demonstrators who were injured in today's clashes now earlier in the day they were small fires there was one moment of concern when one of those fires broke out right next to be cairo museum 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 protestors told 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 was 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 were also allegations of a paid some of these people they said they were thugs many of them out there on the streets just causing chaos and mayhem when barack certainly now has

a case to say that he is needed this is what some are suggesting as to why he 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 of the 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 been 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 insert in the last few hours we've seen him calling on the egyptian president hosni mubarak to 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 for. most of it present 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 mohamed el baradei and the muslim brotherhood saying no mubarak to step down first and only then will they engage with him in dialogue so while mohamed el baradei is being presented as if they do that and possibly take the opposition more forward he's afraid of it isn't not like telling kyra and he setting out 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 the decision for themselves egypt should and 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 to imply solutions freemont signs even ultimatums egyptian political forces need to find a consensus which will 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 that the possibility for more violence is on the horizon and the focus now is turning to find it some people calling it the final side a. as they struggle for power and turf so far as in egypt the country's neighbors are looking on actually international political consultants started late and says israel has particular reason to pay close attention to history unfolds next door. israel has a lot of fears on its mind it's not just a general fear it's a very particular things you know israel's afraid of an islamist takeover of egypt israel's afraid of destabilization spreading to the palestinian areas 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 would 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. as the u.s. government struggles to decide who to support i mean chip professor said mohamed merah today says that america has only one goal in the region to provide the arab and muslim world 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 with a man but on the other hand they tell the egyptian people that they they hear their voices and they wish and pray for their freedom but we all know that the ruling establishment cannot 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 the europeans want to remain in power and have their heads in many activities countries but they also know that an independent egypt an independent jordan and an independent arabia painting so to arabia is something that would be detrimental to the israeli regime so the united states and the europeans will wish very much to prevent the people of the region from empowerment. and foreign policy analysts have great southwest and not have the danish institute for international studies says the european union is playing catch up having been taken by complete

surprise of events in egypt. the european union clearly was taken by surprise by the events in egypt and for that matter those in tunisia before that it has always had very close ties with with most of the governments in the region so it would be only natural if the e.u. to come much more proactive stance once the uprisings on the streets actually calmed down you can also argue that the e.u. policy in terms of the tools available he's actually pretty much as good as it gets it has all the right incentives and even the right penalties the problem has been that the european member states have been willing to really use these tools and have in a way balled into the standard error of allah by. stability

is bad democracy. so what's behind the uprising and what lies ahead for egypt now explode in the latest edition of crosstalk that's coming up next hour here on out. the future of the mubarak regime is not so much being decided on the streets of egypt but mainly. there 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 down or be left i could just interject around here 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. south asian leaders all of been

all of been silent so i think it's a little misleading to lewis on the doorstep of the american here but i mean i don't understand the reasoning or the removal of this is again. he was a client of the united states and that's probably the difference here. you're watching us here and still ahead for you this hour on reporter and a russian we've had children were taken away from her and fostered for cash that story's coming up in. the new start treaty between america and russia has finally been signed by u.s. president barack obama after passing all hurdles across the atlantic in moscow cutting nuclear weapons by around a third the historic agreement will come into force when both sides exchange signed documents this weekend lucy catherine know the details. 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 and 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 until 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 have been 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 moscow has condemned the decision to send home a russian diplomat and to respond alleges russian intelligence created break pulse pools with the identities of six irish citizens seized by this pirating a mosque in the u.s. last summer. reports from. 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 we've heard from moscow also for after double 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 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 sound guilty of being secret russian agents all of them were deep rooted and it was largely covered by international media that's why in the name of shop one turned up a successful young business a woman who was quickly deemed the russian james bond girl back then it was announced that some of the members of that group had irish sports however it's not known whether the diplomat 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 and you can always find more news analysis and feature stories online at r.t. dot com here's a brief look at what we have on our website right now. so i'm always wary as much as the people who take them on but some of norman bush's then others take a look at one man's explosive skills which have before it is more and. find out just more top supermodel naomi campbell chatted about russia's prime minister vladimir putin and what confessions chimeras just squeeze out of him. he writes groups have accused sweden social services of profiting from loopholes in the laws accidents claim children separated from their families have been given to foster parents who in turn receive financial support from the state and he said now has the story. christmas gifts never

