explanation from kiev over the killing of one of its journalists in eastern ukraine while a russian t.v. crew revealed the death threats faced during their detention by the army. ukraine's come the king the third himself and winner of the presidential race after exit polls get. over fifty seven percent of the vote alexion which eastern regions refused to take part amid the ongoing military crackdown there. in twenty one e.u. nations have cast their votes on the final day of the european parliamentary election but the exit polls showing huge gains for us on the far right plus. a close. vote will be close i continue to believe that we've got to close

guantanamo. everyone may want to get rid of guantanamo prison but the mom in charge it's just been promise after promise public anger and disappointment boiled over on friday on a global day of action against the infamous us detention. you're watching the weekly on r.t. international a recap of the top stories from the past seven days plus right up to the minute developments as well i'm going on a welcome our top story at least foreign ministry is the money from kiev over the death of an italian journalist in the village of on three in eastern ukraine during a mortar attack on three cali is the first reporter to have been killed in the conflict the thirty year old was covering the events in ukraine as a photojournalist for the news agency he was with his interpreter on

a french colleague when their car came under fire the interpreter was also killed and was injured and managed to get to hospital that's here with he the taxi driver who was transporting the three men had to say about the attack. i knew we. they got out of the car and started taking photographs and that's when the shooting began i got scared and jumped into a ditch and waved at them hoping they do the same so we were sitting in the ditch and then the mortar shelling started our ditch was hit then i saw that the interpreter wasn't moving and the reporter who was near him crawled up to me collapsed and also stopped moving. and we came on to far as soon as we arrived at the village of andre i fell to the ground the driver left us and when i regained consciousness i realized that i was injured in the gunfire continued as i tried to leave the area my colleagues were on the ground and i did not know whether they were dead or alive i reached the road and some car

picked me up and i arrived here. meanwhile two russian journalists freed after their detention in ukraine have revealed the death threats and abuse they suffered during almost a week in captivity they were seized by the ukrainian military and accused of terrorism r t select the site their first media appearance returning home. dechen spoke to the press about the ordeal indeed on the way to the building here i was giving this reminiscent of a massive online complaint save our guys which was undertaken by most of the russian media hollywood stars and everyone else to have these journalists released they need spoke about things happening to them which i could describe as completely atrocious they were detained a week ago in east of ukraine while trying to film an airfield during the. cranial authorities accused them of having weapons including a missile launcher and even coordinating the work of what they call separatists the two journalists of course who denied all such accusations they were trying to say

that we are journalists and the first two days for them in the hall where they were sitting where a complete nightmare this is how they described it to us. they did not explain anything only held us at gunpoint. tried to explain that we were journalists but in response they just beat us. judging by the acoustics and the temperature we realized that we were in some kind of hole in the ground covered by metal sheets it was terribly cold they didn't give us any food for two days only water in the evenings would have. been a solution to the world heard two soldiers talking about the plan to shoot us when we went to kenya and stage it like an attempt is. going to. be told we will be executed at sunrise the guards to give them our shoes otherwise . with blood up to. one a very interesting detail they describe in the first forty eight hours spent in

eastern ukraine is that they saw a man dressed in very professional uniforms who were not saying a single word so the two reporters suggested that these guys could have been mercenaries in any case that later on they were transferred to kiev and spend the rest of the week there not knowing what their destiny could be not knowing if their release will happen on saturday they were taking out. of the detention center presumably the ministry of defense or the as the you disagree with the service of the great detention center and taken somewhere only at the airfield they realized that they were taken home and when they asked whom they should thank for that the man who supported them said that don't worry guys you are now in the protection of the chechen president of so later they moved to grozny the capital and now in the morning they arrived to moscow where they were certainly very emotional in the life he was had to go to some of the callers were even crying tears of joy when they sold their their release coworkers here in the in the headquarters of moscow. ukraine's billionaire chocolate king is in line for

a sweet victory pushing the winner of the presidential race with over fifty seven percent of the vote according to exit polls much of the country's restive east boycotted the ballots and may be escalating standoff between the ukrainian military and local self defense forces are polish leaders following the field conference in kiev. these are the first exit polls that have been published and they do put. in a clear lead now he was the winner from the start but it wasn't clear that he would garner the more than fifty percent majority needed to start off a second round of voting and it was some speculation that this might affect need to happen this certainly is not the case he beats by more than forty the same to points you need to machine code who comes in in second position by and large in the waist of the country where i am today's election is when told the relative peace with me there were some more than four hundred reports of violations but nothing

too major the situation was very different in the east of the country where my colleague from now joins us now what's happening where you are. both sunday has been a tough day for the spot over the country representative of the self-proclaimed republic off lugansk claims that the ukrainian military has opened fire at one of the local cafe is killing and injuring civilians while we are hearing from ukraine's interior ministry that there has been a shoot out of polling station there and one man was killed at a large scale military operation is now in full sweep in ukraine's south and east and this is one of the major reasons behind this region of many people not only of the shows to boycott the presidential vote one of the cities keeping its distance from the election was donetsk the authorities there have the kurds martial law the authorities in kiev pledged to step up their military crackdown over the next few

hours. i earlier local self-defense forces held a parade in donetsk on out to kiev armed group calling itself the east to tell you and honored its comrades who died in clashes with the ukrainian military as you can see here the volunteer fighters were warmly welcomed by more than two thousand roubles the rally was also a show of defiance against some of the presidential election. ok let's take a closer look at the man who looks very likely to win the vote peter push his fortune is estimated at around one point six billion dollars he owns a confectionery company on media assets although he's pledged to get rid of all that when he takes office politically it has been on good terms with three successive but very different presidents some of his key points in a c.v. he was head of the budget committee back in two thousand and two five years later he became one of the bosses of ukraine's national bank in twenty twelve he served

as economic development and trade minister earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke with foreign affairs expert surjit who expressed doubts over whether poroshenko is the right choice for ukraine. we knew in advance he would get more than fifty percent that's what washington needed right away and that's what we got he was speaking a little bit earlier i just want to play a little grab for a second set of what he had to say a bit earlier on. we are ready to negotiate with russia with the participation of the u.s. and the e.u. there are a lot of history is on the table but there are also issues crucial for ukraine or in particular ukraine will never accept the referendum in crimea so it's not a man that can really have constructive dialogue with russia and vice versa do you think given what he's just said i think he now has to indulge in this nationalist rhetoric for the sake of his audience and his voters in the center and the west of

the country has been plex really enough in his political career to work with people of widely different convictions and political philosophies and programs and when push comes to shove i think that his first interests the support of his second interest is pushing co and then comes ukraine and everything else on the ukrainian election campaign trail they guess lisping collector to say the least darth vader and former u.s. secretary of state madeleine albright share the same space we tell you why inner top ten must know facts about the presidential poll. in the. european parliamentary elections have drawn to a close bringing major gains for both europe skeptic and far right movements the results have dealt a blow to governments with the french prime minister calling it

a political earthquake peter all of our brings us more in our. what we're looking ahead to is a parliament in which the majority of the parties campaigned on a manifesto of being unhappy with the way that the e.u. would be managed now we've seen gains for far right parties stream li euro skeptic parties all across the board most noticeably though we've seen in the united kingdom in austria in france where a pair has been able to almost toxify the front national party that had been viewed as as and far right as extremist as as anti semitic she's been able to get them it seems a few seats also we're seeing votes for these type of parties in austria as well as in greece and in denmark no this is as i said gone all the way across the board in europe as people have voted those that have come out to vote we expect the the

official turnout to be slightly over the forty percent mark of people that have come out to vote in these elections but yet those that have come out a vote have come out to vote for it seems people leaning slightly to the right or certainly euro skeptic parties but those that do end up in office well the next challenges ahead for them and i had a look at what they can expect this is what it's all about as seats in the european parliament is the result of a long campaign trying to get yourself noticed by the electorate and it's not bad work if you can get it being an m.p. is a truly wonderful job i calculate it with all the expenses they get paid for example that's an average and we will save up iraqi civilians who have euros while living a lifestyle where they can drink champagne every single night the best food travel first class sounds more great gatsby than great statesman where his party's fancy

clothes but the e use own figures back up the high. life image there is a very interesting figure and cocktail parties per year which i manage more than three hundred nineteen thousand euros per year and cocktail parties in brussels that is spent another very interesting example is why do why does the e.u. have forty four ambassadors and the caribbean. so the perks seem to be pretty good what are the working hours like they have a system in the european parliament which is in the clear the so-so system which we sign on sold off because all you have to do for that is sign in for five minutes then you get three hundred euros and the good you would have you want for those who do stick around the parliamentary chamber can provide a nice relaxing environment for a little snooze

a chance to catch up on some reading and for one time to appreciate. artistic photography of course this isn't the way every m.e.p. operates some work tirelessly for their constituents but the amount of money that is paid which many european citizens would struggle to earn in a lifetime is leaving some realizing that these emperor is on wearing any clothes they are living on that on a different planet the people who pay their salaries what did we have in mind who wanted a single market that we wanted to create a highly competitive area and we are far away from that across europe polls have shown an increase in support for parties who've been opposed to the way the e.u. is being run if they return any piece in this next parliamentary session looks like it won't be a place for a bit of shuteye peace for all of a r.t. . russia has struck a milestone deal with china to supply four hundred billion dollars worth of fuel

over the next three decades in artie's venture capital program coming up after a short break kitty pilbeam looks at what it all means for the two powers. to have an abortion before the screech owl acts like a baby. and i career is going pretty well at the moment i've got a lodging in turning partner who understands my situation. and definitely is in the right time. i need something about it.

