downtown toughness square they say that their demand for mubarak to step down immediately has not changed a short time ago the army separated a group of about twenty pro mubarak supporters from a group of about a thousand demonstrators and we are hearing some of the reports coming in from other cities around egypt you know that overnight they were tasha's of that crime in alexandria not egyptian state television has just issued a warning that they suspect they will be more violence we're also hearing from the army in a statement it's released on their television station calling on protesters to end this demonstration now that is a true and what we heard from the army earlier earlier they said that they would not get involved there is also a warning on egyptian state television about foreigners who apparently are handing out documents that are anti mubarak and nobody here really believes that but it certainly sends out a strong signal that the mubarak camp is gearing up and is fighting back and i can tell you as a foreigner working here i've been up and down the streets of cairo for the last few days and today was the first day that i was stopped at every only checkpoint

and asked to show some kind of i.d. now the pro mubarak supporters that are out there on the streets all according to demonstrations being paid but when you speak to these part of mubarak voices they say that the country should reform about some kind of dignity to stay in office until september but the country at least owes him that the demonstrators say that it is long past time for them to actually give him the kind timeframe asking for it is an insult now the international community has been weighing in the latest the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov who has called on the world community to allow interruptions to decide for themselves. which we want to see there's a stable thriving democratic states for the current social political and economic problems to be resolved as soon as possible through peaceful means is that it's up to egypt and politicians and the people to decide how this could be john practice we don't think it's helpful to encourage solutions from. gyptian political.

consensus. well paula for much of mubarak's rule the u.s. has been supporting him as a bit in backing him but now it seems to be frustrated and is changing its rhetoric what's driving this change what's going on here whether the u.s. is changing its rhetoric is radio question that people here are asking themselves on the one hand we've heard from the american president barack obama and urgency for mubarak to step down to listen to the will of the people of bombs saying that in the thirteen minute tell a telephone conversation with him urged the egyptian president to call for free and fair elections as soon as possible but at the same time want egypt for what he's saying is what they are interpreted as american support for the house at all but a day now he has been told to. turn to reject to create an interim government and we need to that. they say that that is still the hand of america interfere and they do not believe that there is much difference between the policies that mohamed el

baradei will introduce to the country and those that mubarak introduced a lot of anger among protesters were not austin how they feel about al baradei he is not all sort of figure that is well known here he's much better known on the international scene where he is the former head of the international atomic energy agency where in two thousand and five he shared the nobel peace prize with that agency that all baradei for himself at least for now saying that he wishes to head this interim government and that he's managed to bring together all of the opposition voices here in egypt but really what we're hearing from the streets of egypt is what we've heard from the russian foreign minister people here say made us decide for ourselves and the united states and other countries keep your hands out of will thank you very much for that indeed paullus leader reporting on the latest from the egyptian capital cairo now a brazilian journalist pepe escobar says the u.s. is pressuring mubarak is hypocritical after 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 virtually everybody that stayed in egypt it was progressive all the wisest people were exiled this was also supported by the u.s. so when hillary clinton says that's me being out encouraging mubarak to do reforms this is an absolute nonsense they started doing this probably two days ago not thirty years. old british journalist yvonne ridley told r.t. that egyptian people will no longer let the us pick their 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 be no well weak if 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 withdrawal 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 very intelligent very politically aware. they will choose the people who they want and if america doesn't like it well it's going to be. well what's behind this uprising and what lies ahead for egypt is the topic in the latest edition of cross-talk 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 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. now sweden's child welfare system has been accused by human rights activists of profiting from family misery they claim that social services are taking children from one set of parents and then giving them to another who receives up to six thousand dollars of financial support per child all artes and so 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 a russian citizen living in sweden has seen her twenty year old 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 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 though the law that 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 we have cases where that you will have been where social services have paid ten now since we did. that's about one hundred new good thirty one. aren't she was unable to get a comment on the time it's case from swedish social services who cited a privacy policy i knew about all this deal they don't generally 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 antonia should be protected by international laws and conventions but loopholes in the sweeter system a lot 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 and president of logic of fun but it's 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 and working together with doctors psychologists employers all wrapped up in a big business say you have six foster children well you make a fortune for not only how you can do is which you are hearing on her case which is so far been postponed several times during our senior most of their birthdays coming up with well my children to be one they already missed christmas and we missed 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 in no way our t. stocking. oh you're watching our t.n. still ahead for you this hour you know how drugs clamp down on everything from has now affected people to some shared for centuries and that's when using. all the russian foreign ministry has called arlen's expulsion of