given so coveted so 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 matia and sandy 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 for 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 is a protection law it's a protection for the children so it means that even if there is a flight thus to risk even if there is no evidence sort of there is there is no witnesses there are third nothing but there is. a risk of something happening sort of. then the the law sort of the social workers within the law are able to go to take the child into. sort of their to the social office and take take them away from the family attorney has been advised by human rights activists that this is only part of a much bigger welfare system in her case is that you will have been where social services have paid ten thousand swedish crowns thirty that's about five hundred new goods thirty four why. aren't she was unable to get

a comment on a time his case from swedish social services who cited a privacy policy i knew about all i think he'll be downed only 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 in italy has been told the chances of getting her grades back are slim and that they are most likely now with a swedish family and that you should be protected by international laws and conventions but loopholes in the swedish system allows cases like this to go unnoticed. consensus country. and people are more. prone to speak up against the consensus so it's very quiet in this way. and the consensus.

of the consensus is that the state is always right professor of logic of sumburgh 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 psychologist employers all wrapped up in a big business say you have six foster children or you make a fortune for not only tell you can do is wait for a 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 be why they already missed christmas. and we missed joining the team this week with their mother who sweden has just died it is at least for now not going to be their man and he said no way our t. stock. could travel so our news in brief this hour at least nine people have been killed and twenty injured by a car bomb in northwest pakistan on

a road leading to the are going border two children and the woman were among the dead with four people critical after the blast near the city of bashar is the third big bomb explosion in a week in the tribal area with taliban strongholds that tox come after recent police claims of progress against militants in the region. a thousand protesters have fought breached battles with police clearing one of billions last may just halt embarks for building development a massive force of two thousand officers were forcing a court order to empty the block first occupied by school just twenty years ago the area in east berlin became trendy after the fall of the war well thousands are moving taking advantage of abandoned properties discourse become a battleground for radicals opposed to war based say the. patient of the city. and the second cyclon in a week has struck part of australia already devastated by floods with winds of up to almost two hundred kilometers per hour the scale of damage is so far unknown

where the residents either holed up in shelters while another ten thousand had earlier left in a major evacuation cyclon gas centered around the gateway to the gold course the great barrier reef and there are fears of more damage from waves of up to two metres adding further misery to queensland which has endured a record floods in recent months killing thirty five. and while they'll be hoping for better weather in australia a rather unusual forecast is bringing good cheer for america grown hot and cold spells bring is to come earlier this year only the sixteenth time such a prediction has been made in one hundred twenty five years by one of the four legged forecasters groundhog day is rooted in the german superstition which says if the animal casts a shadow of her brood the second winter will last another six weeks and there was no shadow until today but not too many either as he's only got a forty percent accuracy rate.

these stalemate between armenia and azerbaijan has lasted for over sixteen years the conflict dates back to one thousand nine hundred eighty eight the nagorno-karabakh region mainly populated by a mini ns was part of that soviet union of soviet republic of and after the collapse of the us as it declared independence which resulted in several years of armed conflict a truce was signed in one thousand nine hundred ninety four russia france and the one of the new season of talks is that. and actually caught up with foreign ministers from both sides of the conflict and you can watch their interviews for hours the day in a moment we'll hear from the as eerie sight. what

role does a version play in stabilizing the caucasus region. of course johnnie's all for the settlement of all conflicts in most case and we are talking about the situation with the not born a car bomb a conflict all the facts are off and predictability is a crucial one of the. well considering the fact that over twenty percent of our territory was occupied and ethnically cleansed from all those very nationals i mean there is literally not a single israeli there it is hard to talk about good neighborliness and promote

peace with regulations but anyway this is why i have come to moscow to continue searching for a peaceful solution in the two plus one format it took us as for the nagorno-karabakh conflict the declaration was signed in two thousand and eight and there is a passage there saying that certain measures are required to increase confidence in the military sphere could you please comment on those words explaining what they imply with this in this case we were talking about the concept line between the armed forces of our needy and his ear buds unfortunately despite signing forces passion of hostilities clashes still occur leading to death so both soldiers and civilians we are to take more effective measures. to solve this issue there are mechanisms to foresee possibilities to decrease the tension felt i have to say that if the armenian armed forces withdraw from the occupied territories the factors of

