but you know what you know the term exposure kildare a boutique hotel time. in serbia look she's available in most clubs in hundreds we can see they are going to. but that the government rallies raging throughout egypt protesters are uniting behind a new figure of the international atomic wants dog mohamed el baradei. but very few egyptians know mohamed el baradei raising questions of who he is and who's behind him join me portis here for an update in a few moments. also this hour the mystery of the missing mayor ukrainians are searching for their capitals top official who hasn't been seen in public for six months also. the gun is actually a centerpiece of american history but as deadly shooting sprees continue on

america's streets many are once again raising the debate over the need for tougher gun control. it's five pm in moscow this is our two coming to you live first up this hour the egyptian opposition has come together as a united force after six days of bloody anti-government riots the x.t. from the international atomic agency mohamed el baradei is now a go see it in on behalf of opposition groups and internationally popular candidate he's viewed as the man who could oust president hosni mubarak has polis lior has the latest from karl. the appointment of mohamed el baradei as the opposition leader here is an interesting choice because most egyptians really don't know him he has his fame much more on the international stage now what is remarkable is that he's managed to bring together very opposing views here in egypt particularly

referring here to the muslim brotherhood which has been after order egypt for its extremist views now but today is a secular man and he will be a choice that very much will be supported by the united states and by other western powers he has in the past avoided direct confrontation with the egyptian government and at the same time he has been criticized by some for simply not being a good enough leader what is interesting though is that he is calling for regime change but he himself has not been in egypt for the past three decades he was the head of the international atomic energy agency for some eleven years and there he was criticized for the way he dealt with the iranian nuclear issue he was also criticized by some of his colleagues for being self-righteous and arrogant the curfew went into effect but like we saw yesterday and in previous days the simply does not make any difference to protesters out on the streets and they've been arriving by the thousands that are here we square in downtown cairo now they are

calling for a general strike they're also calling for a million man march to begin tomorrow choose day and if they get the figures that they're anticipating they rule get the numbers that will turn up will be more than what we saw last friday on the streets of cairo during that day of rage now some analysts fear that this could lead to violence and that the protests could escalate from tomorrow having said that though the army here is still very much in control the police are nowhere to be seen and the army for their side has been meeting protesters in and out of here we square that we have been hearing reports of they've set up barricades on the outskirts of the city to stop traffic from entering and leaving cairo we're also hearing reports of people desperately trying to find sue. markets where they can stock up on goods the first businesses if not all businesses are close to the egyptian president hosni mubarak appointed a new interior minister now he is a retired army general and he has very much the backing the background and the support of mubarak as have the other two appointments the that of the vice

president and that of the prime minister in recent days so egyptians are not really in any way satisfied with what is being made on a government level also announcing his new cabinet his new government and most of the ministers there are the same so with this kind of standoff showing neither side actually prepared to meet halfway people here really are saying that it can only result in violence it can only escalate in the coming hours and the coming days. first he sent in his army then he reshuffled 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 fine. sank you are mr obama this is your friend as it was the barack there's a good 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 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 us financed n.g.o.s 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 failed he tried to beat us was army failed 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 two one is inside the company sixty thousand is option both so you can walk is a company and as a result europe beckons most the people who 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 cost shade lives abroad but got caught up in the violence on a trip back home i don't think that this is that there is enough momentum at the moment that people will just continue to just go out and protest until something is done and 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 he took a bullet. in his head. the last words he said before he die here was. both. may go for ever but whether they're protecting will be with or without president

mubarak is still unclear one time in cairo brings with it the fear of lawlessness the fear of armed gangs that are literally controlling the highways walking the streets and trying to break into people's homes and as we've seen in previous nights people will be for me what can be called a neighborhood watch groups using kitchen knives and sticks and anything that they can get their hands on to protect their property. they are reporting there from cairo she continues to monitor the situation and we'll of course keep you updated on what's happening in egypt. now three million frustrated ukrainians living in the capital keir of are looking for just one man the mystery surrounding their missing mayor the eccentric leave me no that's deep him and his absence from public life and a six month even the prime minister has demanded to know his whereabouts are does alexa herself skin vesta gates the disappearance of the city chief. many agree that

over the past six months ukraine's capital has become a bad 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 its key 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 smear earned him the nickname spaceman and when 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 define to novitsky

