certainly expect more demonstrations by and large the reaction here on the streets of egypt to that live state of the nation address 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 agility to finish his term of office he said that he has asked his parliament to consider political and economic reforms to ensure a peaceful and safe transition to any order of power but people here simply unlawful those kind of statements but more than that they fear that in the coming months of the bard is to remain in power they really constitute 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 and. 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 looking for believing that mubarak's stand those people to the streets you need to remember that there are some one point seven million people here who work an interior ministry now they might not be supporters of mubarak but they certainly have a vested interest in his regime staying in power people here are really concerned about how they're going to hang on to their jobs and feed their families the focus now is turning to friday the day is the analysts predicting that they will be found these are people again out on the streets they even more than we're seeing at the coming time that i'm saying that prefacing there by the fact that there are still hundreds of thousands of people out into every square friday will be another focal point with some suggesting the possibility of violence 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 holes in the bag he met with the us. middle east envoy and we understand that during those conversations the

only asked him to step down after the elections after his interests 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 i'm about if for some kind of orderly transition that is the term that he use to free and fair elections and then it 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 until in some kind of elections are held possibly a reporting there at american foreign policy analyst robert naiman says although the u.s. was forced to shift its rhetoric against mubarak with that hand 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 in the demand for democracy and free and fair elections but you see a rear guard washer. oh my god mubarak is our are going to lose our if you care for us and yours reject you know what are the u.s. interests that well there are very narrow for example trying to maintain the economic blockade on gaza this is a policy that the current egyptian government. ordered by the u.s. maintaining the split between hamas. among palestinians the government as has pursued us these are polls these are likely to fall if there is a democratically elected. government in the words the most extreme policy promoted by the united states and british journalist have on readily told r.t. that egyptian people will no longer allow the u.s. picks

a leader for them. the egyptian people are very very suspicious of anybody who has been endorsed supported or aided by america and you can't blame them and they also have made it quite clear that they do not want any more meddling from the u.s. and america has. one point three billion dollars of aid every year the ordinary egyptian people don't see one cent of about so they're not bothered if america does withdraw this fund because they certainly do not benefit from it in the slightest i really hope that the western powers don't underestimate the egyptian people yet again you know the very intelligent very politically aware. they will choose the people who they want and if america doesn't like it well it's going to be. well what's behind this uprising and what lies ahead for egypt is the

topic in the latest edition of crossfire coming up later today on r.t.e. . 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 to 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 their all of free. and sweden's child welfare system has been accused by human rights activists of profiting from family mystery they claim social services are taking children from

one set of parents and give them to another who receive up to six thousand dollars financial support per child artie's an isa now explains. christmas gifts never given. so coverage it's of my children are in someone else's hands it was stone and 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 twin girls matia and family. 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 are 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 for 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 test to risk even if there is no evidence sort of there is there is no witnesses there is 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 and 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 and her case is that you will have been

where social services have paid ten thousand swedish. that's about one hundred new goods thirty one. archie was unable to get a comment on the time is case from so. it is social services who cited a privacy policy i know about all they steal they doand only steal children but money apartments property and children are human goods to them with poor three just language skills a lawyer appointed by social services and little money natalia has been told the chances of getting her girls back are slim and that they are most likely now with a swedish family and that is should be protected by international laws and conventions but loopholes in the swedish system allow cases like this to go unnoticed three to a consensus country. and people are more. prone to speak up against the consensus

so it's very quiet in this way and the consensus is. the consensus is that the state is always right professor of logic of fun burke is persona non grata here in sweden for his outspoken views on the system he says some still services can take children away using their own criteria by working together with doctors psychologists employers 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 the already missed christmas. and whom is turning thirteen this week at home with their mother who sweden has just signed it is at least for now not going to be their mom and he said no way our t.

