it's a good i would. never dream. of trumbull's been in the future of thousands of angry protesters many of whom for its part in stabilizing their country. of the week of violence and more than one hundred a day at soup kitchens have quantity chosen to go to. join me on the street if you notice. the latest streak of deadly shootings in the us puts the issue of gun ownership in the firing line once again but americans are still defending their constitutional right to bear arms. ukraine's prime minister orders a search for the eccentric mayor of the country's capital care. has not been seen in public for six months now.

eleven am here in moscow you're watching r t welcome to the program now the egyptian opposition has come together as a united force after six days of bloody anti-government riots the ex chief of the international atomic watchdog. is the man of choice to oust president hosni mubarak and while the army is installing barricades in cairo many countries have started evacuating their citizens well our correspondent paula sleazier is in egypt for us . it was late on sunday evening when they addressed the hundreds of thousands of protesters for seven days now have been demonstrating in downtown tokyo and this is where he said that he had been chosen by opposition groups by the political organizations that have organized these demonstrations he said that he was prepared

to head an interim government of called on to do so and once again it's related to the rallying call of the thousands of egyptians for hosni mubarak to step down now the mayor this was not a major surprise a member what about it he has been a name that's been bandied about in the last few days as a possibility in terms of unifying this very fragmented opposition party opposition force it is worth noting that it took protesters six days to appoint him and this is largely because hosni mubarak since he came to power thirty years ago has been intent on suppressing opposing views and as a result these demonstrations have been slightly chaotic about today is in may and that is well known to the international community but here in egypt he is a relative small player as he is mushy mission known on the international scene where he is the former head of the international atomic energy agency and he's also a nobel peace prize laureate but certainly the opposition voices here getting

a impetus with this new appointment last night as we saw in previous nights the protesters out in downtown cairo defied a curfew thousands of them gathering into very square mourning praise have already happened no doubt that as the day progresses there will be an increase in calls for mubarak to step down and the possibility of growing violence it is worth noting though that the main problem that people here are facing at the moment is that of lawlessness the army is in full control and they have been allowing demonstrators to come and leave the protest the police on their way to be seen and what this means is that ordinary citizens are having to protect their properties against vigilante groups some of them up in. good to hear both counter questions on sunday some of them are people who simply raided police stations and store workers and ammunition from there they've been raiding the streets in some some neighborhoods they are in control of the neighborhoods and that is really the major concern that people here particularly in cairo and other cities are facing the sense you get is

one of unpredictability the same sygate is instability and really a situation that can flare up at any moment it does seem at the moment as if violence is on the horizon just how long these demonstrations will continue and just how that violence will end remains to be seen talking to protesters though what many of them say is that if mubarak does not step down overseas particularly he would beckons and i filed this report and that respect. first he sent in his army then he reshuffled the government mixed came the air force. people's voices here are loud but they've been drowned out by if sixteen's a mic twenty one's trying of a head mubarak is not going down without a fine. sank you know mr obama this is your friend as opposed to barack this is your friend and the american involvement reminiscent of earlier revolutions

in eastern europe. no question about it what happened in georgia with the orange revolution or rather the rose revolution and join. in with the orange revolution two thousand and three two thousand and four was part of a long term strategy orchestrated by the pentagon the state department and various u.s. financed and yours like freedom house and national endowment for democracy and like those early revolutions people mobilized around a common goal abdel nur came all the way from us wanted to get rid of a dictator it's right to beat us with the police he feel it's right to beat us with army the russians must admit a bus is an engineer qualified and jobless but he says he can't find work because of corruption we can't find jobs he paid one is inside the company sixty thousand egyptian bones so you can walk is a company and as a result europe most people want to go to italy want to go to greece want to go to

england so people in egypt want to leave this country because they are very frustrated and they are looking for better life for a better future and for us that means mass immigration and the problems that come with it may cause shared lives abroad but got caught up in the violence on a trip back home i don't think that this is that there's enough momentum at the moment that people just continue to just go out and protest until something is done i think people are just fed up the casualties keep climbing young faces victims of an aging regime. mohammed elsie by was with his cousin when he was shot did he took a bullet in his head. the last word he said before he died here was. both mean. for ever but whether they're protecting will be with or without president mubarak