in 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 chile cap he s'posed 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 man a. 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 last year six months ago. even his. often post. this whether it is from a look at the jury. resort in france or italy or somewhere else the location of

where exactly and you should maybe it's queue runs the city from remains unclear but with the prime minister inquiring for his whereabouts the long vacation could soon be cut short forty gives him a year looks your share of ski reporting from key of ukraine. coming up later in the program here in artsy afghanistan's valley for the dead as president karzai convenes a new parliament we look at what needs to be done to form a legitimate political power base in the country. when this native american man moved to a remote village he calls quite a star among the locals find out what lured him thousands of miles away from the u.s. in just a few moments. but first following the recent shooting of congresswoman gabrielle giffords americans are once again torn over their right to bear arms critics say although part of the constitution gun ownership has become an obsession

in a concert with almost as many private weapons as people are seen as marla starr 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 d forty five two rallies it's a river ten twenty two it's easy to air use the hands of politicians running for office commodore and john mcmillan because he gives a rip about alabama and auburn to not care to new codes or 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 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. 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. 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 central to american culture and identity. stemming from our 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 who shall say they were which is but those that go maybe five ten percent but if five or ten percent is a belief i am. very dangerous for the show should be of the nation i guess lauren

mr r.t. and chamber and out of washington d.c. . a free speech activist has been on trial in denmark over critical remarks he made about islam has been acquitted lawyers have a guard the president of the danish free press aside could have faced up to two years in prison if found guilty the activist was prosecuted after his comments about domestic violence with an islamic family cults are although he later admitted his claims one aimed at the entire muslim population dana supporters refused to drop the case out of the verdict are to manage to speak to lars have a guard who told us the problems created by multicultural culturalism in europe you know what we 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. stands to be dragged in front of a kind of

a course for the policies have failed and failed utterly i'm afraid speech at its i don't have the solutions. to 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 are maintaining free speech because without free speech there is not a chance in hell that we could ever solve any problems in the country. that. we could hear more of what lars had a guard house to say in an hour's time right here on our. afghanistan's president has convened a new part of the men to see attempts to stop the fight over a new legislature but the man who has made karzai is backing to become the new speaker hastert controversy. has been accused of war crimes and numerous human rights violations the legitimacy of the parliament itself is under question as

september's elections were carried out and allegations of rampant fraud in a country ripe with corruption and gripped by war the u.s. led campaign so far failed to make a breakthrough against the taliban are these military contributors says it's time for washington to change its strategy in afghanistan. 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 were some merrily dismissed all across the board by afghan pakistani and american analysts as totally on the rallies stick and harmful bowls to afghan and american interests in that area however this year robert 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 de facto separation of again 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. under the current circumstances for the u.s. policy makers in afghanistan. there's always more news views and blogs on our website are two dot com here's some of what's waiting for you right now economic forum has wrapped up in switzerland and you can get a detailed analysis of all the outcomes online what's. the russian space freighter

successfully delivers its cargo to the international space station with a special message for earth check out our website to find out what it's. let's take a quick look now at some other stories making headlines around the world a man who served as second in command to pol pot and to all their career rouge leaders are appearing in court in cambodia the elderly defendants lawyers called for their immediate release as they've been held in pretrial detention by the un back court since two thousand and seven the three men and another senior figure face charges of genocide for their role that's of around two million cambodians between one thousand nine hundred seventy five and seventy nine. but senior police officers all and four other officers have been killed in two terror attacks in the pakistani city of peshawar local officials say a teenager blume up with a police van carrying the deputy police superintendent and two policemen more than

a dozen were also wounded by the blast in a separate attack one police officer was killed by an explosive device detonated near his vehicle no group has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks. so has reportedly rejected a proposal to move peace talks forward according to south korean news agencies north korea had called for a defense talks with the south to be held on tuesday two weeks earlier than planned last week seoul agreed to take part in negotiations in a step towards easing tensions on the peninsula relations between the two countries are at their lowest for decades following a skirmish between the neighbors and the south coast and wargamers near the maritime. order. a cycle on head all struggling as flood ravaged state of queensland on monday morning but cost only minor damage the storm operated trees and knocked down power lines no injuries were reported the conference bureau of

