections last year they don't actually have a broad base of the support as they would like to pretend there are many elements within egypt who are very much dissatisfied with the muslim brotherhood who would like to see changes within the political structure of the country this has to do both in. surely with the political situation but also with the diplomatic and the geopolitical situation when the people of egypt realize that it's been swindled into a five b

this time the fury aimed at current president mohamed morsy. >> we're here because we don't want morsy to rule us anymore. >> a one-man show. he wants to do everything. nothing at all of what we want, you know? >> reporter: on thursday, the new president made himself the most powerful man in egypt by announcing sweeping decrees he says will designed to push forward the drafting of egypt's new constitution and speed up the formation of a government that's still missing a parliament. >> one of his decrees bans anyone from overturning any of his declarations since he took over office in june. that order is to stay in place till a parliament is formed. technically it means for now, he can do whatever he wants without any oversight. >> i just felt he was telling us, you guys don't exist. it's just me and my people. and there's no place for anybody else in egypt. >> we're not allowing for a dictatorship again. 13 is enough. egypt is not going into dictatorship once again. >> in a separate decree, morsy banned the breakup of the constitutional assembly, the 100-member panel assembly designed

believe that mohamed morsi got to making democracy in this country but after within five five months and since christmas is starting to run dry is this extreme. to use just. all of the just going to be. a lot of these people i don't know morsi is the president was nowhere close to what the just the do you think this is really making that possible support of. them believe. that the relation. was. to discuss the situation in egypt let's join blogger and journalist while escada he is in cairo again like two years ago cries for the president to go are being heard out here square do you think perhaps a new revolution is on its way. i don't particularly think it's a new revolution i think we're finishing off this one for one we started two years ago because in reality not much has changed in the way the regime has been handling the country the transition process is in itself. you know in the state of chaos and the new elected leader ahmed morsi is determined to go down the same road that mubarak has gone down like that with all the economic policies and with his. inability to listen to wha

the protesters are calling for the removal of it president mohamed morsy. r in the week, morsy increased his power saying none of his decrees could be overturned by the courts. opposition leaders say he is acting like a dictator. >> we could know by monday when the governor of illinois plans on holding a special election to replace jesse jackson junior. he resigned wednesday just two weeks after winning re-election citing on going mental health problems. he's also being investigated for possible misuse of campaign funds by the fbi. and for the first time he acknowledged that saying he will accept responsibility for his mistakes. >> number three, gas rationing in new york city will end today. that's according to mayor michael bloomberg. the city has been rationing gas by odd and even days since november 9th. recovery from superstorm sandy is far from complete. more than 30,000 people are still without power in new york and new jersey. 30,000. and governor chris christie says the storm cause add estimated $29.4 billion in damage in new jersey. >> number four,

we know president obama has been on the phone with mohamed morsi constantly over the last 48 hours. >porter: hi there, luke. we'll get more of an idea after secretary of state clinton meets with president morsi. she is just wrapping up that meeting. she is then going to see the foreign minister here and then give a press conference. hopefully in terms of the agreement, the second part of your question, we'll be getting some answers. in terms of morsi's role, as you say, he's a key mediator here. and if he emerges with a deal, there's no question but that this man, and keep in mind he's the former leader of the muslim brotherhood, he will emerge as a top regional power broker, that everyone will have to listen to. but the question is, will he get a deal? i mean, both sides seem to be close. they said they were close, within hours yesterday. that didn't happen. they just don't seem yet to be able to close the deal and that does give secretary of state hillary clinton's visit here much more urgency. >> jim, and real quick, we've seen a lot of protests in egypt over the last few months in

most of us were thinking that mohammed morsi really very much the peacemaker, key to the cease-fire between israel and hamas. doesn't even settle with the truce and then morsi announces this decree essentially a huge power grab. what is the significance? >> reporter: well, suzanne, the significance is until a parliament is formed here in egypt, until a constitution is drafted, he is the most powerful man in egypt, and, technically, he can do whatever he wants without any apparent oversight. that's why he is being called egypt's new dictator. that's why you have thousands of protests taking place behind us in tahrir square. the protesters represent the opposing factions, the liberals, the secularists, women's rights groups, the youth groups. essentially, their position is that we're not going to talk to mr. morsi until he rescinds his decrees, and we spoke to one of his top advisors today, and he said he'll consider that, but first there needs to be a dialogue. let's take a listen to the advisor. >> what kind of concessions are you willing to make? >> this decision is up to the president. no

