prozac in egypt as huge numbers converge on cairo for a rally by demonstrators that wanting to oust president hosni mubarak from power. hundreds of thousands of protesters marched on the streets of egypt and vowed to stay there until president mubarak steps down on point to spirit join me in a few moments for more. a day of tributes to one of russia's most controversial didn't it's. only a view that in verse three of his birth the country remembers the lead former president boris yeltsin more details just ahead. and islands expelling a russian diplomat they were spy related accusations. dublin is accusing the russian secret service office doing real irish identities in order to cover up its secret operations in the united states find out more a leader in the program. a

very warm welcome d. this is live from moscow with me alice have but first to egypt where iraq or ronnie's underway in the country's capital at least a quarter of a million people have gathered in the center of cairo in the latest attempt to force a president mubarak to step down so far three hundred people have reportedly been killed and over three thousand injured some protests began over a week ago paulist is been following events for us. the latest word we are hearing from egypt and state television is that the vice president almost plans to meet with the demonstrators egyptian state television has been running pictures throughout the day of downtown cairo streets now these are in stark contrast to the pictures you've seen here on our t.v.

and other international channels hundreds of thousands of people turned out into here is square in cairo in cairo demonstrators arriving in other cities alexandria sewers and numerous smaller villages and towns throughout the country organizers had hoped for one million difficult to say whether or not they reached their figure but no doubt the army kept to its word not to get involved only reports we're hearing from the army are that they did thugs and saboteurs the police though were busy on the streets they stopped many hundreds of thousands of protesters from reaching their destinations you know their people were blocked and kept on bridges people prevented from actually reaching their final destination spend a few hours at a downtown today talking to protesters and as soon as you mention the name one hundred al baradei people start shouting they start yelling they do not like him firstly they do not know him he is a man who formulated his reputation on the international stage so he's not that well known here but certainly those people who do know him believe to quote them

that he's an agent of the united states now the mood on the streets is very erratic you go from forming and people cheering and laughing to them sunny's being suspicious that you're israeli all that you're american and people very happy to find out that we were in fact russian but that just gives you an indication of how the mood here changes from one minute to the next albury day is perhaps the white man for the job right now but their job is an interim job and serving the opposition parties have said as much needs to be elections there needs to be free and fair elections without baradei saying he's prepared to head an interim government until such time. nighttime in kind of dark empty and scary we we gather every day like at seven thirty pm. we say ok who like to to do the first shift until we'd like to do the second and so on some people are armed you know mohammed and his neighbors take turns protecting

their property by day they're professionals by night street guards groups of armed gangs are on the prowl and ordinary citizens have to rely on themselves for protection they've collected what they can kitchen knives bathroom sticks poles rods anything they can get their hands on to keep their home safe. and with security at an all time low the leader who's come forward to replace hosni mubarak is offering precious little to make each options feel safer. a belated attempt at getting in on this opposition movement well it may be too late is part of the international crisis group a murky elite group with close ties to western interests i think of the media of war two different lines as the people of egypt are shown such courage in the face of such us backed terror that has occurred in egypt for the worst thirty years i'm not sure mohamed el baradei really stands as much of chance as senior analysts are

saying washington has yet to officially declare support for the former international atomic energy agency chief but he's someone they recognize as do other foreign powers prompting some to believe president obama's allegiance is now divided between the current president and the would be challenger. there is no difference between barak and el baradei america supports both of them and the american media has built up. egyptians don't like him he's lived in europe and united states and hasn't even been here for thirty years. and he came back and called for a regime change prompting critics point to. that he was absent for most of us when they started but every. day lived in america we don't want him he was in carrier and other strange things and it was broad. a little bit of a we didn't choose our borrowed line which was only for a short period of change it's only temporary. he's much better known on the

international stage than in his own backyard and has yet to be recognized by the eighty million egyptians he hopes to. and the egyptians need national leaders not american pop it's with american agenda as if people support el baradei it's only because they hate on barak. which is why amidst the chaos egypt and find themselves turning to each other for protection and reassurance the latest word from the opposition campus that they have given mubarak and told friday to meet his demands they are saying that they are prepared to meet with his vice president omar suleiman but they will they will not meet with mubarak directly to discuss their concerns for mubarak himself we're hearing that a state of the nation televised address is in the pipeline but when this will happen and what exactly he will say remains to be seen many people here hoping that he will at least announce that he does not plan to stand in the next elections well

