bring us up to date hi paula so the aerial shots are showing some incredible scenes of the demonstrators that somehow were how optimistic are very that this day of departure as they call it will actually succeed. while we be midday prayers have just ended in a square dramatic scenes as hundreds of thousands of people bow their heads together for roughly about twenty minutes of silence reflection and prayer now there is movement on the square those prayers have finished and people are starting to mobilize the banners off flying these slogans are being shouted we do since their people are preparing to make their way to the presidential palace that is the planned destination for today's protest which has been dubbed the final friday now last friday was dubbed the day of rage today is the departure day people saying that the d. day has arrived for mubarak to step down he is holed up in the presidential palace and he has indicated that he is to quality him fed up with the situation but that

he believes he cannot step down immediately because egypt will result in chaos now many people here have lost of that assertion saying how much more chaotic can this country really be the army is maintaining a presence on the perimeter after square there it is checking people there are still hundreds of thousands of people outside of the square still making their way still hoping to get inside these soldiers are checking people's i.d.'s they're checking that nobody is carrying weapons because of course nobody here wants a repeat of the violence of the last few days we have heard that the minister of defense has visited the square we're also hearing though a very defiant chord from posters they're saying that nothing short of mubarak stepping down will satisfy them there are increasing concerns in terms of the islamised element of these demonstrations some analysts here in egypt have suggested that between fifty to sixty percent of people who turned out in those squares are religious people now the muslim brotherhood has denied. that is

hijacking these demonstrations in fact mubarak has accused them of instigating because against against him they too have been very critical of these kind of views but certainly the sense here growing that there is a islamised sense to these demonstrations the result of the in the square here has strengthened since that violence since those pro mubarak supporters went to the streets they are largely being closed off they are there into the square they have barricaded themselves behind thick steel concrete slabs that they've been kept very much in as of yet no reports of violence but people here nervous the situation tense the mood one of any diety in terms of what the next few hours will bring. we've seen the violence is drawing condemnation from major european powers or toss more of the international reaction to the most recent rather. well without fail we've seen most countries in the world criticize the violence nobody in the

international community in fact condoning that we have seen the u.s. very involved in what is happening in the american government putting forward a number of proposals in terms of how they see the situation in cairo developing one of the proposals on the table is that mubarak step down with immediate effect that an interim government be put in place that is headed by his vice president omar suleiman the egyptian people my age might not support this but they certainly are in agreement that they do not want to be dictated to from the united states from europe from anybody in the international community in terms of what they should do here now the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton as well as the u.s. vice president joe biden have spoken with the egyptian vice president almost sort of this too has been greeted with anger on the streets of cairo people here who are you to rating that call that it is their country and their decision in terms of what unfolds here my colleague your image in london took a look at how the international community and particularly the united states has been to. people here meddling in local domestic affairs.

president obama started a my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful it must be peaceful and it must begin now and then faithfully one after the other one the other governments followed suit bind them and caught the show these democratic change has to start now. it needs to happen now for greater freedom and democracy in egypt and it seems the theme was contagious as the call for a new egypt spreads uncontrolled across the western mass media there were two hundred and fifty thousand people in the streets of cairo protesting for democracy this is how democracy happens but what right do u.s. and european leaders have to get involved in what's essentially domestic unrest about dissatisfaction with a ruler who cares what they want in egypt certainly not these demonstrators at the

egyptian embassy in london they supported the egyptian regime for such a long time and in fact they are they do feel regime and now they are talking about democracy and respect the for the rights of this and so obama's speech i want to spend most of it could be sitting on the fence so much and muster up that i mean it is not the same going on the boat out there just saying that's the appearance for a transition where is this peaceful transition there are shades of past conflicts in the world's attitude to the situation in egypt according to william spring he campaigns against nato aggression egypt is a sovereign state but what they have always done the west they've used this humanitarian or good moves they said oh we can intervene in yugoslavia we can intervene in byelorussia we can put sanctions for example this week so i put sanctions on. the grounds that they and elections were in some way invalid or there was some irregular as well. in the british elections.