mohamed morsi made the controversial decision and today he plans on meeting with the judicial council. supporters of mohamed morsi are planning big protests tomorrow. >>> the cause of friday's big gas-x motion was human error. -- gas explosion was human error. he was looking for a leak and the explosion was then ignited by a spark. the employee followed sidewalk markings which followed gas markings that were wrong. >> it appears to be an appropriate distance from where old markings were on the sidewalk indicating the gas line from when the main went into the building, however markings were incorrect. >> 21 people were incorrect. now the state department of public utilities discovered that. >>> a many emountain man, richard johnson locked himself inside an apartment after he hit his girlfriend. police say johnson remained hold up with a shotgun for seven hours before he finally surrendered. >>> bryan stow beating case involves a san francisco hospital and more than $1 million and that story is coming up 5:07. >> jim harbaugh will not say when he has replaced alex smith. he has another

the violence is part of clashes that erupted across egypt last week after president mohamed morsi issued a sweeping decree that significantly expands his own powers. let's go to cairo now where reza is following the story. what do we know about this attack? >> reporter: obviously, we've seen a lot of intense clashes over the past three days. we've reported hundreds of injuries. we hadn't seen a fatality until tonight. according to a spokesperson for the muslim brotherhood, the victim was a 15-year-old boy by the name of islam massoud. he's being described as a member of the muslim brotherhood youth group. this brotherhood official

the fury over mohamed morsi is a sweeping new presidential powers in egypt and claims its first lives with a teenager killed in protests just as compromise was possible. separatism holds sway and screams of riches a regional gotta lonia as pro independence parties win a majority of parliamentary seats possibly paving the way for referendum. and immediately said to julian a song releases a new book urging him to that he uses around the globe to stand up against a virtual in slave bent by governments. today to you this is r t egypt's president is making steps towards a compromise and agreed to meet senior judges all drage at his seizure of polish makes his decisions untouchable it comes as the first blood in clashes over mohamed

protesters were calling for the resignation of president mohamed morsi. i declared his word is final. he removed power from any judges to overturn any decrees he makes. judges are considering a strike in response to morsi's, panded powers. >>> number two, just 38 days left until we cross over that so-called fiscal cliff. a move that would trigger massive spending cuts to government programs and could even send the u.s. into a recession. earlier this morning i asked morgan stanley smith barney director ron hart if there were any benefits of actually going over. >> getting our fiscal house in order, either now or later, right? we can't spend money at this trajectory, 16 trillion in debt. 99 trillion nun funded liabilities with medicare and social security, so at some point you've either got to do it now or do it later. >> congress is back in session on monday and expectsed to work on a solution. >>> and in europe, european union leaders aend two dye days of divisive budget talks without a deal. they are caught for one plan to increase the budget and another

the opposition's concerns over the future of democracy in egypt have sown the ground what have mohamed morsi done mobarak in the height of his power could not even dream of achieving morsi is part of the muslim brotherhood and islam or fascist group do have control over their members supporters it is very simple and the country was more than forty five percent of its population are illiterate to control them in the name of religion egyptians are now seeing clear lead they have replaced the military fascist regime of hosni mubarak into the religious fascist regime of mohamed morsi and the muslim brotherhood egyptians have undertaken a revolution back in january twentieth levon calling for three simple things bread freedom and source justice neither of these three. calls demands that they have called for and in their revolution have been achieved this state of the egyptian arcana me is in shambles this state of freedoms it's been marginalized people who wanted to establish a democracy they wanted to establish solid at the year two human rights they wanted to have social justice applied and not

