transition immediately a shift in rather it towards the leader it back for nearly thirty years of his rule now we can cross live to our correspondent paul as leader who is in this for us in the latest 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 in the streets there. well marina did men walking that is how the thousands of demonstrators on the streets of cairo are describing president mubarak's last attempts to cling to power but just how did is he and for how much longer does he plan to walk that is the question on everyone's mind the address that he gave to the nation late last night suggested that he plans to stay in power at least until september with president mubarak saying that he will then hold free and say elections are gauging the reaction from people here they simply do not remove him there is still a lot of anger they believe is something to say that told me that elected does not change its change its spots they're also very frightened that mubarak might use the

next few months to implement his security forces trying to place and to intimidate people who have taken part in these demonstrations having said that though there are many millions of egyptians who stayed at home he's been watching these demonstrations on television and they might be uncertain as to what supports mates you need to remember that the economy here has practically grinding to a halt it's estimated that this crisis has cost the country some twelve million dollars and set the economy back by some six months six months people need food for the families the shops are closed the schools are closed and some one point seven million people who are employed by the interior ministry might not support mubarak that says he wants to know how they're going to get their children to school tomorrow and they might be the people who might push for at least the protesters to quieten their voices into some kind of compromise to be made. paul the question they'd like to ask you know why is there a change of rhetoric from the u.s. there as we know that are used to back mubarak and now it seems to be frustrated

and changing its position what's going on. well certainly the u.s. is playing a very critical role here and there's no denying that it's got its hands certainly meddling in egypt in affairs what we do know is that before mubarak gave that state of the nation address yesterday he did meet with an american envoy pushy was put onto him to call for free and. say reelections and we know as much from the american president barack obama held a fifteen minute phone call with the egyptian president if you gave that state of the nation address a bomb the said that he had had a direct and frank call with mubarak in that call he's had the need for a transition to peaceful elections as soon as possible should you get the reaction from people here on the streets and they are asking for america to stay there if it is the same criticism as leveled at the american troops or what people here believe is american support for mohamed el baradei he is the former chief of the international atomic energy agency he also won the nobel prize with that agency back in two thousand and five now he is being touted as

a possible leader of an interim government he said as much and soon as of opposition groups all supporting him talking to protesters they do not support him many of them in fact don't even know who he is he's a figure that's much better known on the international stage than in his own country so whether it is mubarak whether it is all but the egyptians feeling that they both made of the same cloth they'll both push and marry camilla and really the court i'm hearing here on the streets is for america to stay on it paula thanks very much indeed for bringing us the sub date from the egyptian capital cairo we're there. and american foreign policy analyst robert naiman although the u.s. was forced to shift its rhetoric 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 real guard in washington saying you know oh my god mubarak is are are going to lose are the picture of 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 to current egyptian government pursuits ordered by the u.s. maintaining the split between fatah and hamas. among palestinians the government has pursued by the u.s. these are paws are likely to fall if there is a democratically elected egyptian government going towards the most extreme policies promoted by the united states and british journalist yvonne ridley told r.t. that egyptian people will no longer allow the us pick the leaders 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 said to give no week at one point three billion dollars of aid every year the ordinary egyptian people don't see one cent of that so they're not bothered if america does withdraw their spines even 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 they're very intelligent they're very politically aware. they will choose the people who they want and if america doesn't like it well it's going to be. what's behind this uprising and what lies ahead for egypt is the topic in the latest edition of crossfire coming up next hour. 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 treats the middle east with condescending ice including china including other countries no one wants to see the middle east democratic they're all afraid. when a child welfare system has been accused by human rights activists of profiting from family misery 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 per child or does 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 russian citizens living in sweden has seen twenty four year olds 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 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 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 long 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 we have cases where that you will have been where social services have paid ten thousand swedish crowns. that's about five hundred new good thirty one. archie was unable to get a comment on a time his case from swedish social services who cited a privacy policy i knew about this deal they downed only 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 nataly has been told the chances of getting her grades back are slim and that they are most likely now with a swedish family and that you should be protected by international laws and conventions but loopholes in the sweeter system allow cases like this to go unnoticed. consensus country. and people are more. prone to speak up against the consensus so it's very quiet in this way. well 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 services can take children away using their own criteria and 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 not only tell you can do is wait for a hearing on her case which is so far been postponed several times doing it as do most of the birthdays coming up with well my children be one we already missed christmas and will miss turning thirteen this week at home with their mother who sweden has just died it is at least for now not going to be their mom and he's now a r. t. stock. and so have three of us our here in our team and new spy related scandal on ravel. dublin is accusing the russian secret service of stealing the real irish identities you know to to cover up its secret operations in the united states find out more later in the program. and we reveal how george is clamp down on everything

