from steve. santagati. revolution is in the air across egypt amid claims the unrest is being stoked by the west this comes after fatal protests led to the dissolution of the cabinet. it's money versus journalism in the united states big corporations fund the media leading many americans to look for the truth from unbiased sources. and a new security alert system could make its way into russia as president. will make us find a more effective way to prevent terrorist attacks. this

is live from moscow where it's not just after nine am welcome to the program the u.s. government had been planning to topple the gyptian president the egyptian president for the past three years well that's according to diplomatic cables released by wiki leaks the files show washington had been secretly backing leading figures behind the uprising at least twenty six people have died and hundreds more injured nationwide demonstrations since tuesday president hosni mubarak dismissed his government and promised a new cabinet to be announced on saturday unrest in egypt comes weeks after a month of. the president being toppled the full swing into exile investigative journalist webster tarpley told r.t. washington. wants to put new leaders in power in the arab world to follow the u.s. and. i think what we have obviously is there is this no doubt about it they are playing the card of mob rule the. see across the entire arab world it

looks to me like a vagabond quite it's a double or nothing strategy they seem to be shooting the works for destabilization mubarak is not dependent and he's not dependent enough so he's not enough on the i.m.f. above all they're looking for some kind of and they're jerrick regimes that could be played against iran or for other other purposes they're also trying to appeal to this generation of young across the arab world whose imaginations have been captured by assad you know and in effect their grievances their food price the gasoline price the unemployment but those really have more to do with the wall street depression than with somebody like mubarak then of course there is the question of political oppression and repression which has been going on in egypt look at the weakness of the u.s. the u.s. could not determine the government in iraq even though the u.s. was occupying the country they wanted allow we they got maliki the pro for raining

in lebanon the u.s. has tremendous influence right that's another country to travel to depend on in this case the the new government is more controlled by hezbollah than by the united states so it would seem to me now that we're going to find out soon enough whether the weakness of the u.s. has reached such a point that they can no longer overthrow a government like egypt and of course in iran in june and july of two thousand and nine there was an attempt to have the twitter revolution yet another called the revolution that one failed similarly in lebanon whenever you're dealing with a well organized force that opposes the color revolution the cia people power cool has a very very hard time succeeding if the army and police continue to support mubarak and the internet stays turned off then it looks to me like the smart bet is probably that this is not going to be a cakewalk for these demonstrators and the other question of course is what's their program do they have any solutions for anything their solution seems to be down

with mubarak some people would say that if the muslim brotherhood gets the upper hand the army might step in some people in the in the demonstration seem to want the army to take over but that would simply be a new mubarak. that's investigative journalist i webster tarpley he was talking in our washington studio. while the horrific bomb attack at moscow's busiest airport that killed thirty five showed that russia is dealing with a very serious threat we ask people in the street how the world should react to such terror and what measures should be taken that's coming your way shortly with the resident. it's horrible what happens but these people that's what they're trying to get they're trying to get a reaction let them have that kind of power over society and all the time. to the u.s. now where more people are becoming frustrated with the quality of their news as big

corporations continue to fund the media americans are starting to question if what they're being told is the truth. when to find out who's in charge of the u.s. news. everyone seems to know that he who pays the piper gets to call the town. in the us paying the piper and running the show are corporations that to make all what american see hear and read it's a money maker it's a cash cow people don't think that that there's any money in the media i mean aside from health care these days there's probably the media is is the industry of the twenty first century half a century ago fifty corporations have random major networks and newspapers since then a rapid concentration of media ownership has resulted in a near media monopoly spearheaded by a lucky few pumping money from the news cash cow and piping corporate interests to the viewers and readers the danger of this kind of media concentration is that it

robs democracy of diversity it robs viewers some being exposed to a wider range of views. analysts say the us is living in the golden age of media bias. it's never been easier for them to find out exactly who was behind what where the conflicts of interest are topping the list of owners of rupert murdoch and his empire the news corp you have a new global media enterprise if you shake that agenda at all your intention i mean tried. murdoch stands over fox news channel the wall street journal and the new york post the fox channel is definitely seen as the most partisan and the most focused on advancing a particular political party and a political interest so is this because of rupert murdoch's personal interests definitely there's no doubt about it. general electric one of the largest military