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go because of the dare i monuments to dera you should see a v h clutch call ski believe it. and to many of those in ted noffs feel it is very alarming. bill to come and claim self order gave orders to kill completely innocent people and had thousands of civilians murdered to do so but putting up a monument in honor of such a person is something that's completely beyond reason that they're. alive up in spades absolutely take the pill be whistling believe that suit so i

know all of us sung by the time of any was coming from us a bit about it but maybe he did become a lightning see maybe an adult film that it up building goes right between russia and china going to live and then i have to write to one of those upstart. operates not six i can see the bomb but this fall i got to be the gas problem supply to china that one off to see here is a place to hundred billion dollars not what i would say that it's not me time to get in touch on this sorry sick place since you have done nothing nothing. nothing. that we can. see in the end on a multi-billion dollar bill is not being stomped on by you. might hit me up the pumps on china trade doesn't cut. you very

often the symbol of these strengthening of the strategic relations between countries it's something that needs said. the only because of. something. you are up i shouted into people such and so they like to think. very much we have to feel that we. make the situation if you don't think that it is about time you. hear of. you. this may bridge filipe but i think that your approach would needs correction we saw seize and so russia can call on the. shuttle.

to take the exam and. taken to the summit. of. what i see the force the force on chinese investment in the rush to keep the spirit booked and use one of your business. days off and of centuries shopping. when you could. be up there with no action. because china has. been given the election america and didn't pick up. the tension they. think things are going. to. be for any.

of. you. not me. and i think. welcoming scene when you think he's not coming to. china. i think you probably would if you would. know. that you are. russian that you know yes the month at least. you. can see. it would. be. the cool. thing to you. by letter or write the strings that you took over but what we. wanted one but he did give us i think

it's huge but when you think of the size of the two weeks in the me he's. not going to. reach old but he will much younger. so life in time and executive become a exactly enough course now all one needs to think about china. is the fact the real world. must. know that. it is an option that you know they should but also listening to the needs of the chinese. to get them out. here. and it's about money going on right. now. like.

a. decision to. sign the russian trades russian currency chinese currency feeling the state of the wall the damage that it. we don't we are doing in. the process we are. all. right. now a lot of gas until was a navy seal of the century got everybody very nice it not just now we have the obligation to stand up striking out money making deals here and saying week in and sunscreen you are very important transactions one is to build the bridge between russia and china if it is going to really and leaflets export from russia into china secondly be announcing joint investments in food tourism funds to the local

your stores and the third investment is invest in logistics sector which we believe will grow dramatically between from one two billion right now but the hundred billion by two thousand points like twenty times because. by twenty two india i think if there be many made it different and it is for example there are the few all you have to trust petitioning the i.c.t. took normally just possibly a b. become stronger the published book becomes stronger and so china is if he took no make expansion as to what it cost and that cost base police in only times you can see it right mr pope emeritus known as not that's kind of a damaging pull most of aquaculture if people in china posing primitive that this was a system such as i'm not home if the seventy percent of the time and energy needs that flow then the rest of the time comes by now time it wants me to look at peak

energy which is to have some place where russia comes into office that the big eight weeks of a film is plenty to go around the biggest business. in the wild when to get around the one point three billion people population of china. this is setting high at night as you can see the view is absolutely then say snow and that's why terrorists slope to this city well to china for russia is the second most popular place to visit russia is the third most popular place that sony's visit says these visits is the only set to escalate between the two counties because this week we had a multi million dollar deal security bosses foreign direct investment funds and a two is holding company found loud and i caught up with the c.e.o. about the topic although there is a. russian tourist is the biggest tourist group of foreign tourists were.

from the highlands china every year there are. so seldom so russians were with themselves to hide out of the recession. in the mean time there is always more to say stymies. historical feelings to visit russia especially the far east i think because in the summer the most part of the tribe is very much but in the far east is that that's. the stuff we gather is no pollution that we see rates for potential for chinese tourists to visit russia particularly the far east in the future but the infrastructure in the for are used for tourism. and the developed so we see prefer to show the developed infrastructure in that respect or in the far east to actually capitalize on this particular oh. now i may be

saying i have a sweet spot so i'm not letting it mrs kim galbraith the table tell me your in moscow now you're walking home and money off that leaves. hi katie yes i'm starting to believe that there is something truly special or magical about the wheel because this is no stunt this is no conspiracy but literally on the week of the major ultra russia china gas deal gazprom russia's largest natural gas producer came up on the wheel and naturally their stocks went up two and a half percent so i'm at over sixteen and a half thousand dollars right now i'm going to spin the wheel and let's hope gas problem comes up again because i'd really like to invest in them for second week in a row but who are we going to get it's not going to be gas problem darn it it is we're all kali the big huge producer of potage fertilizer in

russia so that's something i don't know but i do know fertilizer is always a demand so let's hope it pays off like gazprom did all right we thank you for that and i'm greedy precinct he's been at b.c. we sang nice and neat since nothing is going to be done about it we've got some time even at a time that i like to talk again and i'm probably gonna make a statement like that amy and be against. barry i think a bit and think i'm going to find. something by now i think by the time.

we first you check the records of all the sports and minutes three. times. this week feeds. has been set to going to sleep could use the votes as it should be. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mention in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across difficult we've been hijacked lying handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers

one school class i'm job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on will we go beyond identifying the problem trucks rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing america five ready to join the movement then walk a little bit. of the i also believe that it was ethnic cleansing was force was and it was an attempt to seize the opportunity to purge the polish presence from the territories that you craniums the leaders of the ukrainian insurgent army so i considered their own. genocide is genocide and poles should never support an increasingly vocal opinions that the mass murder of jews should be considered genocide while the mass murder of poles shouldn't. go equal as though there are

monuments to one day or you know shoot she gave each clutch call ski believe it and to many of those in ten up hill it is very alarming. to commit yourself to order more gave orders to kill completely innocent people and have thousands of civilians murders committed to do so but putting up a monument in honor of such a person is something that some. beyond reason that there are no. dramas that can't be ignored. to the. stories others refuse to notice. the faces changing the world right now.

so picture of today's leaves. on to and from around the globe. look to. me. come back to the program russia has won the world ice hockey championships following a hard fought victory over finland the red machine winning with a five two scoreline in the final in belarus. and the moscow street celebrations broke out after the final whistle the three marking a dramatic turnaround for team russia just a few months ago finland dumped them out of the winter olympics in sochi in the finals but russia stepped up its game for the tournament and men spin feeding defending champs we in the semifinals and then a come from behind performance against the finns are in the nation gold in this

side or it is the fourth time that russia has won the world hockey championships in the past seven years. the ukraine crisis meant some business leaders stayed away from the annual international economic forum in st petersburg this week president putin host the event and had plenty he wanted to clarify all regarding sunday's elections in ukraine putin stressed that russia respects the will of the people there and will continue working with the new authorities but for dialogue to begin he stays kids leadership must stop shooting its own people in the east of the country western sanctions the president added haven't had a great impact on the russian economy instead he warned that they may have a boomerang effect damaging the very countries that implemented them but many at the forum say the restrictions won't affect their dealings with russia. i saw this morning in zero four on some president c.e.o. of french company and german to i mean it was

a state say don't go too much to somebody what does it say we are their soul that is it proves that you know we do what we want and so the economy is stronger than politics in the western world but we understand what the sell in interest is that relations between the regime and our company is so long. and has to stay on this long term partnership it is in the interest of both of our company and of us and i know that for russia to europe is very important so i'm sure that this with asian will be maintained over years the idea is that if if companies leave now i think it will be very hard for them to risk their wish themselves at some point in the future and for the ones who do study the clear messages that. they're in the books they have the most opportunities long term and and i think generally people expect that things will as they have done

a couple times already. silicon valley's tech titans are turning in the government asking it to be honest about what's being watched google facebook yahoo and microsoft are among those the money in their customer's right to know just how much they're being snooped on r t dot com is more not. small so the anti g.m.o. movement goes global if genetically modified foods leave a bad taste in your might that we detail the march against monsanto across five continents it's just a click away. why do candidates you smear tactics to get in office because it works if all that mattered about a candidate were their positions they would just hand out a piece of paper with the guy's positions on them but that's not how it works

people make choices based on emotions whether they are buying a can of pop or selecting their candidate it's the packaging that counts heck obama won and ages marketer of the year for one of his campaigns yet image is everything but in texas one hopeful for the lieutenant governor's chair has used arrivals of medical records against him the incumbent david do hearst has been able to use the medical records which were released by another candidate who dropped out to make his opponent look crazy because he was at a psychiatric hospital twice with round the clock observation for severe depression now is it ok to use this info in a campaign maybe the public should know if someone is crazy legally it's probably ok and yet it works but is this hypocritical all of us are guilty of something and if you take our worst moments as a person then you could make anyone look evil this is the tactic of the week with nothing to offer the public so they hide behind slander they just want the position of power and nothing more but that's just my opinion.

if you drive people away from the dollar many people now it must be sitting there saying gosh if we have u.s. dollars and the u.s. decides they don't like us they're going to put sanctions on us so that people more and more people would say maybe i should use the u.s. dollar. speak to language. programs in documentaries in arabic in school here. reporting from the world talks about six of the c.o.r.p. interviews intriguing story are you. trying. to find out more visit or a big. dog called. the

killing of two palestinian teenagers during clashes in the west bank should be subject to prompt and transparent investigation is according to a top u.n. official after footage from security cameras showing the chilling murder emerged online on tuesday. rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse a demonstration that then turned violent but both the teenagers who appeared to be on armed on the video were killed by live ron's israel defense forces deny any involvement in the killings we talked to the shop owner whose cameras caught the instant he told us it's really trips often use reckless force against civilians in the west bank. to move on for some you know i was at the balcony of my parking lot and they were c.c.t.v. cameras installed around my house for security purposes i saw three young men with gunshot wounds a soldier of these really defense forces fired four shots at the palestinian demonstrators the boys had nothing except rocks in their hands they had no weapons

all they did was throw rocks i'm very worried because of what's happening is really troops regularly open fire and residential quarters using rubber bullets and tear gas grenades they don't just fire on protesters they shoot in the general direction of the buildings where people live. an israeli journalist who works for the website that released the footage believes army involvement in the killings is beyond died . the army has denied using live rounds but the autopsies of the bodies of these young teenagers show that they were shot with diagrams and witnesses on the scene say the same the clip is indeed edited but journalists and human rights activists that have seen the entire video of hours and hours of several c.c.t.v. cameras in that area say that there was nothing in that area around where the teens were were they were shot to justify any kind of violence that was used by the army

as seen in the video is much more violent than used by the demonstrators and as seen in this video even when the soldiers are not threatened told this is part of the israeli campaign to oppress any sort of resistance to the occupation in the occupied territories. the world discovered this week the identity of the second country to have had almost all its phone calls siphoned off by america's ma spying program afghanistan is the mysterious country x. which had its domestic and international conversations topped by the n.s.a. just like the bahamas did joining us from wiki leaks made the revelation of friday but not all whistleblowers were happy about its journalist glenn greenwald who is known for facilitating edward snowden's revelations had refused to specify who country x. was even though he was quick to reveal the first renewal said he was anxious that innocent people could die in afghanistan if it were known songe accused greenwald's all of censorship and went public about afghanistan being widely monitored earlier

my colleague kevin nolan spoke to the director of the center for investigative journalism by dangerous those disclosures really are. it's been used in the past to denounce anybody who had information of this kind you're putting lives at risk you'll have blood on your hands all those sorts of arguments none of which turned out to be true and in fact in all the sun releases which were huge and voluminous in the of those which was the government claim the old will be thousands of dead people it'll be a terrible disaster going to course not a single person was hurt let alone killed by all those disclosures you think anyway maybe greenwalt could have been pressured to keeping it quiet not coming out with the name of gonna stand by i don't know it's a good question that many people are asking that what he's done is quite surprising but again we have no evidence of that we know that he's got a proper to cutely curious financial world nation trip with a very very rich man financing his operation. but so far this is the first hint