protesters in cairo ahead of a massive opposition rally nationwide actions planned to oppose president mohamed morsi his latest decree seen as a blatant polygraph the president made himself and islam as a dummy to the upper house of parliament immune to any kind of oversight including from those of the courts he claims of the measures will only replace until a new constitution is drawn up which is expected within two months most his opponents say they will see an illusion he reverses the new law journalist belching is watching the situation in the egyptian capital. apart from saying that he isn't effective wish to show authority which is very hard to prove as he has actually reined in the power visionary and promising that he were using his newfound power as a negative way moves he hasn't actually i'm offered anything to the opposition forces in terms of reassuring them that he's not acting in the way of a dictator and as you can probably see behind me there's still hundreds of people

you just try and see i guess that reading crowd's angry at islamic president mohamed morsi has granted himself sweeping new powers. israel and hamas observers shaky cease fire despite trading accusations of violations of several riots and deadly border shootings. and the e.u. is truly in your budget is still up in the air as leaders fail to agree on how much they want to be spending. twenty four hours a day seven days a week this is our team the president of egypt's decree granting in a sweeping new policy has divided the country as clashes continue between his backers and opponents the opposition started a sit in put in protest in tahrir square pledging to flight what it calls mohamed morsi is a power grab this morning security forces again fired tear gas to disperse angry protesters rallying against the president in the capital cairo the decree spot to mass protests across egypt on friday and once said to be the worst of violence or since a slum occluded took off its cairo based journalist bel truth has to details. what i really think is quite harsh tactics used by the police to stop

mohamed morsi for his part has said that he does not want to become a dictator he wants compromise he's trying to work with the judges and he wants to make sure egypt gets a proper constitution however people here are simply off buying that judges themselves have gone on strike they've been protests in cities around egypt and these have been the scenes with protests some protestors having died reports of many more having been injured we've seen both police and protesters being carried back by their calm rates having been wounded by flying stones and choking on on tape gas the situation here immensely tense that this is really not just a constitutional crisis that it was it's not the of the political crisis that unless most of them do something to. get serious about giving up these cars and not trying to take the kind of power they see mubarak has been these protests seem likely to go on and on. egypt's supreme constitutional court has accused morsi of targeting it specifically khaled. al-harbi newspaper says the president is putting himself above the law and compared his behavior to fas

we will have to leave that mohamed morsi got to making the focus in this country but after within five five months and since have at most is starting to transition i'm trying. to use despoja i'm collecting all of the forms this country will be on his side a lot of these people don't want the r.c.a.'s that president was nowhere close to what i think of as just the way we have to think about this problem solving making that possible short of hammad morsi for his part has said that he does not want to become a dictator he wants compromise destroyed to work with the judges and he wants to make sure egypt gets a proper constitution however people here simply aren't buying that judges themselves have gone on strike having protests in cities around to egypt and these have been the scenes with protests some protestors having died reports of many more having been injured we've seen both police and protesters being. carried back by their comrades having been wounded by flying stones and choking on the take us situation here immensely tense that this is really not just a constitutional crisis tha

egypt's top judges join the fight against president mohamed morsi with tens of thousands of egyptians now calling for the islamist leader to step down. hopes are high for palestine is bad for an enhanced u.n. status international support for autonomy gains momentum despite ston shop position from israel and the u.s. . and germany's political opposition lashes out of the country's leaders for lying about the true costs of the greek rescue as the german parliament is set to vote on the latest package for the struggling new member. fortunately live from moscow nine am in the russian capital i'm marina joshie and a further escalation of the crisis in egypt the country stop judiciary have gone on strike to protest president morsi decree that greatly enlarged his power morse's move set off a nationwide wave of violence rallies with tens of thousands of egyptians calling for the islamist leader to step down journalist bill truth has the latest from cairo and we've had two kyrie's major courts with the country's major courts the constitutional court and the appeals court say they are going to

the palestinian authority president and then onto cairo to meet with the new egyptian president mohamed morsit obama called president morsi at least three times that we know of over the last 24 hours. he's clearly playing a critical role in trying to broker a deal between hamas and israel to stop the fighting in gaza and southern israel. let's go to cairo right now. cnn's ian lee is standing by. egypt's president is very much involved getting praise from the u.s. and others and palestinians, what's going on? what's the egyptian role? describe it to us in a nutshell. >> reporter: well, wolf, what we're seeing is a resurgence of egypt as a strong vocal diplomatic player. president mohamed morsi and his base muslim brotherhood historically have strong ties with hamas. and we saw this recently during this conflict as members of the muslim brotherhood were visiting hamas officials in gaza. and so they have this -- they're hoping to put influence on hamas to bring about a cease fire. if you look at egypt, egypt has historically had a good working relationship with israel. it did under president hos