russia has now affected what the two nations have shared for centuries for years in . a book published eragon describing suicide bombing was found in an unlikely place in the u.s. it's 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 is a common occurrence in the u.s. as guided to count 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 in iran 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 say it was 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 man the biggest threat on earth no politician ever lost a. newscaster ever got negative publicity for. it is an industry in the united states that whenever you have something negative that you want to say about the middle east or about the islamic world you can always attack iran every chance is taken to toss the rain into a stories that has no connection with a metairie like this was not bombings in moscow sakin to help us in places like iran to 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 troops 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 you ran is not new in the us media it's been going on for years despite no proof tehran was building nuclear bombs. are out 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 there 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 of being major cheerleaders in fear mongering which back in two thousand and three lads to a war that was started on why 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 expect otherwise you mongering can 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 qaida 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 as the news reporter pointed out in isolation this is just a piece of information we don't maybe know months from now maybe a year from now you'll hey remember that young poor you know the internet'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. in washington d.c. . now there's always more news blogs and feature stories on our website r.t. dot com here's what's online for you right now and our t.v. exclusive we talk to the widow of the first russian president boris yeltsin the nightingale to her memories about her husband and he's like you see. and find out why tops of our model now mccampbell chatted about with russia's prime minister and what confessions she managed to squeeze out of him. and ireland as expelling a russian diplomat after accusing its intelligence services of making false irish passports for use in asp dublin claims the identities of six irish citizens were

taken to create counterfeit documents for russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year. 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 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 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 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 see however that they hope this incident would not affect the relations with moscow . the group is going off reporting there now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and

a massive winter snow storm hit the agricultural heartland of the united states and has affected almost a third of the country's population airlines have already canceled thousands of flights the roads have become treacherous stretches of black eyes skoal district universities and legislatures have been closed due to the storm that stretches more than two thousand kilometers from texas to rhode island despite the massive disruptions forecasters warned that the worst of the cold and snow. north and south korea have said fabry 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 frigates shown on and of embers or tillery attacks on the south which claimed fifty lives in all both incidents and a war games by seoul have fueled tensions between the two a previous attempt at a summit before the attacks collapsed due to differences over food aid for

pyongyang. 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 their artist on bar has a story. it's party time and traditional georgian restaurant style music is central to the country's dining experience russian songs. georgian. until it's. too late and the guys from tbilisi called in here is warned us not to sing russian songs always 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 own them. 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 many georgians here a sitting in the restaurant for very upset they 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 with performed they would face fines of nearly three hundred dollars and we spoke to the ministry however they refused to comment saying no such meeting took place cultural commentators say pressure to control what music is sung should be resisted shade to 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 before or 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 in georgia 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. and bring us up to date here on our t.v. time now for a business update on the way. hello time for your business update the london high court has suspended the deal two of 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 withdraw snapped this comes

after the russian owners of the joint venture. filed a complaint seeking to stop the deal on grounds that it violates the shareholder agreement earlier the c.e.o. of the british company said. it could include. their arctic project deal signed last month and robert dudley also said he is confident the standoff over the shares will be resolved soon. and the annual russia former is underway in moscow it's the fourth such event bringing together the business leaders investors and officials from all the world to discuss investment opportunities and russia and the c.i.s. this here the forum will focus on the global financial challenges and russia's changing economic situation well archies said richard today rejoins us now. live from the forum so in which way the forum started about an hour ago so what