is still unclear well as the seventh day of demonstrations gets underway here in egypt no doubt the international community will remain focused on what happens here as well egyptians themselves i'll be bringing you more updates from after day a recent spike in fatal shootings in the u.s. says reignited the debate over the right to bear arms while some politicians are now calling to restrict what americans consider a part of their freedom but in a country where the number of private guns almost equals a population cowboy habits die hard artie's lauren lists are reports. unlike many other countries in the united states guns can be found everywhere from retail stores this particular want to six hundred dollars springfield x t forty five to rally it's a river thames wanted to it's easy to air use the hands of politicians running for office time indoors when john mcmillan because he gives a rip about alabama and i better not care to new codes of criminal if they do

charge so many readily cite the country's second amendment that allows for this right to bear arms the vast majority of level headed americans was a constitutional right and as such they probably don't have a problem with it. but with a population of three hundred seven million people and roughly three hundred million firearms owned by civilians in the united states it's a constitutional right as it is now feared by some sixty to be common have sessions in the twenty first century. thing that people do and urban areas the machine guns and the forty seven and so on is preposterous an obsession that can't be ignored considering the recent acts of gun violence and the ease of access to firearms so in the united states for the average citizen like myself to purchase a gun i need to go through a background check with the federal government looking for anything from criminal

history to mental illness and if i pass that you get anything from a handgun like you see here to a semiautomatic weapon which these are over here and even an automatic weapon like a machine gun for their. semiautomatic weapons like those you see here in the catskill mountains of new york i were jewish americans argue their firing off their second amendment rights to guard against the threat of terrorism we need to express those rights we need to own weapons we need to protect ourselves and guns like you see on the hips of store owners from just near the nation's. capital. to move to a southern town where gun ownership is actually mandatory in the south a gun is just part of the household just like a hammer is in the toolbox. a tool a sporting good a means of self-defense or murder however you describe it gun owners say it's more than a firearm it's

a symbol and central to american culture and identity coming from men stemming from a revolution. to cowboys to any of that kind of thing i mean the gun is actually a centerpiece of american history. a piece of history that critics say continues to warn the country what is the percentage of people in a short side who are which way is there but there is a go maybe five to ten percent but if five of ten percent of the air believes i am . very dangerous for the social peace of the nation i again laura mr r.t. and chamber another washington d.c. . and mark a free speech campaigner is on trial over racism charges lawyers had gar the president of the danish free press society will be handed his verdict later today all hedegaard was prosecuted after drawing attention to the trend of honor killings and sexual abuse in some muslim families or his trial has been criticized by human

rights activists who say denmark's authorities are trying to suppress free speech hedegaard told r.t. that the problems created by multiculturalism in europe can only be solved by speaking openly about them it seems to me states that anyone who stands up against. the ruling ideology is chalk a ditch and. as it stands to be dragged in front of the of course the policies failed actually on the free speech rights i don't have the solutions. to this problem created by our politicians i can only say one thing the predict received for even be able to solve the problems is that we are maintaining free speech because without free speech there is not a chance in hell but we could ever solve any problems in the country.

well you can watch that interview in full here on r t in an hour's time. now a local government official in kiev has reassure the public that the mayor is alive and well it's been months since anyone saw the in agenda vets in public and many ukrainians are worried even the prime minister is demanded to know his whereabouts all artes a ski investigates the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the eccentric mayor . key of twelve months ago snow fall paralyzed the city with practically no snow clearing vehicles on the roads and this is ukraine's capital today clean streets with gorgeous decorations many if agree that over the past six months ukraine's capital has become a better place to live but locals are bewildered as to who should take the credit as the man in charge of the city has gone missing. the mayor i know

definitely. in five years as city stop dog. has been a journalist delight from singing at a press conference. taking a dive in front of cameras to prove he was mentally sane the eccentricity of kiev smellier earned him the nickname spaceman among locals yes i am a spaceman absolutely true if he had gone to space it might at least explain the mystery of where he actually is that's because the last time should not be askew was seen in public was almost six months ago it is troubling not just ordinary citizens but those at the very top as well. as the authorities defined in tell me that the people of kiev miss him and want him to return to work. after an avalanche of criticism was dumped and gives mayor following

a devastating winter in two thousand and nine the city's snow clearing gear was overhauled by the government. you supposed but the real man running affairs is thought to be the city hall of ministration boss alexander pop off he's giving nothing away about the mystery may. sell for the way he is but i can only tell you that. with him. villa looks deserted on the. his mother in law was captured by our camera security guards say they have not seen its principal resident for quite a while. this whether it is from a look at resorts in france or italy or somewhere else the location of where exactly a. city from remains unclear but with the prime minister inquiring for his whereabouts

