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 mixed and maybe might be the people who might push for at least the protesters to quietly voices into some kind of compromise to be made 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 that 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 on should there if it is the same criticism is leveled at the american troops or what people here believe is american support for mohammed 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 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 you as 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 al brady egyptians feeling that they're both made of the same cloth though both push and american agenda and really the call i'm hearing here on the streets is for america to stay on the. policy reporting there and brazilian journalist pappas cobar says the u.s. pressuring mubarak is hypocritical after its thirty years of blind support. it's

very very complicated for us because it's a tightrope walk this guy after all has been brought up by the us for thirty years the police state that he set up and torture you truly if 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 he was being encouraging mubarak to the reforms this is an absolute nonsense they started doing this probably two days ago thirty years ago 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 is being and also 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 weak 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 all that 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 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 tough now 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. muslim brotherhood yes it's the best organized opposition but it's not the majority. 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 eyes including china including other countries no one wants to see the middle east democratic their all of freed. to other stories now 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 financial support per child artie's any so now explains. christmas gifts never given. so coverage it's my children are in someone else's

hands of the most 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 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 i used 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 claims 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 slight sister risk even if there is no evidence sort of there is there is no witnesses there are third nothing but there is. a risk of something happening sort of then the law sort of the social workers within the law are able to to take the child into to sort of their it 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 are very curious is that you will have been where the social service is going to be ten thousand swedish thirty that's about one hundred new goods thirty one. archie was unable to get a comment on the time is case from so. reader 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 that is should be protected by international laws and conventions but loopholes in the swedish system allow cases like this to go unnoticed three the 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 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 social services can take children away using

their own criteria by working together with doctors psychologists employers all wrapped up in a big business you have six foster children well 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 when will my children be what they already missed christmas. and william 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 says no way r t. and you're watching are the live from moscow still have for you this hour. russia calls the deportation of his diplomats roylance was allegedly connected to spy scandal on friendly act which will have serious consequences. and we reveal how georgia's clampdown on everything russia has now affected what

the two nations have shared for centuries music. before that a book published an 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 of was a warning of an upcoming attack from the islamic republic but peddling fear and vilifying iran as a common currency and the u.s. is going to check out now reports. a book found in the arizona desert has put america's most watched cable news channel on 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 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 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 boogeyman the biggest threat on earth no politician ever lost by attacking iran. every got negative publicity from. it is an industry here in the united 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 rain into a stories that has no connection with a terrorist like this suicide bombings in moscow going to help us in places like iran we 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 they demonize ation of iran is not new in the u.s. media is being going on for years despite no prove 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 and why is america sitting you 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 of being 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 fear mongering can have major consequences creating a climate of 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 rent 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 got to check out r.t. washington d.c. . well there's always more news blogs and feature stories on our website r.t.

dot com available for you twenty four seven let's not take a look at what's there right now. on our team exclusive we talked to the widow of the first russian president boris yeltsin ninety else and shares her memories about her husband and he's like you see. find out what top supermodel now campbell chatted about with russia's prime minister and what confessions she managed to squeeze out of him. the russian foreign minister has called ireland's expulsion of a russian diplomat and friendly move and promised it would respond dublin claims the identities of several irish citizens were taken to create counterfeit documents for russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year r.t. if you were going to have joins us live now from moscow with the details. how did

war now what are the signals coming from moscow. well so far this signals haven't been really positive the russian foreign ministry has called iowans decision to deport its diplomats an unfriendly move which will have serious consequences these are these are the only comments would heard from moscow so far after dublin accused the russian intelligence service of stealing real existing irish identities you know to forge passports to cover up its secret operations in the united states i was yesterday say that this is a result of an investigation which started right after last summer's spy scandal between moscow and washington when a group of people were arrested in the united states and found guilty of being secret russian agents all of them were deported and it was largely covered by international media that's why in the name that shop one turned up a successful young business woman the russian businesswoman who was quickly deemed

the russian james bond girl well several people out of this deported group have had the irish passport but it's not clear if these irish passports are the ones irish saudis are clearly talking about neither is it clear why a diplomat is going to be deported and we don't know his name either or if he's connected to this alleged theft and forgery. writing or thanks very much for this update your has been out there reporting from moscow. watching r t let's now take a look at some other stories from around the world and a man winter storm has hit the agricultural hard land 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 ice 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 warned that the worst of the cold and snow is still had. north and south korea have set february eighth 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 for a good show known and the november as artillery attacks on the south which claimed fifty lives in all both incidents and war games by so have fueled tensions between the two at a previous attempt at a summit before the attacks collapsed due to differences over food aid for pyongyang. in canada has emerged one hundred dogs were shot dead over two days after a dog sledding business experienced a sharp decline in bookings following last year's even colder winter olympic games the gruesome slaughter was described in documents awarding compensation to the worker who carried out the killings animal rights organizations have announced that

they intend to file charges against those involved the company has become the target of outrage from people as far away as you are at australia. 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 board has a story. i think 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 war until this. particular we will warned the guys from tbilisi called in here and warned us not to sing russian songs our hidden camera captured threats against a restaurant owner outside the georgian capital the reason they say the georgian government views russian as the language of its enemies performers to complain