a russian diplomat an unfriendly move and promised it would not respond well it would respond rather well dublin claims the identities of several irish citizens were taken to create counterfeit documents for russian agents uncovered in the u.s. last year artie's corpus going off reports from moscow. the russian foreign ministry has called iowa's decision to deport its diplomats an unfriendly move which will have serious consequences these are the only comments from moscow so far after dublin accused to the russian intelligence service of stealing real existing irish identities you know to forge passports to cover up secret operations in the united states irish authorities 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 deep ordered and it was largely covered by

international media that's why in the name and shop one turned up a successful young business woman the russian businesswoman who was quickly deemed the russian james bond girl back that it was announced that some of the members of that group had. it's not known whether the diplomat being deported now from ireland was directly connected to this alleged forgery neither do we know his name or when he's to be sent out of the country. well there's always more news blogs and feature stories on our website that's our dot com and here's what's on line for you right now in the exclusive r.t. interview we talked to the person russian president boris yeltsin they shared their memories about her husband and his legacy. and find out what top supermodel naomi. with prime minister. managed to squeeze out of him.

now a book published in iran describing suicide bombing was found in an american desert it sparked a media frenzy with channels going so far as to say that the publication was a warning of an upcoming attack from the islamic republic bought peddling fear and vilifying iran is a common occurrence in the u.s. . and reports. a book found in the arizona desert has put america's most watched cable news channel on the high alert fox news alert i knew 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 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 him going out of the day and 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 every got. around. the industry states there 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 story that has no connection with a terrorist like this suicide bombings in moscow sakin to help us in places like iran 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 leaked release of u.s. secret diplomatic cables despite having bass the mounds of material at their disposal to troops 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 is being 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. 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 city 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 landstuhl 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 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 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. 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 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. from washington d.c. . and out to some other major headlines from around the world

a massive winter snow song has hit the agricultural heartland of the united states this affected almost a third of the country's population their lives have already been canceled thousands of flights and rows of become treacherous stretches of black ice all 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. north and south korea have set february eighth as a date for military talks the first in six months since relations are their worst in decades the breakthrough came after. to discuss the sinking of the frigate and. attacks on the south which claimed fifty lives in both incidents and war games by seoul have fueled tensions between the two a previous attempt at

a summit before the attack due to differences over. it is a merger the one hundred dogs were shot dead over two days after a dog sledding business experienced a sharp decline in bookings following last year's vancouver winter olympic games the gruesome slaughter was described in documents awarding called in station to the worker who carried out the killings animal rights organizations have announced that they intend to file charges against those involved all the company has become the target of outrage from people as far away as europe and the street. well tensions remain high between russia and georgia both sides in a constant angry exchange of words but this is also spilling over into everyday life with georgia restaurant owners facing the threat of fines if russian songs are performed there. as the story. i think it's party time and

traditional georgian restaurant style music is central to the country's dining experience and russian songs are sung alongside georgian until that's. the case 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 use 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 of they refused to comment saying that 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 sons but this smacks of censorship in russian songs can be banned and the state should not try and regulate society like this before or say it's ridiculous to call them and patriotic for singing popular russian numbers i don't know if they span is an act as in law in the whole world will laugh at georgia as it really is insanity. or. songs like this are synonymous with 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. all that brings you up to date this hour hillary will be here next with all the latest business.

that's right time for a business update and the london high court has halted a deal between b.p. and russian oil giant real snapped to explore the arctic shelf this comes after the joint russian british venture b.p. filed a complaint claiming the criminal violates their right of first refusal on any b.p. work in russia the high court ordered the dispute to be resolved by arbitration by the twentieth of february b.p. agreed to as its work with pool snapped in general and former partnership for oil exploration and russia's all to belarus editor in chief of business new europe says that the conflict over the deal won't last as long as there is high level government involvement. to be tied up because state. that they permit the sides unlike some of the other shareholders to reinvest.

