the streets of cairo. well the anger the frustration the defiance continues to intensify in turn here square there has been a curfew imposed now for the next twenty four hours and the government fears about the departure friday that is what protesters are calling them in their planned march to the presidency tomorrow some time having said that though we can see that the numbers here in toughness quit keep growing protesters are arriving carrying bags of food carrying bags of drinks carrying bags holding anything that will sustain people toughness square itself as a number of little roads that lead off it and in those roads the protesters are barricaded behind tall and thick steel bars they there have been reports of of firing we know that the army has not got involved but that their army has been firing warning shots the mobile clinics that have been set up there have doctors who are reporting that they are treating people with gunshot wounds earlier in the day they were molotov cocktails that were thrown into the crowd so a lot of anger

a lot of anticipation and as i'm talking to you i can hear in military helicopter still circling around overhead earlier the prime minister did address the nation and he apologized for the violence he said he had ordered a probe but when you speak to people here they do not believe that the egyptian government has the mechanisms all the desire to carry out an independent investigation the attorney general has also ordered that all former ministers remain in the country he has also ordered that their bank accounts be frozen now as you mentioned a short time ago in a forty five minute address the vice president spoke on egyptian state television among the things he said he blamed foreigners he blamed businesses he blamed opposition groups for the violence he spoke of conspiracy groups that were undermining the egyptian regime he also said that there needed to be some time for dialogue with opposition groups but we are hearing that the muslim brotherhood has rejected that dialogue until such time that hosni mubarak steps down. on the vice

president also providing a roadmap for reforms he says he's also suspended the parliament's work until the contested results of that last election that will hold at the at the end of two thousand and ten or revised he also named candidates who would stand in july so a lot happening here on the political front but on the streets people taking very little notice of it saying that all attention right now is for that departure friday and focusing on what's happening on the streets what's been the international reaction to the violence that we're seeing across egypt. well the united nations secretary general has urged for the transition to happen now those were his words and those of the same call coming from the united states and five other european union countries those kind of sentiments are treated in egypt particularly by the protesters with a lot of anger there urge the international community to stay out of egyptian affairs which is why when the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov spoke to

russia today and outlined russia's position people here felt that russia was hitting it white on the mark i don't think a new cold side those. should really be pushing good shipped one way or another i don't think any suggestions from old so are going to be helpful and they're going to lead to a story in the book the resolution of the situation i don't think that official line sort of ball to move. you know the current through a good education but you too cool for six political groups most of them so far in the way. we're hearing figures just what has been the economic cost of these demonstrations that have been ongoing for the past ten days to this country the figure of one billion dollars being given in terms of what egypt has lost only in the tourism industry not earlier i did speak to

a businessman ibrahim carmel and he spoke to of what he thought the international community should and should not do. there is almost a concert going go on being played by the foreign media and part of. the foreign governments which foreign governments can honor just to be very specific i was very disappointed that the president of the united states would call on us to move immediately and instantly to make changes as if we are the fifty first state of the united states we are not and we will not be what about europe's role in everything that's happening at the moment i hate to say that they are following the footsteps of the united states and i am very very thankful for the statement that was made by mr glover of your foreign minister i am sure the

thrushes as a country understand the egypt very well and they were not fall into the trap of trying to sell egypt short what about extremism ave concerns that they are extremist elements at play organizing or perhaps behind the scenes in these demonstrations absolutely. and this is why i believe that the foreign media when they the power to on the ends of the nz at the theater square they are missing the point completely they are not understanding what the easy is going through what was once again what is that point. extremist elements in egypt. to try to jump on any opportunity in order to describe the internet situation in egypt. now the iranian people via raney and governments since these demonstrations began