we've had that there might even be a problem of some kind of a met we haven't heard anything. u.s. president barack obama has made a surprise on a arrived on an unannounced visit to afghanistan no it's. but i was in the neighborhood thought i'd start but i. are secret overnight trip from washington d.c. he delivered a speech to a rally of over thirty thousand americans serving in afghanistan on the face of obama's expected to a nine time many american troops will stay in the country as the u.s. administration plans to wind down its presence after almost thirty. eight key human rights activist has been released from prison in bahrain not be rajab spent two years behind bars for taking part in mosque protests the government also accused him of encouraging illegal gatherings before his imprisonment in july twenty twentieth's their job had been detained and released several times on one occasion for tweeting something critical of bahrain's prime minister after his

release on saturday he was welcomed by supporters and paid a visit to his mother's grave activists say at least eight hundred people have died in government protests in the past three years in the gulf state which is also home to the u.s. navy's fifth fleet. thailand's army is cracking down heavily on demonstrators in bangkok the military overthrew the curtis government and seized power on thursday on solver day it dissolved the senate on assumed all lawmaking powers i'm greek people are still taking she the streets of the capital despite the ban on criticizing the coup and holding gatherings of more than five p. . five. hundred seven percent cover their faces and dressed in black in the latest protest against the world cup the protesters say taxpayers' money should be spent on education on health care instead of the multi billion dollar event they marched

through sao paulo which will hold the opening ceremony on the first game of the tournament next month. the infamous guantanamo facility has seen lives crushed and many detainees still held there without trial some of whom say they'd prefer death over their incarceration there this week activists rallied worldwide for the closure of america's most notorious jail new york was the center of protest while in washington demonstrators marched on the white house it's hard to reach over the indefinite detention of more than one hundred fifty people in guantanamo bay he said doesn't inmates remain on hunger strike on are being painfully force fed by the u.s. military despite it being called torture by the un human rights commission campaigners say they're battling the u.s. government's grave injustice as well as broken promises time and again by president obama to shut the prison report has more on why it's still open.

repeatedly but i'm going to close guantanamo and i will follow through on that. will be. no later than one year from now when i was elected in two thousand and eight i said we need to close guantanamo i continue to believe that we're going to close guantanamo this needs to be the year. congress lifts the remaining restrictions on detaining transfers and we closed the prison at guantanamo bay the highly contentious guantanamo bay prison has cemented a u.s. legacy of covert kidnappings waterboarding illegal detention and forced feedings more than one hundred prisoners starve themselves for roughly six months last year protesting the injustice forcing the u.s. president to appeal once again to an opposing congress for the island prison to be closed exactly twelve months later nothing really has changed kuantan them all is still open prisoners are being force fed every day they're being held in conditions of solitary confinement and there is no word on when seventy

seven of them still in the prison who have been cleared for release for years will ever get to leave one hundred fifty four detainees are still languishing at get most but something has changed guantanamo officials no longer eg knowledge hunger strikes officially calling them long term non-religious fasts instead force feeding is now called enteral feeding and the u.s. military refuses to disclose how many prisoners are being forced to endure this so-called standard procedure a procedure that wrapper most staff attempted to undergo we believe we know unable to successfully complete due to the overwhelming pain he said he experienced a policy of the united states fighting to have a place where they can do whatever they want to do to people is still intact and this is what we're protesting along with a clear policy of indefinite detention which president obama in particular has

embraced the u.s. government opened get mo in january two thousand and two to house alleged terrorists twelve years later the majority of prisoners have proved to have no links to terrorism washington can't say the same about its ongoing links to torture and indefinite detention. r.t. . ok coming up next it's political satire time brought to you by juice wrap news to stay with us. on. this is the moment we have to bring forward string. start. up muses bathroom with fresh juice to object to reporting on wallace sports and

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please. please. explanation from kiev over the killing of one of its journalists in eastern ukraine a russian t.v. crew revealed death threats and abuse they faced during their detention by the army . the. winner of the presidential race after exit polls give bush fifty seven percent of the vote on election which eastern regions refused to take part amid the ongoing military crackdown there. live place shake up in the european parliament. and the far right parties make sweeping gains content that's being a political. plus among the world's week's top story russia and china strike a landmark stephen worth four hundred billion dollars its largest energy

contracting decades of turn to its business priorities east where. it's just gone. i.b.m. this monday morning here in moscow you're watching r t internationally on it's that we don't mean to welcome our top story italy's foreign ministry is the mounting ounces from kiev for the death of an italian journalist in the village of the riyadh and eastern ukraine during a mortar attack and the callee is the first reporter to have been killed in the conflict the thirty year old was covering the events in ukraine as a photojournalist for the chiefs euro news agency he was with his interpreter on a french cawley when their car came under fire the interpreter was also killed while the frenchman was injured and managed to get to hospital let's hear what he

and the tux he drives or who is transporting the three men had to say about the attack on you we just. got out of the car and started taking photographs and that's when the shooting began i got scared and jumped into a ditch and waved at them hoping they do the same so we were sitting in the ditch and then the mortar showing started out a ditch was hit then i saw that the interpreter wasn't moving and the reporter who was near him crawled up to me collapsed and also stopped moving. we came on to far as soon as we arrived at the village of un dr kim i fell to the ground the driver left us and when i regained consciousness i realized that i was injured the gunfire continued as i tried to leave the area my colleagues were on the ground and i did not know whether they were dead or alive i reached the road and some cop picked me up and are arrived here. to russian journalist freed to

after their detention in ukraine have revealed the death threats and abuse they suffered during almost a week in captivity they were seized by the ukrainian military and accused of terrorism let's hear the chef ski was out there first media appearance since returning home. dechen spoke to the press about the ordeal indeed on the way to the building here i was giving this reminiscent of a massive online complaint save our guys which was undertaken by most of the russian media hollywood stars and everyone else to have these journalists released they need spoke about things happening to them which i could describe as completely atrocious they were detained a week ago in east of ukraine while trying to film an airfield during the. cranial authorities accused them of having weapons including a missile launcher and even coordinating the work of what they call separatists the two journalists of course we denied all such accusations they were trying to say that we are journalists and the first two days for them in the hall where they were

sitting where a complete nightmare this is how they described it to us. they did not explain anything only held us at gunpoint but. when we tried to explain that we were journalists but in response they just beat us. judging by the acoustics and the temperature we realized that we were in some kind of hole in the ground covered metal sheet it was terrible they didn't give us any food for two days only water in the evenings would have. been a solution to the world heard two soldiers talking they planned to shoot us when we went to kenya and stage it like an attempted escape. going to where you are. told we will be executed. the guards asked us to give them our shoes otherwise the delusions with blood. but one of the interesting detail they describe in the first forty eight hours i spent in eastern ukraine is that they saw a man dressed in very professional uniforms who were not saying

a single word so the two reporters suggested that these guys could have been in any case that later on they were transferred to kiev and spend the rest of the week there not knowing what their destiny could be not knowing if their release will happen on saturday they were taking out. detention center presumably a ministry of defense or the as the you are the security service of ukraine detention center and taken somewhere only at the airfield they realized that they were taken home and when they asked whom they should thank for that the man who supported them said that don't worry guys you're now in the protection of the chechen president did they move to grozny the capital and now in the morning they arrived to moscow where they were certainly very emotional a man here in the life he was had quoted some of the callers were even crying tears of joy when they sold their their release coworkers here in the in the headquarters of moscow. now ukraine's billionaire chocolate king is in line for a sweet victory pewter pushing himself the winner of the presidential race with

over fifty seven percent of the vote according to exit polls much of the country's rest of the east boycotted the ballots amid the escalating standoff between the ukrainian military and local self-defense forces artie's polis lir is following the full kind in kiev. these are the first exit polls that have been published and they do put pushing co in a clear lead now he was the winner from the start but it wasn't clear that he would garner the more than fifty percent majority needed to start off a second round of voting and it was some speculation that this might affect need to happen this certainly is not the case he beats by more than forty percentage points you get to the schenker who comes in in second position by and large in the west of the country where i am today's elections when top relatively smooth me there were some more than four hundred reports of violations but nothing too major the situation was very different in the east of the country where my colleague from

national now joins us now real what's happening where you are. both sunday has been a tough day for the spot over the country representative of the self-proclaimed republic off lugansk claims that the ukrainian military has opened fire at one of the local cafe is killing and injuring civilians while we are hearing from ukraine's interior ministry that there has been a shoot out at a polling station there and one man was killed at a large scale mutua gratian is now in full sweep in ukraine's south and east and this is one of the major reasons behind the decision of many people not only officials to boycott the presidential vote. one of the cities keeping its distance from the election was dinette the authorities there how the martial law of the authorities in kiev pledged to step up their military crackdown over the next few hours.

earlier local self-defense forces held a parade in donetsk an armed group calling itself the east but in honor to its comrades who died in clashes with ukrainian military as you can see here the volunteer fighters were warmly welcome by a lot of people from more than two thousand locals the rally was also a show of defiance against sunday's presidential election. let's take a closer look now at the man who looks very likely to win the vote people are put to shame because fortune well it's estimated around one point six billion dollars he owns a confectionery company media assets as well although he's pledged to get rid of all the when he takes office politically but i shan't get has been on good terms with three successive but very different presidents some of the key points of the c.v. he was head of the budget committee back in two thousand and two five years later he became one of the bosses of ukraine's national bank and twenty twelve he served

as economic development and trade minister earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke with foreign affairs expert sergio thrift expressed over whether it is the right choice for ukraine. we knew in advance he would get more than fifty percent that's what washington needed right away and that's what we got he was speaking a little bit earlier i just want to play a little grab for a second set of what he had to say a bit earlier on which we are ready to negotiate with russia with the participation of the u.s. and the e.u. there are a lot of history is on the table but there are also issues crucial for ukraine in particular ukraine will never accept the referendum in crimea so it's not a man that can really have constructive dialogue with russia and vice versa do you think given what he's just said i think he now has to indulge in this nationalist rhetoric for the sake of his audience and his voters in the center and the west of

the country he has been flexible enough in his political career to work with people of widely different convictions and political philosophies and programs and when push comes to shove i think that his first interests the support of his second interest is pushing co and then comes ukraine and everything else on the ukrainian election campaign trail the gas lisping kleck dick to say that darth vader former u.s. secretary of state madeleine albright share the same space we tell you why in our top ten must know facts about the presidential. european parliamentary elections have drawn to a close bringing major gains for both euro skeptic and far right movements the result of a dealt a blow to governments with the french prime minister calling it a political earthquake peter all over brings us more. what we're looking ahead to

is a parliament in which the majority of the parties campaigned on a a manifesto of being unhappy with the way that the e.u. would be managed now we've seen gains for far right parties stream li euro skeptic parties all across the board most noticeably though we've seen in the united kingdom in austria in france where a pair has been able to almost toxify the front national party that had been viewed as is and far right as extremist as she's been able to get them it seems a few seats also we're seeing votes for these type of parties in austria as well as in greece and in denmark no this is as i said gone all the way across the board in europe as people have voted those that have come out to vote we expect the the

