villages from the basics we take for granted. like russia close up on r.t. . the center of the revolution is in the air across egypt amid claims the unrest is being stoked by the west this comes after protests led to the dissolution of the cap and. it's money versus the journalism in the united states. 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 the president demands lawmakers find more effective way to prevent terrorist attacks.

this is. just after eleven am welcome to the program the u.s. government has been planning to topple the egyptian president for the past three years well that's according to diplomatic cables released by wiki leaks the fall show washington had been secretly backing leading figures behind the uprising at least twenty six people have died and hundreds more injured in 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 months of chaos in tunisia which saw eighty people killed and the president being toppled before fleeing into exile investigative journalist webster tarpley told r.t. that washington wants to put new leaders in power in the arab world in order to follow the us agenda. i think what we have obviously is that is the cia no doubt about it they are playing the card of mob rule the technical term is. 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 enough he's not dependent enough on nato he's not dependent enough on the i.m.f. above all they're looking for some kind of end there jeric regimes that could be played against iran or for other other purposes they're also trying to appeal to this generation of young media lists across the arab world whose imaginations have been captured by a santino underneath that there are real grievances there for 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. is occupying the country they wanted allow we they got the pro. in lebanon the u.s. has tremendous influence right that's another country literally

a dependent 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 a revolution that one failed similarly in lebanon whenever you're dealing with a with a well organized force that opposes the color revolution the cia people power coup has a very very hard time in succeeding if the army and police continue to support mubarak and the internet stays turned off then it looks to me like the 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 demonstrations seem to want the army to take over but that would simply be a new mubarak. that's investigative journalist webster tarpley he was talking to our washington bureau for the horrific bomb attack at moscow's busiest airport that killed thirty five show that russia is dealing with a very serious threat we ask people on the streets how the world should react to such terror and what measures should be taken that's coming up shortly here on r.t. with the resident. obviously it's horrible what happens but these people that's what they're trying to get they're trying to get the reaction you can't let them have that kind of power over society and be scared all the time. and turning our attention to the united states now where more people are becoming frustrated with the quality of the news as a big corporations continue to fund the media americans are starting to question

what if they are being told is actually the truth nazis anastasio went to find out who's in charge of the news in the united states. everyone seems to know that he who pays the piper gets to call the tune. in the us paying the piper and running the show are corporations that you may call 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 the industry of the twenty first century half a century ago fifty corporations rammed the major networks and newspapers since then a rapid concentration of media ownership has resulted in the 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 from being exposed to

a wider range of views. and always see the us is living in the golden age. age of media bias. it's never been easier for them to find out exactly who's behind what where the conflicts of interest are topping the list of owners of rupert murdoch and his empire the news corp you have been a global media enterprise made if you shake that agenda at all not intentional i mean we 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 at a political interest so is this because of murdoch's personal interests definitely there's no doubt about a. 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 p c b s these toxic janick 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 placed a 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 we can't be reliant on military contractors g.e. 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 monopolized 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 louder mouthpieces for corporations if that's the truth in our hearts we are. more because of the doubt in the media more americans and i'll turning to the internet and other

alternative news sources to find out the truth but radio host alex jones says the world wide web is in danger of becoming manipulated by big business. so another issue is that you have the old dinosaur meet again allan by five or maybe six mega 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 into old 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 in newspapers and you've seen sites like in four wars dot com or other alternative media exit gloating 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 see see 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 shallow 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. an hour ten minutes past the hour here in moscow russia and the world remain in shock at the suicide bomb attack in moscow's domo jet over airport last monday thirty five were

killed over one hundred still remain in hospital president dmitri medvedev has called for a much tougher approach towards tackling terrorism in an interview to bloomberg he said that russians should stand together and stand closer together 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 who 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 but he's got to be the same for our country that's the only way we can defeat terrorism look at that most of the. all right and you can watch a boom box full interview with dmitri medvedev on our website that's on top com now russian lawmakers are already working on stepping up antiterrorism measures they've drawn up a draft law to introduce