putting sanctions on. it's a complete turnaround for the western world which has always supported hosni mubarak as a force for stability in the region the u.s. gave him one and a half billion dollars a year for his armed forces alone it was western support that kept mubarak in power betraying an inherent misunderstanding of the way society operates according to chatham house. to the west so they have to convince the world that. if they leave it'll be the muslim brotherhood and you'll have to probably be. in egypt and it's the worst case scenario so the. minute you can see beyond never really fall in all of which suggests that western countries should stand back and let the egyptian people

exercise that sovereignty the president of the united states would call to move immediately and instantly to make changes as if we are the fifty third of the of the united states we are not trying to play a role in egypt's you chase a dangerous game the western leaders hosni mubarak enjoyed strong support from america and co for many years but now is the first i have trouble the support is conspicuous in its absence this sends a message to friends and foes alike in the region when the going gets tough don't count on us a message that's likely to further destabilize an already deeply unstable possible was no rabbits r.t. . let's get some more analysis on this and talk to finney and coming in my journalist who covers international relations who's life for us now in bahrain mr egypt is second only to israel in receiving financial aid from the u.s. but now we're seeing washington back away from president mubarak i want to think

this means for other u.s. allies in the region could he expect a similar treatment under similar circumstances. julie or. drop. having a technical difficulties here with mr cunningham life in bahrain well i'll ask you the question one more time sir and do forgive me for these technical difficulties but when it comes to the massive amount of financial aid that it really is going from washington d.c. into cairo second only to tel aviv in israel do we or do we expect this this kind of warning for other u.s. allies in the region perhaps if they were to undergo such riots and protests here we are having trouble with the coming in we were going to have to do our best on this side to fix to fix this connection here but we do apologize for that being

the case here on our team and the counting it will have to speak to you later. while you are with r.t. live from moscow as we do apologize for those technical difficulties now the u.s. congress is debating plans to renew the patriot act adopted during the bush era following the nine eleven attacks it allows law enforcement agencies to search telephone and e-mail records of terror suspects and while lawmakers insist the aim is to defend the public many say the cost to civil liberties is just too high. and reports. major provisions of the patriot act about to expire are due to be extended by lawmakers brought in by the bush administration as an emergency anti terror measure the act gives sweeping powers to these orders to spy on people but the u.s. senate's judiciary committee is in a real hurry to rubberstamp rather than discuss and debate the far reaching measures they expire in three weeks and i think there is not time really to go

through. a major change in those there was no time either for real debate back in two thousand and one when the patriot act was adopted weeks after the nine eleven attacks according to congressman dennis kucinich the lawmakers hadn't even read what they were passing what happened once the patriot act was passed the fourth amendment rights to. unreasonable search and to be protected from unreasonable search and seizure just thrown out the congressman was one of the very few who openly oppose the act we have a challenge to the essence of our democracy with the very existence of the patriot act and of course its name the patriot act who would want to oppose the patriot act because it makes it sound as though you're a patriot if you're for it but actually. the idea of tying patriotism to destruction of cherished constitutional privilege is new

in itself to be challenged although lawmakers insisted that the patriot act would be used just for anti-terrorism federal authorities have used its powers far more broadly the senate intelligence watchdog found that without any judicial checks government employees journalist anti-war activists and others had been spied on over the last six months more than twenty anti-war activists around the country have been subpoenaed after the f.b.i. raided homes in chicago and minneapolis reportedly using patriot act powers to round up american citizens there's ample reason to believe that when you create massive databases of politically potentially very useful information about both innocent and guilty people eventually someone with access to that information will misuse it and we see all the time how people who become politically engaged politically threatening are subject to disclosures of sensitive information about

them the patriot act allows security services to lawfully spied by wiretapping large groups of phone numbers and monitoring e-mail addresses in ball instead of meeting a warrant each time the national security agency has even intercepted bill clinton's private e-mails later said to be an inadvertent mistake among millions of other pieces of correspondence snooped on a privacy watchdog suggest that since two thousand and one the f.b.i. has intelligence investigations have compromised the civil liberties of american citizens far more frequently and to a greater extent than was previously assumed supporters of the act say it's needed because of the terrorist threats that we've had thirty six stored in terrorist attacks since nine eleven well do you know for a fact that it was thanks to the patriot act that the attacks were prevented it's difficult to say that for sure because when you look at court records and other documents that are available you can you say in these cases. there were cases

where patriot act like tools would be useful and so we can suspect that they were useful and some of them congressman could say niched as the act is supported in congress to a climate of fear so you have a whole nation of fearful people promoting fear you cannot have a democracy if the democracy rest upon fear you cannot walk in faith in freedom and fear at the same time americans have a great deal of respect for their founding fathers and one of those wise men benjamin franklin said quote those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety it. is largely ignored by today's america. story on our website. where you'll find plenty of. stories here's what else.