egypt's security forces have fired tear gas at any protesters rallying against slamming president mohamed morsi and you decreed granting him sweeping powers spad to demos across the country the opposition has started a sit in protests and to have square pledging to fight what it calls morsi is a power grab carol based journalist who has the details. what i've really seen is quite harsh tactics used by the police to stop protests in tahrir square using a lot of tear gas on protesters throwing rocks down on protesters from a couple of buildings we've also seen molotov being thrown back and forth at the same time we've had demonstrations at the presidential palace in support of the president and also across the country we've seen president the president protesters clashing in front of brother headquarters so there's been quite a lot happening is actually in a strange way united the opposition forces have been quite divided recently there was mass uproar when the president announced his constitutional declaration which essentially awarded him powers over the judiciary it also said that his decree a

mohamed morsi, the president of egypt, is a member of the muslim brotherhood. slamist familiar life the muslim brotherhood. hamas listens to morsi. hamas looks up to egypt now at this particular stage and that's why egypt has emerged as the most important state vis-a-vis hamas and gaza. and also keep in mind, suzanne, that egypt also was the first arab state to sign a peace treaty with israel in the late 1970s, the camp david peace agreement, and mohamed morsi has warned if israel invades gaza this would have serious repercussions on egyptian/israeli relations and that's why the important role of egypt. >> could he take it a step further and influence with hamas and actually convince them to recognize israel, to put down the weapons, so that they could become an organization that the united states would deal with directly and not be labeled as a terrorist group? >> suzanne, you asked me earlier about the visit of secretary of state hillary clinton. i think we need to go onthe cease-fire. the cease-fire should not just postpone the all-out clash, it should not ju

they accused mohamed morsi of behaving like a pharaoh, making a power grab by presidential decree. ring the arab spring, egyptians came together on tahrir square to top it will country's long-time dictator hosni mubarak. today mr. morsi's critics clashed with his supporters while police fired tear gas canisters into the crowd. "he's saying that he's our god" said this protester. "he's made a mistake." and this woman said that after marching for freedom the country's ended up with a new dictator. in alexandria, an angry crowd stormed the offices at the muslim brotherhood from which president morsi draws his support. they ransacked the building and then set it on fire. from outside his presidential palace today, mr. morsi addressed the nation. he said the new measures are designed to cut through political gridlock. "it was allah's will that i became the president" he said "and we need to go forward with the new steps, not backwards." but only 52% of egyptians voted for the president. now many of those who didn't worry that mr. morsi wants to stifle democracy and impose his own islamis

peter five tear gas that really clouds i'm worried islamic president mohamed morsi has planted himself sweeping new powers. its role on hamas observe a shaky cease fire despite trading accusations of violations of the family rights and the dead they don't want to. be used trillian viewer budget is still up in the air as a leaders fail to agree on how much they want to base. near so russia and iran the world this is all see was me you know hello and welcome to the program egypt's security forces have fired chagga such angry protests as running against islamic president mohamed morsi a new decree granting him sweeping powers has spog demos across the country the opposition has started a sit in protests and the hive square pledging to find what it calls a morse's power grab cairo based on is true has the details. what i've really seen is quite harsh tactics used by the police to stop protests in tahrir square you see a lot of tear gas on protesters throwing rocks down on protesters from the top of buildings we've also seen molotov being thrown back and forth at the same time we've had dem

night in sheets of joy these people absolutely determined to go out to protest is that mohamed morsi was told to be ready to make that declaration that he didn't want to themselves we think was last tuesday we would have to leave that mohamed morsi got to make it democracy in this country but after within five five months of this or since he had more sense starting to run runs this country has said to use despair i'm collecting all of the poems this country to be on his side a lot of this you could hear but i don't know morsi is the president was nowhere close to what occurred. just the first week i think of this problem of having making that possible support of the big wins completely which. since you have to ration. of congress. members of the constitution and assembly said they could vote on a new constitution in the coming few days after that morsi has promised to shed his newly acquired powers but blogger and journalists while skandha has told me that he thinks he believes that real democracy is a long way off but the fact of the matter is that everything is going in the opposit