have been in support of the protesters that points to the fact as mr connell outlined there that there is this growing sayings of fundamentalist elements at bay my colleague norway imet explored the phenomenon from london. egypt in turmoil young men out on the streets calling for the unity of the muslim nation ruled by shari'a law but this isn't caro it's london where young men are also out on the streets calling for an islamic state this is his but an organization linked to terrorist activities throughout the world it's banned in russia and in some arab countries including egypt but in the u.k. it's allowed to operate freely in britain it's very hard in the current legislation to ban his book to hear the government when they're out of power said they were going to i think once they're in power they've seen how difficult it is with the legislation specifically so i think they'll carry on monitoring the groups but

won't do anything to prescribe the trouble in egypt prompted this london demonstration with the british arm of his but jumping on the bandwagon to promote their own islamic state in front of the different embassy in london was a big demonstration in support and solidarity to the uprising in egypt and. the. demonstration wanted to do in demonstration in front of the embassy but actually the organizers of the demonstration refused and they said this is. demands and it has nothing to do with it. and you want to put this down because this is according to understanding of islam the influence runs both ways the muslim brotherhood egypt's main opposition and a notable insights are of the current demonstrations is according to some a clue. relation of british intelligence you mike of the muslim brotherhood.

religion diligence creation from the one nine hundred twenty s. . to opposing what. they did and fifty's and sixty's some of those factions in there may have no lord but still this is quite a leap. for the muslim brotherhood with the look into their background their essential if they pretend to be islamists but they're essentially a fabrication of the globalists. outside muslim countries has put terror enjoys its strongest support here in the u.k. it's organized on university campuses including luton which was attended by the stockholm bomber and although the organization claims it doesn't advocate violence the links are there for all to see she bomber richard reid influenced by his book terror preaches to british suicide bombers who attacked a bar in tel aviv in two thousand and three had contacts. who tried to detonate car

bombs in london and glasgow in two thousand and seven influenced by his but terrorism members while studying the government's policy on radical islamic organizations while they operate inside the law in the u.k. involves dialogue and debate groups like his but terry are allowed to demonstrate so you plainly hear calling for an end to democracy and the instigation of syria law but the violence in egypt has already spread to the u.k. in the form of demonstrations here at the embassy and the question now being asked is whether every voice with an opinion on egypt's future has the right to be heard nor emmett's r.t. . or for more analysis on what is happening in egypt let's cross live now to john reuben who once served at the department of state near eastern affairs bureau and is currently deputy director of the u.s. national security network and many thanks for joining us here on our history but not do you think that it. my screams might be fueling the current unrest that we're

saying. well they're certainly playing some role but the idea that extremist groups are driving this revolution in the streets in cairo and elsewhere in egypt is a bit farfetched these demonstrations were and still appear to be middle class driven working class driven where as it evolves and as violence increases we may indeed see more extremists come out does not appear to be the case in this stage muslim brotherhood that's egypt not just opposition force says that it will take steps to have a peace treaty with israel counseled off to president mubarak step down it's not likely to happen do you think. well i hate to rely on one statement because i've also seen other statements where they argue that they will abide by previous agreements and have sworn off violence i think it's a very fluid situation right now this is

a very vibrant debate in washington and it is across party lines all political philosophies are weighing in about what to do with the muslim brotherhood and there is a base recognition that this organization has popularity in egypt and as the administration begins to see in demand democratic evolution in egypt the brotherhood will play some type of role and it's a very vibrant discussion right now now if radical groups do gain some kind of political power in the aftermath of the thumb rescue we see ponce of the muslim middle east uniting against the west possibly. well it certainly is something we have to always be mindful of what are the rules of the road there are rights and responsibilities and certainly violence is not one of the rights of any organization that wants participate in the political structure as far as it's spreading to other countries this was not the case in tunisia does not appear that

this is a regional for each country is distinct in many ways one of the interesting twists in iran the green movement is attempting to take credit for these protests while the government is well these are very hard generalizations to make that the u.s. is support about it for some thirty years now but has been quick to change its stance following this one rescue scene should the u.s. ally countries in the region such as yemen and jordan expect to lose their american support. this is a very good question and there is a strategic battle underway to demonstrate by the united states as well as to see from the countries in the region where is the united states on the issue of the street protests and how close will the united states be with its longtime allies in the region a lot of nerves are on edge the israelis are just one of many countries in the region. where this will all come out certainly the president has tried to walk this