in spite of a popular belief that. book on that to the u.s. some think he doesn't identify himself with the west versus journalist yvonne ridley says that even his first visit to u.s. officials didn't go so well. what is interesting after that meeting with the u.s. ambassador the u.s. state department put out an order to call in all americans to get out of egypt so i'm not sure how well that meeting with the u.s. ambassador to the violent i don't think paris i actually sees themselves as leadership material he probably sees himself as a bridge to help the egyptian people form the government a unity government that they want and he's prepared to broker back to you but i really hope that the western powers don't underestimate the egyptian people yet again and what we're seeing in egypt today we will see i predict right across

the arab world. now russia is commemorating the man who presided over the fall of the soviet union and the country's turbulent transition to democracy tuesday moment of what would have been a better sales and eighteenth birthday remember for his sweeping reforms his legacy four years on days death still has many russians divided artes and in italy sky reports. of course there's a variety of events all across the country being held to mark the eightieth anniversary since wars since birth here are in the center of moscow with no we do with the cemetery people have been coming since the morning hours laying down flowers wreaths his family was here among a lot of visitors they flew in actually from from you consume the hometown of the late former president where the main commemorative events were held special marble

monuments was unveiled there and the then set the current events and you can see them where attended by a russian president with me very different who said that the legacy of boris yeltsin is hard to underestimate. well the path of our first president was a very difficult one every single citizen of our country realizes this today the first president always has his work cut out for him he needs to change the entire political system and this was the fight that befell boris yeltsin we must admit that he was up to the toxic and stood his ground on really most of the modern but not perfect country we live in today was created things to boris yeltsin and everyone who helped him build the foundations of a new nation a also when you consider work in the moral center on the ring the late former president will be open and that will be dedicated to civil society and human rights

something which a lot of people in russia connect to boris yeltsin with a lot of people say that he took over at the very hard time for russia the country the soviet union was dissolving a dot point and a lot of things were falling apart literally and the verbal the end if it was really a hard task for a new leader and boris yeltsin tried to discuss a lot of people say that he took over and. put further implications and a further extensions to put a story that he essentially started democracy in russia at the same time a lot of people say that the economic reforms which he conducted or allowed to be conducted were not done properly and a lot of people seemed to suffer from them so i give it the say is so again even four years after his death a lot of people cannot agree cannot come to one conclusion also what boris yeltsin remains for russia but michael the good sort of like a spoke to some people who were close to him and she shares their views in this report. he never doubted he would live to celebrate his country birthday but

instead he says we don't have to find bacterias while opening an exhibition time to what have been his eightieth jubilee in nearly four years since boris gelfand down the agony of loss has given way to quiet remembrance. he really liked family gatherings birthdays we usually celebrated with. most of these boaters show yeltsin in his early years in power but he had the backing of almost the entire country when voicing your political position was still an act of novelty and courage and one hopes of a different life and a better country are still untainted by the harsh reality of the war in chechnya which himself admitted it was a mistake the banking crisis that with cripple the already population all of these from the come later and some argue when fairly obscure all the good that yeltsin had done. anything you are just better proceed through distance especially in

history i think we still need more time for the emotions and troubles to give way to serious analysis of what to take tannic figures and really was. a service he had of protocol for more than eight years and of all the else in the explosive character and unpredictable temperament often contravened the dry rules of diplomatic engagement but diminished as he had never had a better boss. never thwarted a single event and he was never late but emotionally he could be absolutely unpredictable and do what no one expected him to do like his famous conducting of an orchestra for example and again he was a motions. that was the only one who was objecting. he was actually doing to power by the great hopes of his people who left office

full of regrets for not fulfilling all of them it was only after yeltsin passed away that he country can start to examine his legacy in all its complexity. birth there were celebrated were accolades but one day later even those who criticized him very harshly. i'm trying to be gracious investment character polly says because even they have come to realize that with all his ups and downs yeltsin was the very epitome of the ninety nine toss that's in a way the artsy moscow. well sort of a political analyst from russia's newspaper says while a controversial figure. built the foundation for the country's progression several years after his death. president years and calls the first president off independent russia it remains a very controversial figure and he's legacy is really a hot potato issue which is why did the russian property sound like communists and