contractors for the u.s. government plus comcast one of america's largest cable providers are joined by the hip running the n.b.c. network the floor of the hudson river is covered with carcinogenic. these talks of general dangerous chemicals that were put there by general electric general electric owns n.b.c. and b c has not taken any trouble to report on this massive environmental story. with the innocent face of mickey mouse as their trademark disney is the proud owner of a.b.c. when a.b.c. was bought by disney and there were some a.b.c. stories about improprieties that disneyland is the world disney killed those c.n.n. and time magazine belong to time warner joining the media giants are c.b.s. corporation towering over c.b.s. news and viacom a global entertainment content company running among others comedy central they're supposed to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted but when you have

journalists treading lightly around corporate and governmental elites it almost defeats the reason for their even existing the purpose of existence for corporations is profit meaning investors interests are police to head of anything else that would matter in journalism good business is bad journalism good journalism is bad business broadcaster laura flanders says counting on getting facts from the corporate media is simply naive because it be reliant on military contractors gee to bring us news about the war any more than we can be reliant upon television networks that are run by disney to bring us the truth about what's happening in our economy media are increasingly one not the wise the number of voices interested in bringing their viewers a little something called truth has decreased as a result instead of representing journalism the media have become loudmouths the corporation if that's the truth artsy. because of his doubt in the media more

americans are now turning to the internet and other alternative news sources to find out what the truth is but radio host alex jones says the world wide web is in danger of becoming manipulated by big business. it's another issue is that you have the old dinosaur media now and by five or maybe six major conglomerates and they're really teaming up with the government and getting secret payments so this came out five years ago famous cases of reporters being given hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece by the bush administration armstrong williams as one of the famous instances to go out and promote new federal initiatives that bush was pushing and this really exploded under clinton expanded under bush and is now just gone until warp speed under barack obama so it's not just that you have these five to six mega corporations that have all these other corporate subsidiaries and they won't report on things that put them in a bad light you have direct government payments of taxpayer money secretly being

funneled to them this is outrageous and we've seen massive viewership drops on cable and broadcast t.v. and newspapers and you've seen sites like in four wars dot com or other alternative media exploding to now google has announced very that they're going to start filtering all the alternative exploding media websites and foreign news outlets that are becoming so popular because they give a different perspective doesn't mean they don't have agendas but there's a different perspective and so now they're announcing the internet kill switch and c.c. regulation over the internet senator jay rockefeller one of the key committee says we would have been better off without the internet so instead of just having a something where the egyptians shut the internet off in five minutes we have this slow strangling of the internet because the old dinosaur mega media is losing credibility and it's a government mouthpiece and so they're now moving in with a perfect storm to restrict free speech that the internet is in danger. it is now

or ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you with r.t. now russia and the world remain in shock at the bomb attack at moscow's dome idea out of an airport thirty five killed over one hundred now still remain in hospital president dmitri medvedev has called for a much tougher approach towards tackling the issue of terrorism in an interview to bloomberg he said russians should stand closer to cover in the face of danger. but only by consolidating all public forces can we vanquish this evil we have no right to get hysterical about terrorism and spread out for this will make terrorism stronger look at the way americans came together after the events of nine eleven even those who are not very fond of president bush said yes he's got to be at the helm he's got to be tough he's got to be the same for our country that's the only way we can defeat terrorism but at the. now you can watch bugs full interview with dmitri medvedev in a few hours time on our web site that's dot com now russian lawmakers are already

working on stepping up on t.v. terrorism measures they've drawn up a draft law to introduce a new terror alert system in the country and he warning of an impending terrorist attack will be assessed on a three level color scale with red alert being the highest security services will then take preventative action in accordance with the level of danger the system is already being compared to a similar one currently in use in america will make its promise it will not affect the right so freedoms of russians u.s. intelligence expert fred burton says fighting terror it's all about balancing technical and human resources there has to be a careful balance in essence you need that very granular intelligence to tell you who to look for it you also need the technology to help you there's some very good technology that's available to do that they can be deployed but at the end of the day in essence if you look at a lot of these catastrophes that boils down to human failure blood boils down to