stability and predictability will be many times higher than the albuquerque or show us what short term goals do you see in reaching the settlement. most concepts that that's what we can speak of solving the nagorno-karabakh conflict in terms of short term goals there is a future bundle of contradictions about it but the shelf creating predictability in the region can be a short term goal first and foremost to make attempts to decrease the military factor and first of all the military factor millions in the occupation of territories about what i can assure you often does that it's impossible to preserve the current status quo but we are to the utmost to find a way out of it with those that are the victim of this set a good a in x. over two thousand and ten as a bridge on in armenia every sin agreement well an exchange of war prisoners and dead bodies was it fulfilled and with us at the ball is still the question of the

most of course in the both the war prisoners and the dead bodies and there was a situation with the civilians who are exchanged in arms to thank russia for their assistance that the president made that have personally committed to the resolution of this issue and in the end we reached a compromise in the situation where is it let's get a can we call it one of the first steps on the way to reach a settlement of the conflict. conflict that was that. you know i think the most important one was the declaration of two thousand and eight for the first time ever the presidents over here by john armey and russia signed a joint declaration which is often referred to as the in mind or the declaration or simply the moscow declaration of that which stipulates. political criteria of conflict settlement like a conflict should be settled based on the principles of international law and in line with the relevant international agreements and resolutions as far as i know

iran failed to recognize the tripartite agreement between russia as a bridge on and kazakhstan one of the supreme and he had discussed with a ring on call leagues. the theme that we've coordinated with the russian federation and kazakhstan the demarkation of the caspian sea along the median line in accordance with the coastline has found its legal coral duration and is actually in agreement as you said between us here budge on the russian federation and kazakhstan. iran has an approach of its own as its generally we believe that this approach doesn't reflect the realities that have taken shape in the caspian area that will look for what's causing what is it that makes iran dissatisfied with the median line demarkation would have to be a basically the reigning side who wants twenty percent of the caspian but which doesn't reflect the existing realities and what we have come to terms with on the russian side and the kazakhstan side are the ones with these. guys and there is

a view that as a bridge on to some extent is playing on the contradictions regarding the south stream by the line its own gas both to e.u. and russia and it says it has enough resources it doesn't really have enough resources let's listen to some of us almost most of us i can hardly gree would you worry this word about contradictions just concerned i don't think it's quite correct that our position is this we should in the first place disengage politics from commerce from the commercial point of view as is only natural every energy producing country seeks to come to markets that are of most interest already in the sense that they can offer a decent price for its energy resources which as far as deliveries concern. all options are still open as in our negotiations we are guided by considerations of national interests and commercial potential is of course a key part of those considerations and if there is

a good price it should be offered and delivered. in the final question concerns more the sphere of international relations by john share the concerns of the international community about the iranian nuclear program. because that's a you know i was here by john has a clear position regarding use any i.e. member state he's entitled to its own peaceful nuclear program if it is in line with i.e. regulations and peaceful nuclear cooperation it is possible in justified. that the minister thank you very much for your time that's thank you. the more people we killed a happier our officers were it's got to be like a game like to see you get killed the most people and the different ways you can

prove i mean he's killed to be like that you know here's how he brought back sometimes years you know where he had the most years they would get the most fierce you change you should be the night you went to germany and five men around the circle open up the long hall automatic for him sixty. shooting and rape by six or seven people from the family. most of the other. would be soon which brightened if you move the song from tongues to brush and these . stunts on t.v.

don't come. in. and out again this is down to triple the headlines at home popping out. in egypt turns violent the supporters of the bottled president hosni mubarak take to the streets of cairo to clash with those who want him out on to thirty years of . u.s. president barack obama signed the new start nuclear arms cost treaty meeting the deal between russia and america to reduce nuclear weapons we'll go live in just a. moscow blames every time he said this on an unfounded expulsion of a diplomat after dublin claims that russian intelligence made a break irish principals played spy ring unannounced in their lives. there's the

headlines now the united states killed between three and five million people in the vietnam war next to look at the history of that time through the eyes of soldiers who fought on both sides. how many people died in the vietnam war we knew 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. . how many vietnamese not to mention laotian so cambodians died but the us and. probably no one would know for certain in one thousand nine hundred far that nonbelief did.