ambers converged on cairo for a rally by demonstrators 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 portis their joy need a few moments from all. and only aides here the olivers three of the old since but we look back at the life of the first president of himself good russia a leader who brought huge changes with its legacy still divides many in the country today. and islands expelling a russian diplomats he was a spy related accusation. dublin is accusing the russian secret service of stealing the real irish identity speed only took cover up its secret operations in the united states find out more in the program.

a very warm welcome to this is live from moscow with me on his head but first to egypt where a wreck order rallies 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 president mubarak to step down so far all three hundred people have reportedly been killed and over three thousand injured since protests began over a week ago pulis liers 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 the only reports we're hearing from the army are that they did arrest the 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 i spent 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 or their true american and people are 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 i'll baradei 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 what 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 have 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 much of chance as a senior analyst to 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. and there is no difference between mubarak and el baradei america supports both of them and the american media has built up. egyptians don't like it 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 to put. that he was absent for most of us when they started but every. day lived in america we don't want him he was using carrier and other strange things and it was bred. a little bit at a we didn't choose 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 is yet to be recognized by the

eighty million egyptians he hopes to rule. on the egyptians need national leaders not american pop it's with american agenda as if people support al baradei it's only because they hate on barak. which is why amidst the chaos he gyptian is 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 are 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 amount that he does not plan to stand in the next elections when in spite of a popular belief that. is a suitable candidate to the u.s.

something he doesn't identify himself with the west versus journalist yvonne ridley says that even his first visit to u.s. officials didn't guess how 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 and i don't think actually sees themselves as leadership material he probably sees himself as a bridge to 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 underestimate the gyptian people yet again and what we're seeing today we will see i predict right across the arab world.

now is commemorating the man who presided over the fall of the soviet union and the country's turbulent transition to democracy tuesday mollett what would have been. eightieth birthday remembered for his sweeping reforms his legacy four years after his death still has many russians divided. report. of course there is a variety of events all across the country being held to mark the eightieth anniversary since birth here or in the center of moscow with no we do it your sim terry 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 their hometown of the late former president where commemorative events were killed special marbled longyou into was unveiled there and the then the current events were attended by

a russian president with a difference who said 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 task and stood his ground on really the modern but not perfect country we live in today was created fangs to boris yeltsin and everyone who helped him to build the foundations of a new nation of also when you consider we're going to moral center on the ring the ladies former president will be open 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'll took over at the very hard time for russia the

country the soviet union was dissolving at that point and a lot of things were falling apart literally and the verbal the end if it was really a hard task for any leader and boris yeltsin tried to discuss a lot of people say that he took over and. put further implications and the further extensions to put a story that he essentially started democracy in russia at the same time a lot of people say that they cannot make reforms that she conducted or allowed to be conducted were not done properly and a lot of people seem to just 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 of birth date but instead his widow has to find

a bacteria's while opening an exhibition time to what have been his eightieth jubilee in nearly four years since boris yeltsin's down the agony of loss has given way to quiet remembrance. he really liked family gatherings birthdays we usually celebrated with. most of these photos 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 in a better country are still untainted by the harsh reality of the war in chechnya himself admitted it was a mistake the banking crisis that with cripple the already population of the east would come later and some argue would end fairly obscure all the good that yeltsin had done. anything largest debt or perceived from a 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 really was. a service he's 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 the mere staff he had never had a better boss. never thwarted a single event and he was never alone 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. that was the only one who was objecting dragging him away all the other people around him were applauding. he was there straight into power by the great hopes of the people who left office full of regrets for not fulfilling all of them it was only after yeltsin passed away that country can start to examine his legacy in all its

complexity yeltsin's birth there were celebrate the past 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 commerce fund newspaper says while a culture vassal fake but built a foundation for the country's progression several years after his death. president gives of course the first president off independent russia remains a very controversial figure and his legacy is really a hot potato issue which is why did the russian probably sound like communists and the nationalists would never forgive him of the demise of the soviet union or the

great polish how how he how they call it ah this definitely would applaud him saying that he was the person who crushed communism and who brought the wind of change and democracy to russia and was a controversial for you get he was on one hand a democrat but. at the same time. rah rah no ronald the points was. 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. in war as this is also far that he had some legacy. and that's why of course that this is the houston which is monitored with blood no one can deny that but at the same time it is it equally true that we managed to undergo those tests and we are as a strong power. now there's always more news and views on blogs on all websites of course almost don't call because some of us were wrong the us and e.u.

