vote-getters from first round of the presidential elections, the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed mursi and the former or the last prime minister under mubarak, ahmed shafiq, who is a career air force officer. the outcome of this election has caused a lot of disturbances within egypt, as many of you have probably seen from the media reports just in the last 24 hours. there were demonstrations in tahrir square and also the burning of ahmed shafiq's campaign headquarters. the two -- the conventional wisdom prior to this election was that the former foreign minister and former secretary-general of the arab league would have been a top vote-getter as well as fe tewell, but they did not reach those positions. many of the egyptians who led the efforts in tahrir square a year and a half ago are upset with the outcome, but we don't really know what's going to take place in the coming weeks. to make matters even more complicated, we don't even know the presidential powers. there was a committee to draft the new egyptian constitution, but one of the egyptian higher courts said that this panel wou

this is between the lead front-runner, which is mohamed mursi of the brotherhood, the independent islamist candidate represented by dr. abol fotouh, and mr. salim al awa, who is a lesser-known islamist candidate who garnered roughly 6% of the vote. between them, they won roughly 35% of the votes. we also see the sharp shift in the political map in the fortunes of the remnants of the national democratic party, which was the ruling party during the mubarak era. the ndn the parliamentary elections won virtually no seats and did very badly in those elections. now the remnants of the old ndp network seem to have mobilized for a highly effective campaign in support of general ahmed shafiq. so we see here -- and in addition to that, we see -- and this was a remarkable surprise -- the socialist candidate hamdeen sabahy really turned out to be the dark horse in this election. he ran as an independent as a clear leftist agenda. all of the polls seem to have dismissed the fact that he would do well in this election. but very surprisingly, he came in third garnering roughly 21% of the vote and also wi

mohamed mursi, the muslim brotherhood candidate and the former prime minister ahmed shafiq are both claiming victory in sunday's election. as polls were closing sunday, military leaders issued a constitutional addendum that would keep the new president from having authority over the military. >> the concern is that the situation is extremely murky now, even many egyptians don't understand it. >> reporter: that ruling, along with the uncertainty of the election results, led to massive protests. >> the prospect for democracy in egypt are undeniable. the people of egypt have embraced this democratic spirit, and that's not -- there's no turning back. >> reporter: the military has vowed to allow the new president to take office by the end of the month, but how much power he will have remains to be seen. so while the official winner of that election will be announced tomorrow, it is unclear how much power he will have, and certainly the loser is going to reject those results so the uncertainty, the instability, terrell, is certain to continue. >> susan mcginnis in washington this morning. susan, t

mohammed mursi could still win. must so, the mothebrotherhood convert support into the ballot box. >> for more on the significant and possible fallout, i am joined by the director of the middle east program at the center for international and strategic studies. how big of a blow to democracy is this? >> this is certainly a huge change to the future of egypt. a lot of egyptians had been growing uncertain about where this was going. a lot of the egyptians had been growing uncertain about where this was going. there's a lot of opposition to the muslim brotherhood. there are many who are breathing a sigh of relief, probably a majority. many will be agitated because they thought they had got something out of the elections and now it has been taken away. >> what will this do to the revolutionary spirit that brought these changes? >> it changes it. egypt was the gravity of all the political change in the middle east. you have more than 80 million people. there was a sense that what happened in egypt stretched beyond their.

the 16th and 17th of june, will see the face-off of -- between the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed mursi and general ahmed shafiq, both of them who garnered in the first round roughly 24% of the vote. now, the elections so far have been remarkably surprising. the results have defied all of the predictions that the experts have put forward. most of the polling put the top two front-runners, as greg mentioned, as former foreign minister amr moussa and dr. fotouh who broke off from the muslim brotherhood about a year ago to run as an independent candidate. the high elections council announced the final results of the first round yesterday, and as greg mentioned, there have been some very interesting developments in the last 24 hours with demonstrations in tahrir square, the torching of ahmed shafiq's campaign headquarters. so i think what we have now is a very highly dynamic situation heading into the runoff of these elections. so what i thought i'd do just to set the scene is talk not about the candidates but about the broad context of these elections and what we can expect to see in the s

even as the nation heads to the polls for a runoff presidential vote the muslim brotherhood's mohamed mursi faces ousted about right. asked prime minister ahmed shafik but whoever wins rooster him without the use of the stamina to parliament which has been dissolved by the supreme court mubarak era judges parliamentary elections were on the awful feeling that you council is now the making authority even new president's powers yet to be determined by a constitution which is still in the pipeline basic human rights activists no no police need a name on a ballot is a viable option. there's a very very big chance that mass protests arise in the case that either all morsi win because sadly many people see that both of them do not represent the revolution obviously.

