the pressure mounts on president hosni mubarak to step down as thousands of angry egyptian protest for a seventh day many of them blamed the u.s. for helping destabilize their country. also we could violence in more than one hundred deaths egypt since have fun to be chosen a figure to oppose mubarak join me point to you in a few moments for an update. americans are up in arms over their constitutional right to bear them even despite the latest string of deadly shootings in the country. and ukrainian officials bowed to the public concern ordering a search for the missing baby or of the capital care. ski has not been seen in

public for six months now. one pm here in moscow this is r t welcome to the program the egyptian opposition has come together as a united force after six days of bloody anti-government riots well the ex chief of the international atomic watchdog mohamed el baradei 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 our correspondent paula sleazier is in egypt for us. it was late on sunday evening when they addressed the hundreds of thousands of protesters moved for seven days now have been demonstrating in downtown tokyo 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 is rated the rallying call of the thousands of egyptians for hosni mubarak to step down now the mayor this was not a major surprise i mean mohamed el baradei has been a name that's been bandied about here 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 albo day is a name that is well known to the international community but here in egypt he is a relative small player and he is much better known on the international scene where he is the former head of the international atomic energy agency and he's also a noble 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 here is square morning prayers 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 in 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 are. who broke out of prisons on sunday some of them are people who simply raided police stations and stole weapons and ammunition from there and they've been raiding the streets in some and 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 in remains to be seen talking to protesters though what many of them say is that if mubarak does not step down over scenes particularly who are their concern and i filed this report and that respect. first he sent in his army then we shuffled the government next came the air force. people's voices here are loud but they're being drowned out by f. sixteen is a mic twenty one is flying overhead mubarak is not going down without a fight. sank you are mr obama this is your friend this is a personal 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 in georgia ukraine 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 your 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 want to beat us with the police he feel it's right or to beat us was army he failed. us middle 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 pickens 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 shade lives abroad but got caught up in the violence on a trip back home i don't think that the second 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. mohamed el c.b.i. was with his cousin when he was shot did talk about it. in his head. the last words he said before. the hear will. both mean. may god protect egypt 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 today. 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 the population cowboy habits die hard ortiz lauren lyster reports. unlike many other countries in the united states guns can be found everywhere from retail stores this particular want to six hundred dollars my personal a springfield x.t. forty five to rally it's a river ten twenty two it's easy to air use of the hands of politicians running for office commodores and john mcmillan because he gives

a rip about alabama and auburn not care to new code to the criminals the. 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 what's a constitutional right is now feared by some sixty to become an obsession in the twenty first century. thing that people do in the urban areas the machine guns and forty seven and so on is preposterous an obsession that can't be ignored considering 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. were jewish americans argued 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 handguns like you see on the hips of store owners from just near the nation's. capital ordered 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 isn't a tool box just. 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 the minutemen 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 sighted were which were is are but those that go maybe five ten percent but if five of ten percent of the air believe i am. very dangerous for the social peace of the nation i again lauren mr r.t. and chamber and out of washington d.c. and mark a free speech activist is on trial over racism charges laws how to guard the president of the danish free press society will be handed his verdict later today all have a guard was prosecuted after drawing attention to the trend of domestic abuse and child rape in some muslim families or human rights activists say it's

a show trial conducted by what they call denmark's top police head guard told r.t. that the problems created by multiculturalism corrupt can only be solved by speaking openly about them. it seems to these days that anyone who stands up against. the ruling ideology is the talk of it and. as it stands to be dragged in front of the of course the policies failed failed actually on the free speech and. i don't have the solutions to true to this problem created by our politicians i can only say one thing the correct procedure for even being able to solve the problems is that we maintain free speech because without free speech there is not a chance in hell that we could ever solve any problems in the country.

but you can watch that interview in full here on r t in just over 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 a vet school in public and many ukrainians are worried even the prime minister is about it today or his whereabouts are alexei intercept investigates the mysterious surrounding the disappearance of the eccentric mayor. many if agree that over the past six months ukraine's capital has become a better place to live in but locals are bewildered as to who should take the credit as the man in charge of the city has gone missing. the mayor. definitely. in five years as city's top dog and each and maybe a ski has been a journalist delight from singing at a press conference. taking

a dive in front of cameras to prove he was mentally saying the eccentricity of kiev smellier earned him the nickname spaceman and when locals yes i am a space and 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 and it is troubling not just ordinary citizens but those at the very top as well. urged the authorities to find two novitsky and tell him 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 alexandre. but he's giving nothing

away about the mystery. villa looks deserted only his mother in law was captured by our camera security guards say they have not seen its principal resident for quite a while. i saw him. beaten his. post has been. using. this whether it is from a look at the jury. resort in france or italy or somewhere else the location of where exactly a need should maybe it's queue runs the city from remains unclear but with the prime minister inquiry for his whereabouts the law could soon be cut short forgives me here. looks your. reporting from kiev ukraine. 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 home was. a rescue operation in russia's far east has officially ended after two icebreakers successfully total safety the last of five ships that had been stuck fast in solid ice the vessels with over four hundred crew found themselves trapped in the sea at the end of december well the rescue operation began straightaway but the thickness of the ice as well as severe weather progress on several occasions the mission had to be halted as the rescuers were in danger of becoming stranded themselves. now two days of debate and voting in the afghan parliament have failed to yield a chairman to help steer the country forward the legitimacy of the parliament itself is under question but the results of september's election deemed doubtful by observers well in a country rife 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 his proposition where some merrily dismissed all across the board by afghan pakistani and american analysts as totally on the rally stick and harmful goals to the afghan and american interests in that area however this year will repair his proposition and publish 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 then a 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. to the current circumstances for the u.s. policymakers in afghanistan. that was our military contributor colonel yevgeny who shot and now let's take a brief look at some other headlines from around the world a suicide bomber has attacked a vehicle carry a senior pakistani police official in northwest pakistan killing him and others the deputy superintendent of southern war died along with his driver two bodyguards and passers by eight other people were wounded if the attack but no group has admitted