very good human intelligence on very specific terrorist plots the problem is most intelligence services lack that granularity on any specific threat so a year based a lot of years your security ramifications on threat assessments looking at probability and also trying to evaluate your intelligence gaps when you look at this kind of threat what you don't know is almost as important as what you do know and that web journalist laura often is also known as the resident asks people in the big apple how do we challenge terrorism and whether we have an onslaught on how to stop it. the suicide bomber in moscow the car bomb in iraq the shootings in tucson considering the recent spate of violent acts around the globe are we doing enough

to prevent terrorism this week let's talk about that do you think that the world is doing enough to stop terrorism definitely not what more could they be doing don't know what they should be doing more instead of. putting so much pressure to airports and stuff like that should be some other stuff because they know exactly what word of fine a terrorist and we're to do so it's more intelligence gathering and less finale's i think we could be keeping lines of communication open and i think we can be trying to consider other people's perspectives i think we can be thinking more about policy and less about rhetoric are you willing to do more for if it meant the world was going to be protected more like strip searched at airports if necessary and i wanted to be searchers. i think the new machine i have is fine to see through clothes you're ok with that ok do you think the scanners are ok if it means we're

safe yes your calls are coming off a nobody stacia do you think it's ever justifiable old you think anyone ever has a good enough reason to get that angry to do something like that no no i think those. the service is something all wrong with them to thank that we that it is it is a good thing to kill people and kill themselves illinois no but what if you were being enslaved and you felt like you had no way out when you feel like violence would be an option then. not for other people to suffer no you have to ignore these people you can't obviously it's horrible what happens but these people that's what they're trying to get they're trying to get the reaction here let them have that kind of. power over society and be scared all the time so if the media turns it down a little bit of the coverage it'll have an impact make them consider whether or not they're going to do it i think so when they're not even we're doing enough to end

terrorism the bottom line is with all the recent violence clearly we have yet to the. now afghan officials say a suicide bomb attack is killed the deputy governor of the country's kandahar province on friday a bomb blasting left at least nine people dead the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack but the blast took place at a busy market often used by foreigners and officials it's considered a relatively safe and well guarded part of the city a recent u.s. intelligence report paints a rosy picture of the war assuring it will eventually be won but our teams of military contributors says that's not going to happen unless washington changes its approach to beating the taliban. another year another january and yet another article in the herald tribune yet again from the cia sources it's bruce riedel

the famous cia analyst claiming that eventually i kind of will be definitive uter that president obama charm offensive these are the muslim community all around the globe while the terrorist threat is real it is not confined or even closely related to gain a stand itself the terrorist threat comes along the afghan pakistani badland take out the war along afghan pakistani badland and substituted for a cross and that instantly will finally start making sense until the washington decision makers real accomplished of these linguistic exercise their. oh sure circle. service thread. while ignoring. present danger terrorism. for.

you all with r t it's good to have your company today let's check out some other international news making headlines this hour. five people have been killed by a bomb in a busy road tunnel in northwest pakistan nineteen others were wounded in the explosion many of the injured were taken to a nearby hospital in peshawar it's either the taliban militants could behind the attack. the african union says it's forming a panel of heads of state solve the political crisis in the ivory coast within a month the move came after three days of talks in ethiopia following widespread unaddressed since november disputed elections former ivorian leader. refusing to step down despite calls from the international community to say that the opposition candidate is the rightful winner. european union has begun a preliminary probe into allegations of prime minister once led to ring trafficking

human organs it follows a council of your report alleging she was the boss of a criminal underworld gang involved in the grisly trade during the one nine hundred ninety nine at war against serbia they were poor also in the cause of a liberation army in the crimes which are said to have been involved killing prisoners. africa's former president nelson mandela is resting at home in johannesburg after being discharged from hospital ninety two year old was admitted for two nights with an acute respiratory infection his stay provoked public panic over the health of the apartheid icon mandela's office says it received over ten thousand messages of support from well wishers. but we are online for you twenty four hours a day with plenty more stories for you to explore let's check out some of them that are waiting for you right now at r.t. dot com well if wearing armani isn't enough you can also stay at an exclusive emporio armani hotel fashion guru now plans to open