criticism. ukraine's ultra nationalists. hate but the new government has made it a priority to fight extremism. has found out. the country. is proving.

an innocent joke or deliberate disick ration recently activist of a ukrainian radical nationalist party kooked eggs and bacon on the eternal flame in caves memorial park a monument to the red army soldiers who died liberating the country from the nazis rather deputy. sees little surprise as to why this happens in one day ukraine. because the nation was brainwashed by five years of you sugar's rule actions like these are an attempt to write off the sacrifice his country made to be liberated from the nazis in the resulting professions propaganda like the rehabilitation of nazi collaborators like shaquille bitch and on their own to produce them the two nationalist army leaders to bandung there and i'm sure give each were made heroes of ukraine by former president. their groups are seen by many as nazi collaborators first they fought the german invasion then turned against the soviet troops at

times using gruesome tactics against civilians the former president's decision split open ukraine ideologically now with victory on the court which in office the author proved in court that done better had no right to bear the heroic accolade. the laws that only a citizen of ukraine can become a hero and been there wasn't a ukrainian citizen but the lord doesn't matter to some people here they believe the really crane is in the west of the country and they don't want to find any compromise here the court's decision caused massive public outcry in the west of ukraine and nationalists towards that from renaming the streets after a vendetta to raising funds for the monuments people in this part of the country stressed that their loyalty to been there will stand firm. on darrell walls is on the way to be our hero this is what we believe in and no court decision will ever change. but at some point we're. it's turned into actions nationalist wings

organized a series of extremist attacks this summer during russian back to arc's visit to ukraine the bomb the church and have also vandalized soviet era monuments and the country is left to wonder what reaction would follow should and now the controversial world war two ukrainian be deprived of fuse hero status on february the sixteenth accord new key if we'll decide whether a monster cave which will also be stripped of his medal and while experts say he is most likely to follow been there us footsteps they say no matter the decision ukraine will still remain divided over its perception of the past let's see russia artsy reporting from kiev ukraine right now let's take a look at some other headlines from around the world this hour and opposition movements in syria have called for a quote daily rage against the government they've been inspired by the protests unfolding throughout the middle east the country shares many similarities with

tunisia and egypt including rising prices unemployment and poverty and lists believe that any protests could unleash bloodshed and chaos or even civil war due to the country's deeper sectarian divisions. an afghan man held without charge for eight years at guantanamo bay has died in custody it happened while he was reportedly exercising the military said his death resulted from natural causes but it's still under investigation the forty eight year old was suspected by the u.s. so being a recruitment officer for the taliban he is the seventh detainee to have died at guantanamo bay since two thousand and two. they are going prime minister of me and mine has been named as the country's first president in almost fifty years of military rule sixty eight year old saying a former general chancellor pro-con top party which gained an overwhelming majority and last november's elections a point followed the first meeting of the parliament in more than twenty years most

analysts say the appointment will do. a little to weaken the influence of the junta . all right now let's return to our top story here as egypt is braced for another day of turmoil as opposition supporters take to the streets in the latest attempt to force president hosni mubarak out of office now we go to these are the latest pictures here for you on artsy and according to egypt's health ministry says that eight people have been killed and more than eight hundred injured in the clashes the u.n. estimates that about three hundred people have died since the unrest broke out on january the twenty fifth with about four thousand hurt those last numbers from the u.n. the eight hundred injured that's coming from egypt's health ministry now in a recent interview of president hosni mubarak said that he is quote fed up with being in power but is resisting mounting pressure to resign as he says it would leave egypt in crisis he said that the country's islamised opposition the muslim brotherhood would fill the power vacuum left by his absence and that could be

chaotic now let's go to these live pictures here again these are live pictures here of a rare square in cairo with quite literally hundreds of thousands of people in attendance we have pro-government supporters we have anti-government protesters here now egypt's vice president omar suleiman meantime his appeals for calm and the protesters to accept mr mubarak's pledge that he will not stand for election again and we are already seeing some worldwide condemnation of all the violence here we're getting reaction from britain france germany italy spain as well as the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon and on a friday the u.k. prime minister david cameron it criticized the egyptian government for its handling of the crisis he said the steps taken so far have not met the aspirations of the egyptian people there we are again live pictures of central cairo brought to you here on our two or more details to come here as we're coming to you live from the russian capital. time now for the business news with korea stay with us.