. could soon be cut short for. reporting from key if you grade. well you're watching our t.v. and coming up this hour love without reservation we tell the story of one native american who finds true love and a new home thousands of miles away from his homeland. a rescue operation in russia's far east has officially ended after two ice breakers have successfully towed to safety the last of five ships that have been stuck fast in solid ice all the vessels with over four hundred crew found themselves trapped in the sea at the end of december a rescue operation began straight away but the thickness of the ice as well as severe weather progress on several occasions the mission had to be halted as rescuers were in danger of becoming stranded themselves. now two days of debate and

voting in the afghan parliament have failed to yield a chair meant to help steer the country forward the legitimacy of the parliament itself is under question with the results of september's election doubtful by observers well in a country ripe with corruption and gripped by war the u.s. led campaign has so far failed to make a breakthrough against the taliban military contributor says it's time for washington to give up and get out. the former u.s. ambassador to india robert blake will came out last year we have a very creative and innovative idea that is to partition afghanistan and his proposition were some merrily dismissed all across the board by afghan pakistani and american analysts as totally on really stick and harmful both afghan and american interests in that area however this year robert black will repair kit

just his proposition and published in foreign affairs as plan b. for afghanistan and this time i believe it stands a good chance to be taken seriously because though it talks about the effect of separation of ghana state in reality it implies how to separate the united states from afghanistan and to minimize the afghan exposure to the us foreign policy well it's another issue where the white house will accept this idea but for the time being the reason no other better option or solution under the current circumstances for the u.s. policymakers in afghanistan. well that was our military contributor colonel you get a crucial and now let's take a brief look at some other headlines from around the world

a suicide car bomber has attacked if you're going to carry a senior pakistani police official in northwest pakistan killing him and two others the deputy superintendent of southern died along with his driver and a passer by eight other people were wounded in the attack well no group has admitted the bombing but the shell war has been repeatedly targeted by the pakistani taliban. north korea is calling for defense talks with the south to be held to morrow that's two weeks earlier than planned last week seoul agreed to take part in negotiations in a step towards easing the tension on the peninsula relations between the two countries are at their lowest for decades after the sinking of a southern warship last march well since then the south has engaged in large scale military drills close to the maritime border. authorities in oman say they have uncovered a spy ring working for the united arab emirates the network has reportedly been

spying on the country's government and military state media said several alleged agents have been arrested in the united arab emirates which is a close ally of the u.s. is denying the accusations. to cambodia now where lawyers of three x. leaders of the khmer rouge regime have called for the immediate release of the elderly defendants have been held in pretrial detention at the u.n. backed war since two thousand and seven the lawyers claim the continued detention was illegal and they had been held for longer than permitted will demand face charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the brutal regime which claimed the lives of nearly two million cambodians. a lack of opportunities and high unemployment levels in the us have forced one native american to leave his home behind and seek out a new life in russia although living in a small village isn't easy here he found

a real home to be with the love of his life ortiz stace events reports. welcome to slough of a population we're not so popular at it like in many small russian towns it's one leg and young people head for opportunities in bigger cities so imagine the surprise of locals when just an irwin left his home onto a coded indian reservation in south dakota and the us to begin a new life here and there quite in trying to village a more the country kind of person considering my culture and our background and our ancestral ways this is connecting with nature for me likes loss of life on the makoto reservation is not easy economically blighted despite stimulus package funds the unemployment rate is among america's highest with a quarter living at or below the poverty line justin had resigned himself to struggling there indefinitely that's until he met an italian but are not just the