meteorology meteorology registered winds reaching one hundred thirty kilometers per hour and tension has now shifted to a larger slide clone gathering strength in the pacific that forecasters expect to hit australia on thursday. for one native american man high unemployment and bleak prospects for a fact of life in his u.s. hometown but a chance encounter with the woman of his dreams saw him lead us feet in a remote russian village he may have to draw water from a well but he says life has never been so good are just a suburbans reports. welcome to slap the population we're not so populated like in many small russian towns it's too early 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 like slice of life on the lakota 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 not just a lot of the women who come around and try and stay with their life. and don't have it so. i got the woman of my dreams and i'm going to. interest in native american culture sparked a friendship between the two on an online forum justin was there and debating the lakota future while natalia 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 the way things look 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 blanched into in the venture. for me tahlia 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 warmth. 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 he might return one day with his family but for now there's no please my kids knew stacy didn't r.t. . if you minutes we invite you to attend an unusually performance behind bars but first let's check out the business news with. a welcome to our business program i'm sure out of. and to our top story it has just

been reported that b.p.'s russian shareholders have decided not to approve a one point eight billion dollars dividend for the fourth quarter of two thousand and ten this comes after an extraordinary board meeting of the a r consortium which owns half of the joint venture with b.p. are to correspondent sara firth has the details. part of this is because we go to b.p. and they were hoping to use some of that money because. big gold well now this is the latest twist in the between the russians and b.p. they claim that b.p. breached the terms of their contract with. the right the first refusal on the very contract any new activities that b.p. has to be run three the russian shareholders and despite that that wasn't done before he signed that deal with ross that now we know the consortium of taken to the high court and the decision is going to be made tomorrow or whether they'll be able to get an injunction to block that deal going ahead. and brant crude has

surged to a twenty month twenty eight month peak on worries of growing instability in egypt it's not close to one hundred dollars a barrel egypt's economy is relatively small but it's home to the suez canal a key shipping route for oil on monday moody's rating agency change the country's outlook from stable to negative in the second downgrade since mass protests erupted last week over the weekend a dusk to dawn curfew across egypt brought on warnings of potential delays to shippers in the canal however so far traffic has continued unhindered despite the protests analysts say if the violence in egypt spreads to its oil producing neighbors prices will likely top one hundred dollars a barrel but rising prices will not guarantee growth for all russian oil sector stocks. because we're in the crisis like we're still prosperous up. with that in my view my feeling produced by a russian oil companies but in fact they are correct in with the rest of the market today and if you are a believer in the whole process probably better off buying consumers or banks

actually oil companies pursue. the world cup those who are struggling with higher taxation growth i guess the best exposure to. russia would be if you want to play those oilfield services. take a look at the markets. stocks in europe have slumped and financial firms airlines and carmakers are posting some of the biggest losses but energy shares are mostly reluctant to respond to the news group is posting gains of more than two and a half percent despite news that it has temporarily suspended drilling operations in egypt due to mounting civil unrest. and the unrest in egypt is starting to unsettle markets in the wider sphere as russia is also showing signs of strain the arts yes and then my sects are seeing a significant drop track in gold losses. meanwhile rising oil prices are not pushing russian energy shares higher oil and gas companies are still leading the drop on my sex last nickel as the biggest loser in the sack though down two percent

banking shares are also in the red with spare bank and deeds to be each falling around one percent. and russian g.d.p. growth in two thousand and ten has outperformed the latest official forecast by point two percent that's according to preliminary data from the states to stick service the figures suggest g.d.p. growth last year reached four percent the equivalent of one point five trillion dollars in current prices and two thousand and nine the russian economy declined by almost eight percent. and russia's central bank has decided to leave the country's refinancing rate unchanged at seven point seven five percent market watchers were expecting an increasing rate to restrain inflation 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. a norwegian telecommunications company telling norah's taking

russia's mobile operator vimpel com to arbitration over its planned six billion dollars purchase of telecom groups wind and or sky tel no holds thirty six percent of the voting shares at com but the deal would reduce the stake to twenty five percent telling all which has been become second largest and. has also asked to postpone a meeting of the russian company shareholders expect a check for the transaction when then or eskom are currently controlled by jets and . if the deal goes through it will create one of the world's largest mobile operators. and that's all the business for now but you can always find more stories on our website that's r.t. dot com slash business stay with us.

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