nowhere even as the nation heads to the polls for a runoff presidential vote the muslim brotherhoods mohamed mursi a faces ousted with the last prime minister mention feek but whoever wins will take over without the islamist dominated parliament which has been dissolved the supreme court. judges ruled that you see plenty of actions were unlawful ruling military council has now assumed and on making authority even the president's powers have yet to be determined by a constitution which is still in the pipeline based human rights activists no news even name on the ballot is a. one of an option. there's a very very big chance that mass protests arise in the case that either pasha order morsi win because many people see that both of them do not represent. obviously he is a worse candidate simply because he represents the mubarak regime that the destroyed egypt for decades but the muslim brotherhood are also losing huge amounts of popularity with every day because of their political decisions what is next yes many people will return to the streets and lots of alternatives will be formed especially in t

real choice between the two candidates one of the candidates is the muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed mursi he has told the protest camp in an attempt to try and gain support from them and mohamed mercy has said that if he was elected president he would try it back on trial and have him executed many people though are scared that the muslim brotherhood may hijack their revolution and bring in their own religious conservatism the other candidate who is mubarak's last prime minister has warned that the muslim brotherhood would take egypt back to the dark ages many people though do not trust him seeing him as part of the old regime. here with r t a live from moscow later this hour we'll look at what the future holds for rallies in russia that parliament is still debating imposing tougher penalties for violations take public gatherings we tell you how the fines might grow if the last. person painting by numbers we tell you what portion of the auction sold part turns out to be fake and why most collectors calm out of their money choose to keep i have. going to return to cairo for one of our top

generals to date results of last weekend's presidential polls are expected this sunday but both mohamed mursi endowment shafique already claiming victory. if we can expound to join the sun has a nervous wait for the ecuadorian government's decision whether to grant him a political son of a son has been seeking refuge at its london embassy since tuesday to avoid extradition to sweden and possible transfer to the u.s. but he fears the death penalty. and he says one of its jets chopped down by syrian forces on friday was not spying but enter the country's airspace by mistake both sides are now trying to defuse tensions and search for the missing pilots and damascus a national committee defensive. but next a candid perspective on the syrian uprising from a senior aide to the country's president with a no show that the political and media advisor to the syrian media gives us the view from inside ourselves regime. thank you. for saying that siobhan political and media advisor to syria's president it's great to have you with us here today with that about i'm happy to be here so it's now official u.n

crowds are gathering to protest against military rule supporters of muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed mursi field at cairo's tahrir square the generals have promised to crush challenges of the regime with an iron fist put to sleep has more now from cairo. as you can hear tensions are soaring here in tough his way away tens of thousands of people have turned out to demonstrate on saturday night they're chanting for the army to step down and indeed as they have been chanting for the past few days they calling for the muslim brotherhood candidate dr mohamed morsi to be named egypt's next president they're also chanting things like we are strong and that we are preparing for war coming to an ominous threat that comes as the electoral commission says that it will and mounds the official results of last weekend's presidential polls on sunday three pm local time but there is confusion over this because we're hearing from other electoral commission officials that it has not yet been determined when these results in fact will be announced now as you can hear this growing anger in taffy's square and

good candidate mohamed mursi campaigning. at the capital of the arab league will be joost in. six weeks on the contest is this time to see even with morsi a strong contain date to be egypt's next president and he's promised. as in. egypt is committed to international agreements that were so. mind including the treaty with israel or egypt and should have the right to amend all that is not in their interest to go and make sure the other departments to what it is signed as if it's not warming enough for israel what will happen to the nine hundred seventy nine peace treaty with egypt big players who've put their weight behind more presidential bid have been even more bold in the claims. war with israel is in no way something that can be ruled out to the clock was always ticking the egyptian street no stranger to empty israel sentiment and despite the worries about stability in the revolution the elections simmering below the surface is hostility towards israel but that hostility was kept in check during the bikes time the top floor of this building used to house these weighty emba

if we add mohamed mursi to them as a revolutionary candidate from one perspective we're speaking about 15 million votes. compare this to 5.5 million that shafiq has won. speaking about almost trip it will number of votes. so from one perspective the revolution won. from another perspective it lost because we only have 51% turnout. this is definitely a loss for the revolution. why is this the case? a number of perspectives. from one perspective prolonging the transitional period. this is really a dangerous thing in a system like egypt, which is very centralized. you can't leave the top executive office empty for such a long time. ironically, this is one of the things that mubarak was for. he said, you know, early elections and he's going to flooef six months. lots of people don't trust mubarak. myself, i don't trust him. i don't think he would have left. however, i think it's very important -- it was very important not to prolong the transition period. the other thing is the divisions among the revolution forces which caused them -- lots of people prefer security, lots of people prefer

prime minister ahmed shafik who's running for the presidency he faces muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed mursi in the second round but later this month neither is perceived as a champion of the revolution by many who took part in it some observers predicting further revolt. the verdict will be mostly political as opposed to adhere to any sort of justice. related matters however on the other hand if mubarak is off the hook the chances are their evolution might find another way of violent expression the stime this is what many egyptians find very bothersome we've went out in the streets and we revolted and the whole world's took by us and we supposedly ousted mubarak and his regime yet somehow the region is back shafiq right now is one of the major one of the two major contenders for the presidential elections he could possibly be the president comes july first the egyptian people are becoming weary and fatigued by all of this they haven't even thought that the revolution has as delivered on its promises the military council might come at the end of the day and say we we've given you the chance