>> i don't think that it is the only factor that will get mohamed morsi to be an honest broker in the region. i think it's much -- it would be a much better bet to appeal to his sense of wanting to be a statesman. wanting to be a responsible actor, wanting to be -- to live up to the stature of everything that egypt can be in the community of nations. i think threatening mohamed morsi in that way of all the things that are going to motivate him, i'm not sure threats like that, that we are going to take away $2 billion which again, i would say yes, it's a difficult economy. but it's not quite what it used to be. >> what about the imf and the $4.8 billion they have in reserves potentially for egypt? i mean, it's a linchpin of cash that could flow their way or not. >> again, these are all complicated issues. i still am not sure that threatening mohamed morsi is the way to get what you want done. >> so we reported yesterday senator mccain suggested sending former president clinton to negotiate a longer deal. he could be an honest broker that brought a lot of leverage and graf aas the to it

revolutionary war it dictator in the making president mohamed morsi of presidential decree spreading your wide powers has reopened the debate about. well. technology innovation all the developments around russia we. heard. this is a welcome bach hearings have begun in the case of us on the product bradley manning accused of leaking classified documents to wiki leaks with the defense claiming he was the subject of abuse while in detention and chase made and also a book on manning says not all the military gains that edged a whistle blower. both opinion in the military and intelligence and law enforcement is quite divided about this i am not going to lie most people in the military have a very strict by the book attitude towards many of the rules not all of the rules but many and would like to see many convicted but i have talked with infantry one of whom who is caught on camera in that infamous collateral murder helicopter video who sees bradley manning is a hero who sees the leaks of the iraq war logs including that helicopter video as an unqualified good because now americans can fi

hard core of that still camped out in the middle of tigris square calling for gyptian president mohamed morsi to rescind that declaration that he made giving himself sweeping powers last thursday which has caused such a furious reaction immersing himself was trying to calm the situation and he said look i'm not the same as my barrack which is what a lot of people are chanting down in the square that you've done the same as mubarak he said i'm not the same these powers are only temporary until egypt can get its constitution and parliament sorted out however that's not really convinced many egyptians from the more liberal sections of society protests all over egypt including a number of deaths in these protests go to have to work hard to try and calm these tensions and show people that he really doesn't want these powers permanently as people here fear he does. a live stream showing developments on tahrir square is available for you right now on r.t. dot com meanwhile khaled el son the editor of the al quds al arab newspaper believes the current protest has brought together people of various re

egypt's top judge is joining the fight against president mohamed morsi with tens of thousands of egyptians now calling for the islamist leader to step down. and germany's political opposition lashes out of the country's leaders for lying about the true cost of the greek rescue as the german parliament is set to vote on the latest aid package for the struggling you've been. watching our new life from moscow was memory and joshie palestinians are eagerly anticipating thursday's you have a vote that could lead to the territory being granted statehood the autonomy is hoping to be upgraded from observer status to that of a nonmember observer state and there appears to be international support for the proposal despite strong opposition from israel and the united states journalist harry fear has more from gaza. the end of the day we have in here in the middle east we have an israeli state and then we have a normal palestinian state simply palestinian territories the palestinian people do not have rights like israelis do as a result of the status of national entity and so this is. by mahmoud abbas

did you see a dancer trying to drown the president mohammed morsi has granted himself sweeping new powers. israel and hamas observe a shaky cease fire despite trading accusations of violations after several riots and the dead leave all the shooting. the u.s. trained europe but you're just still often there as the leaders agree on how much they want to base. international news life from this is he was me hello and welcome to the program egypt's security forces have fired tear gas at angry protesters running against the islamic president mohamed morsi and you decree granting him sweeping powers to spawn demos across the country the opposition has started a sit in protests and the square pledging to fight what it calls the most is power grab kyra because journalist true has the details. what i've really seen is quite harsh tactics used by the police to stop protests in tahrir square you see a lot of tear gas on protesters throwing rocks down on protesters from the top of buildings we've also seen molotov being thrown back and forth at the same time we've had demonstrations at the presidentia

