the police were nowhere to be seen but the army which was there to douse those flames they managed to completely get the fires under control but aside from that the army did not get involved at all earlier the defense ministry did issue a statement urging protesters to go home now the focal point of those clashes came at around midday three thirty cairo time it's not clear who actually started the clashes whether it was pro mubarak demonstrators or anti mubarak demonstrators but both sides with were in stones of each other people were standing on ledges taking up and putting whatever they could at people down below they were there instead incidence of people actually picking up road signs and using the poles of the science to actually hit and strike at other people a lot of anger a lot of fear on the streets today our sister network we see some of the members of the ethnic group were injured while covering these demonstrations the latest figures put the death toll the death toll in nine days of clashes and some three

hundred more than a thousand people injured in total now questions are being asked as to who exactly those pro mubarak supporters were and the suggestions being put forward that mubarak himself sent into the street they were i.d.'s found on some of these people those ideas of police i.d.'s suggesting that they do belong to the security forces there also allegations of a body paid some of these people they said they were thugs many of them out there on the streets just causing chaos and mayhem certainly now has a case to say that he is needed this is what some are suggesting as to why he might have orchestrated these clashes this is certainly a turning point there has and there is now being seen support for him on the streets. mobilizing his government to react and fight back to these demonstrators certainly the u.s. has been watching the events unfold here in egypt very closely in there and the they've noticed that the ground really is shifting below them the policy of the u.s. president barack obama has not. that clear i mean when the protests began nine days

ago he was very he was very careful not to align himself too closely with the protesters but now in the last few days and sit in the last few hours we've seen him calling on the egyptian president hosni mubarak to implement free and fair elections and to step down as soon as possible one of the the significant points of today's demonstrations and the clashes is that it is now clear that the opposition certainly needs a unified voice it needs a political force to represent them they've been able to demonstrate spontaneously up until now but so if they want to go forward with any kind of substantial impact they will need to be united we've heard differing voices come from the opposition forces we've heard some of them say that yes they should talk to mubarak now we've had other players like mohammed el baradei and the muslim brotherhood saying no mubarak to step down first and only then will they gauge opinion dialogue so while mohamed el baradei is being presented as a figure that can possibly take the opposition more forward he's afraid of it isn't

not like telling kyra and he's certainly not a figure that is representative of all the opposition plays by and large if there is one thing that people agree on is the fact that people really should make a decision for themselves injections should decide who their future leadership is regardless of who the united states and the international community supports and that is a sentiment that is a code by the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov which we don't think it's helpful dream time solutions for even ultimatums egyptian political feels the need to find a consensus which will be one of the questions that people are asking themselves following these clashes today wednesday is what can and will the military do if there is no clear indication in terms of how they should control crowds the that might be one of the questions people are asking but certainly one of the conclusions people are reaching as at the possibility of more violence is on the horizon the focus now is turning to finding some people calling it the final friday . night live. an international political consultant based in tel aviv says it's

well has to be concerned for what's happening in egypt israel has a lot of fears on its mind it's not just a general fear it's a very particular thing as you know israel is afraid of an islamist takeover of egypt israel's afraid of destabilization spreading to the palestinian areas and israel's afraid of the leader who might not be a full partner in dealing with iran and that's something you have to keep in mind these are obviously the biggest things on israel's mind that's always going to come first again israelis very basically feel like they don't have too many friends in the region obviously and are very much afraid of the civilization there's been a sense for a long time that mubarak is pretty much the only thing holding egypt in place as a peace partner so israelis are clearly very nervous they kept pretty quiet in the beginning but you saw early on that there is not a great deal of trust that a change in government in egypt will be good for israel there was already you know a politician who was saying that egypt is not ready for democracy necessarily it took our prime minister a long time to make any statement in support of democratic change in egypt and

that's really that really comes from a place of fear. professor the thought behind but on d. from the university of tehran and says the u.s. is using to face tad takes in the region to prevent the arab well from getting stronger. they're not on the side of the people in the people recognize that they're playing a double game they're on the one hand very much on the side of the establishment on the side of. the mouse but on the other hand they tell the egyptian people that the hear their voices and they wish to pray for their freedom but we all know that the ruling establishment in our last without american support and the gyptian people know that these countries do not want them to be free not only because do they want the americans and europeans want to remain in power and have their heads in these countries but they also know that an independent egypt and jordan and independent

arabia so to arabia is something that would be detrimental to the israeli regime so the united states jimmy europeans will wish very much to prevent the people of the region from empowerment well what's behind the uprising and what lies ahead for egypt those questions explored in the laces of cross talk coming up later this hour. the future of the mubarak regime is not so much being decided on the streets of egypt but mainly. they are certainly hard talks going on behind the scenes between egypt and indeed the americans and what is staggering is that we haven't heard from the obama administration a clear and unequivocal demand for mubarak to step back on abilify could just interject. i mean you can lay this at the doorstep of the u.s.

