and to wall 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 very 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 that something traces of 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 mixed 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 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 push 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 the state of the nation address a bomb a said that he had had a direct and frank chord with mubarak in that call he's had expressed 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 out of their affairs the same criticism is leveled at the american support 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. own country so

whether it is mubarak whether it is all but the way the egyptians feeling that they both made of the same cloth they'll both push and mary can engender and really the call i'm hearing here on the streets is for america to stay on. post the reporting there and brazilian journalist pepe escobar says the u.s. pressuring the bark is hypocritical after its thirty years of blind support it's very very complicated for us because it's a tightrope walk this guy off after all has been brought up by the u.s. for thirty years the police state that he set up and tortured virtually everybody that stayed in egypt it was progressive all the white people or exiles this was also supported by the u.s. so when hillary clinton says that being encouraging mubarak to the reforms this is an absolute nonsense they started doing this probably two days ago not thirty years ago and british journalist yvonne ridley tell r.t.

that egyptian people will no longer allow the u.s. pick the leaders for them the egyptian people are very very suspicious of anybody who is being and or 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 well we can 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 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. and what's behind this uprising and what lies ahead for egypt is

the topic in the latest edition of crossfire coming up later in the day here on r.t. . the muslim brotherhood yes it's the best organized opposition but it's not the majority the majority there are a lot they say they're really 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. sweden's child welfare system has been accused by human rights activists of profiting from family

misery and 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 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 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 law without sufficient proof that it is considered legal because of the law or. the 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 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 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 and her case is that you will have been

where social services paid ten thousand swedish. that's about one hundred new goods thirty one. archie was unable to get a comment on a time is case from swedish social services who cited a privacy policy i knew about oh they steal they don't generally steal children but money apartments property and children are human goods to them with course 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 through consensus country. people are more.

prone to speak up against the consensus so it's very quiet in this way and the consensus is that the consensus is that the state is always right reservoir jacobson burke is persona non grata here in sweden for his outspoken views on the system he says some social 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 your resting and what's of the birthday is coming up with well my children be one they already missed 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 said no way our t. stock. so i have for you this hour here on our team we reveal how george clamp down and everything russian has now affected what the two nations have shared for centuries music. before that 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 but peddling fear and vilifying iran is a common occurrence and the u.s.'s guy next to count now reports. a book found in the arizona desert has put america's most watched cable news channel on high alert fox news alert i knew terror a few years the book was reportedly published anywhere and contained information on suicide bombers that much was enough to trigger sensational suggestions that iranians could be plotting something inside the us they would not give us

a picture of the book they would not see if it's 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. city from an. industry that states that whenever you have something negative that you want to save the. world you can always attack every chance is taken to toss the rain into a stories that. no connection with terror 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 we lease 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 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. or 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 so 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 iran fear 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 the ran 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. yeah 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 team in washington d.c. . and there's always more news blogs and feature stories on our website r.t. dot com here's what's on the line for you right now. in our takes close of we talk to the widow of the first russian president boris yeltsin i know yeltsin the shares her memories about her husband and his legacy. find out what tops of her model now accountable chatted about with russia's prime minister and what concessions she managed to squeeze out of him. and the russian foreign ministry has called islands expulsion of a russian diplomat and unfriendly move and promised it would respond dublin claims the identities of six irish citizens were taken to create account of the documents

for russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year r.t. is it work is going off has the details. and 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 for all the irish authorities say that these 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. 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 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 the forgery and we don't know why 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 this kid off reporting there now to 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 airlines have already canceled thousands of

flights and roads have become treacherous stretches of black guys 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 the massive disruptions forecasters warn that the worst of the cold and snow is still ahead. of north and south korea have said february 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 saying king of the frigate and of embers are tillery attacks on the south which claimed fifty lives in all both incidents and war games by so have fuel tensions between the two at a previous attempt at a summit before the attacks collapse due to differences over food aid for pyongyang . in canada has emerged hundred dogs were shot dead over two days

after a dog sledding business experienced a sharp decline in bookings following last year's one coover winter olympic games the gruesome slaughter was described and documents awarding compensation to the worker who carried out the killings animal rights organizations will have announced that they intend to file charges against those involved a company has become the target of outrage from people as far away as you were up. well later today we'll 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 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 yeah take a person to see who gets killed the most people and the different ways you can prove how many people you killed it be like telling your peers now if you brought back someone tears you know where they had the most tears they would get the most fierce you changing you should be reversed overnight you women children and five

men around the circle open up on automatic whether i'm sitting. here thinking that rape like six or seven people in our family. most of the other. tensions remain high between russia and georgia was 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 barca has a story. it's party time and traditional georgian restaurant style music is central to the country's dining experience and russian songs were sung alongside georgian until this and. i'll tell you we will and 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 perform was 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 many georgians who were 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 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 song scum 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 actress in law then the whole world will laugh at georgia as it really is insanity. our. songs like this are synonymous with georgian restaurants but if you want to hear them we might have to dine elsewhere because in georgia it looks like the show might be over tom watson. all the phrases up today here and actually right now it's time for the business of date with heal you. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update the london high court has suspended the b.p. rosneft 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 where the russian oil giant