we will have to leave that mohamed morsi guy making the moccasins is going to be a five star within five five months and since he had more sense starting to run runs this country i have to use despoja i'm collecting all of the poems this country to be on his side a lot of these people don't want the morsi as the president was now of course what i think of as just the first week i think this probably already making that possible support of all the how much morsi for his part has said that he does not want to become a dictator he wants compromise he's trying to work with the judges and he wants to make sure egypt gets a proper constitution however people here seem. buying that judges themselves have gone on strike they've been protests in cities around the agents and these have been the scenes with protests some protestors having reports of many more having been injured we've seen both police and protesters being carried back by their comrades having been wounded by flying stones and choking on and on to gas the situation here immensely tense but this is really not just a constitutional cr

if you find stats of tear gas at rallying cry and anger at islamic president mohamed morsi who has granted himself so we've been new powers. israel and hamas observe a shaky cease fire despite trading accusations of violations after several riots and the deadly force. in the truth and you are a bunch it is still up in the air as leaders fail to agree on how much they want to be spent. international news live from moscow this is all she with me hello and welcome to the program egypt's security forces have fired tear gas at angry protesters ranting against islamic president mohamed morsi a new decree granting him sweeping powers has spawned demos across the country their opposition has started it sit in protests in tahrir square pledging to fight what it calls were also its power grab kyra based journalist who has the details. what i've really seen is quite harsh tactics used by the police to stop protests in tahrir square using a lot of tear gas on protesters throwing rocks down on protesters from the top of buildings we've also seen molotov being thrown back and forth at the same time we'v

it just stop judges joining the fight against president mohamed morsi it was a chance of thousands of egyptians now calling for the islamist leader to step down . hopes are high for palestine's bid for enhanced u.n. status as international support for the great gains momentum despite staunch resistance from this road and the western. germany's political opposition lashes out of the country's leaders for lying about the true costs of the greek rescue as a german parliament is set to vote on the latest a package for the struggling members. eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r t a marina joshie welcome to the program to further escalation of the crisis in egypt the country stop judiciary have gone on strike to protest president morsi is decree the greatly enlarged his powers morsi has moved set off a nationwide wave of violence rallies with tens of thousands of egyptians calling for the islamist leader to step down journalist bill true has the latest from cairo . and we've had to the choir is made to cool the country's major chords the constitutional court and the appeals c

night in such a day these people absolutely determined the crowds of protesters the mohamed morsi was totally wrong to make that declaration that he did once again sell sweeping was last tuesday they wound up completely missing. the relation. of tyrus. we would have believed that mohamed morsi got to making democracy in this country but after within five five months of this or since you have your sister to move to run around this country. to use disposal i'm glad that all of the poems this country will be on his side a lot of these people don't want the r.c.a.'s that president was nowhere close to what i. just the first week i think this probably already making that possible to have a homage morsi for his part has said that he does not want to become a dictator he wants compromise he's trying to work with the judges and he wants to make sure egypt gets a proper constitution however people here simply are going to judges themselves have gone on strike they've been protests in cities around agents and these have been the scenes with protests some protestors having died reports of many m

in egypt today, president mohamed morsi meets with judges to explain his controversial edict that theyany law that he imposes. morsi claimed this move is only temporary until a parliament is formed. but thousands of egyptians have taken to the streets accusing morsi of an all-out power grab and demanding that he rescind his edict. >> some signs the republicans stance against susan rice might be softening at least a little. last week arizona senator john mccain vowed to do everything in his power to block rice's potential nomination to be secretary of state, blasting her for telling americans the september attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi was spontaneous and caused by an anti-islam video. now mccain seems to be dialing back a bit. >> i give everyone the benefit of explaining their position and the actions that they took. i'll be glad to have the opportunity to discuss these issues with her. >> rice insists everything she said in the aftermath of the benghazi attack was based on information that was provided by u.s. intelligence agencies. >>> the nba and its fans grieving this mo