but you know at the end of the day the only world leader who's been unequivocal about this is prime minister air the one of turkey the european leaders the american leaders even the latin american leaders east asian south asian leaders all have been all of been silent so i think it's a bit misleading to lay this on the doorstep of the american here but i'm. you know they don't want to see. that all they really want is a guarantee that he was a client of the united states and that's probably the difference here. the new russia u.s. nuclear reduction pact approved or more levels in moscow has been signed by the u.s. president the document also no doubt the start treaty will see both sides can't buy new cast models by a third more details now from our d.c. catherine of. we saw the u.s.

president signing this incredible treaty in the oval office he was joined by a whole host of members of his administration and this of course pushes the treaty one more step towards final completion now the next step that we're expecting is for u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton to meet with her russian counterpart foreign minister sergey lavrov at the sidelines of the munich security council this week conference this weekend the date that we're hearing is february fifth where the two sides are set to exchange the so-called documents of ratification the actual signed documents which will officially bring this agreement into force and it's one that we've been waiting for for quite some time now the bigger stumbling blocks that we've seen for this historic agreement even right here in washington we saw force a minority but yet a vocal minority of republican lawmakers opposing this treaty which is part of the reason that we've had such a long delay in getting this document ratified. arizona republican senator jon kyl

one of the vocal critics of this treaty even earlier this week raised criticism of the of the agreement saying that the united states did not have enough time to look over this document but it really is a minority opinion as the consensus here in washington is that this is a critical step towards improving international security something that both sides have worked so hard to achieve for so long and at a time when we see so much global insecurity starting with the unrest in egypt so while there have been some stumbling blocks it does look like this historic agreement has finally been pushed through and we await the exchange of the documents this weekend for it to fully come into force. you're watching r t still ahead for you this hour one woman's plight to win back the daughters she believes were taken from paula broadwell scam what are coming up in just a few minutes. unfriendly that's how moscow's described ireland's decision to expel

a russian diplomat topping claims stolen identities of six irish citizens were used by russian agents uncovered last year in the u.s. r.t. if you got it was 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 these are the all the comments to troops from moscow also for after dublin accused to 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 irish authorities say that this is a result of an investigation which started right after last summer spy scandal between moscow and washington with a group of people who were arrested in the united states and found guilty of being secret russian agents all the more deep rooted and it was largely covered by international media that's why in the name of shop one turned up a successful young businesswoman who was quickly deemed the russian james bond girl

back then it was announced that some of the members of that group had irish passport however it's not known whether the diplomat is being deported now from orleans 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 r.t. dot com here's just some of what's on live t.v. right now the things that there is much of the people who take the law from a more ambitious and others take in one man's explosive skills which have. to find out what supermodel naomi campbell chatted about with russian prime minister one passion she manages the.

human rights groups have and he's sweden's social services are profiting from loopholes in the laws and to children separated from their families are being given to foster parents humans have received financial support from the state. and now we have the story. christmas gifts never given. to my children are in someone else's hands the most don't 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 wash and smelly 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 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 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 that's to risk even if there is no evidence sort of there is there is no witnesses there are thirty nothing but there is. a risk of something happening sort of. then the law sort of the social workers within the law are able to to take the child into. sort of their it 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 in the car where in cases that you will have been where social services have paid ten thousand swedish thirty that's about one hundred new goods thirty one. archie was unable to get a comment on a tiny is case from swedish social services who cited a privacy policy. 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 girls 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 three consensus country. people are more. prone. to speak up against the consensus so it's very quiet in this way and the consensus is. 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 and lawyers all wrapped up in a big business 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 or after the words of the birthday is coming up when will my children be what they already missed christmas. and we'll 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. now for some other world news in a brief this hour and protests erupted from demonstrators around security forces as german police began a victim illegal tenants from one of britain's one of the last major sports over two fouls and police officers took part in the addiction using x. and the battering ram to break down the door disputed building the court gave the scores of two of the seconds to leave several hundred left as protests gathered l. find the building which led to violent clashes with police. all three in all four which is a warning people to stay off the streets as a powerful cycling begins to hit the northern state of queensland winds of all calls to reach three hundred kilometers per hour with many residents already left

without power so i don't yet see which is strengthened to a category five is feared to be the most dangerous storm to ever hit the area and this is yet another chapter in australia's trying summer during which it will is the worst flooding in decades. a car bomb has killed at least nine people injured twenty more in a commercial area near the northwestern city of peshawar officials say three children were among the dead the blast is the third major incident to hit the area in the last week and he is hanks a come despite police reports that progress was being made against militants in the region. while the georgian government is obviously harboring sour sentiments towards russia authorities are already imposed to balance russian movies and textbooks in the country and now they've gone a step further. and found out why certain music is leaving about taste in some restaurant owners now. 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 ones until this happened the killing 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 who are sitting in the restaurant for very upset he couldn't hear the russian songs they are 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 heed 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 actress in law then the whole world will laugh at georgia as it really is insanity. for. songs like this are synonymous georgian restaurants if you want to hear them in my town to dine elsewhere because in georgia it looks like the show might be over tom watson. that day from now up next the latest business.