hello and welcome to business thanks for joining me ross knapp has posted a net profit of ten point sixty five billion dollars in two thousand and ten a sixty four percent increase year on year beating expectations according to u.s. accounting standards russia's largest oil company has also reported a fourth quarter jump in profit while its overall debt fell twenty six percent the improved results were mainly attributed to increased output tighter cost control and wizened oil prices. president who dine out though has denied that his company's we go sheeting to buy a stake in the russian british. rushes to begin selling grain from state reserves in a move to curb food prices and support the domestic market the plan is to sow two and a half million tons of grain within five months of next of the next harvest now the

state's current stop nine a half million tons authorities banned cereal exports six months ago while following the country's worst drought in fifty years it devastated the harvest industry watchers say prices have now started to stabilise thanks to the positive outlook on the great trade. the human food and agriculture organization says who prizes hidden historic highs last month the rising cost of staples was among the triggers behind the protests in egypt and tunisia however hugh hendry c.e.o. of eclectic asset management says the world has not yet seen prices break. i coach is the one section in the world which was on call relate to the banking sector to the modeless of credit to modernise of the u.s. economy. and it's no having its turn to some dispute that we're seeing all time high prices were no we haven't seen all time high prices yet in the the the biggest

agriculture which is corn. give us six months we might see that. let's take it to take a look at the markets european stocks open higher friday as markets are way to u.s. non-farm payroll data later in the day the footsie is over a quarter of a percent and the dax to twenty two percent says of more hennessy louis tone fell two and a half percent after a full year results all she has of trying to make a volvo one point two percent up to fourth quarter solved all stocks are also weak across the board. russian markets climbed for the third day this week energy majors only gain is as for those trading above one hundred dollars a barrel in london and with political unrest in north africa and the middle east have added two and a half percent on both the bourses after the oil giant said third quarter profits climbed twenty one percent from the previous three months gas pump shares are also off point seven percent bucking the trend is no need for that's down point nine

percent. russia's largest independent gas producer novacek expects to increase output by up to fifteen percent this year this was january's concerned it perform better than gas problem which to crease production by about three percent compared to last year now know what is currently building a plant in the gas which arctic young mall peninsula the first yield is expected in five years' time the company says it's investing one hundred million dollars into the liquefied natural gas project this year the deciding and deciding on strategic partner who will have a forty nine percent stake. there's show there's two of the rivers there is. exxon mobil has looked at it conoco phillips smaller companies i've looked at a couple japanese firms look out so we're looking at a series of foreigners who have studied the particular geology who study the columns that were finishing the exploration start we're drilling three wells this

year there's already been fifty five exploration wells are drilled and then will engage the contractor which was c.b.i. lumas to start with what we call the feed study and so we've completed the initial work and now all the infrastructure activity is underway in the mall in insulin star economist nouriel roubini talked to do forecasts russia's inflation will hit double digits this year and the first month of two thousand and eleven consumer prices in russia saw two point four percent hike topping market expectations meanwhile the government's official inflation forecast for two thousand and eleven is still set for six seven percent roubini explains why inflation is on the rise and how russia needs to first growth. so far the growth rate. in that a covert has been disappointing because there was excessive amounts of that the leverage in the financial system or parts of the corp of the world so while china

india brazil are growing six to eight nine per cent and last year that our coal video gold in russia was only around four percent i think that not only that is low good old but compared to other emerging markets inflation dizzee in my reach double digits of percent or more and the central bank has been cautious in raising interest rates and inflation might be gold also higher i think that the way that russia has to deal with the fact that they want to get all but they need to limit the inflation was to make sure that. was higher and if you make structural reforms if you're free private enterprise if you make more efficient state than other enterprises if you have more incentive to run to bring earth then potential growth can be higher. and inflation is going to stay on their control. that's why you can always find law stories if you log on to our website. thanks for what.

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two thirty pm here in the russian capital you with the top stories now protests and violence are expected to flare up again in egypt as the opposition calls for yet another million a strongman to push president mubarak from power and while the u.s. calls for a smooth transition of power many point to the hypocrisy decades long backing of mubarak's regime. nationalism vandalism intensifies in some parts of ukraine still forty stripped nazi collaborators of bad national titles controversial of a while. given by the ukrainian president. u.s. lawmakers are rushing to extend the patriot act before some congressmen say it represents the growing violation of civil liberties under the pretext of fighting

terrorism. or the nine eleven attacks. to spy on american citizens. explores the rich tapestry of russian culture in great britain that's coming up next right here. hello welcome to this so i will be visiting different cities exploring russian life history culture and we begin one of my favorite cities in the world. one of the most visited cities in the world and the cultural scene here.