president has called for him to begin transition immediately shifted rather rick towards a leader a bath for nearly thirty years of his rule are just fall asleep joins us live now for more on this poll of the crowds are reported to be unsatisfied with mubarak's promise to leave after september's vote so can we expect more unrest. well marina we can certainly expect more demonstrations by and large the reaction here on the streets of egypt to that live state of the nation addressed by president hosni mubarak late on tuesday evening both cost on egyptian state television was one of jailing people simply do not believe that he will step down now the president promised that he will not stand in september elections but he did say that he has a genius to finish his term of office he said that he has asked his parliament to institute political and economic reforms to ensure a peaceful and safe transition to a new order of power but people here simply lost those kind of statements that move in that they fear that in the coming months of mubarak is to remain in power he

will institute a whole series of intimidation of demonstrations to really punish people who go into the streets i mean some protestors i've spoken to suggested that they believe he will institute the power cuts that they that he will prevent basic food supplies from reaching people there are of course many who believe that the lawlessness of the last few days that we've witnessed on the streets of egypt has been caused by mubarak himself there has been that is terrorizing people many people believing that mubarak's and those people to the streets you need to remember that there are some one point seven million people working in the interior ministry now they might not be supporters of mubarak but they certainly have a vested interest in his regime staying in power with people here really concerned about how they're going to hang on to their jobs and feed their families that's all because now it's turned into friday the day praise the analysts predicting that they will be thousands of people again out on the streets they even more than we're seeing at the common time but i'm saying that prefacing that by the fact that there

are still hundreds of thousands of people out in times square friday will be another focal point with some suggesting the possibility of violence. all of the u.s. has to back more bark and now it seems to be frustrated and changing its rather rick so what more can you tell us about that. well this certainly seems to be an interesting game that the united states is playing here in egypt we know that last night before that state of the nation address by hosni mubarak he met with the u.s. middle east envoy and we understand that during those conversations the envoy asked him to step down after the elections after his address he spoke with the american president barack obama for thirty minutes via telephone now that is a lot of time for obama to spend talking to the egyptian president again suggesting just how important the united states sees the political developments here in egypt and we also understand that from that conversation about the pressure on mubarak

for some kind of orderly transition and that is the term that he use to free and fair elections america has also been playing a role in the hands of mohamed el baradei he is the other figure that has emerged as a potential candidate to lead the opposition at least in an interim government and to in some kind of elections are held in reacting to the mubarak state of the nation address all baradei had to say and i'm quoting him that it was the voice of deception he said this is the voice of a person who will not want to go and he called mubarak a good man obviously referring to the fact that he's lost legitimacy here in egypt . thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update from egypt you're there an american foreign policy analyst robert naiman says although the u.s. was forced to shift its route or work against mubarak without him the u.s. is likely to lose influence in the middle east. most americans they see the pictures on t.v. they empathize with the protesters and the demand for democracy and free and fair

elections but you see a rear guard in washington saying you know oh my god mubarak is our our guy we're going to lose our if you care for u.s. interests in the region you know what are these u.s. interests that well they're very narrow for example trying to maintain the economic blockade on gaza this is a policy that the current egyptian government is pursuits ordered by the u.s. maintaining the split between fatah and hamas. among the palestinians this is a policy that the egyptian government has as pursuits or by us these are policies that are likely to fall if there is a democratically elected egyptian government in the words the most extreme policies promoted by the united states and congressman dennis kucinich told r.t. the u.s. should realize that it will no longer a be able to pick leaders in other countries for its island. this is time for washington to make reappraisal of their relationship to the muslim and arab world

not just with respect to your branch that are happening in egypt but to look across the board and to see that we're at a transformational moment in history it's not up to the united states to pick the leaders of any country and while i believe that in many respects we're still an indispensable nation for the purposes of helping people we have to be very careful of when i reach would try to tilt the balance in favor of one candidate or one group as opposed to another we really cannot control the events in egypt even though every year the united states gives the country of egypt about two. billion dollars and about one point three billion. goes to the military but you know that doesn't necessarily buy a city ability to influence the outcome of this event. now what's behind this uprising and why the law is a have or egypt is the topic in the latest edition of crossfire coming up later today on r.t. . the muslim brotherhood yes it's the best organized opposition