this 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 agreement earlier the c.e.o. of the british company said ross may have to could include b.p. in their arctic project deal signed last month to trick sandra from you know of a capital says there are two possible outcomes in the conflict. there will be any major changes in the deal between b.p. and rosneft as everything will sit on a highly governmental level i think too and comes a possible either team k. get some compensation this may be more freedom of action in terms of decision making or as a second option an invitation to join mutual projects between b.p. and rules news. and brand current prices have hit the one hundred dollar mark in recent days fueled by growing instability in egypt it's the first time since two thousand and eight that such highs have been reached to discuss this and more

details are now joined live by george water back from energy and metals research agency plots in london. mr beck thank you very much for joining us ok well it does not a major oil producing country each day almost two million barrels of oil pass through the suez canal but is the egypt unrest the only cause for the rise in oil prices. no but at the moment it's a very important one because this signifies a time of change in the middle east on the possibility that we have what formerly used to be known as the effect we had the changes in tunisia some ongoing changes in egypt the possibility of changes in yemen and who knows what lies beyond that so the possibility that you could have disturbance in the short term we are of course all agreed that the mock received very good an excellent thing but the market of course war so the prices have gone up and the possibility of potential

disruptions while minimal still worries traders on the market that is a very important element in why we have crossed that one hundred dollar mark but in my opinion even without those issues demand remains very strong in asia the man is coming back in america the man is very strong latin america the middle east and the middle africa so all around you see more consumption of oil so all that coupled with the printing of money that occur in the last quarter of two thousand and ten prepare all the environment for prices to be above one hundred so in my opinion prices above one hundred were only a question of when and how soon rather than this one happened. ok we see brant prices rose past one hundred two dollars per barrel but what price can we

expect to see in the near future. i think that now that the prices have the size of really broken through the one hundred a lot mark the question will be whether we go to one ten or thereabouts not whether we go down to seventy i think one of the concerns but they clearly among the producers is whether we're going to have the same situation we had in two thousand and eight when we had some major price corrections when the price fell to roughly forty dollars based on where global demand is flowing now that was the bowl before retreat similar to what we had to have years ago doesn't look like the fundamentals supporting consumption on the man are fairly strong outside of europe on the u.s. and production yes is increasing but it's not increasing at the pace that he needs

to to fulfill all this is the man in the market place so from a producer point of view on you know i'm very mindful that russia is the largest producer in the world i think the possibility that twenty eleven may even be better than twenty ten is greater than fifty percent working thank you very much for your analysis sorry for mispronouncing your name that the whore here want to back from plots. the end of russia for me is underway in moscow it's the fourth such event bringing together business leaders investors and officials from all over the world to discuss investment opportunities in russia and the c.i.s. this year the four will focus on global financial challenges and russia's changing economic situation and russia has made it a priority to push more sco as a global financial center and this has brought about the idea of

a merger between the countries my six and r.t. as this is now my six has agreed that it will buy out a controlling stake in the r.t.s. for roughly one point two billion dollars the artist chairman says the deal should be beneficial for the russian markets let's hear what you have to say. we do i think it's quite fair for both sides so that thirty five percent there may sixty five days in the shares of sirius and i think it's as i said this is the first step to talk about let's three months to you know the rules will be legal documents and work for you to give them the lives they were musicians become by humans you see with i think it's ability to the two hundred forty two for the us market. time to have a look at how the markets are faring european stocks are rising with london breaking about the psychological important six hundred thousand six thousand level imperial tobacco group is the top gain on the footsie it's just so four percent on reports of high net revenue and

a fifty percent dividend payout mining stocks are also on the rise at strata has advanced more than two and a half percent. funded russia they are. seeing another strong strong opening yes and it's managed to gain point seven percent in the first minute of the early session and it has higher with oil about the one hundred dollars but there are a lot of gas form and look or law both gaining one percent so far. that's your business update for now join us in the less than fifteen minutes diamond business archie is live at the russia forum underway in moscow so stay with us for that.

this is already live from moscow they had lie ins agents president hosni mubarak vows not to run for reelection in september but refuses to step down before the polls his announcement triggered by over a week long unrest of wider throngs of protesters as most demand an immediate change of regime. and a russian woman living in sweden claims her daughters were taken from her by the country's authorities human rights activists accuse a social services of money making scams as new parents receive significant financial support for children. and ireland's expelling a russian diplomat over spiral later accusations dublin claims the identities of

six irish citizens were taken to create counterfeit documents for russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year. no war no peace the stalemate between armenia and azerbaijan is lasted for over sixteen years and the conflict dates back to nine hundred eighty eight the gordon region mainly populated by armenians was part of the soviet republic of as a bridge on after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. declared independence which resulted in several years of armed conflict a truce was signed in a nine hundred ninety four russia france and the us have been mediating talks since then r.t. caught up with foreign ministers of both sides of the conflict watch their interviews throughout the day and now too. what role does a version play in stabilizing the caucasus region. of course as your bread chinese bowl for the settlement of all conflicts in most cases if we taught were.