does he plan to 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 hold free and say elections are gauging the reaction from people here are they simply do not remove him there is still a lot of anger they believe the some protests have told me that they let that 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 race and to intimidate people who are taking part in these demonstrations having said that there are there are many millions of egyptians who stayed at home who's been watching these demonstrations on television and they might be uncertain as to what supports mates and they might be the people who might push for at least the protesters to quietly voices into some kind of compromise to be mates well certainly the u.s. is getting very critical role here and there's no denying that it's got its hands certainly meddling in egypt affairs what we do know is that before mubarak gave

that state of the nation address yesterday he did meet with an american envoy push a was put onto him to call for free and fair elections and we know as much from the american president barack obama who held a thirty minute phone call with the egyptian president off if you gave that state of the nation address a bamma said that he had had a direct and frank call with mubarak that he's had expressed the need for a transition to peaceful elections as soon as possible sure you get the reaction from people here on the streets and they are asking for america to stay out of their affairs the same criticism is leveled at the american city 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 internet. national stage that means own

country so whether it is nobody whether it is all but al the way the egyptians feeling that they both made of the same cloth they'll both push and mary can engender and really the court i'm hearing here on the streets is for america to stay on. i talked to earlier and american foreign policy analyst robert naiman says 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 when you see a rear guard in washington saying you know oh my god mubarak is our our guy we're going to lose our five years if you care for us and there's 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 to current egyptian government is pursuing its ordered by the us maintaining the split between fatah and hamas. among else the next this is the also

your trip should govern it as his pursuit supported by the u.s. these are policies that are likely to fall if there is a democratically elected egyptian government in the 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 their leaders for them. the egyptian people are very very suspicious of anybody who is dorst 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 no well weak if one point three billion dollars of aid every year the ordinary egyptian people don't see one cent of doubt so they're not bothered if america does withdraw this funds 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 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. al what's behind this uprising and why the lies ahead for egypt is the topic in the latest edition of crossfire coming up and less than half an hour. the muslim brotherhood yes it's the best organized opposition but it's not the majority the majority there is 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 were treats the middle east with condescending eyes including china

including other countries no one wants to see the middle east democratic they're all afraid. of. what you are to live from moscow sweden's 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 of financial support per child. 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 twin girls 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 thus 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 the law sort of the social workers within the law are able to go 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 we have cases where across it 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 don't don't list the own 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 in italy 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 swedish 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 the present of logic of fun burke is persona non grata here in sweden for his outspoken views on the system he says social services can take children away using their own criteria are working together with doctors psychologists employers all wrapped up in

a big business say you have six foster children well you make a fortune they're 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 the most of the birthdays coming up with well my children to be one of the only to mr christmas and will miss 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's now a r t stocking fan so i have for you this hour we reveal how georges clamp down on everything russian has now effect and what the two nations share for centuries music. am both published and iran describing suicide bombing. sorry for this mix up. a book published in iran describing suicide bombing was found in an unlikely place in the us 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 peddling fear and well if iraq is a common occurrence in the u.s. it's garnished 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 in iran and contained information on suicide bombers that much was enough to trigger 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 bogeyman the biggest threat on earth no politician ever lost by attacking iran no newscaster ever got negative publicity from. 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 amateur like this suicide bombings in moscow to help us in places like iran to get more russian cooperation with al qaeda in 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 has 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 here like apache 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 legged stool 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 iraq mongering can have major consequences creating a climate of scratch 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 iran 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 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 gotta 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. in an artsy exclusive we talk to the widow of the first russian president boris yeltsin ninety else and i shares her memories about her husband and his legacy. to find out why the top supermodel naomi

campbell chatted about with russia's prime minister and what concessions he managed to squeeze out of him. now the russian foreign ministry has called ireland's expulsion of a russian diplomat and unfriendly move and promised it would respond. of six irish citizens were taken to create counterfeit documents for russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year r.t. said workers cannot 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 finally 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 dublin 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 reached. did see however that the hope this incident would not affect the relations with moscow going to spin off reporting they are now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and a massive winter snow storm if there were cultural hard learned of the united states that has affected almost a third of the country's population airlines have already canceled thousands of flights and roads become treacherous stretches of black ice school districts universities and legislators have been closed due to the storm that stretches more than two thousand kilometers in texas to rhode island despite the massive destruction forecasters warned that the worst of the cold and snow is still had. north and south korea have set

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 a frigate show now on and in the van birds are tillery attacks on the south which claimed fifty lives in all both incidents and war games by so have fueled tensions between the two the previous attempt at a summit before the attacks a lapse due to differences over food aid or pyongyang. and over nine thousand people in low lying parts of the one industry we have been ordered to leave their homes as a second cycle own in a week is expected to cycle only assy is forecast to bring a meter of rain in the north already saturated by months of devastating flooding and other side struck the area on monday but did little more than up through trees damaged 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 out of water for days. later

today we look back at a u.s. led war that turned into one of last century's greatest tragedies our special report vietnam american holocaust is coming your way in about two hours but here's a taste. the more people we killed the happier our officers were it got to be like a game like to see you get killed the most people and the different ways you can prove how many people you killed would be like how you know piers now if you brought back so many years you know where we had the most years they would get the most fierce in-tray you should be reduced to women children and five men around the circle open up on full automatic for them sixty. shooting them great pleasure for seven people in front of the family. most of the other.