they've been stopped from singing popular russian songs my musicians apologized and said he couldn't sing the requested songs because they were banned many georgians herea 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 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 he made to the public has a right to condemn i welcome the singing of russian suns but this smacks of censorship russian some 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 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. well the reasons have to date here on our team can now for the business with the area. that's right maria time to get the latest on the world of business and all top stories the london high court has halted to deal between b.p. and a russian oil giant role sniffed to explore the arctic shelf this comes after the joint russian british venture team p.p.p. filed a complaint claiming the criminal violates their right of first refusal on any p.p. work and russia the high court ordered the dispute to be resolved by arbitration by

the twenty fifth of february b.p. agrees to n n s a small with all sniffed and generally and form a partnership for all it's the ration in russia's option which could potentially contain billions of barrels of oil and gas but iris editor in chief business new europe says that the conflict over the deal won't last it won't be a long lasting as there is high level government involvement. be tied up because states. that they are firmly sides are like some of the other states so it's a very messy. this is what they see themselves let's say it's about states'. rights by sea. and the annual russia former is underway in moscow it's the fall for such event bringing together a business leaders investors and officials from all over the world to discuss

investment opportunities in russia and the c.i.s. this year the forum will focus on global financial challenges as well as russia's changing economic situation russia has made it a priority to push moscow as a global financial center and this has brought about the idea of a merger between the contras my six and r.t.s. bosses know my six has agreed that it will buy out a controlling stake in the r.t.s. for roughly one point two billion dollars there are chess chairman says the deal should be beneficial for the russian market. they do i think it's quite fair for all sites it's thirty five percent chess game day sixty five was an exchange of serious and i think it's that's it is it was first step to talk about what's three months to you know the courts rule the legal documents and work really good people and the lives they were musicians will become by a mindset that i think it's a positive for the country forty two for the us market. and staying with the former

russia aims for growth through industrial invasion but to mcgrath c.e.o. of spare bank says government performs also needs to be more tonight's let's listen to what he had to say. most used to go in there was more we have a unique opportunity to reach a high level of growth in both the mid and long term however our main problems lie in the wrong concentration of effort and the lack of modernization in the government we need to minimize the presence of the government in the economy and improve efficiency if we do this and improve market competition i'm sure that russia will become one of the key global drivers. and more from the fore of the russian economy is mainly based on natural resources and high prices for these have helped the economy in recent years where the finance minister says this factor cannot longer guarantee further growth. so you should look in the last decade

g.d.p. per capita in russia has grown from four to five thousand dollars i'm sure fifteen there's the fastest growth in history and will probably never happen again of course it was due to the prophecies of our economy and prices in some years we had all learned it was growth of ten percent but today we have exhausted our present show and additional g.d.p. growth based on day was sick so it's probably impossible for russia. time to have a quick look at how the markets are doing that sour european stocks are rising with london's footsie breaking about the psychologically important six thousand level but then slipping back under this threshold again dear old tobacco group is the talk again on the foot say its shares surged five percent on reports of higher net revenue and a fifty percent dividend payout mining stocks are also on the rise xstrata is gaining almost three percent rio tinto and reached the village and are both bouncing more than two and a half percent. bad in russia there are tears in the minus six us seeing another

strong opening the r.t.s. index managed to gain points seven percent in the first minute of the earlier session o.j. shares a high with world one hundred dollars per barrel mark let's have a look at those shares rising oil prices sending energy stocks higher gas from me up to sing approximately the same gains heading on average one of the house sent my these shares are also among the leaders on the my six sever starts climbing one point two percent and the world's two nickel is up one point four percent gold is inching closer. about a percent as gold prices have come down. as branch current prices hit the one hundred dollar mark in recent days fueled by growing growing instability in egypt and it's the first time since two thousand and eight that such highs have been raised who are more into parker from plots and london says the rise was inevitable. the man remains very strong in asia the man is

coming back in america the man is very strong left in america and the middle east and 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. or him want to back off from plots that and that's all we have time for knowledge join us in less than fifty minutes.

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a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. the reports. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories its president hosni mubarak vows not to run for reelection in september but refuses to step down before the polls announcement triggered by over a week long under arrest divided throngs of protesters as most to demand an immediate change of regime. that russian woman living in sweden claims her daughters were taken from her by the country's authorities human rights activists accuse its social services of money making scams as new parents receive significant financial support for children. and the russian foreign ministry has called islands expulsion of a russian diplomat at a friendly move and promised it would retaliate claims stolen identities of pirate

citizens were used as a cover for russian agents in the u.s. . well that brings us up to date here in our special reports the american holocaust is coming right up. how many people died in the vietnam war we knew no more of the americans with some persuasion it is just over fifty eight thousand each with his or her name engraved on the vietnam memorial wall in washington d.c. but how many vietnamese not to mention laotians or cambodians died with the internets and. probably no one would know for certain in one thousand nine hundred five vietnam released a figure of million civilians and one million combatants killed.