fine line demonstrating support for and solidarity with the street protests and calling on the egyptian government to make the right moves but not saying that the government should go in a way that discredits them and the relationship that we've had with them for three decades and speaking of the mosque in egypt to make the right move the u.s. and the european union are calling for an immediate orderly transition in egypt what should transition. well at the initial stages it needs to be one that has the broadest political participation from within egypt in civil society in discussions with the egyptian government on a clear path towards democratic elections that seems to be the colas in vision at this stage beyond that it's impossible for the international community to pick winners to decide who would lead the coalition or who would stand for elections those are decisions that the egyptian people really should make and this

administration appears to be calling for that property supply ships and can decide for themselves. deputy director of the u.s. national security network and the seven department of state. affairs of many thanks for. right joe with r.t. still to come on the program preparing for takeoff. russia superjet one hundred receives its ticket into the skies as it's officially certified for. the program. investigators now think they know the identity of the suicide bomber who carried out the dead of the airport attack last month but president medvedev warned against hasty conclusions until the case has been fit he. couldn't they could have been following developments in moscow but the latest has been the federal security service says they know not only the name of the park the cradle of the attack at

the airport but they also know the names of the monster minds all the time we had a brush as main to mastic security agency that was be today with these to the president he also said that the agencies now are doing everything possible to arrest all those who they believe are linked to the attack and to do that soon as possible several people have been already arrested and there is a manhunt for a number of others as a result of this major attack of the country's largest outboards and the be easiest to transport thirty six people were killed among them six foreign citizens and as many as one hundred fifty people what we just led the way called the attack presently very promise those in charge would be prosecuted and if they resist they'll be illuminatus on the sports today behind that was be also confirmed that they have identified this you side bomber here's how the out of russia's main security agency described the man so. i will just name the age of this

person he is twenty years old he lived in one of the north caucasus republics according to our information he joined one criminal group last august which was based in a mountainous area the evidence shows that the suicide bomber was under heavy drugs when the explosion it confirms how criminals preparers who is. bombers for these kind of crimes. the name of the beast twenty year old man has not been disclosed as investigation is still on going out with the suspect that the reality of so the young man could have been linked to the attack also the president russia dmitry medvedev today expressed was a certain level of optimism holding their appeal but he also urged both police and how it was be to be very cautious when releasing any information on this case to mass media as the case has not yet reached the court and invest it in britain best to gauge there's been very harsh rhetoric all the way in the attack from the president and we miss

a major reshaping russia's transport police. well there's always more news blogs and feet just doors on the website dot com here's what's online for you right now which is a key thing the planet cool find out about a new subject that's being added to school curriculums in russia. and what happened to music that song in the wrong language take a look where russian culture may no longer be. a brand new russian the passenger plane has been given permission to fly into the lucrative world of commercial aviation this is superjet one hundred is the fast line a designed in the country since the soviet times aunties you've got this cannot has more. the sukhoi superjet one hundred is the first civil aircraft produced in

russia since the soviet times which means that it had to be built from scratch and is geared up with some of the most modern and advanced equipment it's a short range aircraft people off travelling not further than two or two and a half thousand miles and transporting up to one hundred people claim now has been officially certified it got its ticket into the skies this intergovernmental aviation committee includes all of the former soviet republics and according to the . civil aviation company which produces this plane the next step is to get a similar certificate from the european air space agency since it's a short range aircraft it's first of all planned that it will take the place off for many of the sordid and al did it planes clearly used by many russian airlines for domestic flights but also many analysts say that this is quite an attractive