official turnout to be slightly over the forty percent mark of people that have come out to vote in these elections but yet those that have come out a vote have come out to vote for it seems people leaning slightly to the right or certainly euro skeptic parties but those that do end up in office well the next challenges ahead for them and i had a look at what they can expect this is what it's all about as seats in the european parliament is the result of a long campaign trying to get yourself noticed by the electorate and it's not bad work if you can get it being an m.p. is a truly wonderful job i calculate it with all the expenses they get paid for example that's an average and we will save up around. half euros while living a lifestyle where they can drink champagne every single night the best food travel first class sounds more great gatsby than great statesman where his party's fancy clothes but the e use own figures back up the high life image there are. very interesting figure

and cocktail parties per year which more than three hundred nineteen thousand euros per year and cocktail parties in brussels that is spent another very interesting example is why do why does the e.u. have forty four ambassadors and the caribbean. so the perks seem to be pretty good what are the working hours like they have a system of the european parliament which is in the clear the so-so system which we sign on sold off because all you have to do for that is sign in for five minutes then you get a three hundred euros and the good you would have you want for those who do stick around the parliamentary chamber can provide a nice relaxing environment for a little snooze a chance to catch up on some reading and for one time to appreciate. artistic

photography of course this isn't the way every m.e.p. operates some work tirelessly for their constituents but the amount of money that is paid which many european citizens would struggle to earn in a lifetime is leaving some realizing that these emperors on wearing any clothes they are living on out on a different planet than the people who pay their salaries what did we have in mind we wanted a single market we wanted to create a highly competitive area and we are far away from that across europe polls have shown an increase in support for parties who've been opposed to the way the e.u. is being run if they return any piece in this next parliamentary session looks like it won't be a place for a bit of shuteye peace for all of our r.t. . political analysts paulo reform there explain why people in europe are being drawn towards ultra nationalist movements. well the far right rice in the european

union member states is the consequence of ten years of crazy austerity policies that have destroyed several million people a lie therefore the people became disenchanted with the capacity of the european union to stick to the promise which was that of harmonious development of peace and prosperity. for this reason the reaction that's been to turn their interest to those leaders that's national level who are proposing this sort of national way out of the european confused way of proceeding moving on this week they were a witness what's being called the deal of the century russia will supply china with four hundred billion dollars worth of gas over the next three decades there was twenty years in the making and was touch and go right up to the last minute or

tease kitty pilgrim follow the fine little stations the deal one struck eighty sang i explained why i have it in the end that was hands of paper yes i'm talking about beat it up and three to get from one hundred pins on the cd not to get my food sign up that would change them by the bible gas industry not the way you do nothing you know that sinaloa that was getting light i did not want prosecutes to come to mind to anything like a win win situation that is right now we know that china well it's got a one point three billion people population and i was and see how angry i am not exactly why the country has managed to grow at such a level for the last three decades that come at a cost much of the place thusly. i think he i'm not in the country relies very much on powerful seventy percent of the energy to play towards i'm only three i

mean i'm still not all that it's something that we have time to deal see we have to think and feel the bank fine until to the bank of china to keep us in the right currency and that it's not me significant at the moment because we know that by consciously trying to move away from dependence on the u.s. dollar as well as it being you know right now it's been a very lucrative time here and sang my very exciting time and it's all about the strategic business in a sense it between russia and china which right now is a force to be reckoned. kitty pilgrim with the overview but let's take a look at the scale of the ground breaking daily a thirty year period and china will be receiving russian gas at the same price as europe overall it has the potential to become the largest energy agreement in history with an estimated four hundred billion you asked dollars transporting such a vast volume of gas is no easy task though on the cross border infrastructure will

be fully ready until twenty eight during two pipelines are already in place on another couple are either planned or under construction one is here in siberia and the other is in russia's far east so it will send gas to volleyball stocks liquid natural gas terminals which can then be shipped anywhere in the pacific we asked about the wider implications of the deal. if you lock the front door make sure the back door is locked as well and i think in this case the west is forgotten to lock the back door so i was there actually impose sanctions on russia russia or is sort of saying to the rest of the well ok you know you can lock the front door but i have a back door as well and the back door in this case is china so really i mean the west is actually pushed russia into doing a deal with china so on the one hand you know this is an economic deal but on the other hand it's also a political deal western energy companies that are trying to develop in russia would love to develop in asia and and suddenly it's now the russians and

the chinese and i think those companies are very worried about being cut out of that particularly the european companies this deal is something that is is really going to reverberate it's going to have global ramifications i mean if it gets into it india brazil and the rest of the brics countries as well. and there was another goal in sight for russia and china in st petersburg this week so. the solution could be when the deal with china comes to fruition it will become russia's biggest gas consumer along with germany but should the second project on the so-called western route be a reliance upon china will undoubtedly take first place that's what president putin revealed to the international media during the final day of the gathering we have more from st petersburg and a leader in the program. cut

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nice on the ice for russia off they won the world talky championships with a hard fought victory over finland team winning with a five two scoreline in the final in belarus. is history seen in the lead in moscow st celebrations breaking out after the final whistle the victory marked a dramatic turnaround for team russia just a few months ago finland dumped them out of the winter olympics and salty but russia stepped up its game for the tournament in minsk defeating the defending champion sweden in the samis and then it took a come from behind performance against the fins to claim team stars alex ovechkin. getting on the scoresheet it is the fourth time that russia has won the world talking championships in the past seven years. the ukraine crisis meant some business leaders stayed away from the and you will international economic forum in some petersburg this week president putin hosted the event and

had plenty he wanted to clarify regarding sunday's elections in ukraine putin stressed that russia respects the will of the people there and will continue working with the new authorities but for a dialogue to begin he say kiev's leadership must stop shooting its own people in the east of the country western sanctions the president says hasn't had a great impact on the russian economy instead he warns they may have a boomerang effect damaging the very countries that implemented them but many at the forum say the restrictions won't affect their dealings with russia. i saw this morning in zero four on some president c.e.o. of french company and german too and you know his estate say don't go too much to somebody what does it say we are their soul that doesn't prove that you know we do what we want so the economy is stronger than politics in the western world but we understand what the sell in interest is that relations between the ratio of our

company is so long. and has to stay on this long term partnership it is in the interest of both of our company and of us and i know that for russia to europe is very important so i'm sure that this with asian will be maintained over years the idea is that if if companies leave now i think it will be very hard for them to risk their wish themselves at some point in the future for the ones who do study the clear messages that. they're in the books they have the most opportunities long term and and i think generally people expect that things will whichever as they have done a couple times already. silicon valley's tech titans are turning on the government asking it to be honest about what's being watched google facebook yahoo microsoft are among those the money their customers right to know just how much they're being snooped on r.t. dot com is more on the. also the g.m.o.

movement goes global of genetically modified foods leave a bad taste in your mouth we detailed a march against monsanto held across five continents that's just the takeaway. the infamous guantanamo facility has seen lives crushed and many detainees still held there without trial some of whom say they'd prefer death over their incarceration their this week activists rallied worldwide for the closure of america's most notorious geale new york was the center of protests while in washington demonstrators marched on the white house at its heart is are to me over the definite detention of more than one hundred fifty people in guantanamo at least a dozen inmates remain on hunger strike on our being painfully force fed by the u.s. military the spied it being called torture by the un human rights commission campaigners say bottling the us government's grave injustice as well as broken promises time and again by president obama to shut the prison marina has more and why it's still

a little but. i have said repeatedly but i'm going to close guantanamo and i will follow through on that truck will be closed no later than one year from now when i was elected in two thousand and eight i said we need to close guantanamo i continue to believe that we're going to close guantanamo this needs to be the year congress lifts the remaining restrictions on detainees transfers and we closed the prison at guantanamo bay the highly contentious guantanamo bay prison has cemented a u.s. legacy of covert kidnappings waterboarding is illegal detention and force feeding more than one hundred prisoners starve themselves for roughly. six months last year protesting the injustice forcing the u.s. president to appeal once again to an opposing congress for the island prison to be closed exactly twelve months later nothing really has changed kuantan the mall is still open prisoners are being force fed every day they're being held in conditions

of solitary confinement and there is no word on when seventy seven of them still in the prison who have been cleared for release for years will ever get to leave one hundred fifty four detainees are still languishing at get money but something has changed guantanamo officials no longer eg knowledge hunger strikes officially calling them long term non-religious fasts instead force feeding is now called enteral feeding and the u.s. military refuses to disclose how many prisoners are being forced to endure this so-called standard procedure a procedure that wrapper most staff attempted to undergo we believe we know unable to successfully complete due to the overwhelming pain he said he experienced a policy of the united states fighting to have a place where they can do whatever they want to do to people is still intact and

this is what we're protesting along with a clear policy of indefinite detention which president obama in particular has embraced the u.s. government opened get mo in january two thousand and two to house alleged terrorists twelve years later the majority of prisoners have proved to have no links to terrorism washington can't say the same about its ongoing links to torture and indefinite detention marina portnoy r.t. coming up it's time for some strong opinions on our debate show cross talk with host peter lavelle i'm guess.

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to find out more visit our big dog called. there's a media leave us so we leave that maybe. privacy push to secure the play your party is involved in questions that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politicking only on our t.v. . hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle from tragedy to farce or merely an attempt to legitimize current political

realities this is how many see ukraine's presidential election after all this country already had an elected head of state in this election when millions they not even participate begin to tackle ukraine's enormous problems. to cross not through a presidential election in ukraine i'm joined by my guest in washington he's director of the rice institute for sort of being studies also in washington we have richard white's he's a senior fellow and director of the center of political military analysis at the hudson institute and in london we crossed alexander and across with he is a political commentator and a former kremlin advisor in the bush if i could go to you first in washington i'm calling this program ukrainian farce is this hyperbole on my part i don't think so peter i think it is a farce masquerading as a tragedy right now there's really no point to this election but to try to legitimize the regime that was installed in the end of february with the armed crew

and half of the country isn't even voting and those that are voting are basically voting for whoever was served up to them on a silver platter by the united states government and the cool the cool regime so i wouldn't call this democracy i would call this a farce richard if i can go to you what is the point of this election here because you could make the point that it's going to alienate people in the east and south even more because they'll say this is not our president and you know what is the whatever it's going to win and it's going to be an oligarchy or someone backed by an oligarchy how does that change the political calculus in ukraine i mean that's one of the biggest problems. you need to have some kind of authority in kiev we've got acting so far acting prime ministers and and the election is designed to. stole the didn't see some government in the winter it it's interesting it's not who the us or russia or some might have expected it looks like it's going to be