come to our business program i'm sure. rosner shares have taken a hit after london's high court halted the russian oil giant's deal with b.p. to explore the arctic shelf the decision came after a joint russian british venture to encase b.p. father complained claiming the agreement violates its right of first refusal on any b.p. work in russia are to correspond to sara first has the latest details. with the russian shareholders all to pay b.p. one u.k. just to look barnaby peace deal with rosneft we need to be big agreed on the fourteenth of january to see what is seven point eight billion dollar stake in the company for nine point five percent of russian oil producer rosneft and that the two companies would also agree to joint venture to explore areas of the arctic water is not only the cooling to the russian shareholders it take a b.b. to reach the terms of their contracts under which they should have been also in

michigan and given the first refusal on any major any ventures undertaken by b.p. in russia and this didn't happen so it went to justice microburst to say the both parties have been able to leave it entirely in accordance with common sense and that now that the b.p. shares to what has been phrase in the any discussions about the arctic exploration have been fit and till the completion of attrition which is sure to february twenty fifth now we've had comments from the vice president over us never he said the process of putting it in k. to gauge to be a potential partner in this deal with it and now suppose that could still be. perilous o'clock in the markets and russia the r.t.s. in my sex both closed up on the day energy shares were higher with oil above the one hundred dollars per barrel mark. and rising oil prices sent energy shares higher as gas palm and the oil closed up on the day mining shares were also among

the leaders on my sax as no else nicole climbed slightly over one percent alcohol use gold in slower as gold prices have come down. and brant crude prices have hit the one hundred dollars mark in recent days fueled by growing instability in egypt is the first time since two thousand and eight that such highs have been reached the tipping roll chief economist at the international energy agency warns that any further growth in oil prices could seriously undermine the global financial recovery and well being parses means big goal being released for the global economic recovery if there are sorry bob on that build up today this would mean the oil importing below divergence on the shoulders of the united states will europe is more or less it seemed able to teach you to cause an eight. year so therefore are equal for the sake of the global economy recovered it while you

process did not pull for you and the russian government will sell twenty percent in v.t. bank this year twice as much as it originally planned the sell off is part of the government's ambitious target to privatized key state owned companies the head of track a dialogue says the foreign investment into these privatized companies could help make a global financial center you don't want to make that much of the price today maybe the better to. companies companies in london or new york. but if you really have a long term committed to the most likely scenario you think you should to attract investors and explain this is a lie to make sense and buy. shares of the government right this company. and that's your business update for now but you can always find more stories on our web site that's. just stay with us.

this is not a theatrical set. this is a real correctional facility. is there any cultural life behind bars. could transform a criminal into a lure abiding citizen. and can performance really revolutionized the penitentiary system. prison.

well when one deals with water it has to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amount of damage done by aerial bombs by napalm boy chemicals that whether it's sonic boom say tractor marine mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or destroyed coral reefs in the pacific for purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that there shall be taken in war to protect the involved against widespread long term answer. fear damage to the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions of protocol one has taken exception to that.

question is that so much open to a huge bill that a share of the current financial markets came changer and cements continue to unfold in egypt what kind of middle east is coming to me and give democracy is indeed are. the more people we killed the happier our officers were it got to be like a game like yogic supposed to see who could kill the most people and the different ways you could prove the maybe peace killed would be i can you know appears now if you brought back some serious you know where we had the most years they would get the most fierce in trainers should be reduced over ninety women children and five men around the circle over no full automatic fire and succeeds. through the same outrage by search for seven people wounded currently. the most of the leaflets.

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this is our teen violent unrest grips egypt as protesters demanding the president's immediate removal from office come face to face with his supporters in the capital streets. us that president obama has signed a new strategic arms reduction treaty with russia the deal already approved all levels by moscow will reduce both the country's nuclear all settles by. allah and does expelling a russian diplomat say the allegations that moscow intelligence stole irish identities to spy work russia has responded with a warning been serious consequences will follow. up next hour cross talk show what's behind the uprising in egypt and what's ahead.

live. live live. live live. live can you can. still. listen to. live. alone and welcome to cross talk i'm teetotal about a game changer as events continue to unfold in egypt what kind of middle east is coming into being and if democracy is indeed on the march how will this change the geo political order of the region live and you can see the slim. to discuss the future of egypt and the region i'm joined by hiring a bozza in washington he's a senior fellow at the foundation.