segment of the market and the super super just one hundred will be very in demand internationally as well since it was build from scratch it did take a little longer than planned initially its development took longer and in december italy's alitalia announced that it was canceling its orders but at the moment there or around one hundred and seventy orders for this plane and civil aviation company says it plans to build at least eleven of them by the end of this year and hopes to boost production to forty or even fifty planes by two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and fourteen. now for some of the wild things in brief this hour and in australia the only place that a train of destruction across northeastern queensland is losing power yes the one of the most powerful storms ever recorded ripped through health is leaving thousands hang this to people are missing but there are no reports. deaths injuries

the cost of repairs is likely to be in the billions. a somali man who broke into the home of the cartoonist behind the controversial prophet muhammad carty has been convicted of attempted murder on terrorism the acts wielding twenty nine year old broke in on new year's day twenty ten or they didn't reach the cartoonist who was hiding in a panic room sentencing is expected on a friday in may see one hundred killed jailed for life the cartoon was condemned across the muslim world sparking violent protests. haiti's presidential runoff in march will be between former first lady middle lundy money and popular singer michel martelly a third candidate to success in the first round last november spot national on rest and international criticism didn't make it through the ongoing political uncertainty is hindering haiti's recovery from the effects of last year's devastating earthquake. although it is busy on the way now wish arena.

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clo welcome to our business program. the second day of the russian foreign wrapped up today in moscow and this year it attracted a record number of business leaders investors and officials from all over the world are to use dimitri medvedev brings us the latest from the. russia's finance minister yesterday was saying that in order for russia to maintain a sustainable rate of growth for more than even four percent a year and russian research at seven to ten percent investment more. a year while the figures that the privatization program place a large part in this and the finance minister said yesterday for example that. the second largest banks not ten percent will be privatized but twenty percent and today we've heard the president's economic advisor actually backed this initiative to have privatization going at a faster larger scale. to surplus and. i completely agree we have to be more aggressive in tribal ties in states companies on you i also concur

with the idea that bt beach should be fully almost fully try the chinese if it plans to buy other banks in addition i believe that the states shane banks should also be reduced to under fifty percent and not just fifty percent plus one share political and the gift cards talk more about what to expect from this state privatization program we're joined by boris jordan from renascence insurance the present of race and service for thank you so much for your time with us and so do you agree with this approach that privatisation go to larger scale yes absolutely i mean. the more the government sells our stake to the russian companies the more competition will be between russian companies and the state will therefore have much less influence in the competition in business so it's our view that it solves two issues that one is competitiveness and number two is it raises the much needed money for the russian government to further through its investment programs and the u.n. food and agricultural organization says food prices reached

a historic high last month the rising cost of staples was among the triggers behind the protests in egypt tunisia and elsewhere but here henry c.e.o. of eclectic a asset management says the world has not yet seen prices peak. i can coach is the one sector in the world which was on correlate to the banking sector to the madness of credit to the madness of the us economy. and it's not having its turn. some dispute that we're seeing all time high prices we're not we haven't seen all time high prices yet in the in the biggest agricultural product which is corn. give us six months we might see a. second look at the markets the russian markets closed down on the day energy shares retreated with gas pump shedding over one and a quarter percent or close point two percent down as rostov said over one and a quarter percent the father though it turned out to become was the company gained

almost three percent during the day on news that troika dialog may sell more than ten percent of come ons to dive lower. and russian markets saw a slight correction on thursday as investors sought to take profits after a good run early in the week but although egypt's turmoil is weighing in on the markets tom monday at all says it's helping to push oil back up markets trading a little lower today we've had a good week so far so the markets are just consolidating there's quite a lot of news to trade around clearly the news in egypt has been good for the oil price the market is worried about supply disruptions because of that and because of the worries about the violence spreading across the middle east so the markets taking some profits this stage i looking into what's going to happen tomorrow particularly with the u.s. data that's coming out some more unemployment data that's coming out. and that's all the business news for this hour but you can always find more stories on our website that's r t dot com slash business thanks for watching.

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