the bombing but more has been repeatedly targeted by the pakistani taliban. north korea is calling for defense talks with the south to be held tomorrow two weeks earlier than planned last week seoul agreed to take part in the go see a sions in a step towards easing tension on the peninsula well relations between the two countries are at their lowest for decades after the sinking of a southern warship last march all since the south has engaged in large scale military drills close to the very time border. authorities in oman say they have uncovered a spy ring are working for the united arab emirates the network has reportedly been spying on the country's government and military state media said as several alleged agents have been arrested but the united arab emirates which is a close ally of the u.s. is denying the accusations. over to cambodia now where lawyers of

three x. leaders of the could where rouge regime have called for their immediate release the elderly defendants have been held in pretrial detention at the you went back to court since two thousand and seven but the lawyers claim the continued detention was illegal and that they had been held for longer than her admitted yaks leaders face charges of genocide and crimes against humanity during the brutal regime which claimed the lives of nearly two million cambodians. now lack of opportunity. and high unemployment levels in the u.s. have forced one day it's of americans to leave his home behind and seek out a new life in russia although living in a small village is lot easy he found a real hole to be with the love of his life stacey bevis reports. welcome to slough of a population well not so populated like in many small russian towns it's too one way as young people head for opportunities in bigger cities so imagine the surprise

of locals when just an irwin left his home on the lakota indian reservation in south dakota in the us to begin a new life here in their quiet in tranquil village a more of 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 vocoder 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 until he met natalia but are now just a lot of the women who come around and try and stay with them. and don't happen. i got the woman of my dreams and i'm going to her. interest in native american culture sparked

a friendship between the two on an online forum justin was there debating the lakota future wanna tell you 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 that at first i hesitated but then decided that once in my lifetime i could do what they really wanted most of their lives people are affected by convention so i decided to bring the convention and i blanched into in adventure so for me to tell you a single mom at the time the adventure 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

a well or child would 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 accepted this interracial and to cultural family. i'm very happy for this young couple i communicate with them i'm always glad to see them at my place and i'm trying to help them with what i can. just in hopes that life on the reservation in south dakota will improve so you might return one day with you family but for now there's new plays mikey's new stacy didn't on t.v. . well don't forget we have lots more waiting for you online including all the latest videos features and blogs let's take a look at what's available right now and a long

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hello and a very well welcome to the business program and dollar top story this hour is the escalating route between b.p. and its been the net partners in the russian joint venture. so tim k.b.p.s. russian shareholder this has called an extraordinary board meeting to discuss counseling a one point eight billion dollars dividend payment hoffer which would have gone to british part in the b.p. this is the latest twist in the feud between b.p. and the russian shareholders in the joint venture the russian consortium that owns half claimed b.p.'s recent agreement with could breach g.n.p. b.p. has a right to first refusal on the british company's activities in russia the consortium will hear more aware of the high court has granted it and in junction. school and exploration deal with russia's state owned oil. group but look at how the markets are doing stocks in europe have slumped investors are still nervous about the growing unrest in egypt financial firms airlines and car makers of posting some of

the biggest losses brant crude soche to almost one hundred dollars a barrel on worries that the egyptian protests could just shipments through the suez canal but energy shares are mostly reluctant to respond to the news role that shows boasting gains of more than ten percent helping the food sit to mine at its most of the little. let's have a look at how the russian indices the fairing and the unrest in egypt just starting to unsettle markets why just fear russia is also showing signs of strain in russia the r.g.s. in the my six seeing a significant drop trekking global losses. rising oil prices are not pushing russian energy shares higher oil and gas companies are still leading the drop on the my six gas company because the biggest loser in the sector with one point eight percent banking shares are also into red spare brown comfy to be pulling over one

percent. staying with the banking sector russia some buying has decided to leave the country's free financing rate unchanged at seven point seventy five percent market washers work spec to an increase in the rate of history and play sion which was eight point eight percent last year and seen as likely to rise the bank however claimed that its decision was aimed at maintaining capital inflow into russia as world oil prices have risen now the world's top aluminum producer says world demand for the light metal will double by twenty twenty but asia's to be the main driver and. see the russian and giant roussel spoke to business are dental bushell of the world economic forum in davos about tunnel that might affect the just for in russia and shared his views about new rules to nickel and which he has a blocking stake. japan korea and china would be the key area

where our customer demand will get will grow and again russia and i want to really improve not just an image but didn't a real situation just for the worst 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 but say with. our expectation of next year in the global demand for the number go above six percent if north nickel offers you sixteen billion dollars for your stake will you accept it and we need to have a you know not just a formal commitment to new reality in the russian corporation but we need to have an action plan to you soon how successful was herself no risk nikolai going behind this sort of line because some. would say state got peroration in all this practice

do you think mr stars like us he is the right man to run the last nickel dime an investor that represents herself and not just a way you have a result which company and deliver and not just an aggregated financial result but also in a technical result and company from behind to know what they need to do as soon as possible but they have a great asset and you know i believe this asset will have a great future business r. g.'s dental bushell speaking exclusively to those all c e o i looked at a basket and that wraps up the business bulletin you can get most or a small website r.t. dot com slash business.

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