stock. will still have for us our here in r t and new spy related scandal unravels . 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. we reveal how george is clamp down on everything russian has now effect of what the two nations have shared for centuries music. and a book published in iran describing suicide bombing was found in an unlikely place in 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 of peddling fear and vilifying iran as a common occurrence in the u.s. as guy next to counter reports. a book found in the arizona desert has put america's most watched cable news channel on the high alert fox news alert on new

terror fears the book was reportedly published anywhere and contained information on suicide bombers that much was enough to trigger a sensational suggestions that iranians 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 point out at 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 wall boogie mask for the biggest threat on earth no politician ever lost a. newscaster ever got negative publicity from around. industry states that whenever you have something negative that you want to say about the middle east. you can always attack iran every chance is taken to toss the reins

most of the warnings that have no connection with a metairie like this suicide bombings in moscow going to help us in places like iran get more russian cooperation with 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 he ran with a four page article alone focusing on the country but the demonize they should have iran is not new in the u.s. media has been going on for years despite no proof tehran was building nuclear bombs stage people are out to kill us i feel that this is the most dangerous country in. do you think the world understands how evil this regime is a nuclear iran can pass on nuclear military capabilities to terrorist organizations

why is america sitting here like a patsy waiting to get spanked smacked killed what is it a whole city is 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 lads to a war that was started on lies and 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 they 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 every friendly about long range weapons of mass destruction and links to al qaida was whipped up to justify the invasion reasons later proven to be false the question is could the same approach be used with the rent 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 you know we don't maybe know months from now maybe a year from now you'll hey remember that 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 r.t.e. washington d.c. . while 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 our takes close of what we talk to the widow of the first russian president boris yeltsin ninety yeltsin a shares her memories about her husband and his legacy. and find out what top supermodel naomi campbell chatted about with russia's prime minister and what confessions she managed to squeeze out of him.

ireland as expelling a russian diplomat after accusing its intelligence services of making false irish passports for us and ask dublin claims the identities of six irish citizens were taken to create counterfeit documents for russian agents uncovered and the u.s. last year artistic work has gone off has the details are linked. 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 fairly irish authorities say that they started looking into how valid is 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 why exactly he's going to be deported but irish authorities did say however that they hope this incident would not affect the relations with moscow you know if it's been offered fourteen there now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and a massive winter snowstorm has hit the agricultural heartland of the united states and has affected almost a third of the country's population ally. have already cancelled thousands of flights roads have become treacherous stretches of. school districts universities and legislatures have been closed due to the storm that stretches more than two thousand kilometers from texas to rhode island despite a massive disruptions forecasters warned that the worst of the cold and snow is still ahead. and over a nine thousand people in low lying parts of queensland in australia have been ordered to leave their homes as a second cycle in a week is expected cycle yasi is forecast to bring

a meter of rain in the north states already saturated by months of devastating flooding another cycle instruct the area monday but did little more than opt for trees and damaged power lines recent flooding the region killed thirty five damaged thirty thousand homes and businesses while the country's third largest city brisbane was left on the water for days. and north and south korea have set february the aids as a date for military talks the first in six months since relations plunged to their worst in decades the breakthrough came after pyongyang agreed to discuss the sinking of the frigate chair and on and of embers artillery attacks in the south which claimed fifty lives in all both incidents and war games why so few tensions between the two at a previous attempt at a summit before the attacks collapsed due to differences over food aid for pyongyang. while later this hour we look back at a u.s. led war that turned into one of last century's greatest tragedies it was special

report it no american holocaust is coming your way about ten minutes but here's a taste. the more people we killed the happier our officers were it got to be like a game like yankee cousin to see who could chill the most people and the different ways you could prove maybe you killed it be like that you know appears now if you brought back someone tears you know we had the most tears they would get the most fierce you change you should be rich overnight you went to germany and five men around the circle open up on full automatic whether i'm sitting. here saying i'm great like six or seven people in front of our family. most of the other. 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 are these dumbarton has a story. it's party time in traditional georgian restaurant style music is central to the country's dining experience and russian songs were sung alongside georgian. until it's. actually we will and the guys from tbilisi called in here and warned us not to sing russian songs while 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 their 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 are 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 pressure to control what music is sung should be resisted. the public has a right to condemn i welcome the singing of russian sounds but this smacks of censorship russian some scum be banned and the state should not try and regulate society like this performance say it's ridiculous to call them unpatriotic for singing popular russian numbers and. if they span is an act as in law then the whole world will laugh at georgia as it really is insanity. all. songs like this are synonymous georgian restaurants but if you want to hear them in