but it's not the majority no majority there are a lot of this is a very it's not the most organized group i would contest that it's there are many many divisions within the muslim brotherhood and it's not a monolithic bloc as you would like to present it if the entire international community would treat the middle east with condescending ice including china including other countries no one wants to see the middle east democratic they're all afraid. and. which i do live from moscow now sweden's child welfare system has been accused by human rights activists of profiting from family a mystery they claim social services are taking children from one set of parents and then give them to another who receive up to six thousand dollars financial

support protect artie's an isa now explains. christmas gifts never given. my children are in someone else's hands. i don't know what's happening with them or how they're being treated. it's been over a month since natalia a russian citizen living in sweden has seen her twenty year old and. a mother's worst nightmare their children taken from where they're supposed to be most safe and not by kidnappers or child abusers but by the swedish government that's all used to when girls were taken out of their music lessons at this school without any warning and for an entire week she had no idea where her daughters were until she received documents from social services full of what she says are false statements about the family's life the complaints filed against natalia claim she and the girls are psychologically troubled and could be enough to send her daughters into

foster care for good under swedish law without sufficient proof that it is considered legal because of the law is a protection law it's a protection for the children so it means that even if there is a flight this to risk even if there is no evidence sort of there is there is no witnesses third nothing but there is. a risk of something happening sort of. then the law sort of the social workers within the law are able to to take the child into. sort of their to the social office. take take them away from the family attorney has been advised by human rights activists that this is only part of a much bigger welfare system we have cases where that you will have been where social services have paid ten thousand swedish thirty that's about one

hundred new good thirty one. archie was unable to get a comment on the time is case from swedish social services who cited a privacy policy i knew about all this deal they don't generally steal children but money apartments property and children are human goods to them with force we just language skills a lawyer appointed by social services and little money natalia has been told the chances of getting her grades back are slim and that they are most likely now with a swedish family antonia should be protected by international laws and conventions but loopholes in the swedish system allow cases like this to go unnoticed. consensus country. and people. prone. to speak up against the consensus

so it's very quiet in this way and the consensus is. the concern for the service they did all is right professor of logic of some work is persona non grata here in sweden for his outspoken views on the system he says some sort services can take children away using their own criteria i working together with doctors psychologists and lawyers all wrapped up in a big business say you have six foster children or you make a fortune for now only tell you can do is wait for a hearing on her case which is so far been postponed several times during resting and what's of the birthday is coming up with well my children we want we already missed christmas and will miss turning thirteen this week at home with their mother who sweden has just tried it is at least for now not going to be their mom and he's now a r.t. stuck on. me. well so i have for this hour here in r.t.

and news fire related scandal on rattles. dublin is accusing the russian secret service of stealing the real irish identities in order to cover up its secret operations in the united states find out more later in the program. plus we reveal how george just clamp down on everything russian has now taken what the two nations have shared for centuries using. a book published an iran describing suicide bombing was found in an unlikely place and the u.s. it sparked a media frenzy with american channels going so far as to say that the publication was a warning of an upcoming attack from the islamic republic but peddling fear and vilifying iran as a common occurrence in the u.s. has got its account reports. a book found in the arizona desert has put america's most watched cable news channel on the high alert fox news alert time new terror

fears the book was reportedly published anywhere and contained information on suicide bombers that much was enough to trigger sensational suggestions that you renia could be plotting something inside the u.s. they would not give us a picture of the book they would not be able to personalized in any way or you know what trackers may have found basically no facts behind the story but that didn't stop the channel from making a big scary deal of it story although they reported it in point out of the end it could mean something and it could also mean nothing the international community is worried about iran but the american media go way beyond that seeking to make the country the old boogie man its way get a scratch on the earth but you know no politician ever lost. every got negative publicity from an. industry leader in states that whenever you have something negative that you want to say about the middle east. you can always contact. every chance is taken to toss he ran into

a story that has no connection with a terrorist like this suicide bombings in moscow it's going to help us in places like iran to get more russian cooperation with al qaida afghanistan things like that are they going to wise up and help us a little bit the pick and choose style of reporting which shapes the american usage and it became all the more obvious in the wake of the week he leaks release of u.s. secret diplomatic cables despite having vast amounts of material at their disposal to choose from the new york times chose to go biggest on e ran with a four page article alone focusing on the country but the demonization of iran is not new in the us media has been going on for years despite no prove tehran was building nuclear bombs. or how to kill us i feel that this is the most dangerous country in the world do you think the world understands how evil this regime is a nuclear iran can pass on nuclear military capabilities to terrorist organizations