have the delegates been discussing so far. well the key question discussed today at the trucker dial of investment for here is who or watch will be driving global growth see there's a changing paradigm of global and russian economy and therefore the delegates are looking for new factors of sustainable economic growth one of the most debated sectors is commodities of course we've heard the opening speech by aleksey kudrin the finance minister he is hailed the of the fact that this year commodities will do well for example will be higher than seventy five dollars per barrel which is envisaged in the budget which will help russia sustain its economic base but at the same time a nobel prize winner joseph stiglitz has said that it is actually a negative factor because for example there is less consumption in the united states as the country is spending more on energy like more on this i'm joined now by peter hambro the c.e.o. of better quality p.l.c. thank you very much peter for being with us so what will be driving global economic

growth will it be commodities. commodities are a huge importance and particularly to russia weary company which is a big gold producer here we're also a big producer of iron ore in the region exporting to china and it's those exports which i think are going to make not only oil with other role materials from russia which is so badly needed in china and the engine of economic growth i believe cost. to remain in the east coast both russia and china and india so what is your outlook for for the gold industry and for the gold price how is your business going to be doing in the next coming years what do you think well we had a difficult year last year when we had some supply problems with equipment we managed pretty much to catch up with that not enough just with a big backlog of stripping which you do but i'm very confident that we will achieve

the six hundred thousand dollars minimum target that we've set ourselves and probably some of the new mines and new press facilities that are coming on stream will add to that so i'm very very confident about that and i'm also confident about to go price i think that the gold price is likely to remain flat till maybe june. but then i think everybody's worries about inflation will return my view is that the world has no alternative but to inflate its way out of the debt trap it finds itself and that means that the price of real assets will go up in monetary terms that value of the money will go down and that is what i think will force to go price up as people become again more concerned about inflation in the latter half of the year if you are you saying you're expecting go for ice actually go even higher then why was there well the

fact that you say you reduced your stake in the company of like you know you had five an office and you now down to four and a half percent how is that how come this happened well overall it's not a very big reduction and in fact it isn't really a reduction in total because our shares are always in this state has be to hammer and associates and is just changing around all of the end of ship of particular assets within that group so two of our russian partners. and up with a direct holding in the company rather than through freeloaders like peter hambro thank you very much for your time thank you for being with us that was the head of the patrols can't be talking to you here at the choice of either convention informal of course be bringing you all the most interesting bits of information speeches that we hear here and that's that's all we have time for back to you thank you very much we'll be looking forward to this and we continue with

a quick look at the markets sund let's start with they. came ahead saying have jumped by almost two percent as a surgeon the u.s. manufacturing and strong company earnings convinced investors to pile into a risky ass's despite turmoil in egypt and in russia the r.t.s. is seeing another strong opening on the trading day the index managed to gain point seven percent in the fast minutes of the early session while prices creasing on egypt's turmoil may affect the suez canal while egypt is not a major oil producing country each day almost two million barrels of oil pos through the canal. and as we've heard. from their russian forum underway in moscow that's in less than fifteen minutes time.

welcome to your business join us here watching r t live from moscow i'm marina joshie these are the top stories egypt's president hosni mubarak vows not to run for reelection in september but refuses to step down before the polls is announced when triggered by over

a week long unrest of beida 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 country's authorities human rights activist accused its social services of money making scam for its new parents received significant support for children. and ireland's expelling our russian diplomat over spy related accusations when claims the identities of six irish citizens were taken to create the documents for russian agents uncovered last year. no warrant 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 region mainly populated by armenians was part of the soviet republic of serbia john and after the collapse of the us ceasar declared independence which resulted in several years of armed conflict a truce was signed in one thousand nine hundred for russia france and the us have.