a person who has business ties with russia but also has independence leanings so he this person might be a good compromise but in any case you need somebody you need some kind of electoral mandate for the government to clain the right to rule because as was pointed out it was. since the position of the previous president we just have we haven't had someone who sees an electoral backing. ok alexander how do you see this election here because again i mean we it no matter how you cut it it's going to be a pro european pro-american figure that's what it looks like at least well i don't really understand what's the point of this election because simply because of the new president. there were enough power because then you were enjoyment is that the president has less power now than the parliament he. doesn't really have any solutions at all nothing was by the way for there's

a solution during the campaign which was really a sham burglar complaining but very very strange compay and it's very difficult time to stem the finking behind this apart from the fact that. we have another case or america and the e.u. exporting democracy exporting it to another country where i'm from the benefits that are made for the exporter let you know with goods which some companies for example supply i've heard so it is explained that democracy gets the benefits and the employer have to use it to struggles and i see ukraine struggling you know we went after this election i don't want to see anything happening at all which would benefit the ukrainians number one of the great tragedies of what's going on in ukraine in my opinion and it goes all the way back to the february twenty first is that is allowed it has legitimized radical forces like right sector

into the mainstream and i'm i'm very worried because no matter who is elected there people like the right sector are going to say but remember we were the ones that pulled this off they are revolutionaries of one sort or another and i don't think they're going to let go of this process particularly since they're armed it's very difficult to control the dogs of war one state slipped a leash. one of the possibilities as richard millet it is that this new president if it is who we think it's going to be might try to set up overtures with russia and it certainly would explain moscow's. odd readiness to recognize the results but at the same time how much power and how much authority will he really have if the right sector decides to topple him just like to do and because they got away with getting rid of me on a cold which was to stop them from doing so again i don't see anything preventing them they're shooting at their own armed forces at this point because they're refusing illegal orders to massacre civilians so these people are obviously the

real power in the country not some elected figure you know richard i would like to see some kind of legitimate authority in ukraine don't get me wrong and i mean and i don't know who that possibly could be but you know it does seem very difficult to see that whoever is going to be elected there within a few weeks or a few months first they have to go to washington brussels ok i'll understand that we're going to have to go to moscow too and i just don't see that happening in this environment particularly if this operation. of what anti-terrorist operation continues in the east. well i've so i make two points there are those that's a good comment but first i would think that whoever was elected. would first trying go to eastern ukraine and other party for it and for that he or she goes off to brussels or washington but you're right that a man will need a solution ukraine will require some degree of except and in moscow and brussels

at least since i was at the level likely to be russia and the e.u. they're going to need to help the ukrainian economy recover and manage the difficult transition and say see now. and with respect to the what's happening with the right sector there is a disconnect when i was in moscow and on the show i hear a lot about that but elsewhere they they don't know nobody's been emphasizing how strong they are outside that realm they don't appear to have much popular support and it's not clear to me i have the power to decide government for start a war with russia or anything like that they are going to be a small. group maybe five percent before and then i think their influence is being over anthracis in the russian media because they don't appear to be that strong from other sources well richard but that's that's my point i mean they can't win elections ok that's obviously true and i think that this is what's worrisome

because they may be a small group of people but it was a small group of people that tipped the power in during the coup february twenty first twenty second it was not a huge number of people in the bush you want to jump in go ahead. well peter i was just about to say that it doesn't matter whether they have five percent or fifteen percent support they believe that power comes from the barrel of the gun and they have guns so they're not going to care i mean they may not have much political influence but they have weapons they've torched people in odessa live they've attacked people elsewhere they've attacked the ukrainian armed forces that refused to execute illegal orders these are people who are do not hesitate to murder folks that they don't agree with and that's a problem you can't have people like that in a country that aspires to be functional alexander when president putin was in st

petersburg a lot of people commented about his reaction about the russia will respect the democratic wishes of the people of ukraine and it but he didn't he didn't say he respected the process and i think that's a very interesting point that most media didn't pick up on it but let me go with the russian angle here one of the most talked about comments that putin made is he said. where's the money where's the money now this is probably pragmatism on the part of russia they want to deal with somebody in in camp that they can deal with it's going to be up to the ukrainians if it's legitimate or not russia is not going to make that determination i think it's very difficult for. the moment to actually see i mean by these two i think president putin made the right sort of statement in the sense that he started to calm down things a bit because in the rest of the media obviously everybody was saying the question is. you know russia is putting pressure russia russia wants to spend their lives

elections to prevent and so on and so he's got to really say this but the problem really is that we need to see what. that use their wednesday thursday and whether the americans and the european union card. to the new president will propose showing him. well that would be pushing him and saying look you have to be tough with russia you have to continue the strike to make you have to accuse them of meddling in our in your affairs even the king took the web you know that's they're saying that the russian troops out on the ground russian intelligence offices are still in the east on sale and sam said this this i think will determine whether this new president will do it and how he will respond to events and what he will basically be about and i have a strange suspicion that the people in the state department and in the in brussels don't really went this tension to subside i think they actually were at the station

to continue and this is where the problem ace. president let through to be i saw that and then but i'm going to think the president well here because here bill was watching because he was back and think so what about other people in brussels and washington you know saying to me what that they're doing because the campaign is about money you are correct you know where's the money coming from he was exposed to be expecting money to come from the e.u. and russia and then that should the military found so he would be very cautious he would have to be very questions he would have to accept just from them ok you didn't let me go let me go to richard now before we go to the break richard and that's a very interesting one how dependent will this new president be on the west. anomic lee this person will need i mean the whole of the government's going to need some kind of economic assistance from the west and from russia and diplomatically the same i mean there's no there's definitely going to depend on outside forces but not

exclusively the west i would think that they need russia's help at least if not proactive at least passively not trying to. to to contribute to what is a very vulnerable economy very vulnerable i think that this person if they're as intelligent as are likely to be will try and work out the fact richard i mean let me jump in here gents we're going to go to was short break that out of that short break we'll continue our discussion on ukraine staying with our team. how do you. balance those things the security on one side and liberty and democracy

on the other side we don't have any intention to be to touch any person as long as he's peaceful as long as you talk with your hands you know to know when. you're not killing people. or shotgun then it's up to you you beautiful whatever you want you express your feelings in the way you want but don't look for anybody you don't touch were burned a building or a police station or whatever in this case you have to the face of the sequence of. playwright played the same clinics the first recipient live and i think the church. played. live on a reporter's splitter listen against the live

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. clint. welcome back to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter lavelle to mind you were discussing the election in ukraine. ok let's go back to the bush and washington over the last six months seven months on nothing good has happened to ukraine in the bush i am afraid i'm pessimistic what are the possibilities of my down three now. i would say so far very low but

ask me again in about a month or so the problem is whoever ends up getting elected however they end up getting elected is going to have to make some tough decisions and the feeling i get based on the previous track record of everybody involved is that this new person is going to continue with the combat operations in the east he is actually you or she is actually going to go to brussels and washington first and is going to ask for money and support from the west and the west alone not that russia would actually have any reason to support a government that's openly hostile to moscow so i don't really see based on a previous track record this getting any better anytime soon i don't foresee that person actually taking action that would cause my down three if they do again let's see in a month's time now xander we've heard you say that he will call for my dumb three

and a referendum on nato membership for ukraine i mean this this is not moderation this is not deescalation this is really going to irritate russia because we've seen deescalation on the russian part there quietly watching on. keep saying it so month after month month what russia watches but there are political forces in ukraine that really want to push this to the extreme first the way you do with the machete because because i'm going to scare them and i think that that's not on their moscow but this washington brussels and other kept of course that bad looking occur with a weird feeling you know that something she might do something which nobody wants to accept but the problem i think at the moment is that we could have a better member gox you know whatever happened so doing their actions it will not step some of their big bad marks from trying to achieve their aims and that is what i think is crossing a lot of problems not look of course for getting that the right wingers i expecting

some sort of a way out they were made to go away they're going to play down the arms and say ok thank you very much was that my drip went out measurement so we won't have that infighting grow one everybody and i just rammed that what was the point of this election before these sides which are growing for each other friends within ukraine itself i'm still very have some sort of an agreement because you can't really expect the new president through achieve anything if he is being i'm going to take back to my share and go by advice and that when he's watching because he's looking because of his back and actually probably with about the right sector and some of the you know individual not i was quite i'm outgrowing around for example key with that and the lobbying people and smashing up properties and so on because i think that impact because as

a witness there are many others that's why i don't really see and think this city of happening as a result of this alexion at least for a while richard you said that maybe that first trip for of the next president should be to the east i don't ants i don't even think he would be welcomed there what makes you think that he would be because if they're not participating in this election they could say who are you. i'm sure this person would not be welcomed by many there but i think that would be a very magnanimous gesture and the reconciliation process of course is going to be necessary i mean unless russia plans and acts the eastern ukraine there and that they're doing there are going to be part of the rest of ukraine and after some point there is going to be some kind of reconciliation. you're right there has to be reconciliation i think all of us have to agree with that but you know there's only one way of doing that and that is federalization or some kind of decentralization how long is it going to take because that's the only solution to

this problem it's the only solution to keep doing what remains of the sovereignty of that state intact when you know the people in kiev going to wake up to that when will washington finally realize this because it's been on the table for quite a bit. well that's the problem peter because with every passing day and more violence and more people acting out their fantasies and living in ukraine as if it's an episode of game of thrones any sort of political solution is a reconciliation it seems far far off and more far fetched federalization was an option two months ago and there was a window of opportunity for it and then all of a sudden the provisional government decided to launch a military offensive and arm oligarchy like column on ski and have him essentially run his own private state i think that is the solution that seems most logical for to benefit everybody but the people involved on the side of the provisional government and i'm afraid to say some people in washington just don't want to see

it happen because they don't want peace they want to conflict alexander what do you think russia's next move is going to be because i my thesis has been it's actually done very very little it's been watching here and i tend to think that the forces in the round in the other all agog they will turn on each other because russia hasn't taken the bait it is it wants to continue its business relationship with europe particularly its energy relationship and so does europe at the same time i mean the thing is is that in that western media and western capitals want to point the finger at russia but actually you have to point to the finger inside of ukraine itself right now. well i think peter festival i think crash is right in insisting that there is a ceasefire and that with your well off government troops from the east i'm going to have to be honest with you i don't really see anything changing in ukraine with them and the president the new president says about as far as the problem is says

i'm till your camp regular troops killing people in their cities and towns there's nothing to talk about and i don't think that people in the east want to even think about any sort of negotiations or discussions that said rights at this time against an intention the statement stated that the new president is prepared to do that then we might see a very very small problem says seven reconsideration very slow as i stress and i think that the russians actually at the man went should be having a wait and see paris you know sense that we can that that's true but we can say we can bend everything physically possible if they specified so many so so much to you craig it has not been behaving in the way we like and aggressive which is where it is always crowded it is a always showing sending signals to keep calm and guys get your cards in