and why is america sitting here like a patsy waiting to get spanked smacked and killed what is the whole cities going to get hit with a nuke some american news outlets have been major cheerleaders in fear mongering which back in two thousand and three legged stool that was started on light so the same people that want to cause regime change in iraq are now saying we need to do regime change in iran blaming iran is is a way to get people to. you know except things that it wouldn't except other words fear mongering could have major consequences creating a climate of spread which could justify any action in the name of providing safety for the american people that's what happened in iraq where a friendly about long range weapons of mass destruction and links to al qaeda was whipped up to justify the invasion reasons later proven to be false the question is could the same approach be used with a rant a bit of news about a suspicious iranian book in the middle of nowhere is nothing but is the news

reporter pointed out in isolation this is just a piece of information yeah we don't maybe know months from now maybe a year from now you'll hey remember that young poor yeah that's how i look at news very often it's cumulative as far as the viewers are concerned fear is also a cumulative get a check on our teeth from washington d.c. things so there is always more news blogs and feature stories on our website r.t. dot com but here's what's on line for you right now in an r.t. exclusive we talked to the widow of the first russian president boris yeltsin nightingale here is her memories of bottom husband and he's like. can't find out why the top supermodel now may campbell chatted with russia's prime minister and watch confessions from paris to squeeze out of him.

you're watching r t live from moscow in ireland as expelling a russian diplomat after accusing its intelligence services of making false irish passports for use in asp you know dublin claims the identities of six irish citizens were taken to create counterfeit documents for russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year artistic work is going on. has 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 era 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 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 one 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 . you got pissed off reporting there let's not take a look at some of the stories from around the world and over ninety thousand low lying parts of queensland australia have been ordered to leave their homes. the second cycle own in a week is expected cycling yasi is forecast to bring a meter of rain over northern state already saturated by months of devastating flooding and the other side quote struck the area on monday but did little more than fruit trees and damage power lines recent flooding in the region killed thirty five and damaged thirty thousand homes and businesses while the country's third largest city brisbane was left underwater for days. north

and south korea have set february the eighth as a date for military talks the first in six months since relations plunged to their worst in decades the breaks were came after pyongyang agreed to discuss the sinking of the frigate and november's artillery attacks on the south which claimed fifty lives in all both incidents and war games so a few will tensions between the two at a previous attempt at summit before the attacks a lapse due to differences over food aid for pyongyang. now with fatalities rising every week in america's ongoing afghan campaign u.s. policy in the country is increasingly under fire in a bid for a way out of the deadlock song like veteran american diplomat robert blackwell propose partition of afghanistan as the best solution but as r.t.s. military contributor explains the so-called plan b. is not going to save the situation for the u.s. despite all the goodwill mr blair will to promote the defacto partition over

afghanistan. the whole concept is a nonstarter the u.s. policy in afghanistan has moved in example leave from this snafu to full bar and has crossed and point of no return for native afghans his proposition is keen to covertly break up over the country for pakistani it mounts to the belt counties nation of the whole area starting from afghanistan on the positive side it's a wake up call to the united states commander in chief president obama but at the end of the day this plan b. is not going to save the day for the u.s. president because it doesn't address the most challenge that threatens not only afghanistan and its neighbors bought to the security of the whole world if the united states pulls out from the again a step then build turned into that official narco caliphate. will

go directly to the white house turning afghanistan into the world capital of frustration that will be in essence the long term consequences of the implementation of this well intentioned but ill advised plan and later in the day will look back at another war that turned out a great tragedy for the u.s. troops but mostly for the locals our special report yes ma'am american holocaust is coming your way next hour but here's a taster. the more people we killed a happier our officers were it got to be like a game like to see you get killed and those people and the different ways you can prove maybe you'd still be i can you know appears now if you brought back someone's ears you know where we had the most years they would get the most fierce each day you should be rich overnight human children in five men around the circle over know