a designer hotel in russia's the southern region of staff or a pole but just like his clothes it's not going to be a cheap stay. and one of the most famous clowns in the world slava who is back in moscow with his snow show but this performance is going to be anybody's heart. to claim the russian author of the book turned out to be a north already on insects as well after his fifteen year old theories on butterfly migration were proven to be right get more i want to talk. more in just a couple of minutes we explore space travel to mars in our technology update but

first it's the business news with you. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update all eyes of course on the dollar's economic forum and course on the heels of his economic speech at davos russia's president is calling for legislation which meant that if it's promoting a draft bill to create an integrated financial services regulator it will supervise both the financial markets and insurance companies these are the two industries which were previously monitored by different states but is. the regulator will exercise control and monitor all investment and insurance companies it will also determine the rules of their operation eventually the financial regulator will be responsible for creating transparent and confortable conditions for the business the respective draft bill has already been prepared. and the world economic forum in dollars is more than halfway through body has been

more than intensive for the russian delegation but many major deals being announced it's now time to turn expressions the will into action more now from our correspondent daniel bushell who is there life for our team. let's start with the president's speech his ten point plan very precise very appreciated by the audience in its precise design conciseness he spoke about no more nationalizations and the creation of a sovereign fund on the country to help private investors the government would pool and share the risks and costs of foreign investors investing in the russian economy he also spoke about if you're joining the w.t.r. finally the world trade organization this year and then the o.e.c.d. the organization of richer developed company countries and then creating a common economic space with the european union very exciting talk of a common unique an economic space from the atlantic to the pacific and then minutes

to shave all of was a bit more general talking about that russia would guarantee foreign investors rights a move to a people based knowledge based economy and the u.s. business leaders that i spoke to rule very enthusiastic very appreciative i don't much different mood from last year when there was still some suspicion if you like about russia it's motives and distrust ability and i've really seen today and over the course of this form pretty much the transform ation if you like of russia from the ugly duckling if you like of of well the eck investment in the economy into the swarm of of world business is archie's daniel bushell reporting the head of russia's largest lenders bear bank says dabis has been a great success for russian business. these kinds of events are crucially important for a better understanding of russia by international investors because i think the key point the business audience took from yesterday's discussion of russia's investment

climate is the personal commitment deputy prime minister igor saval of has shown this is a very good example of how we can demonstrate our belief in our country and explain what steps we're taking. and rushing off thora g.'s have approved three point eight billion dollars a quiz issue in all the countries day we joined them bill done indra nooyi pepsico c.e.o. says russia is the perfect platform for further global expansion. using women down i think we can expand into cia central and eastern europe because those markets can all be serviced out of wimbledon and russia we have to decide how to take the technology develop a whole range of products that we can sell in other parts of the world so we can leverage the wimbledon value added their expertise our partnership with the saudi arabian dairy company and figure out how to bring the expertise of both companies together to build out their platform for the company how much can you grow wimbledon as a company our nutrition business which is about ten billion today and with

wimbledon becomes twelve twelve billion plus can grow to about thirty billion by the year twenty twenty and russia becomes very interesting because russia's goodland russia's called water and russia can be a great source of fruits for us so one of our goals is to develop russian agriculture to be the hub for certain fruits stone fruits in particular the rest of the world the differences between doing business in russia and another emerging market india russia is perhaps. more developed than india in terms of frameworks exists systems exist so does in india too but in india. when you want to buy land you have to really go through a long process together because as a rule of law you can go to a small farmer and say i want to learn you've got to go through a process. and first deputy chairman of the to be will become the president of bank of moscow and let's save this effect really means russia's second largest lender

has been given the green light to acquire bank of moscow which was founded and owned by a more specific government to be the first to express interest in the asset but then after bank claimed it wanted to buy one hundred percent of the lender it seems it has lost the race. and let's have a look at how the markets have been faring during the week despite a terrorist attack on what almost close airports and monday the russian stock market experienced a very settled week of trading stephen the ships came managing partner at the sharp skinned part. of the russian market is finishing the week largely unchanged because over the. last couple of years it really has become much more driven by the external events or rather than some internal specific sectors and so together with global markets which have been largely flat over the last couple of weeks market

has been flat we've seen some activity in gas promise we see people switching out for example out of steels in to solve the oil and gas names they just promise and their. overall there has not been a lot of activity. still in the shops q from dish asking partners and that wraps up the business boardroom join us for more in one hour's time.

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