that we can stop thinking but we are content to let the moment when you have a similar way up in the worst possible sense when you are using your troops to kill your own people so i think this crew is doing the right thing i think the better it was in the court of kenya for the manhunt they have to convince the world and the russia as well but they can do the things that they can do without this and that they can provide basically a basic whether they have basic law in there that in their own country rich richard i think this is the real quandary here because. the next president will want to say he or she is president of all of the country but at the same time on the first day in office if the operations military operations against civilians and protesters in the east if that continues that's going to be a hard sell isn't it president of all of ukraine. yes now we've been emphasizing the. violence from the right wing factor which is

true but there's of course there's also violence from other groups. and clean production nationalists but. i mean that's something that they're going to have to deal with and i imagine that's going to require some security sector reform reconciliation federalization and i would object that federalization has been consistently by wash and i think that's something that people have discussed for a while now the need to. have genuine local self-government perhaps the centralized government functions and the concerns of course that doesn't lead to separatism but i think that's a logical way for the political thing to evolve over time. in the bush era what kind of political capital with this president because his powers or her powers will be diminished because of. the law the constitution has been changed probably illegally this is why i really worry about this the legitimacy of it it's always so

dubious here but you could have a weak president no matter how you cut it ok and we still have a rump parliament where what thirty percent of the parties that were elected in the last election are not represented at all there's a possible banning of the communist and i can go on over and over list after list of the problems that this new president's going to face and i can't see any light at the end of the tunnel at least at this point well the new president is going to start with very little or almost no political capital about the only thing that we have going for them is the fact that they got elected under however dubious circumstances and then all lot of it will depend on what they do next again if they called off that military operation in the east if they try to open up a dialogue that might help but so long as you have federal ization in the form of giving a. private armies that's not the way forward. and honestly the biggest challenge

for this new president is to show that they are not a puppet of the west the they are not a puppet of anybody including the oligarchy inside the country and that they truly wish to bring ukraine back together and i don't see anybody willing much less able to do so you know alexander you know you can have all kinds of political colorations in ukraine but one thing stays all of arcs. yes unfortunately they're there but they have their own personal armies that beckoning like mad and i think the infighting only intensified after this election because there ever was one to position themselves in a better way but let me tell you something else peter i've been talking to some key players in the europe this week about what's going on i mean craig and i could some pretty interesting scenarios for example there is a place where the suggestion of this was a suggestion that the new whole administration well it should be agreed to do you

stand yes going lugansk and decide that this is a price worth paying to keep the country to keep up not again i'm saying this is not the play which has been approved by anybody but this is one of the suggestions but it's also not a suggestion ok which i like i wish you had started with your suggestions or because we have run out of time gentlemen fascinating program many thanks my guess from washington hand in london and thanks to our viewers for watching us here darkie see you next time i can remember. them but i also believe that it was ethnic cleansing

a sportsperson it was an attempt to seize the opportunity to purge the polish presence from the territories do you craniums the leaders of the ukrainian insurgent army so i considered their own. genocide to his genocide and polls should never support an increasingly vocal opinions that the mass murder of jews should be considered genocide while the mask. order of poles shouldn't. go at all if you close the door there are a monument to dera you know should she a.v. clutch cause ski. and to many of those in ten up hill it is very alarming. still to come in a cream soda gave orders to kill completely innocent people and have thousands of civilians murdered to do so but putting up a monument in honor of such a person is something that is completely beyond reason that there are no.

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business priorities for. your trained into the weekly here in r t international thanks for joining us our top story italy's foreign ministry is demanding answers from kiev over the death of an italian journalist in the village of. an eastern ukraine showing a mortar attack on three. first reporters have been killed in the conflict the thirty year old was covering the events in ukraine as a photojournalist for the news agency he was with his interpreter on a french colleague when their car came on fire the interpreter was all through the french and was injured and managed to get to hospital let's hear what he the taxi

driver who was transporting the three men had to say about the attack on you we just. got out of the car and started taking photographs and that's when the shooting began i got scared and jumped into a ditch and waved at them hoping they do the same so we were sitting in the ditch and then the mortar shelling started i would it was hit and then i saw that the interpreter wasn't moving and the reporter who was near him crawled up to me collapsed and also stop moving while. we came on the far as soon as we arrived at the village of un dr kim i fell to the ground the driver left us and when i regained consciousness i realized that i was in the gunfire continued as i tried to leave the area my colleagues were on the ground and i did not know whether they were dead or alive i reached the road and some car picked me up in our lives here. two russian journalists freed after their

detention in ukraine have revealed the death threats and abuse they suffered during almost a week in captivity they were seized by the ukrainian military and accused of terrorism r t selectee are chefs he was at their first media appearance since returning home . dechen spoke to the press about the ordeal indeed on the way to the building here i was giving this reminiscent of a massive online complaint save our guys which was undertaken by most of the russian media hollywood stars and everyone else to have these journalists released they did spoke about things happening to them which i could describe as completely atrocious they were detained a week ago in east of ukraine while trying to film an airfield during the. cranium the authorities accuse them of having weapons including a missile launcher and even coordinating the work of what they call separatists the two journalists of course we denied all such accusations they were trying to say that we are journalists and the first two days for them in the hall where they were

sitting where a complete nightmare this is how they described it to us. they did not explain anything only held us at gunpoint. tried to explain that we were journalists but in response they just beat us. judging by the acoustics and the temperature we realized that we were in some kind of hole in the ground covered by metal sheets it was terribly cold they didn't give us any food for two days only water in the evenings would have. been a solution to the world heard two soldiers talking and they planned to shoot us when we went to key and stage it like an attempted escape. going to where you are. told we will be executed at sunrise the guards asked us to give them our shoes otherwise the balloons with blood. quantum very interesting detail they describe in the first forty eight hours spent in eastern ukraine is that they saw a man dressed in very professional uniforms who were not saying

a single word so the two reporters suggested that these guys could have been mercenaries in any case that later on they were transferred to kiev and spend the rest of the week there not knowing what their destiny could be not knowing if their release will happen on saturday they were taking out. of the detention center presumably the ministry of defense or the as the with the security service of the great detention center and taken somewhere only at the airfield they realized that they were taken home and when they ask whom they should thank for that the man who scored them said that don't worry guys you're now in the protection of the chechen president i was on of so later they moved to grozny the capital and now in the morning they arrived to moscow where they were certainly very emotional about it in the life he was had to go to some of the callers were even crying tears of joy when they sold their their release coworkers here in the in the headquarters of moscow. meanwhile ukraine's billionaire chocolate king is in line for a sweet victory pushing himself the winner of the presidential race with over fifty

seven percent of the vote that's according to exit polls and much of the country's rest of. the bollards amid the escalating standoff between the ukrainian military and local self-defense forces artie's policy or is following the vote count in kiev for us. these are the first exit polls that have been published and they didn't put pushing code in a clear lead now he was the winner from the start but it wasn't clear that he would garner the more than fifty percent majority needed to start off a second round of voting and it was some speculation that this might in fact need to happen the certainly is not the case he beats by more than forty the same to points to machine code who comes in in second position by and large in the waist of the country where i am today's elections when top of relatively soon with me there were some more than four hundred reports of violations but nothing too major the situation was very different in the east of the country where my colleague from now

joins us now what's happening where you are. both sunday has been a tough day for the spot over the country representative of the self-proclaimed republic off lugansk claims that the ukrainian military has opened fire at one of the local coffee is killing and injuring civilians while we're hearing from you crazy interior ministry that there has been a shoot out polling station there and one man was killed at a large scale military operation is now in full swing in ukraine's south and east and this is one of the major reasons behind the decision of many people not only officials to boycott the presidential vote one of the cities keeping its distance from the election was done at the authorities there of the third martial law as the authorities in kiev pledged to step up their military crackdown over the next few hours. i.

mean your local itself the fence forces held a parade in donetsk kiev armed a group calling itself the east but tell you on its comrades who died in clashes with ukrainian military as you can see here the volunteer fighters were warmly welcomed by more than we believe two thousand locals the rally was also a show of the fines against sunday's presidential election. let's take a closer look now at the man who looks very likely to win the vote here are pushing his fortune is estimated to run one point six billion dollars he owns a confectionery company and he's also got media us it's although he's pledged to get rid of all but when he takes office politically it has been on good terms with three successive if very different presidents some of the key points of his c.v. he was head of the budget committee back in two thousand and two five years later he became one of the bosses of ukraine's national bank and in twenty twelve he

served as economic development and trade minister earlier my colleague kevin owen spoke with foreign affairs expert sergio. expressed dots over whether pushing is the right choice for ukraine. we knew in advance he would get more than fifty percent that's what washington needed right away and that's what we got he was speaking a little bit earlier i just want to play a little grab for a second so what he had to say a bit earlier on which we are ready to negotiate with russia with the participation of the u.s. and the e.u. there are a lot of history is on the table but there are also issues crucial for ukraine or in particular ukraine will never accept the referendum in crimea so it's not a man that can really have constructive dialogue with russia and vice versa do you think given what he's just said i think he now has to indulge in this nationalist rhetoric for the sake of his audience and his voters in the center and the west of

the country he has been flexible enough in his political career to work with people of widely different convictions and political philosophies and programs and when push comes to shove i think that his first interest is pushing co his second interest to support a shrink oh and then comes ukraine and everything else on the ukrainian election campaign trail the guest list spain eclectic say the least darth vader and former u.s. secretary of state madeline albright share the same space we tell you why in our top ten must know facts about the presidential power. european parliamentary elections have drawn to a close bringing major gains for both your skeptic and far right movements the results of dealt a blow to governments with the french prime minister calling it

a political earthquake peter offer us more for us what we're looking ahead to is a parliament in which the majority of the parties campaigned on a manifesto of being unhappy with the way that the e.u. would be managed now we've seen gains for far right parties stream li euro skeptic parties all across the board most noticeably though we've seen in the united kingdom in austria in france where a power has been able to almost detoxify the front national policy that had been viewed as as and far right as extremist as she's been able to get them it seems a few seats also we're seeing votes for these type of parties in austria as well as in greece and in denmark no this is as i said gone all the way across the board in europe as people have voted those that have come out to vote we expect the the

official turnout to be slightly over the forty percent mark of people that have come out to vote in these elections but yet those that have come out to vote have come out to vote for it seems people leaning slightly to the right or certainly euro skeptic parties but those that do end up in office well the next challenges ahead for them and i had a look at what they can expect this is what it's all about as seats in the european parliament is the result of a long campaign trying to get yourself noticed by the electorate and it's not bad work if you can get it being an m.p. is a truly wonderful job i calculated with all the expenses they get paid for example that's an average and we will save up iraq. half euros while living a life. where you can drink champagne every single night the best food travel first class sounds more great gatsby than great statesman with his party's fancy clothes