the nationalists would never forgive him of the demise of the soviet union or the great problem how how he how they call it obvious definitely would applaud him saying that he was the person who crushed communism and who brought the change and we did well proceed to russia and was a controversial figure he was on the one hand a democrat but. at the same time. the point. that today even nine hundred ninety three he didn't hesitate to use. the shell the problem and in the constitutional crisis they were also. this is also part of he had some legacy. and that's why of course that this is the he's there which is marked with blood no one can deny that but at the same time you does it equally prove that we managed to undergo those tests and we are as a strong power. well there's always more news views and blogs of course

a low website altie dot com is just some of the old ways and new online right now the under us have imposed a wrong news functions on batteries over december as opposed to election violence and they say the bounds will only be lifted when everyone to take it on political grounds is really not. find out what happens when a top supermodel got holes into russia's prime minister to talk big counts i'm biased since. ireland is expelling a russian diplomat home after accusing moscow of stealing the identities of irish citizens for use in spy operations dumping claims the stolen details were used as cover for russian agents operating in the us this could not have the details. ireland claims that this deportation of the russian diplomat as a result of an investigation we started right after last summer's spy scandal

between moscow and washington when a group of people were found guilty in the united states of being secret russian agents some of them had irish last names including such popular surnames as murphy and farley irish authorities say that they started looking into how that was possible and now they're accusing the russian intelligence service of stealing six real existing irish identities in order to forge irish passports which were allegedly used to cover up some of these secret operations in the united states and just to remind you this was the biggest spy scandal between moscow and washington since the cold war in iran the whole group was deported from america in exchange for another group of people serving time here in russia after having been found guilty of being foreign spies it was largely covered by international media that's when the name on a chopper month first turned up in the russian young successful businesswoman who

was also accused by the united states of being a secret russian agent and quickly was deemed by the international media as the real james bond girl so far concerning the deportation of the russian diplomat from ireland so there hasn't been any reaction from the foreign ministry here in moscow dublin also hasn't really been giving that much information we don't know this diplomats name we don't know whether she was directly connected to this alleged forgery and we don't know when exactly he's going to be deported but i wish i did say however that they hope this incident would not affect the relations with moscow . a quick look now at some other news making headlines this hour i'm pyongyang and seoul will announce the talks despite the south korean president demanding north korea takes responsibility for two deadly attacks last year it held the february eighth music will be the first negotiations between the two sides sims the north

shelled a south korean island in the event so responded by staging massive war games in the yellow sea further ratcheting up tensions. requested to move the talks forward an awful seoul rejected. the king of jordan has replaced his prime minister and fired the government sweating on rest but is missile follows several protests across the country sponsored by food prices and poor living conditions heat a former premier and general was appointed by jordan's king abdullah to head the government is going to get nowhere to go through a former ambassador to israel will name his company. residents in the flood ravaged australian state of queensland apparel for a new site to date only a day off to one heads experts say could be one of the worst storms to ever batter the area some two hundred fifty patients have been evacuated from a regional hospital as

a precaution it comes on the back of severe flooding in the country which claimed at least thirty five lives. is expected to hit the coast on wednesday. it's one of our top stories allan russia's commemoratives first president. who would have turned eighty on t. stay there. not say talks to the head of protocol but. he reveals details about the will.

mr xi thank you very much for joining us today so the new russia you know just a first president of russia what were the main new protocol procedures that came with him. i think would be more relevant to describe how i got the job with the new russian yeltsin his new president it was no protocol we had some innovations with mikhail gorbachev when i was head of his protocol and i was the first assume the position soon after he was elected president of the soviet union we had not succeeded in many respects so i was invited to work with buddies nikolayevich when i had been hired and we began to build up this protocol it was indeed rather interesting each of us thought he was in charge apparently we would

not come up with anything new because protocol everywhere is always unbending most importantly we do everybody's attention to us with this protocol. with this precedence no i'm pleased to see the protocols are nearly everywhere there's no such thing that someone says one thing and someone else says something completely different i was very lucky that bodies the calliope tonight were very particular about this work he was fond of protocol of order and would never be late anywhere he would find it unacceptable of someone who was late which was why i had a tough task of explaining to him someone's lateness. yes it was a very spontaneous curse and surely infringements of prosecution were inevitable will. he was indeed spontaneous but you know he never inference protocol he never disrupted any event was never late but being emotional he might do something totally unexpected or more like the time when he famously conducted an orchestra or form again it depended on when his mood took him and you have to understand him and