a new terror alert system in the country any warning of an impending terrorist attack will be assessed on a three level color scale with red alert being the highest security services with a new take preventative action in accordance with the level of danger the system is already being compared to the similar one in america will make his promise that will not affect the right so freedoms of russians u.s. intelligence expert fred book says fighting terror is 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 and also need the technology to help you there are some very good technology that's available to do that they can be deployed but at the end of day in essence if you look at a lot of these catastrophes it 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 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 . that weapon journalist laura toughness also known as the resident she asked people in the big apple how do we challenge terrorism and whether we have an answer 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 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 is going to be protected more like strip searched at airports if necessary am i willing to be censors. i think the new machine i have is fine sees through clothes you're ok with that ok do you think the scanners are ok if it means we're safe yeah your calls are coming off a nobody staci if 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 about we that it's but it's a good thing to kill people and kill themselves or noise no 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 go to 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 he can't 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 will have an impact on it make them consider whether or not they're going to do it i think so whether or not even we're doing enough to end terrorism the bottom line as with all the recent violence clearly we have yet to succeed. are you without see life from moscow where it's not quarter past the hour a suicide bomb attack has killed the deputy governor of afghanistan's kandahar province on friday a bomb blast in the capital kabul left at least nine people dead the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack now the blast took place busy market often used by foreigners and officials is considered

a relatively safe and well guarded part of the city a recent u.s. intelligence report paints a rosy picture of the whole sure and when i venture to be one but azziz military contributor says that's just not going to happen unless washington changes its approach to beating that's how about. 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 kind there 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 afghanistan itself the terrorist threat comes along the afghan pakistani badland take out the war alone afghan pakistani badland

and substituted for a cross and that instantly will finally start making sense until that washington decision makers we'll accomplish these linguistic exercise they are doomed to play all along this vicious circle paying lip service to their threat coming from pakistan while ignoring the clear and present danger narco terrorism that comes from afghanistan. now let's go to some other news making headlines this hour at least five killed 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. it's the taliban or al qaeda militants. and union says it's forming a panel of heads of state to solve the political crisis in the ivory coast within

a month the move came off to three days of talks in ethiopia following widespread on a rest since november disputed elections former ivorian leader. still refusing to step down despite calls from the international community who say the opposition candidate is the rightful winner. the european union has begun a preliminary probe into allegations of those prime minister once led to ring trafficking human organs follows a council of europe report alleging that she was the boss of a criminal underworld gang involved in the grisly trade during the one nine hundred ninety nine war against serbia the report also implicates the cause of liberation army in the crimes which are said to have involved killing prisoners. south africa's a former president nelson mandela is resting at home in johannesburg after being discharged from hospital the ninety two year old who was admitted for two nights with an acute respiratory infection has provoked

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the. ok it's now at twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital time now for you the latest business news. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update the eyes of the business community all of course on the davos economic quorum of course on the heels of his economic speech at davos russia's president is calling for legislation to make sure that if it's promoting a draft bill to create an integrated financial service regulator it will supervise both the financial markets and insurance companies these are the two industries which were previously monitored by different state bodies. so the lady. 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 comfortable conditions for the business the respective draft bill has already been prepared. and the world economic forum is more than halfway through but it has been more than intensive for the russian delegation with many major dales being announced it's now time to turn expressions the will into action more now from our correspondent daniel bushell who is in switzerland. 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 o 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 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 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 artie's then a warning from the annual gathering of economic forum in davos the head of russia's largest lender spera banks us dollars has been a great success for russian business. these kinds of events are crucially important for a better understanding of russia by international investors and i think the key point to 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 were taking. and russian authorities have approved that scicos three point eight billion dollars question of the country's day rejoined wimbledon indra nooyi pepsico c.e.o. says russia is a 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 ruble the value added dairy expertise. to 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 got land rush is 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 exist 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 to get it because as a rule of law you can go to small farmer and say i want to learn you've got to go through a process. first deputy chairman of the chibi will become the president of bank of moscow analysts say this effectively means russia's second largest lender has been given the green light to acquire the bank of moscow which was founded and own five moscow city government be to be was first to express interest in the asset but then alphabet claimed it wanted to buy one hundred percent of the land it seems it has lost the race. and let's see how the russian markets for it fairing that's weak despite a terrorist attack at one of more schools airports on monday the russian stock markets experienced

a very settled week of trading so stephen to ships can managing director at the shops can partners 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 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 prom and norilsk we see people switching out for example out of steels into some of the oil and gas means they guessed from and their. overall there has not been a lot of activity that's all we have time for knowledge join us for more unless one has time.

a close up team has been to the homes to return to the land developed by cossacks in ancient times. now wattie goes to the center of russian defense production. with christianity and shamanism existed side by side for centuries. people in remote villages cut off from the basics we take for granted

completely in the public russia close up on r.t. . more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to look for a shelter on the day. the more people we killed the happier our officers were you know it got to be like a game like young to see you get killed the most people and the different ways you can prove i mean he's killed me i tell you know piers now if you go back some of the years you know where he had the most years they would get the most fierce in-tray you should be hers over ninety women children and five men around the

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