women who come around trying to leave. and don't happen. i got the woman of my dreams and i'm going to hang on to her. interest in native american culture sparked a friendship between the two on an online forum justin was there debating the lakota future. i was hoping to learn more about traditions hugely different from hers their friendship grew and six months later justin invited natalia to volunteer on a project in the us they were raising is there but at first i hesitated but then decided that once in my lifetime i could do what they really wanted their lives people are furthered by convention so i decided to bring the convention and i plunged into the venture so for me telling us single mom at the time they eventually led to love marriage and a second child and for just it it inspired him to pack up his bags and as he put it

follow the great spirit but it's more the love of a woman that keeps him here now you can tell the village is picturesque with its wooden houses covered in snow but as you could also imagine village life can be difficult people still draw water from the well or chop wood in order to stay warm but justin says what the community lacks in conveniences it makes up for in warm. people who actually care about each other. actually help each other and think about other people before themselves once locals got over the initial surprise of a distant newcomer among them they quickly except at this end to cultural family. i'm very happy for this young couple but i communicate with them i'm always glad to see them at my place and i'm trying to help them with. just to hope that life on the reservation in south dakota will improve so he might return one day with his

family but for now there is no place like his new stacey didn't r.t. . and we have lots more waiting for you online including all the latest videos features and blogs let's take a quick look at what's available right now and then mark a survey on the financial crisis reveals that russia has stopped buying new properties and instead improve their old while spending any spare cash. they can get all the details on consumer spending the past two years online. and in our journey through time explore how almost three hundred years ago peter the great and bad young men from getting married before finishing their studies but you can get all the details at our teenage daughter.

that's all the news for this hour yulia will bring you the latest business news next in just a few moments. hello and a very welcome to the business update. russian shareholders have called an extraordinary board meeting to discuss counseling and one point eight billion dollars dividend payment awful which would have gone to british b.p. well this is the latest twist in the feud between b.p. and the russian shareholders in the joint venture. the russian consortium that owns hoffa claimed b.p.'s recent agreement with the wall snapped could be breached

because right to first refusal on the british companies a pivot isn't russia the consortium will hear it's more aware of the high court has granted it and in junction blocking. the ration deal with russia's state owned oil . and time now to see how the markets are faring that sour in asia both the nikkei and the hang saying up down by more than a percent at the moment losses and asia followed a sell off in the u.s. on friday as anti government rioting in egypt from shit and that's just a guess it's cold weather related stocks brant kurds twenty one twenty eight month peak near one hundred dollars a barrel and worries that beyond rest in egypt could spread and just well all shipments through the suez canal. and in russia the r.t.s. in the my six have started the week with a significant drop cracking quota losses in the past two hours of trade both losing

the same number of points over one hundred percent. let's have a look at those stocks rises right there rising oil prices not pushing russian energy as high up oil and gas companies are still losing the drop on the mice it's gas company novacek is the biggest loser with one point seven percent banking shares are also into read. each for. and over one percent and the royals nicholas also enjoyed a low about one percent. the gathering the annual gathering the world business leaders is over but we continue to bring you the highlights and. alcor of the world's top producers says world demand for the light metal will double by twenty twenty with asia to be the main driver. of the russian aluminum giant roussel spoke to business archie's dental bushell who was at the world economic forum about how that might affect the industry in russia and shared

his views about nickel and which he has a blocking stake. japan korea and china would be in the key area where our customer demand will get will grow and again to russia and i want to really improve not just an image but didn't a real situation just for investment eastern siberia russian forest not just because it's so close to china but also because the infrastructure already developed you know would be very important area and therefore natural resources how much do you expect demand for result to grow let's say with. our expectation and next year in the global demand for remember go above six percent if north nickel offers you sixteen billion dollars for your state will you accept it and we need to have a you know not just formal commitment to new reality in russian corporations but we

need to have an action and you see how successful was herself no risk nikolai going behind in the south of england was some. would say state got peroration in all this practice do you think mr does or does he is the right man to run the last nickel i'm an investor in that i represent yourself and not just a review i have results which company and deliver and not just an aggregated financial result but also in a technical result and company for behind to know what they need to do as soon as possible but they have a great asset and i believe his assets will have a great future. well sol's chief. artie's a dental bushell there and that wraps up the business bulletin but you can always find out all the all the stories and get some news stories on our website r.t. dot com slash business.

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