but the e use own figures back up the high life image there is a very interesting figure and cocktail parties per year which more than three hundred nineteen thousand euros per year and cocktail parties in brussels that is spent another very interesting example is why do why does the e.u. have forty four ambassadors and the caribbean. so the perks seem to be pretty good but what are the working hours like they have a system of the european parliament which is in the cli of the social system which we see the english sign on sawed off because all you have to do for that is sign in for five minutes and then you get the three hundred euros and the good do whatever you want for those who do stick around the parliamentary chamber can provide a nice relaxing environment for a little snooze

a chance to catch up on some reading and for one time to appreciate. artistic photography of course this isn't the way every m.e.p. operates some work tirelessly for their constituents but the amount of money that is paid which many european citizens would struggle to earn in a lifetime is leaving some realizing that these emperors on wearing any clothes they are living on out on a different planet than the people who are paying their salaries what did we have in mind we wanted a single market that we wanted to create a highly competitive area and we are far away from that across europe polls have shown an increase in support for parties who've been opposed to the way the e.u. is being run if they return any piece in this next parliamentary session looks like it won't be a place for a bit of shuteye peter all of a r.t. . political analyst paulo reform may explain why people in europe are being drawn

towards ultra nationalist movements. well the far right rice in the european union member states is the consequence of ten is. crazy of stereotype policies that have destroyed several million people lives therefore people became disenchanted with the capacity of the european union to stick to the promise which was that of harmonious developments of peace and prosperity. for this reason the reaction that's been to turn their interest to those leaders at the national level who are proposing this sort of national way out of the european confused way of proceeding this week the world witness what's being called the deal of the century russia will supply china with four hundred billion dollars worth of gas over the next three decades they agree meant it was twenty years in the making

and was touch and go right up until the last minute or kitty pilgrim followed the final negotiations for us. this deal overall struck eighty sang high it takes a while but in the end it was pens and paper yes i'm talking about the zip code that treat the gas from four hundred billion dollars to get natural gas might to china that would change the face of the global gas industry not the way you do not it's you know that china was getting. i don't want to cross if you get a compromise to it it seemed like a win win situation that is right now we know that china well it's got a one point three billion people population and i was an eighty hungry i'm not exactly why the function has managed to grow at such a level for the last three decades that that's come at a cost michael to say certainly peluso the at its very thick chaos because the country relies very much on coal for seventy percent of the energy from

a straightforward i'm only three i need outsource all that it's something that we have got to do see we have the second p.c.i.-e. bank fine until to the bank of china to do business in the right currency that is not me significant of the moment because we know that both countries are trying to move away from dependence on the u.s. dollar as well as the euro so it's been a very lucrative time here and sang life very exciting time and it's all about the strategic business relationship between russia and china which right now is a force to be reckoned. let's take a look up the scale of the groundbreaking deal either agreement covers a thirty year periods china will be receiving russian gas the same price as europe overall it has the potential become the largest energy agreement in history with an estimated four hundred billion us dollars for transporting such a vast volume of gas is no easy task though on the border infrastructure won't be

fully ready until twenty eight hundred two pipelines are already in place and another couple. or either plant or under construction one is here in siberia and the other is in russia's far east that will send gas all the way to vladivostok slick would naturally gas terminals which can then be shipped anywhere in the pacific we asked her guests about the wider implications of the deal if you lock the front door make sure the back door is locked as well and i think in this case the west is forgotten to lock the back door so whilst they've actually imposed sanctions on russia russia has of us saying to the rest of the well ok you know you can lock the front door but i have a back door as well and the back door in this case is china so really i mean the west does that actually pushed russia into doing a deal with china so on the one hand you know this is an economic deal but on the other hand it's also a political deal a western energy companies that are trying to develop in russia

would love to develop in asia and and suddenly it's now the russians and the chinese and i think those companies are very worried about being cut out of that particularly the european companies this deal is something that is is really going to reverberate it's going to have global ramifications i mean if it gets into it india brazil on the rest of the brics countries as well. there was another goal inside for russia china in st petersburg this week as well. because when the deal with china comes to fruition it will become russia's because gas consumers along with germany of course but should the second project on the so-called western route be realizable china will undoubtedly take first place what president putin revealed to be international media during the final day of the gathering we have more from st petersburg later in the program.

if you drive people away from the dollar many people now it must be sitting there saying gosh if we have u.s. dollars and the u.s. decides they don't like us they're going to put sanctions on us so people more and more people will say maybe i should use the u.s. dollar. science technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we. covered.

russia the world's hockey championships with a hard fought victory over finland team russia winning with a five two scoreline in the final in belarus. in moscow st celebrations broke out after the final whistle a victory marking a dramatic turnaround for team russia just a few months ago finland the march of the winter olympics in salt the quarterfinals but russia stepped up its game for the tournament in minsk defeating the defending champion sweden in the semi and then it took a come from behind performance against the finns to claim gold team stars alex ovechkin. got on the scoresheet it's the fourth time russia has won the world hockey championships in the pa seven years. ukraine crisis meant some business leaders stayed away from the annual international economic forum in st petersburg this week president putin hosted the event and had

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hello and welcome to worlds apart egypt saw me has long played a prominent role in the country's domestic affairs especially so in presidential politics now as one of the honest decorated generals for a presidential vote is this really a change or rather a continuation of all policies well to discuss that i'm now joined by retired egyptian general safe. general safe thank you very much for your time. egypt has a very long tradition of having strong man with a military background president mubarak was an air force commander for thirty years before leaving the country he's predecessors also had a military background both on of our said. so. we now have a new very popular candidate and former general el-sisi who also similar background

. isn't this just a continuation of the same old policies what is really different about the. candidates compared to his predecessors right it doesn't mean the gentleman with the background but if you're the ground meaning that he is a dictator or he is ruling the country in his own way people in egypt will not accept anything. democracy so that's why the reason of having general sisi as a candidate in the presidential election is the will of the egyptians he doesn't want to do that i spoke to him personally several times before getting the decision to take place and the candid as a kind of he refused but general you know that better than i do the army has certain influence on people and there is a very strong tradition of subordination in the army. army moves people into certain type of characters so if. you know it had its influence on president mubarak or his predecessors why wouldn't it have its influence on general

sisi this time is different as i mentioned because on the thirtieth of june the egyptians do believe that general sisi saved the country from the muslim brotherhood but so i think many people believe the same thing about mubarak at least when he came to power until mubarak it didn't come with the revolution he came because of that plus the way but he was also seen as somebody who would take egypt forward to the future maybe in the first ten years because first in years well i think the best time for mubarak rule but the second ten years and the third to ten years it was something the question marks about that and people believe that he's getting old and cannot take decision and he's it's not like before now the egyptian army has always enjoyed a very strong support looked at some polls and it has to raiding over seventy percent the approval rating with. among the people so i think it would be only

natural for a military candidate or a string of military candidates to emerge why is these this feeling of trying to distance a political candidate from his military background what is there to be ashamed of i mean well nothing to be ashamed of but all in fact. if you look to the american. regime you find out that eisenhower or george bush for that all of them they came from a military background so many many people in the world they came from a military background and people didn't talk about them and they said they didn't say that the a dictator is or ruling the country because they are a from the army so it's a situation in egypt i believe but. implying of course the. general rule is there's a perspective dictator but i wonder if all those people who came from a military military big wrong city certain profile psychological profile management profile etc listen i came from and it's

a good book but it's about growth of course as you know. we have we are disciplined and we know time is precious we know the order has to be obeyed we know that there is no great color it's a black or white so maybe we need to know in egypt a book about is not particular we need discipline in egypt we need stability so maybe a military guy or the i would say a civilian man with a military background to be precise is maybe the right person for the time being now armies all around while they're also characterized by a very strong sense of loyalty and protecting their own and yet when you look at what happened to president mubarak there is almost i mean from my side there is this sense of betrayal because the army am sort of give up on him very very quickly as did his former supporters and i wonder if the last three years of hardship in age of allowed people like yourself or your countrymen to sort of free value of his

legacy because it's it's clear that the ruling egypt is is not easy at all and i think general el-sisi would be very fortunate if you could bring it back to the economic stability of mubarak era i don't quite well and i talked to him a lot he is. very optimistic that egypt yes we have a lot of work differently this is not an easy job to do it's not an easy right it's going to be a lot of problems and tough position has to be made definitely especially in the economical side special in the sub's of the site and people in egypt the beauty of . egypt is the people are ready to take from him all the tough decisions if any other guy would come and give them a tough decision tough time they may be would be very happy but they would accept it from him well i think we will have to wait till elections to him are so tame that but i wonder if. you know when we look at the power over the last three years

and it just it's been pretty violent i'm in regardless of who is in charge. you know people come to the streets there's bloodshed and so on and so forth why do you think the egyptian society is so prone to violence has a become this way over the last three years all maybe it has always been like that but that president mubarak was able to keep it under control the only reason is is a very simple reason it's one of these and only is the aggression of the islamic fanatics is the muslim brotherhood and other groups who are supporting them who they believe in radicalism they believe in violence aggression and that's why we haven't seen this at all in the history which before since the pharaohs up till now but right now because the muslim brotherhood the phonetic people do believe in aggression that's why they are going to the direction that unfortunately now the interim government is now considering a law that will significantly broader the definition of terrorism take it make it even broader than the role of mubarak and some suggested that this may be evidence

of edge of sliding back to military control that is if one more tighter than what we witnessed during the days of a bar completely disagree with that the theory is when you face a group of your passions muslim brotherhood of throwing people from the twelfth floor from the roof which was so it was in the t.v. all over the world because they're christians because they're not muslims didn't wasn't a concerted policies by the party was individuals who did that blow kill each other although no world it's not true that because the orders comes from the muslim brotherhood it would quarters to the people in the street go and kill police officers go and kill military officers go on through people from the from the from the roofs i tell you what they burned sixty seven churches for nothing because they are christians it's not fair they forced three hundred seventy five families

christian families to leave their homes because they're christians but general just before president morsi. was pushed out of office peace center and took a poll of. may the polling in egypt and fifty four percent of mistaken fifty four percent of egyptians said that they they were approving of president morsi now you may argue. the number is smaller but it's obvious that he still has a lot of supporters still by. outlawing muslim brotherhood as a political force going to make things worse first first of all he won by fifty one point seven percent fifty four while i'm talking about approval rate ok. you know in the beginning it is still a very significant number maybe that in the first month in the first months when he came in the first month people are very optimistic including us that he maybe he will rule the country in a better way yes let's give him a chance but he came out within three four months that he's doing fatal mistakes

until the last day of the one year of ruling the country he came on the twenty second of november two thousand and twelve and he said i am your god nobody comes to me nobody can take me to the court nobody can be a position in front of me i can do whatever i want and nobody can touch me we haven't seen this and all over the world all but. on the air the same time. doesn't have much experience in democracy so it takes time both for the society and for the leaders to. learn the ropes of the profession so let me ask you a question do you believe that a leader comes and tell you that i am a god you cannot to me don't touch me is this democracy i don't think this is democracy but i don't think you know pushing that leader out of office represents democracy while pushing we did not push well it wasn't a democratic transition or it wasn't exactly it was a democratic one definitely but street politics is very very dangerous especially in the middle is to look at what is happening in syria look at what is happening