have imposed a roll of the new sanctions on further research to some of his election law that they see the balance will only be lifted when everyone to take a political ground it's released lots. and find out what happened when a top supermodel could hold a cool and so russia's prime minister as a big counts and biceps. russia is expelling a russian diplomat after accusing moscow of stealing the identities of i was citizens for use in spy operations dumping claims the stolen details were used as cover for russian agents operating in the us. this cannot has to do. 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 of shopman first turned up with 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 out 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 of the news making headlines this hour in pyongyang and you have to know it's a day for talks despite the south korean president earlier demanding north korea take responsibility for two deadly attacks if health will be the first negotiations between the two sides since the normal that 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 office salt rejected. the king of jordan has replaced his prime minister and five the government amid swelling on rust that is this will follow several protests across the country sparked by food prices of poor living conditions heat a former premier and general was appointed by jordan's king abdullah to head the government get nowhere he's also a former ambassador to israel will name is company. residence in the flood ravaged australian state of queensland preparing for a new site a day off to one hit experts say it 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 psychoanalyse is expected to hit the coast of wednesday

. that's one of our top stories now in russia's commemorating its first president said he would have turned eighty on tuesday next. talks to the late lead as head of protocol but can't reveal details about the real.

but the national average mr xi thank you very much for joining us today so the new russia you know has to first president of russia what were the main new protocol procedures that came with him. i think will be more relevant to describe how i got the job with the new russia and yeltsin as a new president there 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 everybody's

attention to us with this project. all 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 barry's 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 the 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 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 the applauding it. 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 while i had the right to keep him on the no. did i suggest the buy from or hazard that yeltsin 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 he could go swimming in water that was only seven or nine degrees. but he was very particular about gifts

he was supposed to. give to heads of state or whoever this work was very hard it was my job to prepare those gifts and he would select them 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 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 when he 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 shows a man who never has a tasered 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. and when. 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 or was present he 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 mind from it and keep on doing their job but we're all humans at the end of the day where his feelings hurt one quarter of what the mcmuffin it really goes without saying that he was hurt 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 we were we were both so out of his eightieth birthday your 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 the shops i would wish it's just a good example but they say often mention his extraordinary intuition how is the shown or can you give examples when it really helped him. deal with. president

clinton would say that when you climb the tank looking at entered into history that we're going to face 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 that it's that movements and he feared nothing. out 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 tape to poke fun at himself but it helped him at any crucial moments. molecules were already 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. learn about his own region this is one of your options unique traits. that every leader wants to live in dignity yeltsin resigned under his own volition or the way was what made the move unique he had analyzed the words had he been preparing for that for

a long time i believe since the surgery all throughout nine hundred ninety eight. at what reaction did he expect. he did not expect any reaction when the election took place he had selected a candidate not expected any appeals for him to come back 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 have what relations did they have . they had a great relationship and this remains we are a happy nation during this period founded by bodies nikolayevich what that just consider the attitude body cynical of a chin his family his widow by putin and medvedev and their wives as one american told me the president is always the president either good or bad nixon had his

watergate but he is considered the president of the what was yeltsin's life like after the presidency and i don't mean in the everyday routine had he piece of mind or perhaps his feelings were hurt or around the country he thought like you 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 electing him later he began to analyze it and thought it had been perhaps a proper mood. although it would be proper to return to election some day. but thank you very much there's.

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