as he turned his head back it was only the stunned. he tried to signal that it should be stopped all of the rest were just standing around in applauding your was there are no occasion when you felt awkward and were ready to say that's it i'm giving up and quitting when much of. what i approached him there was never an instance when he would give up and say go away if that had happened i probably would have quit but he would always listen to me it was impossible to guide him but it was possible to come to an agreement of so much and he would keep his word what i had the right to keep him on the no yeah. i said the extra by rumor has it that counts and personally inspected the gifts handed to foreign delegations or hands of states. or to marry little is said about europe seen as a person he was a unique person who went through all kinds of things in life born into a common family right through his life to his death he was always his own man so it's worth saying first and foremost that he was really into sports including

fishing and hunting hard to believe that even aged seventy you could go swimming in water that was only seven or nine degrees. he was very particular about gifts he was supposed to go. if the heads of state or whoever this work was very hard it was my job to prepare those gifts and he would select them for we had a special group that looked into along with the foreign ministry of the interests of the person in question to make the gift to his or her liking for instance when you president chirac during his student years was fond of pushkin the ball so we bought him a full edition of pushkin and thirty. minutes then for instance what we supposed to present to president clinton it took us a long time before we decided on donating to him a statue of clinton himself playing the saxophone with him it would not be granted and said hold it don't give it away otherwise they'll break it. does have made a fantastic thing indeed but the boat search was a man who never has a tazer to talk to his people and never fear to look straight into the eyes of his people what stories can you recall about people's empathy with him.

he would spontaneously go out to the people into the crowd you could imagine that in such cases the people were only happy when that happened all of that if that presently also was subjected to severe criticism during his presidency obviously people in such positions right here worked out some kind of entity which enabled them to distance their minds from it and keep on doing their job but well humans at the end of the day where his feelings hurt one quarter of what. goes without saying that he was hit with more than once it was suggested that we should sue them but he would never results of that let them speak they must have this say what he knew to those who were. so out of his eightieth birthday. time goes on people are comparing what we had before and what we had after russia was moving on and i believe our citizens do not want to return to the past back to the one nine hundred ninety s. to stand in queues and empty shelves in shops i would wish just

a good example but the state often mention his extraordinary intuition how is the shown and can you give examples when it really helped him or. president clinton once said that when you sleep on the tank entered into history for good faith gave a tough time in which to govern but history will be kind to him he said what he was acting on in she was in at that exact moment and he feared nothing. he also had a wonderful sense of humor i guess to my memory he was the only leader to always deliver speeches without a script he would never has a tate's to poke fun at himself that it helped him at any crucial moments. or not many know this but he used to read a lot and he had a brilliant memory when on board the plane i would give him some documents and after the flight he would break the local governor of the figures he had not even bothered to learn about his own region this is one of yeltsin's unique traits. that every leader wants to live in dignity yeltsin resigned under his own volition

whether we was what made the movie unique he had analyzed the wounds had he been preparing for that for a long time i believe since the surgery all throughout one nine hundred ninety eight. at what reaction did he expect or. he did not expect any reaction when the election took place he had selected the candidates and not expected any appeals to him to come vereker he never even thought about it so he said take care of russia i made it free your mission is to protect russia he was aware of not being physically strong anymore besides his age was an issue so he chose to give way to the younger generation that's for sure he did help lead him it puts in enter the power circle didn't he what relations did they have. they had a great relationship and this remains we are a happy nation during this period founded by bodies nikolaevitch what that just consider the attitude body cynical of a chin is firmly his widow by putin and medvedev and their wives as one american

sold me the president is always the president either good or bad nixon had his watergate but he is. the president was a what was yeltsin's life like after the presidency and i don't mean in the everyday routine that he peace of mind or perhaps his feelings were hurt or around the country he thought like he had done everything he could but. he was not hurt he may have had tensions at meetings some items were discussed with the leadership and he would agree to something we never publish that in the press no need for that it would be inappropriate to manifest a kind of pressure on his behalf he opposed the anthem he just could not accept that to some extent he didn't like the system of appointing regional governors rather than electable and later he began to analyze it and thought it had been perhaps a proper move although it would be proper to return to election summer day. but thank you very much.

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