this part that is. simply the most states require. to be right back to sea. and the i know a russian forum is underway in moscow it's there 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. and this year the forum will focus on global financial challenges as well as russia's changing economic situation and arches richmond genco joins us live from the event so hello to you dmitri the forum comes just a week after a suicide bombing at the country's largest airport and that definitely raised concerns about whether investors would be spooked by russia's rising terrorism problem that it has had little effect on the markets but what do they say. well you're right i mean it was a tragic event of course and everybody was absolutely shocked with this event but

clearly today it's all down to business and the only versus i've seen i've been just making contacts talking it all out this is of course a great platform for businessmen to to meet with representatives of the government with foreign investors with distinguished global thinkers and discuss the changing paradigm of the global and russian economy of course well let me actually re address this question to a perspective one of the organization organizers of this forum at king's melbourne chief strategist. thank you very much for being with us thank you would you say that the year of the bombing of the most of the airport or the turmoil in egypt has had any effect you know effect on the investor sentiment here but well clearly they've had a tremendous effect on many many people. and perception. many people have lost loved ones actually a month before the forum as well so the people are very upset about that. so far as egypt is concerned actually it's tended to be

a boon to the russian market because clearly russia is the world's largest source of hydrocarbons outside the middle east and consequently turmoil in the mideast has tended to lead to high oil prices and and the. or actually a refocus upon the russian market and the oil and gas sector which is to keep in this market but actually the main reason the main thing which is rain thing at the moment this forum is about to be celebrating twenty years a troika dialog and twenty is a spectacular change in russian and if your cameras been counting round the room to see the large number of people in the knowledge amount of energy here but clearly that's been the most amazing transformation so that the formation of a market economy the macro economic stabilization the integration into the world the the formation of a middle class so much has been achieved in russia in the last twenty years and i think it's with that background that people are looking for many more years of a high growth and perhaps with the new modernization agenda which is being so

heavily pushed by government officials here so what is it that worries you and concerns you right now with the russian economy at the moment which you would like to see changing to just facilitate your work i think there are two main things the first is the continued very high degree of dependence upon commodity prices and the oil price in particular which makes this economy much more vulnerable means we have to look over our shoulders of other economies. clearly that is changing but it takes a lot of time and any other issues is the very obvious need for modernization in a whole series of sectors and we're hoping that the government can put actions behind what's personal since as a twenty of diversity of troika dialog and your colleagues said he did not see this happening in twenty years twenty years ago what do you see happening in two twenty years from now. but twenty years from now i would hope that we would be conducting this conversation in russian that our audience be speaking russian in that actually this would russia be much more of a financial center than it is now and that is achievable if they can enable the

collection of domestic money and resources into into long term financial products i mean sorry i'm thinking of a parochial angle but that's one particular issue that needs to be a result. all right thank you so much to strategists at the troika dialog talking to us here at the four and i used by troika dialog actually and it seems really that investor sentiment has been only going up the past six months we've got a record attendance record presents of delegates more than last year and do well they're all smiling they're all shaking hands they're all doing business. that's really good news we thank you very much for looking forward to get more for us you'll be bringing us more gas next hour from their russian forum underway in moscow. and russia aims for growth through industrial innovation but to mcgrath c.e.o. of sperm banks says government performance also needs to be more tonight. there was

more than 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 global drivers. of the business bulletin you can find most tourism all web site r.t. dot com slash business.

all here's a quick recap of our top stories here on our teen agers president hosni mubarak's valladolid to run for reelection in september triggers violent clashes between his supporters and those who demand his immediate resignation russia has called on the country's government to the solve the crisis by peaceful and democratic they. are russian woman living in sweden claims her daughters were taken from her by the countries of forty's human rights activists accuse and social services of money making scams as no paris received significant financial support for children. the russian foreign ministry has called our lives expulsion of a russian diplomat and all. and promised it would retaliate. in stolen identities

of irish citizens as a cover for russian agents in the u.s. . and no war and no peace the stalemate between our media and azerbaijan has lasted for over sixteen years the conflict dates back to nine hundred eighty eight the nagorno-karabakh region mainly populated by armenians was part of the soviet republic of by john after the collapse of the u.s.s.r. declared independence which resulted in this several years of armed conflict a truce was signed in one thousand nine hundred for russia france and the us have been mediating talks since then well r.t. caught up with foreign ministers of both sides of the conflict watched their interviews throughout the day well to armenia now. according to russian a poor peace is better than a good war but is it always the case.