and see if you know you can call democracy any rally even if. you know on people over the in the crowd is it was the it was the from it's not like serious and the syrians in the libyans believe in the same thing that they're different but coming back to the point why did you have to sacrifice your nascent democracy you know those very fragile democratic institutions that were only starting to take hold for the sake of. a person like morsi was he more important than egyptian democracy or let me in one second give you why egypt is different than libya for one min reason the egyptian army came and stood behind the egyptians. the egyptians like it was in syria the army the syrian army there were quite a number of people killed on the streets as well i mean the army had to open fire against us when they opened fire against me again this is the same argument the

assad government but again egypt is different because we in egypt we do have one radical group in syria it is many but the committee coming back to this idea of this radical group that is now essentially banned from politics they still have a lot of supporters whether you like it or not they still have a lot of supporters in edge of. the very obvious question is whether you know pushing them aside isn't going to radicalize them haven't we did not push them aside on the thirtieth of june when people decided to change morsi in fact the entire political group in egypt including the pope of the christians including the shake of the of the of the moderate islam as well as the head the leaders of the political parties in egypt all of them became the unknowns the unknowns but morsi is not anymore the president they asked them the most recent to come and join that meeting and they said we are coming and decided not to come after that for two

hours they were waiting for a do for two hours when we. the committee to write the draft of the constitution we also get them to come join us and that if you will that's a problem because this is a very strong to. answer your question you said you are pushing limits i know we did not push we believe in inclusiveness we believe in polarization there are no longer able to put forth that candidate for the. because the party is still ruling we put we put up with some of the wood as good as the wrist by court order but the party itself the freedom and justice party is still working they did not arrest one person from their own party and their own party is to run to prove that in the parliamentary election after two months there will be do we be there do we get seats i'm sure about well if i'm in i'm reading a lot of western reports and western media writing about activists thousands of

activists including muslim brotherhood supporters being arrested on the eve of the killing people of course half an hour ago i got a call from egypt and they put a bomb under the normal call of a police officer and they killed him just half an hour ago general we have to take a very short break but just. from tragedy merely an attempt to legitimize current political realities this is how many presidential elections this country already had an election head of state in this election when millions not even begin to topple mr.

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well tim back to worlds apart or really discussing egypt's military and democracy with retired general some math safe. general we just were talking about the manner . in which president morsi lost power or was how to lose power but even during his time in office the army intervened for example when he wanted to. send a gyptian troops to syria back in two thousand and twelve an army said no you know we can discuss that their visit advisability of that decision but wouldn't it be fair to say that they just an army feels that it has more power than the president . definitely not right now that's not the situation during one year of ruling the country by mr morsi and his group of muslim brotherhood the army did not the one decision or in fact to help them many times and i was there for the right

things what about the syrian and yes it is very touchy and egypt is the largest army in the world and it is the tenth all me all over the world according to the statistics the israeli army is. is the tenth so we went and fought against. iraq quit and when egypt goes with the army outside is a very touchy we did that in yemen it was very problem problematic and we didn't want to be involved with now in the other spring by you by force we want to leave people to take the decision in a peaceful way so that was the main decision of why the army if you are speaking about domestic politics where this thing is the limit for gyptian army to intervene i mean. broadly speaking what are the conditions that it should never intervene politically don't touch but because of all. the a different army since one thousand nine hundred four the revolution wasn't in

fifty two but we had a military government for two years one hundred fifty two two hundred fifty four since one hundred fifty four the egyptian army does not touch the political site or do work as army and that's the goal now and sisi wants to do that as well but that didn't apply to most of them of course during one year. by morsi again and we did not touch the politics but on the thirtieth of june when the people went in the street and the army me to come and support them the army went and supported them just like with mubarak it's not the first time the country was falling down that's when the people wanted said enough is enough do you know you were very optimistic about the first revolution you believe. it will bring peace and prosperity to egypt and you know we discussed in the first part why did it happen. how long do you give it how long do you give the egyptian spring when do thing start delivering results

before the army or some other government institution will decide to intervene and then correct his course i think the if you call between two brackets egyptian spring it will end on the seventh of june seventh of june would have no spring because that's will be the first day of the new president if he is going to be sisi or not to take place in the presidency and to run the country so as of seven to do there is no egyptians bring is going to be back to normal a normal country is going to rule and but i think candidates through the possibility of things going a wry i mean everything can happen people can change so. you know people come to office with one intentions then they decide to stay a bit longer a. bit longer you know there is a tradition of that in the middle east so. how long do you thing presidents sisi if he indeed becomes president has before you know people. start asking concrete results from his policy let me tell you two things number one if

a constitution the new constitution is saying that it is for use the period of presidency and to renew it only for one time so maximum is it it's not going to be like thirty years like mubarak or more than that so it's nothing people of egypt have enough patience now to wait another four years because the economy is in tatters and life is very hard i mean people who used to go to egypt cannot recognize the country general sisi with tell people it's going to be a tough right don't ask me to buy more i'm not having a magic stick which i can touch things and it will go no it's not like that he will tell them the truth that the country is facing problems during the one year of mr morsi he reserves what thirty six billion dollars right now it's only forty billion dollars the damage that is over egypt in the central bank of egypt and that's why he did it has to be appear to be repaired it's not like one day you work you have to be patient and you have to work hard he's going to tell them that. they have to

work hard and they have to suffer a little bit of tough decisions like subsidy number three they have to wait i remember standing on the tougher square during the initial revolution and people were chanting breath freedom and human and. i think you know. tell me if i'm wrong but i think there is a perception at the west so you look at the things that i'm most familiar to them and they seized upon the war and feed them but i my perception was that people were really asking for you know democracy here and read what i thought that they can all make issues for a more pressing at the time than political issues and to be honest with the i didn't hear many people talking straight out about democracy they were talking about better living conditions about jobs and so on but this is something different from democracy yes you're right. this is imperative i would say the program of

general sisi will talk about democracy in perth with the saving the egyptian economy from the issues now so we do have a deep problem we have a really. it's a economical. collapse but need to collapse so that's why it needs a lot of work the point is he will tell them i can save this only during my time for instance health insurance you cannot do that in jordan for years for ninety four million people but he was there with them i would be going to phase one of that during my first four years education i'm going to do that part only to do to correct their dictation on my for four years same thing for the economy so he would not tell them he was not paid to the entire rosy picture for them and tell them oh i'm going to fix everything for you and the country isn't the problem with the arab spring in general not only over the age of but libya and syria as well as that people. expect it too much too soon yes i remember being

a libyan people were saying that we you know we were one the scene of standards of living just without gadhafi and obviously you know build up and i fully agree with you yes the expectations of the arab world all was getting higher because maybe the culture and the habits but they're speaking about democracy and you mentioned the candidate al says he has you know a special section in his program on democracy but democracy a man have many faces i think in the was there is this tendency of conflating street protests with democracy but street protests main may mean people riding on the streets and you know carrying weapons and shooting others or it can mean people taking to the streets and demanding their liberties what is democracy as. you know desired by the egyptian people what they mean when they do you think it's very for things i think number one human right. number two for the election justice the justice to be forced to everybody

a number for the needs of the basic needs of the people i think this is from our point of view that's the way we look at it with democracy and i think it's maybe similar in many other countries as well everybody wants to well everybody wants that but not everybody can achieve that and if you look at your closest neighbor libya you know they want to breed of dictator you know their economy. but what you're seeing are the main difficulties that you may face as a country trying to move towards democracy and what will allow you to avoid all the hurdles that other countries. what is democracy because unfortunately even in our society we did not teach our people what is democracy because when he said it's my right to do that yes it is your right to do that but not to exceed my right for instance if i just give you a small example that

a guy midnight it's putting his t.v. in a high volume because you watch a football match and you knock to his door please i want to sleep i'm next door to you please no it's my right it's my home i can put it no it's not your right it's your right as long as you're not hurting me but the as soon as the you heard me it's not your right it's my right as well and i think that you bring us to a very crucial point that democracy could also mean a very significant danger to security and i think this is what we're seeing in syria and probably in egypt to a lesser extent but how do you really for her person with a military background like yourself as i think a very relevant question how do you. balance those things the security on one side and liberal democracy on the other side we don't have any intention to egypt to touch any person as long as he's peaceful as. as you talk you're dealing with your hands you know throwing molotov mixed you know killing people don't carrying rifles

or shotguns then it's up to you you talk whatever you want you express your feelings in the way you want but don't not hurt anybody or you don't touch or burn a building or a police station or whatever in this case you have to face the sequences well but in order to bring society to that level you know it takes decades and some would argue that. if president mubarak was back in power he may have i mean if he was pressed into making reforms and. taking the country there step by step. the transitional would have much smoother well i think the main issue for mubarak was that it was part of the issue but the main issue was not like that the main issue was he wants to any merit the presidency to his son and the army that's why you're asking few minutes ago why the army actually stood behind. against mubarak you asked this question few minutes ago i think because of that because the only those

who want to see his son as president of egypt because he is the son. they want to make decisions about who should be the president of egypt i mean he could have run in the elections and the people supported. the army i mean isn't that ultimately the main danger to these nascent egyptian democracy that you always have this option of of a caretaker that is there behind the scenes and you know that it will ultimately come to your rescue i will i disagree again everybody was against the idea of his son to be our president because again if it's free elections as i mentioned before most welcome we know it's not for the election and it's not fair the democracy that's why we need a free election and we don't believe it has to be inherited it's not a kingdom it's a public switching from one bar of to be. obviously he represented one strain of political islam that didn't work out with an agent but do you believe that political islam in general has any future in your country i would. moderate

political islam but what do you mean by that is the kind. or i'm going to talk about egypt now i'm going to the ridiculous i'm going to aggression i'm going to going to we're talking with your hand two of them are muslim brotherhood and radical people like al qaida mostly brought of god then egypt for the first time in the history thanks to him the point is if moderate islam would have political islam wants to could just like a north party salafist most welcome because that's what it is up but phonetic is that radical islam we are against that i am against many people claim that the arab spring go right because of the interference of too many other players around the region that it was not only to the people of up to the people of egypt libya or syria to decide on their future there are too many external actors do you think there is actually those countries that have their own interest in your country and in the region as a whole. egypt to proceed as

a twist i mean according to the wish of the wishes of the people we've seen up to now some of the hands fingers coming from outside the working against the now we learn a lesson that's why we decided to work hard and not a least to minimize the. feeling from outside well general i really appreciate your time and to our viewers please keep the conversation going on our twitter facebook pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here in the world the pike.

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