from the race for the country's top job in the second round run up against the muslim brotherhood mohamed mursi the purchase comes just a day off egypt's controversial decades long emergency breaks. israel's launched an air strike in gaza. border clash in which a palestinian militant killed an israeli soldier a rocket landed in a residential area and wounded four passengers in a single vehicle two critically comes after several months of relative calm and long. india has dealt a fresh blow to america and europe's attempts to force them to stop enriching uranium just one month before unprecedented sanctions against the islamic republic came into force come into force i should say new delhi the biggest buyer of iranian oil said their trade won't be affected. as the story. india has taken a stand despite washington's ongoing pressure to stop buying oil from iran india is forging ahead india is severely deficient its unfortunate. growing but its even up to ninety per cent of its over requirements you don't become two souls. acquiring and that you do sources and many say the same simply won't work w

for the country's top job he'll be in the second round runoff against the muslim brotherhood's mohamed mursi and protests comes just a day off to egypt's controversial decades long emergency law expired. india has dealt a fresh blow to america and europe's attempts to force iran to stop enriching uranium just one month before unprecedented sanctions against the islamic republic come into force new delhi the biggest buyer of iranian oil said their trade will not be affected. as the story. india has taken a stand despite washington's ongoing pressure to stop buying oil from iran india is forging ahead india is severely deficient it's important. growing but it's even up to ninety per cent of the over requirements you don't become the two souls. according at you to sources and many say the same simply won't work without india since it's iran is biggest oil customer and so the united states finds itself in the position of courting india's cooperation for its plan to be successful hillary clinton recently visited india during her asia tour trying to sell america's strategy to isolate iran but lead

his name is mohammed mursi. his camp has claimed victory in the election with 52% of the vote, even though his opponent, hosni mubarak's former hand picked prime minister, ahmed shafiq is also claiming victory. state media is reflecting mohammed mursi's numbers for a victory. these people were out there to celebrate what they think is their candidate's victory, but also to say no to military rule. because it has been a power grab by the ruling military council in the past couple days, assuming wide ranging legislative and executive powers and also inserting itself in the process of writing a new constitution. zoraida? >> could we see a repeat of the deadly clashes? do you think that could potentially be the outcome here? >> reporter: i think there's concern about that, but also some of that energy, the street protests that have convulsed egypt for more than a year and a half now, has dissipated some. a lot of those initial revolutionaries that we saw in january and february in tahrir square are deeply disillusio

now all this summer of uncertainty largely filled with supporters of mohammed mursi who is the muslimi want to bring in our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty. jill, honestly, we're sitting here wondering if there's some reason to drag this out or if this is fairly typical. >> they are trying to defend themselves against any allegations that they have had any back room dealings. that's important. because if it's perceived, and it could be either way, that they have, you know, changed the results from an election that was perceived to be pretty well run, that would be a problem. but it is a long introduction. it might be politically important, candy. >> isn't it sort of -- isn't it kind of running against the current? because it seems to me that no matter who wins this, there are going to be questions. because the military has taken such control over there since mubarak was ousted that any kind of result is going to come into question. >> that is definitely true. in effect, the military has emasculated whoever is going to be the president. they are the ones who are going to b

people believe that mohammed mursi, the muslim brotherhood candidate will shoon be confirmed as the country's next president. if that happened, these celebrations will grow much bigger and the muslim brotherhood will have achieved something it has been waiting decades to do, win a presidency and begin a path of imposing islamic law. if, however, the military candidate, ahmed shafiq, is declared the winner, this crowd could turn very angry. violence is highly possible. the egyptian military is calling for calm and issued orders for the police to be on high alert. >> richard engle live from cairo, thank you. >>> the cleanup is under way in duluth, minnesota, after up to 10 inches of rain fell causing widespread flooding. most people were evacuated as the level of the st. louis river rose. many residents returned saturday, but officials say it could take several more days until the water recedes from these homes. officials say the damage might top $100 million. >>> at least four people were hurt when a roof partially collapsed at a busy shopping mall in canada. the roof, which serves as a parkin

he's mohammed mursi, a professor of engineering, the islamist candidate for president in an election which puts religious and secular egypt at political war. to his critics, mursi is fundamentalism's friendly face. to his supporters, he's a revolutionary hero. >> shafik is coming from the old regime, now i have no choice in choosing between shafik and morsi. my choice is morsi. >> reporter: in tahrir itself, the grass has died. the young liberals who led the revolution have left their manifestos, but it's a rather tacky tourist spot now, with street hawkers fiercely protecting their turf. shahira amin read the news on state television till she resigned to join the uprising last year. now, she's so disillusioned that she's boycotting the presidential vote. >> i'm very disappointed. very letdown. and i-- you know, we had the revolution to have a secular, civil, democratic state. and then to end up with, you know, a mubarak crony and islamist, none of the goals of the revolution have been fulfilled. and it's a struggle. >> pain you were expecting too much. >> we were expecting too much