on full automatic whether i'm sixty. she was raped by six or seven people in front of her only. most of the one. now you're watching r t tensions remain high between russia and georgia with both sides in a constant angry exchange of words but this is also spilling over into everyday life with georgian restaurant owners facing the threat of fines if russian songs are performed there as a story. it's party time and traditional georgian restaurant style music is central to the country's dining experience and russian songs are sung alongside georgian. until this. year we was warned the guys from tbilisi called in here and warned us not to sing russian songs our hidden camera captured

threats against a restaurant owner outside the georgian capital the reason they say the georgian government views russian as the language of its enemies. performers to complain they've been stopped from singing popular russian songs my musicians apologized and said they couldn't sing they requested songs because they were banned they said we'd be fined three hundred dollars if we sang them many georgians who were sitting in the restaurant for very upset we couldn't hear the russian songs they're all so fond of georgian media reports that restaurant owners were called to the country's finance ministry and warned that if russian songs were performed they would face fines of nearly three hundred dollars when we spoke to the ministry however they refused to comment saying that no such meeting took place cultural commentators say the pressure to control what music is sung should be resisted schade to the public has a right to condemn i welcome the singing of russian sons but this smacks of censorship

in russian some scum be banned and the state should not try and regulate society like this performer say it's ridiculous to call them unpatriotic for singing popular russian numbers i don't know. if they span is an active in law in the whole world will laugh at georgia as it really is insanity. our. songs like this are synonymous with georgian restaurants if you want to hear them in my town to dine elsewhere because in georgia it looks like the show might be over tom watson. well time now for the business update here was yelling. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update and the london high court has suspended the b.p. rosner deal to the twenty fifth of february this is the date which the court has set for b.p. to go into arbitration proceedings regarding its assets what with ross next this

comes after the russian owners of the joint venture team p b p filed a complaint seeking to stop the deal on grounds that it violates the team p p p shareholder agreement earlier the c.e.o. of the british company said we could include b.p. in their arctic project deal signed last month robert dudley also said he's confident the standoff of the shares for will be restored soon. and the my six door exchange has agreed that it will buy out a controlling stake in the r.t.s. board for roughly one point two billion dollars first deputy chairman of russia's central bank a majority shareholder of my six says the price estimation includes a thirty seven percent premium they deal the sparge of first came about after russia made it a priority early last year to push moscow as a global financial center. takes a brief look. combining the my six with the artists would result in an exchange

with more than the sum of their parts that's the view of the my six president has become an enthusiastic cheerleader was consolidation in russia over this. kind of working together with our partners from our viewers having a joint press change and achieving a kind of giving of the community together and moving that forward. is a great and very important goal in my view infrastructure all in very important and great for the market the ruble denominated my six was set up eighty years ago by russia central bank as a state company for trading currency it's now also owned by state banks of the t.v. and. in congress the dollars nominated r.t.s. is a private boys owned by both russian and foreign investors russian companies frequently trade on both bourses supporters of emergency the different strengths of each index would compliment each other. professional not verses about.

what they want. good financial basis very good support of the state it's hoped that the deal will help promote moscow as a major international financial center and make russia a more attractive country for foreign investors and sun for the entire business r.t. . let's have a look at the markets now in asia both the nikkei and the hang seng have jumped by almost two percent as a surge in u.s. manufacturing and strong company earnings convinced investors to pile back into risk assets despite the turmoil in egypt. and in russia they are chasin the miser's closed on tuesday and such strong gains tracking very upbeat investor mood globally the indices gained ground up to monday's losses showing that correction on the markets was apparently shot. and russian missiles will stop trading in and out stime so we'll bring you about in less than fifteen minutes.

what an hour to live from moscow a reminder of the top stories it is president hosni mubarak vows not to run for reelection in september but refuses to step down before the polls is announcement triggered by over a week long on the rest of vida throngs of protesters as most demand an immediate change of regime. a russian woman living in sweden claims her daughters were taken from her by the countries of the warden's human rights activists accuse of social services of money makers scams as new parents receive significant financial support for children. islands expelling our russian diplomat over spiral aided accusations doubling claims their identities of six irish citizens were taken to create counterfeit documents for russian agents covered in the u.s. last year. the allies here in r.t.e. no war no peace the stalemate between armenia and azerbaijan has lasted for over sixteen years the conflict dates back to nine hundred eighty eight and i'm going to

karbala region.