and tensions remain high between russia and georgia with both sides in a constant angry exchange of words but this is also spilling over into average a wife 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 traditional georgian restaurant style music is central to the country's dining experience and russian songs were sung alongside georgian. until this. evening we will and the guys from tbilisi called in here and 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 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 many georgians who are sitting in the restaurant for very upset he 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 and 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 hate to the public has a right to condemn i welcome the singing of russian sounds but this smacks of censorship russian songs can be banned and the state should not try and regulate society like this performers 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 with joy in 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. of brazil today here on r.t. business news is next for the euro. hello time to get the latest business news and the london high court has suspended the b.p. rawson of deal on the twenty 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 with their russian oil giant but it comes after the russian owners of the joint venture to be filed

a complaint seeking to stop the deal on the grounds that it violates the tame p.p.p. shareholder equipment and the c.e.o. of the british company said b.p. and rosneft could include. their arctic project deal signed last month ritual xander of from universe capitals there are two possible outcomes in the conflict. there will be any major changes in the deal between b.p. and rosneft as everything was set on a highly governmental level i think comes a possible on the team kay get some compensation there's minimal freedom of action in terms of decision making or is a second option an invitation to join you two projects between b.p. and rules needs. to be focused on. ok on the end of old russia forum race underway in moscow it's the fourth such event bringing together business leaders investors and officials from all the world

to discuss investment opportunities and russia and the c.i.s. this year the forum will focus on the global financial challenges and russia's changing economic situation or to a correspondent which mr dacre joins us now from the event so hello to you dmitri the delegates sign having a ten minutes break right now the session will continue shortly when we should stop their discussions this morning. that's why this whole wheezing literally packed with people during the break between plenary sessions it seems that we have a record attendance actually this year's you can see by the crowd a lively it's supposed to be true well but the talking about global economic growth washes role in the global economy and for that matter one of the topics is the role of moscow will it be able to become a financial sense that there was a long debate whether that could actually happen with moscow having to stock exchange theology as the molly sex but now apparently there's been announcement of

a deal of a good deal between those two stock exchange just to talk more on this i'm joined by. my views on the seven of the board of the r.g.s. sec thank you very much for being with us sorry we have to scream a bit there so that we have a plan which is the likes me i. think we have to do the first with at least we've signed years of beer we have yes we hear shareholders yes it was my sixth so we've begun to control the states. to do i think it's quite fearful sights it's thirty five percent just in the sixty five days of the shares of sirius and i think it's a message that was first there for the after the live three miles to you know the books will do legal documents and work really good people in the lives they were going to see should become by human tissue. but i think it's a positive. one for the two for the russian market so what is the next step in this emerging between two stuff at stake. as i said the first old one is just the next

three months so really that we move from a what you would to a real deal. from you made several good blowby all the shareholders and buys the way market participants. in the russian market because all to shareholders also market participants mean broken best banks and banks and after about a very important it will be at least safe to come back a bit to two teams can create the maximum value of money the glasses be my suspicious model and the odds you have a very close to market participants very market driven in this kind of spirit that is very important that we will continue you know worried that competition between the two stock exchanges that we had will now go away you know how is that going to change actually if we're going to market it to such an extent you're right there are always pluses to have several stock exchanges one stock exchange is the framework to do what you do without a deep limitation that's what i'm saying will be key but i think globally for essentially corporates for your best it's

a combined market if it's built in the proper way it's going to be a plus will increase will be investment up to fight for i shall write do you think this is a vital step for moscow to becoming a global financial center and is that possible. i think is one of the importance that of course is not the only one that's going to have to have you know a single shot from picturing the civic a said to the russia you have to have the right investment climate i think six improving a game to be the best is very important both from financial investment also direct investment the russian corporations and not only the state of the states we see now there is definitely some decide to invest more in the coming years not only because of these of course advanced but things. you know that that's very important of the four boys also for the six apple and this is an old rolls was old version doesn't than if it's all right said the maker there's something there's so much seven of

the body they are just talking to a business side see here at the it's like investment forum and of course we'll be bringing you all the latest that's happening here phone speeches leaders and abuse it all for the bulletin so don't miss them. thank you very much mitri members and proportional line for the russia forum which is underway in moscow and hope to get more for you as the discussions continue. and that's all we have time for knowledge join us in less than fifteen minutes time for more business news.

culture is that so much of him and there's a huge musician on the market even changes of men's continue to unfold in egypt what kind of middle east is coming to me and give democracy is indeed on. the back here with our team and these are the top stories it gives president hosni mubarak vows not to run for reelection in september refuses to step down before the polls and his announcement triggered by over a week long on the rest abideth wrong. as males demand an immediate stranger regime . and a russian woman living in sweden claims her daughters were taken from her by the country's authorities human rights activists accuse of social services of money

making scam as new parents receive never get financial support for children. of somalia a russian diplomat over spiralling to accusations claims the identities of six irish citizens were taken to create counterfeit documents for russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year. we had once next in our cross talk show was behind the uprising in egypt and what's ahead. for the. we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. and . alone and welcome to. a game changer as events continue to unfold in egypt what

kind of middle east is coming into being and give.