my talk to dine elsewhere because in georgia it looks like the show might be over tom watson. at a breeze up today here on our team and on the way as the president was here in just a few moments. hello time to get the latest from the world of business the london high court has suspended the deal to the twenty fifth of february this is the date which the court has set for b.p. to go into arbitration proceedings from guarding its assets what with all snapped this comes after the russian owners of the joint venture to filed a complaint seeking to stop the deal on the grounds that it violates the

shareholding agreement and that c.e.o. british company said b.p. and bras never could include t.n.t. b.p. in their arctic project deal signed last month robert dudley also surtees confident the standoff alvis share support will be resolved soon. and the my six stock exchange has agreed that it will buy out a controlling stake and there are tears because for roughly one point two billion dollars first deputy chairman of russia's central bank and with george a shareholder of my six says the price estimation includes a thirty seven percent premium they deal with this merger first came about after russia made it a priority early last year to push moscow as a global financial center but have been going to be done present of my success as the joint exchange will improve the market infrastructure. kind of working together with our partners remark years revenue drawing to

a strange and achieving ground of giving we can read if you think you have been moving go forward. is a great and very important infrastructure all in very great for the market. let's have a look at how the markets a fare in this hour in asia the nikkei and the hang saying have jumped by almost two percent as a surgeon u.s. manufacturing and strong company our innings convinced investors to pile back into risk yes's just by turmoil in egypt. moving to russia here they are chess in the mice it's closed on tuesday posted strong gains tracking the upbeat invested would close the indices gained ground up to monday's losses showing that correction on the markets was apparently short term. and the annual russia forum is getting underway in moscow it's the fourth such

event bringing together business leaders investors and officials from russia and the c.i.s. this year the four will focus on the global financial challenges and russia's changing economic situation our chief correspondent richard tanka tells us about the main events of the form. the changing paradigm of the global and russian economy this is the main topic of the day at the fourth annual with the russian investment for modernizing by choice for dialogue fast moving this is of course an important platform for thousands of russian businessmen representatives of the government foreign investors and global is interesting because to come together and discuss issues like finding the factors for sustainable economic growth both for russia and for the global economy now there will be plenty of sessions and round tables the main one is opened by secret the finance minister and also by having we have the head of russia's largest lender bank and of course other distinguished

speakers today clued nassim taleb the author of the famous black swan book and a distinguished economist nouriel roubini will be dissipating on thursday and of course joseph stiglitz the nobel prize winner in economics will also be having a speech today now what's interesting is that today's events comes at the background of two major deals the first one is the merger between the russia's two biggest stock exchanges the my six and the r.c.s. which values both exchanges at something like four and a half billion dollars and the second deal actually concerns the organizer of this form troika dialog of this investment bank is to be purchased by burbank the largest bank now we will be bringing you of course details on those deals and everything is going to be said here and the most interesting information you will find in our board because that's all we have time for now but our choose which moves into will. bring you more in less than fifty minutes time.

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him sixty. she was taken down raped by six or seven people in front of her only. the most of those. wealthy british style. that's not on the front. end of the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. just president hosni mubarak vows not to run for reelection in september his announcement triggered by over a week long on the arrest of wider throngs of protesters as well as the man and immediate she. change of regime. a russian woman living in sweden claims her

daughters were taken from her by the country's authorities human rights activist accuse of social services of money making scams. and ireland's expelling a russian diplomat over spiral aided accusations w. claims the identities of six irish citizens were taken to create counterfeit documents for russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year. but they had lines in our special report that now american holocaust is coming right up. to syria was that they were bombing only steel and concrete that it was was a surgical war that they were. you know maintaining planetary instead when i got over there i found out to church passed both houses entire villages were being wiped out people just discovered the united states was fighting an entirely different kind of war than they claimed it was violating all of the

international laws of war.